Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex | ? |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 5–6 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | oval |
| lid | |
| length | 105 cm |
| width | 45 cm |
| height | 37 cm |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | Oval pottery coffin. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 800 |
| location | |
| tomb type | pit |
| code of tomb | No. 857 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 5–6 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | Long open pit (about 150 cm × 70 cm, 160 cm deep) with an empty burial chamber (145 cm × 70 cm, 70 cm heigh). At the end of the Old Kingdom the grave was extended and a young person in an oval pottery coffin was buried here. |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 16, 329, fig. 366.