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150_Nag_P

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.

Reisner 1932: fig. 366. 

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.