Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex | ? |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 3 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | oval |
| lid | flat |
| length | |
| width | |
| height | |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | Oval pottery coffin with fragments of flat lid. The bottom of the coffin and the lid were half-perforated with numerous holes, the purpose is not known. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 3500 |
| location | |
| tomb type | pit |
| code of tomb | No. 4371 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 3 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | Shallow rectangular burial pit (82 × 68 cm, NS orientation) with an oval pottery coffin. The pit also contained a rough pot and an alabaster cylinder jar. |
Bibliography
Mace, Arthur Cruttenden
1909 The early dynastic cemeteries of Naga-ed-Der. Part II, Leipzig: Hinrichs, p. 59, pls. 37b, 46, 54b.