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154_Ass_W

Container owner

name K-jr (?)
title cmr waty
sex

Container properties

number EA 46636
material wood
present location British Museum
state of preservation complete
period late OK
dynasty 6
type rectangular
updated typology rectangular (short)
shape rectangular (box)
lid flat
length 76 cm
width 44 cm
height 37 cm
inscription yes
decoration yes
inner decoration no
description Rectangular wooden coffin, paint on plaster, row of hieroglyphic text on external perimeter, two wedjat-eyes.
Decoration only painted (not carved), drawing lines in the inscription and wedjat-eyes
hieroglyphs: black outline, blue colour, not much details (only n, Hnqt), f without head
wedjat-eyes: black outline, blue, black, red and white colour
no inscription on the lid
notes parallel: EA 46637

Container findspot

locality Assiut
site
location
tomb type
code of tomb
material of tomb
dating
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context

Bibliography
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA46636
Zitman, Marcel
2010 The Necropolis of Assiut. A Case Study of Local Egyptian Funerary Culture from the Old Kingdom to the End of the Middle Kingdom II, Leuven – Paris – Walpole, MA: Peeters [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 180], pp. 129, 237.