Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 3 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular with rounded corners |
| lid | |
| length | |
| width | |
| height | |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | Rectangular pottery coffin with rounded corners. Both long sides were pierced with 2 rounded holes near the top. The purpose of these holes was probably to attach the lid to the coffin. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | |
| location | |
| tomb type | pit |
| code of tomb | No. 4137 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 3 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | Plundered burial in a pottery coffin which rested at the bottom of a shallow rectangular pit (115 × 68 cm, NS orientation). Only 1 rough pot was found near the coffin. |
Bibliography
Mace, Arthur Cruttenden
1909 The early dynastic cemeteries of Naga-ed-Der. Part II, Leipzig: Hinrichs, pp. 34, 57, fig. 78, pls. 37c, 55c.
Vandier, Jacques.
1952 Manuel d’archéologie égyptienne. Vol. I, Les époques de formation, Part II, Les trois premières dynasties, Paris: Picard, p. 688, fig. 451.