165_Nag_P

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.