Container owner
| name | unknown |
| title | |
| sex | female |
Container properties
| number | 5/AS65/2010_a-s |
| material | reed (Arundo donax) |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | fragile |
| period | OK – FIP |
| dynasty | 6 or later |
| type | long; second category of Myśliwiec (2011: 305) |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular (box) |
| lid | flat (mat) |
| length | |
| width | |
| height | |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | secondary burial, found above S outer wall of the tomb, at SW corner shorter sides: bent reed stalks reeds were not bound weaker construction |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Abusir |
| site | Abusir South |
| location | room 4 |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | AS 65 |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 5 |
| tomb owner | Neferherptah |
| social position | |
| title | wr swnw – chief physician (Jones 2000: 396, no. 1462) |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | secondary |
| remarks on archaeological context | human burial (N-S orientation, crouched position), in fragmentarily preserved reed coffin, found in the upper layer above the SW corner of the mastaba and the NW corner of the courtyard to the S of it, in situ; with: a pyramid-shaped amulet depicting Bes-like figure (5/AS65/2010_I) found on the breastbone of the body mud brick under the head (5/AS65/2010_p) pieces of linen |
Bibliography
Dulíková, Veronika – Odler, Martin – Havelková, Petra
2011 “Archeologický výzkum hrobky lékře Neferherptaha”, Pražské egyptologické studie VIII, pp. 9–16.
Dulíková, Veronika – Odler, Martin – Březinová, Helena – Havelková, Petra
2015 ” A burial with a stamp seal depicting a Bes-like figure from Abusir”, Prague Egyptological Studies XV, pp. 69–75.