190_Saq_S

Container owner

nameUnas
title
sexmale

Container properties

number
materialgreywacke
present locationin situ
state of preservation
periodOK
dynastyend 5th dynasty
typeqeresu
updated typology
shapecuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d)
lidyes
length2.67m
width1.22m
height1,15m
inscriptionno
decorationundecorated
no
inner decorationno
description
notes

Container findspot

localitySaqqara
siteNorth Saqqara
location
tomb typepyramid
code of tombpyramid of Unas
material of tomblimestone
dating5
tomb ownerUnas
social positionking
title
shaft
burial apartmentburial chamber
body inside
archaeological contextprimary
remarks on archaeological context

Bibliography
Maspero, G.
1882. La pyramide du roi Ounas. Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 3, pp. 177-224.
Porter, Bertha – Moss, Rosalind L. B.
1981. Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings III2: Memphis. Part 2: Ṣaqqâra to Dahshûr, 2nd, revised and augmented ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Griffith Institute, p. 90.
Labrousse, Audran
1996. Mission archéologique de Saqqara III: l’architecture des pyramides à textes I. Saqqara Nord, 2 vols. Bibliothèque d’étude 114. Le Caire: Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, pp. 39f, n.78, figs. 24-28.