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190_Saq_S

Container owner

name Unas
title
sex male

Container properties

number
material greywacke
present location in situ
state of preservation
period OK
dynasty end 5th dynasty
type qeresu
updated typology
shape cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d)
lid yes
length 2.67m
width 1.22m
height 1,15m
inscription no
decoration undecorated
no
inner decoration no
description
notes

Container findspot

locality Saqqara
site North Saqqara
location
tomb type pyramid
code of tomb pyramid of Unas
material of tomb limestone
dating 5
tomb owner Unas
social position king
title
shaft
burial apartment burial chamber
body inside
archaeological context primary
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.