217_Saq_S
Container owner
| name | Niankhba |
| title | tAjtj zAb TAtj, |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | limestone |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 5 (Unas) |
| type | rectangular |
| updated typology | |
| shape | |
| lid | ? |
| length | 3.45m |
| width | 1.65m |
| height | 1.55m |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | undecorated no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes | polished surface |
Container findspot
| locality | Saqqara |
| site | Unas cemetery |
| location | N of the Unas causeway, E of the tombs of Akhethotep and Nebkauhor |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | mastaba of Niankhba |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 5 |
| tomb owner | Niankhba |
| social position | vizier |
| title | tAjtj TAtj (n) zAb – he of the curtain, chief justice and vizier (Jones 2000: 1000, no. 3706) |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | the lid was removed by the looters |
Bibliography
Hassan, Selim Bey
1938. Excavations at Saqqara 1937-1938. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 38, pp. 503-521.
Hassan, Selim
1975. Mastabas of Princess Ḥemet-R’ and others. Edited by Zaki Iskander. Excavations at Saqqara 1937-1938 (3). Cairo: General Organisation for Government Printing Offices, p. 45, pl. XXX A.
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. 629.