Container owner
name | Neferseshemre, Seshi |
title | tAjtj zAb TAtj |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | |
material | limestone |
present location | in situ |
state of preservation | |
period | OK |
dynasty | 6 (mid Teti – beginning Pepi I) |
type | rectangular |
updated typology | |
shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
lid | yes |
length | 3.43m |
width | 1.7m |
height | 1.04m |
inscription | yes |
decoration | undecorated no |
inner decoration | yes |
description | |
notes | plaster remains on the sarcophagus copper |
Container findspot
locality | Saqqara |
site | North Saqqara |
location | Teti Pyramid Cemetery – first tomb in “Rue de Tombeaux” from W |
tomb type | mastaba |
code of tomb | mastaba of Neferseshemre Seshi |
material of tomb | limestone |
dating | 6 |
tomb owner | Neferseshemre, Sheshi |
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 | perhaps no wooden coffin |
Bibliography
Firth, Cecil M. and Battiscombe Gunn
1926. Teti pyramid cemeteries, 2 vols. Excavations at Saqqara. Le Caire: Imprimerie de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale. At head of title: Service des antiquités de l’Égypte, pp. 18-19, fig. 12, 103-104, tav. 58, nn. 5-6.
Abd el-Raziq, M. and N. Kanawati
1998. The Teti cemetery at Saqqara III: The tombs of Neferseshemre and Seankhuiptah. Australian Centre for Egyptology: Reports 11. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, pp. 22, 37-38, pl. 60a.
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, pp. 511-512.