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.