Container owner
name | unknown |
title | |
sex | female |
Container properties
number | AB 107 |
material | limestone |
present location | in situ |
state of preservation | good |
period | OK |
dynasty | 6 |
type | flat |
updated typology | |
shape | rectangular with roughly manufactured edges |
lid | yes |
length | 2.50 m |
width | 1.00 m |
height | 1.1 m |
inscription | no |
decoration | no |
inner decoration | no |
description | limestone sarcophagus closed with flat, slightly rounded lid featuring one handle on each side |
notes | sarcophagus sealed with white mortar; the owner is probable mother of the vizier Qar; original burial equipment found in situ in the burial chamber: four limestone canopic, sealed mud jugs, cattle bones |
Container findspot
locality | Abusir South |
site | Abusir |
location | westernmost part of the Central Mound area |
tomb type | mastaba |
code of tomb | AS 16 |
material of tomb | limestone |
dating | 6 |
tomb owner | Qar |
social position | vizier |
title | tAyty zAb TAtj – he of the curtain, chief justice and vizier (Jones 2000: 1000, no. 3706) |
shaft | shaft 5 |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | v šachtě zaplněné navátým pískem, rampa VZ směru dosahuje k sarkofágu – primary |
remarks on archaeological context | intact sarcophagus, sealed with mortar |
Bibliography
Bárta, Miroslav 2009 “Tomb complex of the vizier Qar”, in Bárta, Miroslav, Tomb complex of the vizier Qar, his sons Qar Junior and Senedjemib, and Iykai, Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague [Abusir XIII. Abusir South 2], pp. 76‒77, 312, fig.5.2.35, 5.2.37, 5.2.39, 5.2.42.
Bárta, Miroslav 2006 “The Sixth Dynasty tombs in Abusir: tomb complex of the vizier Qar and his family”, in: Bárta, Miroslav (ed.), The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31 ‒ June 4, 2004, Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, p. 59.