Container owner
name | Nefer/Nefershepes |
title | imy-rA zS(w) (n) aprw |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | AB 216 |
material | limestone |
present location | in situ |
state of preservation | good |
period | OK |
dynasty | 5 |
type | keresu |
updated typology | |
shape | rectangular |
lid | yes |
length | 2.24 m |
width | 1.03 m |
height | 1.02 m |
inscription | no |
decoration | no |
inner decoration | |
description | undecorated and uninscribed sarcophagus of qeresu type made of fine white limestone |
notes |
Container findspot
locality | Abusir South |
site | Abusir |
location | E edge of the Central Mound, lies E of the stairway of the burial complex of Princess Sheretnebty (AS 68) |
tomb type | mastaba |
code of tomb | AS 67 |
material of tomb | limestone |
dating | mid 5 |
tomb owner | Nefer/Nefershepes |
social position | high-ranking official |
title | imy-rA zS(w) (n) aprw – overseer of scribes of the crews (Jones 2000: 210, no. 783) |
shaft | shaft 1 (the southern one) |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | primary |
remarks on archaeological context | The burial chamber was robbed but remains of the original burial equipment (canopic jars, miniature stone vessels, pottery, copper fragments) found in the filling inside and on the top of the sarcophagus |
Bibliography
Arias Kytnarová, Katarína ‒ Havelková, Petra ‒ Jirásková, Lucie ‒ Sůvová, Zdeňka ‒ Bárta, Miroslav 2013 “Záhady hrobky AS 67: jedna hrobka pro dvě generace?”, Pražské egyptologické studie X, pp. 82‒96.
Bárta, Miroslav 2013 “Krásní kněží a tajemná princezna: tajemství rodinného pohřebiště v jižním Abúsíru”, Pražské egyptologické studie X, pp. 17‒25.