Container owner
name | |
title | |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | |
material | pottery |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | EDP–OK |
dynasty | 2–3 |
type | |
updated typology | |
shape | rectangular |
lid | vaulted |
length | 89 cm |
width | 64 cm |
height | 46 cm |
inscription | |
decoration | |
inner decoration | |
description | Rectangular pottery coffin with vaulted lid. The lid has 4 handles, 2 at each end. |
notes |
Container findspot
locality | Qau el-Kebir |
site | cemetery 500 |
location | |
tomb type | pit |
code of tomb | No. 544 |
material of tomb | |
dating | EDP–OK, 2–3 |
tomb owner | |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | |
burial apartment | |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | secondary |
remarks on archaeological context | Irregular burial pit with a pottery coffin. One pottery bowl was found 38 cm above southeast corner of the coffin, according to Brunton it may not be contemporary with the burial. |
Bibliography
Brunton, Guy – Gardiner, Alan Henderson – Petrie, William Matthew Flinders
1927 Qau and Badari. Volume I, London: Quaritch, p. 12, pls. 10, 22.