409_Qau_P
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.