414_Qau_P
Container owner
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Container properties
| number | |
| material | pottery |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 4 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | pot |
| lid | |
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| description | |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Qau el-Kebir |
| site | cemetery 400 |
| location | |
| tomb type | |
| code of tomb | No. 459 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 4 |
| tomb owner | |
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| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | A large pot (58 × 38 cm) was placed inverted over the body. Stones were situated around to prevent shifting (?) when the grave was filled in. The burial also contained two offering pots, both of them broke after the inverted pot was placed over them. |
Bibliography
Brunton, Guy – Gardiner, Alan Henderson – Petrie, William Matthew Flinders
1927 Qau and Badari. Volume I, London: Quaritch, p. 21.