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417_Qau_P

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

number
material pottery
present location
state of preservation
period OK
dynasty 4
type
updated typology
shape pot
lid
length
width
height
inscription
decoration
inner decoration
description Burial pot (54.6 × 43 cm).
notes

Container findspot

locality Qau el-Kebir
site cemetery 500
location
tomb type
code of tomb No. 525
material of tomb
dating OK, 4
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside yes
archaeological context primary
remarks on archaeological context The body was covered by an inverted pot. Around the burial were found 3 pots and one alabaster cylinder jar.

Bibliography
Brunton, Guy – Gardiner, Alan Henderson – Petrie, William Matthew Flinders
1927 Qau and Badari. Volume I, London: Quaritch, p. 21.