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423_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 Large beer jar used as a burial container.
notes

Container findspot

locality Qau el-Kebir
site cemetery 600
location
tomb type
code of tomb No. 682
material of tomb
dating OK, 4
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body inside yes
archaeological context primary
remarks on archaeological context Burial of a very small child under a large beer jar. Two large glaze cylinder beads and a scarab were found.

Bibliography
Brunton, Guy – Gardiner, Alan Henderson – Petrie, William Matthew Flinders
1927 Qau and Badari. Volume I, London: Quaritch, p. 22.

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