Container owner
| name | unknown |
| title | |
| sex | ? |
Container properties
| number | Burial No. 161 |
| material | wood |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | fragments |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6 ? |
| type | rectangular with inlayed eyes |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular ? |
| lid | |
| length | ? |
| width | ? |
| height | ? |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | remains of a wooden coffin with stucco and inlayed eyes |
| notes | dimensions of the tomb: 290 × 110 × 130 cm no photo of the context |
Container findspot
| locality | Bubastis (Tell el-Basta) |
| site | |
| location | by Christian cemetery |
| tomb type | oblong, vaulted roof |
| code of tomb | Burial No. 161 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK |
| tomb owner | Mermeryre |
| social position | |
| title | cmr-waty – sole companion (Jones 2000: 892, no. 3268) cmr-waty jmAxw Mr-Mry-Ra cmr-waty Mr-Mry-Ra |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | secondary |
| remarks on archaeological context | The burial was robbed. Only several remains of a wooden coffins were detected together with inlays coming from the udjat eyes. other finds: 12 small surgical instruments, 2 of them with inscription (=copper model tools in fact), copper mirror, model of eyes, with eyebrows (copper, gypsum, basalt, slate), 2 ostrich feathers, 2 slate amulets, 2 broken amulets in the form of fingers? from slate (= remains of the udjat eyes in fact) |
Bibliography
el-Sawi, Ahmad
1979 Excavations at Tell Basta, Prague: Charles University, pp. 72–73 and figs. 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151.
De Meyer, Marleen
2011 “Inlaid eyes on Old Kingdom coffins: a history of misidentification”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 97, pp. 201–203 (p. 201).