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461_Mei_P

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

number
material pottery
present location
state of preservation
period OK
dynasty 3
type
updated typology
shape oval
lid
length
width
height 24 cm
inscription
decoration
inner decoration
description Oval pottery coffin: 221 cm in outside circumference, 3 cm thickness of the rim. In the bottom was a hole roughly covered with plaster.
notes

Container findspot

locality Meidum
site northern cemetery
location
tomb type shaft
code of tomb No. 124
material of tomb
dating OK, 3
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment bottom of shaft
body inside yes
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological context Burial of an adult man at the western corner of the shaft covered with a pottery coffin turned upside down. The coffin rested on bricks around the body. The skeleton was wrapped in a rough linen cloth. The body has two fractures in the skull (one had healed). His teeth were in very bad condition.

Bibliography
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders – Mackay, Ernest – Wainwright, Gerald
1910 Meydum and Memphis. Volume III, London: Quaritch, pp. 29, 32–33, pl. 23 (2).