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).