465_Edf_P

Container owner

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title
sex

Container properties

number
materialpottery
present location
state of preservation
periodOK-NK
dynasty
type
updated typology
shaperounded corners
lid
length
width
height
inscription
decoration
inner decoration
descriptionSmall pottery coffin with a lid.
notesOriented to the east.

Container findspot

localityEdfu
site
location
tomb type
code of tombT I or T III
material of tomb
datingOK-NK
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft
burial apartment
body insideyes
archaeological context
remarks on archaeological contextBurial in a pottery coffin discovered under an enclosure wall. The coffin rested in the layer of marl and rubble. Several objects were found inside the coffin, e.g. pierced sea shells, a hundred large pottery beads of all shapes, few stones and flints.

Bibliography
Bruyère, Bernard – Mantueffel, Jerzy – Michalowski, Kazimierz – Sainte Fare Garnot, Jean – Kuentz, Charles
1937 Fouilles Franco-Polonaises. Rapports I: Tell Edfou 1937, Cairo: Institut français d’archéologie orientale, pp. 13–14, 57, fig. 5.