Container owner
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Container properties
number | |
material | pottery |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | OK-NK |
dynasty | |
type | |
updated typology | |
shape | rounded corners |
lid | |
length | |
width | |
height | |
inscription | |
decoration | |
inner decoration | |
description | Small pottery coffin with a lid. |
notes | Oriented to the east. |
Container findspot
locality | Edfu |
site | |
location | |
tomb type | |
code of tomb | T I or T III |
material of tomb | |
dating | OK-NK |
tomb owner | |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | |
burial apartment | |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | |
remarks on archaeological context | Burial 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.