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567_Saq_W

Container owner

name unknown
title
sex ?

Container properties

number Burial 521
material wood
present location
state of preservation fragmentary
period OK
dynasty 6 (Pepy II)
type rectangular (long?)
updated typology
shape rectangular
lid flat
length ?
width ?
height ?
inscription yes
decoration yes
inner decoration yes
description fragments of a wooden coffin with decoration in sunken relief (on inner E wall)
notes The coffin was smaller that the burial pit.
phase Fd (Pepy II)
footholds in S and E walls of the shaft (ca. every 50 cm), false bottom 2.70 m above the shaft bottom

Container findspot

locality Saqqara
site North Saqqara
location W of the Step Pyramid, between enclosure wall and Dry Moat
tomb type mastaba
code of tomb anonymous tomb VIII
material of tomb limestone
dating OK (6)
tomb owner unknown
social position
title
shaft 73
burial apartment burial chamber
body inside yes
archaeological context secondary
remarks on archaeological context grid square 1903/1904
disturbed burial in a wooden coffin (preserved in fragments) in the burial pit

Bibliography
Kuraszkiewicz, Kamil Omar
2010 “Saqqara 2007: inscribed material”, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean XIX (reports 2007), pp. 187–193.
Myśliwiec, Karol (ed.)
2013 Old Kingdom structures between the Step Pyramid complex and the Dry Moat. Part 1, Varsovie: Neriton [Saqqara V], pp. 60–67, fig. 22, pls. XL–XLIV.
2013 Old Kingdom structures between the Step Pyramid complex and the Dry Moat. Part 2, Varsovie: Neriton [Saqqara V], p. 425–427.