Container owner
name | unknown |
title | |
sex | female |
Container properties
number | Burial 552 |
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 | ? |
description | fragments of coffin, small fragments of decoration (udjat eyes, traces of an offering formula in black ink), exterior whitewashed |
notes | phase Fe (reused ?) footholds in S and E walls (every 40–60 cm) |
Container findspot
locality | Saqqara |
site | North Saqqara |
location | W of the Step Pyramid, between enclosure wall and Dry Moat |
tomb type | |
code of tomb | anonymous tomb XXXVII |
material of tomb | |
dating | OK (6) |
tomb owner | unknown |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | 114 |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | secondary |
remarks on archaeological context | grid square: 1805 fragment of a stela of Netjerikhet (S/08/14), false door of Fafa (S/08/19), limestone bowl (S/08/26), fragment of a limestone object (S/08/36), carnelian bead (S/08/37), fragments of faience tiles (S/08/10, 12, 25, 28) |
Bibliography
Myśliwiec, Karol (ed.)
2013 Old Kingdom structures between the Step Pyramid complex and the Dry Moat. Part 1, Varsovie: Neriton [Saqqara V], pp. 179, 183, fig. 93, pl. CXXXII.
2013 Old Kingdom structures between the Step Pyramid complex and the Dry Moat. Part 2, Varsovie: Neriton [Saqqara V], p. 428.