Container owner
name | unknown |
title | |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | Burial 604 |
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 | ? |
decoration | ? |
inner decoration | ? |
description | fragments of coffin |
notes | phase Ff (The shaft was likely reused) |
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 XLIb |
material of tomb | limestone, tafla bricks |
dating | OK (6) |
tomb owner | unknown |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | 50 |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | secondary |
remarks on archaeological context | grid square: 1908/1909/2008/2009 wooden fragments, human bones and animal bones found inside burial pit mud in the burial chamber (flooded) fragments of limestone canopic jars (S/09/20) and pottery deposit in S part under the pelvic area of the skeleton in the burial pit: 29 copper model tools and vessels (S/10/3a), faience beads from a necklace (S/10/3b) and fragments of gold foil |
Bibliography
Myśliwiec, Karol (ed.)
2013 Old Kingdom structures between the Step Pyramid complex and the Dry Moat. Part 1, Varsovie: Neriton [Saqqara V], pp. 199‒201, fig. 102, pl. CXLIII.
2013 Old Kingdom structures between the Step Pyramid complex and the Dry Moat. Part 2, Varsovie: Neriton [Saqqara V], p. 429.