579_Saq_W
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.