584_Tur_P
Container owner
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title | |
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Container properties
number | |
material | pottery |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | EDP–OK |
dynasty | 1–4 |
type | |
updated typology | |
shape | rectangular with rounded corners |
lid | |
length | |
width | |
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inscription | |
decoration | |
inner decoration | |
description | Rectangular pottery coffin which was closed by a layer of mud. Adult size. |
notes |
Container findspot
locality | Tura |
site | |
location | |
tomb type | pit |
code of tomb | No. 16g12 |
material of tomb | |
dating | EDP–OK, 1–4 |
tomb owner | |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | |
burial apartment | |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | secondary |
remarks on archaeological context | Burial in a pottery coffin which rested at the bottom of an oval pit. The skeleton was covered with a mat. Instead of a lid the coffin was closed by a layer of mud which was somehow separated from the body and did not reached it. |
Bibliography
Junker, Hermann
1912 Bericht über die Grabungen der kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf dem Friedhof in Turah: Winter 1909-1910, Wien: Alfred Hölder, pp. 11, 21, 22, 64, pl. 19.