590_DeB_W
Container owner
| name | Ashayet |
| title | queen |
| sex | female |
Container properties
| number | JE 47355 (= T3C) |
| material | wood |
| present location | Egyptian Museum in Cairo |
| state of preservation | complete |
| period | FIP/MK |
| dynasty | 11 (Mentuhotep II) |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular |
| lid | flat |
| length | 209 cm |
| width | 53 cm |
| height | 88 cm |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | yes |
| inner decoration | yes |
| description | rectangular wooden coffin with Coffin Texts |
| notes | construction similar to coffin of Heqata (A1C, Willems 1996) |
Container findspot
| locality | Deir el-Bahri |
| site | |
| location | |
| tomb type | |
| code of tomb | DBXI.17 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | 11 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | queen |
| title | wife of Mentuhotep II queen Hm.t-nTr Hwt-Hr: priestess of Hathor Hm.t-nTr Hwt-Hr wr.t m [kA.w]=s xntj.t m swt=s: priestess of Hathor, great of kas, foremost in her places Hm.t-nTr Hwt-Hr nb.t jwn.t wr.t kA.w=s xntj.t m swt=s: priestess of Hathor, great of kas, foremost in her places, Lady of Dendera |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | her tomb and chapel in the temple of Mentuhotep II sarcophagus (JE 47267) wooden statue pottery animal bones inside the coffin a mummiform cartonnage [ID 604_DeB_C] |
Bibliography
Winlock, H. E.
1942 Excavations at Deir el Bahri 1911-1931, New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 36, 37, 44, pl. 9.
Backes, Burkhard
2020 Sarg und Sarkophag der Aaschyt (Kairo JE 47355 und 47267). Teil 1, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag [Studien zur altägyptischen Totentexten 21].