Container owner
name | Dedinheretankh Mery |
title | |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | 23-11-666, 23-11-667, 23-11-668 |
material | wood |
present location | Museum of Fine Arts Boston |
state of preservation | badly broken |
period | OK–FIP |
dynasty | 6‒8 |
type | |
updated typology | |
shape | |
lid | |
length | |
width | |
height | |
inscription | yes |
decoration | yes |
inner decoration | yes |
description | fragmentarily preserved wooden coffin, deeply incised hieroglyphs outside (suppression, decapitated viper), udjat eyes, inner decoration on white ground, sunk and painted, hieroglyphs in red, black and blue |
notes |
Container findspot
locality | Naga ed-Deir |
site | |
location | |
tomb type | |
code of tomb | SF 5203 |
material of tomb | |
dating | OK–FIP |
tomb owner | |
social position | ? |
title | xtmty bjty mAa HqA Hwt smr waty |
shaft | |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | |
archaeological context | secondary |
remarks on archaeological context | slate and gray stone vessel from the Opening of the Mouth ritual set, vessel fragment with titulary of Pepy II |
Bibliography
Brovarski, Edward
2018 Naga ed-Dêr in the First Intermediate Period, Atlanta, GA: Lockwood Press, pp. 201‒204.
REISNER, Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Der