592_Nag_W

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