Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | No. 240 |
| material | wood |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6 |
| type | palace facade |
| updated typology | rectangular (long, palace facade) |
| shape | rectangular |
| lid | ? |
| length | ca 2 m |
| width | ca. 80 cm |
| height | ? |
| inscription | |
| decoration | |
| inner decoration | |
| description | rectangular wooden coffin with imitation panelled sides; “the body had been originally in a thin wooden case round which ran two copper hoops decorated with copper rosettes both covered with gold foil. Stripes of gold foil ran down both sides of the body between the copper hoops” (Firth – Gunn 1926: 33) Based on this, it is not very clear whether there were two or only one coffin |
| notes | five T-chapels wooden statues originally in the serdab |
Container findspot
| locality | Saqqara |
| site | North Saqqara |
| location | Teti pyramid cemetery (SW of Mera) |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | |
| material of tomb | MB retaining wall, sand and pebbles in the core |
| dating | OK (6) |
| tomb owner | Khaemsenu, Werdjededptah, Sehetpu |
| social position | |
| title | Khaemsenu: priest of pyramids at Abusir |
| shaft | yes |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | blocking wall from LMS chips and yellow clay bricks Body in a rectangular wooden coffin Finds: 11 small model ships with oars, copper lamp with wig, model cooper tools, animal bones, beads, sandstone for sharpening copper tools |
Bibliography
Firth, Cecil M. ‒ Gunn, Battiscombe
1926 Teti pyramid cemeteries, 2 vols, Le Caire: Imprimerie de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale [Excavations at Saqqara], p. 33.