596_Saq_W

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.