Container owner
name | Ashayet |
title | queen |
sex | female |
Container properties
number | JE 47355 (= T3C) |
material | cartonnage |
present location | Egyptian Museum in Cairo |
state of preservation | ? |
period | FIP/MK |
dynasty | 11 (Mentuhotep II) |
type | |
updated typology | |
shape | anthropoid |
lid | |
length | |
width | |
height | |
inscription | ? |
decoration | ? |
inner decoration | ? |
description | rectangular wooden coffin with Coffin Texts |
notes | details? According to Ikram (2015: 114), this cartonnage piece stands at the beginning of anthropoid coffins (The coffin of Queen Aashayet (Dynasty XI) is the earliest such example of this trend.”) |
Container findspot
locality | Deir el-Bahri |
site | |
location | |
tomb type | |
code of tomb | DBXI.17 |
material of tomb | |
dating | FIP/MK (11) |
tomb owner | |
social position | queen |
title | wife of Mentuhotep II queen Hm.t nswt mr.t=f: king’s beloved wife Xkr.t nswt: king’s sole ornament 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 wooden coffin [ID 590_DeB_W] |
Bibliography
Winlock, H. E.
1942 Excavations at Deir el Bahri 1911-1931, New York: The Macmillan Company, p. 44.