605_DeB_C
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.