638_Sed_W
Container owner
| name | Nekhetkawi |
| title | |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | AEIN 1586 |
| material | wood |
| present location | Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen |
| state of preservation | complete case (lid damaged) |
| period | FIP |
| dynasty | |
| type | Type I |
| updated typology | |
| shape | rectangular |
| lid | flat? |
| length | 200 cm |
| width | |
| height | |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | yes |
| inner decoration | yes |
| description | inner coffin covered with stucco and painted yellow, offering formulae (blue hieroglyphs), udjat eyes (blue, black, white) inside painted directly on wood |
| notes | belongs to outer coffin (637_Sed_W) |
Container findspot
| locality | Sedment |
| site | |
| location | |
| tomb type | |
| code of tomb | 2127 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | FIP |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | secondary |
| remarks on archaeological context | double coffin in a burial chamber disturbed by robbers on top of the inner coffin: 2 bows, 3 arrows, 2 sticks between the coffins: wooden box with model tools inside the inner coffin: yellow hearest, faience beads, a pair of sandals + 2 arrows and 2 sticks (perhaps fallen from the lid) models and a statue in the E part of the burial chamber |
Bibliography
Petrie, William M. Flinders ‒ Brunton, Guy
1924 Sedment I, London: , pp. 12‒13, pls. 24‒25.
Jørgensen, Mogens
1996 Catalogue. Egypt I (3000 – 1550 B.C.) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, pp. 102‒105.