640_Saq_W
Container owner
| name | Ptahemhat |
| title | |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | No. 227 |
| material | wood |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | fragmentary |
| period | OK/FIP |
| dynasty | 6–9 |
| type | Type I |
| updated typology | rectangular (long) |
| shape | rectangular (box) |
| lid | flat |
| length | 200 cm |
| width | 70 cm |
| height | 70 cm (including lid) |
| inscription | ? |
| decoration | yes |
| inner decoration | yes |
| description | rectangular wooden coffin with udjat eyes, inner decoration: lists of offerings (carved, unpainted), fastened together with copper strips |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Saqqara |
| site | North Saqqara |
| location | Teti pyramid cemetery |
| tomb type | shaft |
| code of tomb | |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK/FIP |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | yes |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | serdab recess with remains of three wooden statuettes to the W coffin placed in a burial pit, but the pit was only of half height than the coffin body originally wrapped in linen pottery vessels outside coffin |
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], pp. 41–42, fig. 48.