653_Nag_W
Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex | ? |
Container properties
| number | 1538 |
| material | wood |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | fragmentary |
| period | EDP |
| dynasty | 1? |
| type | |
| updated typology | rectangular (short) |
| shape | rectangular (box) |
| lid | ? |
| length | 102 cm |
| width | 58 cm |
| height | 42 cm |
| inscription | ? |
| decoration | ? |
| inner decoration | ? |
| description | rectangular wooden coffin with pink plaster on the outer walls; joints were overlapping or grooved but not bevelled. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Naga ed-Deir |
| site | cemetery 1500 |
| location | under structure 1506 |
| tomb type | |
| code of tomb | unclassified tombs |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | EDP, 1? |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | secondary |
| remarks on archaeological context | the burial was in a receptacle formed by a thick wall on the east, bonded with the remains of a thinner wall on the north, remains of a wall on the west. finds: 5 flint-core marbles and a small flint |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1908 Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr. Part I, Leipzig: University of California Publications, Egyptian Archaeology II, p. 15.