Container owner
name | |
title | |
sex | ? |
Container properties
number | 1538α |
material | wood |
present location | |
state of preservation | fragmentary |
period | EDP |
dynasty | 1? |
type | |
updated typology | rectangular (short) |
shape | rectangular (box) |
lid | ? |
length | 100 cm |
width | 58 cm |
height | ca. 60 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 plundered and the wall was built after the plundering finds: a pot (red ware) |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1908 Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr. Part I, Leipzig: University of California Publications, Egyptian Archaeology II, pp. 15–16.