673_Nag_W
Container owner
name | |
title | |
sex | female |
Container properties
number | 3022 |
material | wood |
present location | |
state of preservation | fragmentary |
period | EDP |
dynasty | 2 |
type | |
updated typology | rectangular (short) |
shape | ? |
lid | ? |
length | ? |
width | ? |
height | ? |
inscription | ? |
decoration | ? |
inner decoration | ? |
description | traces of a wooden coffin, yellow plaster on the exterior (3 cm thick); joints were overlapping or grooved but not bevelled. |
notes |
Container findspot
locality | Naga ed-Deir |
site | cemetery 3000 |
location | |
tomb type | small corbel |
code of tomb | 3022 |
material of tomb | mud bricks, bedrock |
dating | EDP, 2 |
tomb owner | |
social position | |
title | |
shaft | |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | yes |
archaeological context | primary |
remarks on archaeological context | intact burial in a corbel tomb formed by two small chambers (empty) and one burial chamber; the space between the coffin and the west wall filled with pottery, one limestone bowl and bones of offerings |
Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1908 Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr. Part I, Leipzig: University of California Publications, Egyptian Archaeology II, p. 78.