697_Aby_O
Container owner
| name | unknown |
| title | unknown |
| sex |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | organic (reed) |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 3-4 |
| type | rounded |
| updated typology | |
| shape | circular |
| lid | |
| length | |
| width | |
| height | |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | round basket of reeds |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Abydos |
| site | Cemetery D |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | D 141 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 3-4 |
| tomb owner | unknown |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | Circular pit, 50 cm. in diameter and 60 deep. Body of a child, contracted, on right side, head north-east. At neck a pierced shell, a blue glaze monkey 23 mm. high, and three blue glaze beads, almost certainly degraded forms of the monkey figure (PI. VIII., fig. l). Over the body were signs of a round basket of reeds |
Bibliography
Peet, T. Eric – Loat, William Leonard Stevenson
1913 The cemeteries of Abydos. Part III. 1912‒1913, London: Trübner, p. 14.