699_Aby_S
Container owner
| name | unknown |
| title | unknown |
| sex | female |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | stone |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 3-4 |
| type | rectangular |
| updated typology | |
| shape | |
| lid | stones |
| length | |
| width | |
| height | |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | a pit covered with a lid made of stones |
| notes | The contraction of the deceased body is much looser than that of the other graves in this cemetery. The custom of burying in the tightly contracted position was gradually giving way, and the movement towards the fully extended position was made by the owners of the more important tombs and only later followed by the poor. Thus in the chamber-tombs of this cemetery the legs of the body are never drawn up to make less than a right angle with the spine, and the arms, though still bent, arc usually down by the sides. |
Container findspot
| locality | Abydos |
| site | Cemetery D |
| location | |
| tomb type | tomb |
| code of tomb | D 146 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 3-4 |
| tomb owner | unknown |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | The stones occurred in the south portion of the rectangular pit (PI. III., fig. 3) from which the chamber opened. On the east side of the entrance to the chamber was a small construction consisting of six bricks laid in twos in alternate headers and stretchers. The body was semi-contracted, on left side, head north, female. |
Bibliography
Peet, T. Eric – Loat, William Leonard Stevenson
1913 The cemeteries of Abydos. Part III. 1912‒1913, London: Trübner, pp. 14, 17, pl. 3 (brick and stone covering of the pit).