700_Aby_S
Container owner
| name | |
| title | |
| sex |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | stone |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 3-4 |
| type | |
| updated typology | |
| shape | |
| lid | |
| length | |
| width | |
| height | |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | The burial consisted of a rectangular pit under a mastaba with its filling containing several very large boulders of limestone. |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Abydos |
| site | Cemetery D |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | D 183 |
| material of tomb | |
| dating | OK, 3-4 |
| tomb owner | |
| social position | |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | The attempt to remove the large blocks on the top of the filling of the pit cause that the the courtyard wall of the great mastaba threatened. The excavators were therefore forced to abandon the tomb. |
Bibliography
Peet, T. Eric – Loat, William Leonard Stevenson
1913 The cemeteries of Abydos. Part III. 1912‒1913, London: Trübner, pp. 14.