701_Geb_W

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

number Suppl. 13954
material wood (acacia)
present location Museo Egizio Torino
state of preservation complete
period OK
dynasty 5
type qeresu
updated typology
shape rectangular (box)
lid vaulted
length 196 cm
width 47 cm
height 44 cm
inscription no
decoration no
inner decoration no
description rectangular wooden coffin, walls plastered and painted light yellow
notes

Container findspot

locality Gebelein
site North Cemetery
location
tomb type
code of tomb tomb of the unknown, Grande tombe 
material of tomb
dating OK, 5
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft 1
burial apartment
body inside
archaeological context primary
remarks on archaeological context

Bibliography
D’Amicone, Elvira-Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria, Gli edifici religiosi e la necropoli di Gebelein nel terzo millennio a.C., 1988, p. 66, Tav. 76.
Marro, Giovanni, L’ Esplorazione della necropoli di Gebelein : (dai lavori della Missione Archeologica Italiana in Egitto), ASIPS 1928, p.24.
D’Amicone, Elvira, Arte minore nel Museo Egizio, 1985, p. 27-40 tav. 10
Grallert, Silke-Grajetzki, Wolfram, Life and afterlife in Ancient Egypt during the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, 2007, p. 19
Martinet, Émilie, L’administration provinciale sous l’Ancien Empire égyptien: Vol. 2. Catalogue des élites provinciales de l’Ancien Empire, 2019, p. 536 nota 428.
Eschenbrenner Diemer, Gersande
in preparation “The wooden coffins dating from the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period preserved at the Museo Egizio in Turin: a comprehensive study”.

Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria
1969 I sarcofagi egizi dalle origini alla fine dell’ antico regno, Roma: Istituto di studi del Vicino Oriente, p. 171 (= C 39).
Arbuckle, Caroline Joan
2018 A Social History of Coffins and Carpenters in Ancient Egypt, Los Angeles (unpublished Ph.D. thesis), p. 196.