708_Geb_W

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

numberSuppl. 13967
materialwood (sycomore fig)
present locationMuseo Egizio Torino
state of preservationcomplete
periodOK
dynasty5
typeqeresu
updated typology
shaperectangular (box)
lidvaulted
length208.5 cm
width61 cm
height52 cm
inscriptionno
decorationno
inner decorationno
descriptionrectangular wooden coffin, plastered, semi-hieroglyphic signs for head (short side of case) and sandal (short side of lid)
notes

Container findspot

localityGebelein
siteNorth Cemetery
location
tomb type
code of tombtomb of unknown
material of tomb
datingOK, 5
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft2
burial apartment
body inside
archaeological contextprimary
remarks on archaeological context

Bibliography
G. Marro, ASIPS 1928, 24–25.
E. Schiaparelli, Inventario manoscritto
Marro, Giovanni, L’ Esplorazione della necropoli di Gebelein : (dai lavori della Missione Archeologica Italiana in Egitto), 1928, p. 24-25
Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria-Università degli Studi Roma, I sarcofagi egizi dalle origini alla fine dell’Antico Regno, 1969, p. 172-173 C42
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

Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria
1969 I sarcofagi egizi dalle origini alla fine dell’ antico regno, Roma: Istituto di studi del Vicino Oriente, p. 172 (=C 42).
Arbuckle, Caroline Joan
2018 A Social History of Coffins and Carpenters in Ancient Egypt, Los Angeles (unpublished Ph.D. thesis), pp. 194–196.
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”.