708_Geb_W

Container owner

name
title
sex

Container properties

number Suppl. 13967
material wood (sycomore fig)
present location Museo Egizio Torino
state of preservation complete
period OK
dynasty 5
type qeresu
updated typology
shape rectangular (box)
lid vaulted
length 208.5 cm
width 61 cm
height 52 cm
inscription no
decoration no
inner decoration no
description rectangular wooden coffin, plastered, semi-hieroglyphic signs for head (short side of case) and sandal (short side of lid)
notes

Container findspot

locality Gebelein
site North Cemetery
location
tomb type
code of tomb tomb of unknown
material of tomb
dating OK, 5
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft 2
burial apartment
body inside
archaeological context primary
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2018 A Social History of Coffins and Carpenters in Ancient Egypt, Los Angeles (unpublished Ph.D. thesis), pp. 194–196.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”.