738_Nag_W

Container owner

name
title
sex ?

Container properties

number 793
material wood
present location
state of preservation imprint
period OK
dynasty 3–4
type rectangular
updated typology
shape rectangular (box)
lid flat?
length 82 cm
width 50 cm
height 40–50 cm
inscription ?
decoration ?
inner decoration ?
description imprint of wooden coffin
notes

Container findspot

locality Naga ed-Deir
site cemetery 700
location
tomb type mastaba (type v f)
code of tomb 793
material of tomb
dating OK, 3–4
tomb owner
social position
title
shaft rectangular pit
burial apartment
body inside yes
archaeological context primary
remarks on archaeological context mastaba destroyed by mastabas N 781 and 792; after placing the wooden coffin on the floor, the pit filled with gravel

Reisner 1932: fig. 221.

Bibliography
Reisner, George Andrew
1932 A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age: Naga-ed-der. Part III, Berkeley: University of California Press, p. 259, fig. 221.