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Sedment tomb 2102

date: First Intermediate Period (? about 2100 BC)

measurements: 0.584 x 1.016 x 1.47 m (shaft)
0.762 x 0.482 x 0.203 m (the coffin)

a simple shaft tomb of a young girl in a stuccoed wooden coffin (compare the tomb card)

finds (for the selection of objects in the tomb compare: burial customs):

finds not in the Petrie Museum: beads, a grind stone

Petrie/Brunton 1924: pl. XXXIX (tomb register)

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