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Badari tomb 4979

date: early Middle Kingdom (about 2000 BC)

measurements: 0.61 x 1.98 x 2.00 m (shaft)
chamber: 0.76 x 2.21 x 0.76 m (chamber)

shaft tomb of a woman; the body was put in a wooden coffin; over the head was found a plaster mask; the tomb was bricked up; there is no description about the arrangement of the objects found in the tomb

finds:

(for the objects placed in tombs compare: burial customs)

UC 18095 UC 18094

UC 20856

 

detail of UC 20856

jar UC 18096

UC 1809


 

 

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