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Qau Tomb 914

undisturbed burial in a shaft tomb with a chamber of a woman
date: early Middle Kingdom (about 2000 BC)

measurements: 0.61 x 2.13 x 2.31 m (the shaft)
0.61 x 1.98 x ? (the chamber; the roof of it was collapsed)

 


Click on the objects in the drawing

The reconstruction follows the description in Brunton 1927: 39. The findspot is not recorded for every object.

the finds

not in the Petrie Museum: bead, vase; ivory kohl stick, two model copper razors

 


 

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