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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)
detail of UC 20856 |
jar UC 18096
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