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Sedment tomb 1546

date: early Middle Kingdom (about 2000 BC)

disturbed tomb (a simple hole/shaft 2.44 m deep), with fragments of a white painted coffin

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

UC 18195 (40)
UC 18232 (64l)
UC 18195 UC 18232

 

Pottery not in the Petrie Museum
(types from left to right: 8n (top left), 88e , 78v, 88 , 62c, 64b)
the vessel on the right is about 28.8 cm high

pottery from tomb Sedment 1546

the tomb on the map

 

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

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