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Kafr Ammar Tomb 497

An undisturbed simple shaft tomb of a man. He was buried in a coffin. No plan of the tomb is published or noted in the tomb cards.

Date: First Intermediate Period (or early Middle Kingdom?) (about 2000 BC)

Finds: a headrest, pottery, a wooden bow

tomb

Petrie/Mackay 1915: 31, pl. XXVIII (tomb register)

Measurements of the tomb: 93 x 200 x 152 (depth) cm
Measurements of the coffin: 180 x 33 x 33 cm

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