Sedment tomb 1611
date: First Intermediate Period or early Middle Kingdom (about 2000 BC)
disturbed burial in a simple shaft tomb in a yellow painted
coffin with Udjat eyes on it (1.85 x 0.45 x 0.45 m);
the sex of the owner is unknown (Petrie/Brunton 1924: pl. XXXVIII; Seidlmayer 1990: 334)
See the tomb cards (for the selection of objects in the tomb compare: burial customs).
The pottery in the tomb is the essential selection found in many tombs of the First Intermediate Period: a drinking bowl and a vessel for pouring water (or other liquid). These two vessel types are also often shown on stelae of the period (compare the stela from Denderah), where a servant is holding the jug in one hand, while offering the bowl to the owner of the stela with his other hand. This seems to be then not a scene of daily life so much as a ritual that secures an eternal supply of food and drink; this ritual is evidently also created in burials with the two vessels (Seidlmayer 2001: 242-244).
UC 18157 (8n)
UC 18158 (64l)
arrows (not mentioned in the publication but in the tomb cards, the paper is modern)
pottery not in the Petrie Museum: 17h, 36r, 38c, 89g, 90p, 94p
other finds not in the Petrie Museum: a headrest; a collar, model tools (see the drawings in the notebook), flax bat
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