Reisner, George Andrew: The early dynastic cemeteries of Naga-ed-Dêr (Band 3): A provincial cemetery of the pyramid age, Naga-ed-Der (Oxford: University Press by John Johnson, 1932)

162 OBJECTS FOUND IN CEM. N 500-900
g. Inscribed Pottery.
The inscriptions on the pottery were also written in signs resembling the hieratic:

Grave
Type
Map
(1) N 737
vi d
iii CD 2-3
frag., RP flaring bowl (type O.K. XVIII); on inside of rim,
end of horizontal line in black ink, an illegible proper name
(possibly the same as on the stela, No. 6).
(2) N 754
vi c (w)
iii C 2
frag., RP flaring bowl (type O.K. XVIII); on the inside of rim,
part of horizontal line of scratched signs, . . . [ih-t nb-t]
wcb-t nfr n k; \n\ im; \hy . . . ordinary offering formula with
name missing.
(3) N 848
vi d
iii E 3
RP tall bowl-stand (type O.K. XIII); on one side, one vertical
line of scratched signs—sps-t nswt mrt-its, ‘the king’s
favourite, Meryt-yetes’; fig. 59.
(4) N 852
vi a
iii E 3
RW jar with neck (type O.K. VIII b); on one side, a r/zy-Z-bird

is scratched.
I include No. 4 although not really an inscription of the same sort as Nos. 1-3, but rather an owner’s
pot-mark. Pot-marks are of two sorts: (1) maker’s mark usually incised before baking, and (2) owner’s
marks scratched in the burnt clay. Both kinds were rare in the pottery of this cemetery.
h. Basket.
One basket was found in N 752 (grave type vi a; map iii CD 2) at the feet of an intact burial. It
had been a toilet basket and had contained a long strand of amulets and beads strung on wrapped string.
i. Cow-horn.
In the rock-cut graves of Naga-’d-Der of Dyn. VI-XI I we often found one or more horns of a cow
or bull, and such horns also occurred in the Giza mastabas of Dyn. V and VI. In Cem. N 500-900,
O.K. part, a single horn was found in two graves:
(1) N 637 a vi e iii D 3 lying behind back of intact burial.
(2) N 755 vi d iii D 1 in the debris of chamber; outside coffin; undisturbed burial.