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)

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THE CHRONOLOGY OF CEM. N 500-900

vi, c ord, which are on the ‘southern’ slope, have their chambers on the ‘north’ end of the pit; but in
map iii CD along the line between 2 and 3, for a short distance the slope pitches towards the ‘north’
and along this reversed slope the graves of type vi c and vi d have their chambers on the ‘southern’ end:

Grave
Grave
Burial
Chamber
No.
Type
Map
position
on
Dated to Dyn. V-VI by
N 862
vi c
iii D 3
lesk, ‘N’
‘S’
pottery jar
N863
vi a
iii D 3
no body
none
N 780
vi d
iii D 2-3
hcsk, ‘N’
‘S’
alabaster, pottery; amulets
N 950
vi d
iii D 2-3
lesk, ‘N’
‘S’
one pottery jar
N 737
vi d
iii CD 2-3
lesk, ‘N’
‘S’
pottery bowl
N 953
vi d (w)
iii C 2-3
hcsk, ‘N’
lesk, ‘N’
‘S’
amulets
N 784
vi d
iii C 3
lesk, ‘N’
‘S’
one pottery jar, RW V
N 773
vi d
iii B 3
hcsk, ‘N’
‘S’
pottery

Farther ‘east’ comes N 768 in the depression with its chamber to the ‘N’ and then follows, 4 m. farther
‘E’, N 769 with chamber to ‘S’:
N 769 vi d hi C 3 hcsk, ‘N’ ‘S’ pottery; mirror
These examples make it clear that the tombs of types vi c, d were excavated with the pits on the lower
part of the slope and the chambers under the higher part of the slope. In the ‘E-W’ chambers the body
was usually laid in the chamber with the head in the back end (that is, in the end away from the pit)
‘E’ or ‘W’ as the case might be; but in the one exception, N 850, the head lies towards the pit (‘W’)
and was plundered. In the ‘N-S’ graves with chamber on the ‘S’, the body always lies with the head
towards the pit, that is, ‘N’.
The graves along the two slopes of the higher ridge which runs ‘east’ from mastaba N 610 and N 764
confirm this conclusion. Those on the ‘southern’ slope have the chambers on the ‘N’ and those on the
‘northern’ slope have chambers on the ‘S’ end of the pit. The graves on the ‘northern’ slope are:

Grave
Grave
Burial
Chamber
No.
Type
Map
position
on
Dated to Dyn. V-VI by
N 755
vi d
iii D 1
hcsk, ‘N’
‘S’
pottery; amulets
N 753
vi d
iii D 2
hcsk, ‘N’
‘S’
amulets
N 778
vi c
iii D 2
lesk, ‘S’
‘S’
pottery
N 754
vi c (w)
iii C 2
csk, ‘N’, r.
‘S’
pottery
csk, ‘S’, r.

‘East’ of N 754, the slope alters and the position of the chamber changes back to normal.
There remains the small knoll in iii B 2-3 with two graves on the ‘N’ slope having ‘S’ chambers,
two graves on the ‘S’ slope having ‘N’ chambers, and one ‘E-W’ grave with ‘E’ chamber.
On the ‘N’ slope:

N 720 vi d
iii B 2-3
exsk, ‘N’
‘S’
tomb type only
N 700 vi d
iii B 3
no body
‘S’
tomb type only
On the ‘S’ slope:
N 702 vi b
iii B 3
no body
‘N’
tomb type only
N 701 vi d
iii B 3
hcsk, ‘N’
‘N’
tomb type only
On a slope rising to ‘E’:
N 719 vi d
iii B 3
tesk, ‘W’
‘E’
pottery