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DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF TOMBS OF DYN. II-IV, FOUND IN CEM. 500-900 225
Burial chamber: 160 cm. long (‘N’—‘S’) by 150—130 cm. wide and about no cm. high; entrance full width of
stairway, door-block of c.b. just inside entrance; in stair, large stone slab-block. No trace of body or of
objects.
N 586. Map, ii CD 4-5; type, IV B; fig. 144.
Mastaba, destroyed except for ‘SW’ corner with larger niche (compound); originally about 725 cm. long
(‘N’-‘S’) by 360 cm. wide; axis, 540 east of south.
Stairway: cut in gravel; begins with step and slope, then three steps, the last of which drops 200 cm.; to floor
of chamber; no c.b. lining preserved.
N 588 p/an
/V588 5ect/o/7 X B
Z/y/^7
573 -587
Burial chamber: doorway blocked by c.b. wall partly preserved; room, 160 cm. long (‘N’-‘S’) by 135 cm.
wide and about no cm. high. No burial preserved. No objects.
N 587. See N 573, of which 587 is a part.
N 588. Map, ii E 5; type, iv c, poo; photos C 4285, 4676; fig. 145.
Mastaba: small roughly rectangular c.b. enclosing wall, 172 cm. long (‘N’-‘S’) by 122 cm. wide and about 10 cm.
high; filled with gravel; the niches appear to have been on the ‘east’ side owing to the proximity to N 573+587.
Roughly rectangular pit in gravel, 100 x60 cm. and no cm. deep; axis, 430 east of south.
Burial: in an oval cist of red pottery; bones of small child, decayed.
N 589. Map, ii F 6; type, iv c; photo C 4284; figs. 146, 147.
Mastaba: partially destroyed; about 220 cm. long (‘E’-‘W’) by 160 cm. wide (‘N’-‘S’) and 15 cm. high; gravel
filling; the niches appear from thickening of wall to have been on the ‘southern’ long side, although the
skeleton has its face to the ‘north’; the walls are about 30 cm. wide.
Rectangular pit, 90x75 cm. and no cm. deep.
Burial: contracted on left side, head ‘west’; the forearms are between the femurs and the left forearm passes
up over both the lower legs; decayed organic matter under skeleton; bits of charcoal under head; probably
originally in a wooden box; unplundered.
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Burial chamber: 160 cm. long (‘N’—‘S’) by 150—130 cm. wide and about no cm. high; entrance full width of
stairway, door-block of c.b. just inside entrance; in stair, large stone slab-block. No trace of body or of
objects.
N 586. Map, ii CD 4-5; type, IV B; fig. 144.
Mastaba, destroyed except for ‘SW’ corner with larger niche (compound); originally about 725 cm. long
(‘N’-‘S’) by 360 cm. wide; axis, 540 east of south.
Stairway: cut in gravel; begins with step and slope, then three steps, the last of which drops 200 cm.; to floor
of chamber; no c.b. lining preserved.
N 588 p/an
/V588 5ect/o/7 X B
Z/y/^7
573 -587
Burial chamber: doorway blocked by c.b. wall partly preserved; room, 160 cm. long (‘N’-‘S’) by 135 cm.
wide and about no cm. high. No burial preserved. No objects.
N 587. See N 573, of which 587 is a part.
N 588. Map, ii E 5; type, iv c, poo; photos C 4285, 4676; fig. 145.
Mastaba: small roughly rectangular c.b. enclosing wall, 172 cm. long (‘N’-‘S’) by 122 cm. wide and about 10 cm.
high; filled with gravel; the niches appear to have been on the ‘east’ side owing to the proximity to N 573+587.
Roughly rectangular pit in gravel, 100 x60 cm. and no cm. deep; axis, 430 east of south.
Burial: in an oval cist of red pottery; bones of small child, decayed.
N 589. Map, ii F 6; type, iv c; photo C 4284; figs. 146, 147.
Mastaba: partially destroyed; about 220 cm. long (‘E’-‘W’) by 160 cm. wide (‘N’-‘S’) and 15 cm. high; gravel
filling; the niches appear from thickening of wall to have been on the ‘southern’ long side, although the
skeleton has its face to the ‘north’; the walls are about 30 cm. wide.
Rectangular pit, 90x75 cm. and no cm. deep.
Burial: contracted on left side, head ‘west’; the forearms are between the femurs and the left forearm passes
up over both the lower legs; decayed organic matter under skeleton; bits of charcoal under head; probably
originally in a wooden box; unplundered.
Gg