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NAQLUN

EGYPT

contained seven amphorae of the LR.7
type, standing upside down on the rims.
Filling the burial chamber almost entirely
was a cartonnage with a projecting jerid
structure rising above the head [Fig. 6].
The cartonnage was made of linen shrouds
and bandaged with colorful ornamental
tapes criss-crossing on the surface [Fig. 7].
The state of preservation of the cartonnage
permitted storage following protective
measures, with full conservation scheduled
for the future.
In another undisturbed tomb, two
burials were recorded. A second burial was
made in a chamber already containing
a cartonnage (C.T. 005). This second burial
was encased in a plain linen shroud. Its
position on top of the earlier cartonnage
caused the latter's partial destruction. The
fill in the shaft and chamber contained
sherds of some LR.7 amphorae belonging
to the original burial and broken when the
secondary burial was made. Inside the dis-
turbed tombs there were many pieces of
tapes used in bandaging the cartonnages,
indicating what they may have looked like
in analogy to the intact example from tomb
C.T. 003. Similar cartonnages were dis-
covered in the cemetery at Karara. The best
known example is a wooden painted coffin
now in the Museum of the Institute of
Egyptology of Fleidelberg University.6 The
architecture of the cartonnages from
Naqlun approaches the construction of the
Heidelberg coffin.
The disturbed tombs also yielded several
examples of woolen and silk textiles, some
of the most exquisite fragments coming
from tomb C.T. 005 [cf. color illustrations
on p. 208 below]. A more complete char-
acteristic of the textiles from the graves in

cemetery C will be possible once a full
documentation of the season's finds has
been completed in 2005.7 Sporadically ac-
companying the textiles and amphorae were
other grave goods constituting personal
belongings, e.g. a wooden comb [Fig. 8]
and footgear.


Fig. 8. Wooden comb from tomb T.C. 002.
Nd.04.316 (Photo W. Godlewski)

6 C. Nauerth, "Karara und El-Hibe", Studien zur Archaeologie und Geschichte Altdgyptens 15 (1996), 30-36.
7 Cf. contribution by B. Czaja-Szewcak in this volume.

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