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NAQLUN
EGYPT
seen on practically all the funerary stele
known from Naqlun.
The tombs, both cut in soft rock,
comprised a vertical shaft opening into
a burial chamber located on the east side.
T.201 had a circular shaft measuring c. 0.85
m across and 1.18 m deep. The burial
chamber was 1.94 m long (2.70 m including
the bottom of the shaft) and 1.03 m wide,
0.94 m high at the most, although leeway
should be left for damages incurred during
the two separate instances of illicit digging
[Fig, 13].
The fill still inside the tomb and the
dump from the latest plundering yielded
two broken LR 7 amphorae presumably
from the blocking of the shaft [Fig. 12], as
well as a few pieces of red brick, measuring
23 x 11-12 x 6.5-7.0 cm, which may have
come from the tomb superstructure or from
the closing of the entrance to the burial
chamber.
Fig. 12. Afnphora LR 7, Nd. 07.290
(Photo IV Godleivski)
Fig. 13. Tombs T.201 and T.202 in Cemetery C.2
(Plan and section W. Godlewski, S. Maslak)
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EGYPT
seen on practically all the funerary stele
known from Naqlun.
The tombs, both cut in soft rock,
comprised a vertical shaft opening into
a burial chamber located on the east side.
T.201 had a circular shaft measuring c. 0.85
m across and 1.18 m deep. The burial
chamber was 1.94 m long (2.70 m including
the bottom of the shaft) and 1.03 m wide,
0.94 m high at the most, although leeway
should be left for damages incurred during
the two separate instances of illicit digging
[Fig, 13].
The fill still inside the tomb and the
dump from the latest plundering yielded
two broken LR 7 amphorae presumably
from the blocking of the shaft [Fig. 12], as
well as a few pieces of red brick, measuring
23 x 11-12 x 6.5-7.0 cm, which may have
come from the tomb superstructure or from
the closing of the entrance to the burial
chamber.
Fig. 12. Afnphora LR 7, Nd. 07.290
(Photo IV Godleivski)
Fig. 13. Tombs T.201 and T.202 in Cemetery C.2
(Plan and section W. Godlewski, S. Maslak)
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