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NAQLUN

EGYPT

Fragments of a destroyed cartonnage
were removed from the burial chamber
[Fig. 14]. Among the recorded finds were
scraps of textiles from the robes and shrouds
wrapping the corpse, rolled up pieces of
shrouds [Fig. 14, top] used in building up
the cartonnage superstructure above the
head and broken pieces of a board made of
jarids tied together with palm-fiber rope to
stiffen the frame of the cartonnage (L.+ 155
cm; W. 34 cm) [Fig. 14, center].
Tomb T.202 had a vertical shaft (1.00 by
0.82 m at the mouth, 1.42 m deep) opening
into a burial chamber 1.82 m long (2.84 m
together with the bottom of the shaft),

0.92 m wide and 0.85 m high [cf. Fig. 13].
Part of the burial was preserved inside the
chamber. The corpse was wrapped in shrouds
and placed inside a coffin made of jarids tied
together with palm-fiber rope [Fig. 15]. The
preserved part of the coffin measured
0.74 cm. The fill of the grave contained
pieces of robes, a long-sleeved tunic and
fragments of shrouds. One incomplete
amphora may have come from the fill of the
tomb shaft [cf. Fig. 12].
Each tomb contained apparently one
burial, but the preserved skeletal material
was too fragmentary for anthropological
examination.






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Fig. 15. Part of a jarid board from Tomb T.202
(Photo W. Godlewski)

REFERENCES

Derda, T.
1995 Deir el-Naqlun: The Greek Papyri (P. Naqlun I), Warsaw: Warsaw University Press
Dobrowolski, J.
1990 Naqlun Deir al-Malak Ghubra’il: The Existing Monastic Complex, Nubica I/II, 161-170
Godlewski, W.
2005 Naqlun (Nekloni). Season 2004, PAMXVI [=Reports 2005], 181-190

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