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TOMB TYPES OF DYNASTY II
The number of graves which might be counted as nucleus graves each representing a generation
are as follows:
Type I B (2):
N 1532, 1621, 1533, 1506, 1608, 1624 (3)-
Large
4
Small
2
Total
6
Type II B (2):
N 1581, 1512.
2
0
2
Type HI B (2):
N W. 1514. j586, 1572 (3), 1505,
1584 (3), i626> 1611.
7
3
IO
Total .......
!3
5
18
All these tombs, even those called ‘small’, are of a size larger than the tombs properly called small
which have a floor area of 0-5 to 1-5 m., most of them about 1 sq. m. If we add to these eighteen the
two to four which are presumed to have been denuded away from the western edge, the total rises to
twenty to twenty-two tombs of larger size.
Cemetery 3000 was on the next knoll to the north of Cemetery N 1500, and in my analysis of the
relations between the two cemeteries I concluded that N 3000 contained the graves of a different family
to that of N 1500, a family of lesser importance, but for the greater part contemporaneous with that
of N 1500. The tombs were on an average smaller but presented examples of wood-roofed graves
(type I B (2)) and corbel-roofed graves. The corbel-roofed tombs of larger size in N 3000 were as
follows:
DESCRIPTION OF TOMBS OF TYPE III B (2) IN CEMETERY N 3000 AND OTHER CEMETERIES
Type III B (2):
2-xi. N 3017: see l.c., p. 72.
Superstructure partially preserved. The east, south, and north faces were not panelled and probably
the mastaba was of the two-niched type. The mastaba measured 6-8 or 6-3 m. xq-o m. This
gives a proportion of about 1/1-7 or I/I-75 whh an area of 27-2 or 25-2 sq. m.
Substructure: corbel-roofed with sloping passage, main chamber, and two end chambers at north
end; doorway roofed with wood; limestone slab used to support corbel at SE corner, and another
as threshold of doorway. Open pit reaches but does not enter limestone stratum.
Depth of open pit . . . 2-8 m.
Height of the c.b. mass . . 2-5 m.
Height of main vault. . . i-8 (?) m.
The corbel has rounded corners (not groined).
Total 6-05 sq. m.
Measurements:
N-S
E-W
Prop.
Area
Overall .
• 5-15 m.
37 m-
1/1-4
19-03 sq. m.
Floor area:
Main chamber
• 2'5m-
1-85 m.
4-63 sq. m.
End chambers
•
1-42 sq. m.
TOMB TYPES OF DYNASTY II
The number of graves which might be counted as nucleus graves each representing a generation
are as follows:
Type I B (2):
N 1532, 1621, 1533, 1506, 1608, 1624 (3)-
Large
4
Small
2
Total
6
Type II B (2):
N 1581, 1512.
2
0
2
Type HI B (2):
N W. 1514. j586, 1572 (3), 1505,
1584 (3), i626> 1611.
7
3
IO
Total .......
!3
5
18
All these tombs, even those called ‘small’, are of a size larger than the tombs properly called small
which have a floor area of 0-5 to 1-5 m., most of them about 1 sq. m. If we add to these eighteen the
two to four which are presumed to have been denuded away from the western edge, the total rises to
twenty to twenty-two tombs of larger size.
Cemetery 3000 was on the next knoll to the north of Cemetery N 1500, and in my analysis of the
relations between the two cemeteries I concluded that N 3000 contained the graves of a different family
to that of N 1500, a family of lesser importance, but for the greater part contemporaneous with that
of N 1500. The tombs were on an average smaller but presented examples of wood-roofed graves
(type I B (2)) and corbel-roofed graves. The corbel-roofed tombs of larger size in N 3000 were as
follows:
DESCRIPTION OF TOMBS OF TYPE III B (2) IN CEMETERY N 3000 AND OTHER CEMETERIES
Type III B (2):
2-xi. N 3017: see l.c., p. 72.
Superstructure partially preserved. The east, south, and north faces were not panelled and probably
the mastaba was of the two-niched type. The mastaba measured 6-8 or 6-3 m. xq-o m. This
gives a proportion of about 1/1-7 or I/I-75 whh an area of 27-2 or 25-2 sq. m.
Substructure: corbel-roofed with sloping passage, main chamber, and two end chambers at north
end; doorway roofed with wood; limestone slab used to support corbel at SE corner, and another
as threshold of doorway. Open pit reaches but does not enter limestone stratum.
Depth of open pit . . . 2-8 m.
Height of the c.b. mass . . 2-5 m.
Height of main vault. . . i-8 (?) m.
The corbel has rounded corners (not groined).
Total 6-05 sq. m.
Measurements:
N-S
E-W
Prop.
Area
Overall .
• 5-15 m.
37 m-
1/1-4
19-03 sq. m.
Floor area:
Main chamber
• 2'5m-
1-85 m.
4-63 sq. m.
End chambers
•
1-42 sq. m.