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Badari Tomb 3301

date: middle of the First Intermediate Period (about 2100 BC)

an undisturbed shaft tomb; the sex of the tomb owner is unknown (Brunton 1928: pl. LXII). The arrangement of the finds in the tomb is not described in the publication.

(for the objects placed in tombs compare: burial customs)

measurements: 0.76 x 2.26 x 3.22 m (shaft)
chamber: 0.63 x 1.93 x ? m (chamber)

button seals

UC 20581 (Wiese 1996: no. 694 - with wrong museum number)


UC 20582 (Wiese 1996: no. 160) - click on the image -


grindstone
beads


this pot was not found in the tomb, but is from a similar type to a third pot, which was found here


 

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