Pit Graves
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- PIT GRAVES
- formation
- Circular/oval pit in ground
- Naqada II - became more rectangular and lined with mud brick
- Early in Old Kingdom they became deeper, and then developed rows of mud brick
- Pre-Dynastic graves often lined with reeds/skins/mats
- Used from the Pre-Dynastic Period onwards
- later on used only for the poor
- Example
- Gebelein Man; kept in the British Museum, from the Pre-Dynastic Period c.3500 BC in Upper Egypt
- Good preservation
- Hair and fingernails are kept on the body
- Grave goods survive - mostly pottery for food
- the sand and heat preserved the bodies, absorbed water in them
- believed that idea for mummification was gained from this
- Religious reasoning
- Faced the west: Ra (the sun) 'dies' in the west
- Underground:Ra sinks below the ground and gives life to the dead
- formation
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