cist

In it were two burials, the first in a pottery cist placed in one corner of the well at 1·5 metres from the surface.

Below this cist lay another body in a wooden box painted white.

In the filling were fragments of Old Kingdom pottery, of a broken pottery cist, and of the rude pottery bars.

In one instance the cist was found between walls and beneath a roof of sandstone blocks.

A complete skeleton in a stone cist is now lying in a glass case in the museum.