Container owner
name | Meru |
title | HAtj-a |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | |
material | limestone |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | OK |
dynasty | 6 |
type | rectangular – Reisner type d |
updated typology | |
shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
lid | yes |
length | 4.18m |
width | 1.96m |
height | 1.8m |
inscription | yes |
decoration | undecorated no |
inner decoration | no |
description | |
notes | the lid is partly formed by the paving of the burial chamber |
Container findspot
locality | Heliopolis |
site | Heliopolis |
location | |
tomb type | mastaba |
code of tomb | mastaba of Meru |
material of tomb | limestone |
dating | 6 |
tomb owner | Meru |
social position | higher |
title | HAtj-a – count (Jones 2000: 496, no. 1858) |
shaft | |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | |
archaeological context | primary |
remarks on archaeological context | the lid partly formed by the pavement of the BCH |
Bibliography
Daressy, Georges – Alexandre Barsanti
1916. La nécropole des grands prêtres d’Héliopolis sous l’Ancien Empire. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 16, 193-220, figs. 1-2.