Container owner
| name | Mereruka |
| title | tAjtj TAtj (n) zAb |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | limestone |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6, beginning-mid Teti – mid Pepi I |
| type | rectangular – Reisner type d |
| updated typology | |
| shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
| lid | yes, flat |
| length | 4.5m |
| width | 1.8m |
| height | 1.5m |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | undecorated no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes | texts in the interior are over written wooden coffin: 594_Saq_W |
Container findspot
| locality | Saqqara |
| site | North Saqqara |
| location | Teti Pyramid Cemetery, in the first row in “Rue de Tombeaux” |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | tomb of Mereruka |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 6 |
| tomb owner | Mereruka |
| social position | vizier |
| title | tAjtj TAtj (n) zAb – he of the curtain, chief justice and vizier (Jones 2000: 1000, no. 3706) |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | the sarcophagus is walled and accessible by a ramp |
Bibliography
Firth, Cecil M. and Battiscombe Gunn
1926. Teti pyramid cemeteries, 2 vols. Excavations at Saqqara. Le Caire: Imprimerie de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale. At head of title: Service des antiquités de l’Égypte, p. 24, fig. 19, tav. 2, pp. 149-150, tav. 60, nn. 3-8.
Porter, Bertha – Moss, Rosalind L. B.
1981. Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings III2: Memphis. Part 2: Ṣaqqâra to Dahshûr, 2nd, revised and augmented ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Griffith Institute, pp. 525-523.