Container owner
| name | Meresankh (III) |
| title | zAt nswt |
| sex | female |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | granite |
| present location | Grand Egyptian Museum, GEM_45475 |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 4/5 |
| type | rectangular |
| updated typology | |
| shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
| lid | yes, typewith concave cornice |
| length | 2.16m |
| width | 0.87m |
| height | 0.79 |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | palace facade |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes | skull and bones of 50 year old woman; JdE, n.54935 |
Container findspot
| locality | Giza |
| site | Eastern Cemetery |
| location | Cemetery G 7000 |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | G 7530-7540 |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 4 |
| tomb owner | Meresankh (III) |
| social position | member of the royal family |
| title | zAt nswt – king’s daughter (Jones 2000: 817, no. 2988) |
| shaft | A |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | yes |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | lid leaning against the wall |
Bibliography
Dunham, Dows and William Kelly Simpson 1974. The mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III. G 7530-7540: based upon the excavations and recordings of the late George Andrew Reisner and William Stevenson Smith. Museum of Fine Arts – Harvard University Expedition. Giza Mastabas 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, p. 21, plan E, pl.XIV, XV,
Simpson, William Kelly 1978. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II: G 7110-20, and 7150 and subsidiary mastabas of Street G 7100. In collaboration with the Pennsylvania-Yale Archaeological Expedition to Egypt. Boston: Department of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art. Museum of Fine Arts, fig. 72.
Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria 1969. I sarcofagi egizi dalle origine alla fine dell’Antico Regno. Serie archeologica 16. Roma: Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente – Università, 119 (B 22), tav.XXVIII/1.
Reisner, [G. A.] 1927. The tomb of Meresankh, a great-granddaughter of queen Hetep-heres I and Sneferuw. Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 25 (151), pp. 64-79, fig. 20.