Container owner
| name | Meni (Menankhpepi) |
| title | HAty-a, sDAwty bity |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | stone |
| present location | Chicago (2 door slabs from BCH); MFA Boston – stela – https://collections.mfa.org/objects/44 |
| state of preservation | slabs with decoration demaged |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6 |
| type | rectangular |
| updated typology | |
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| inner decoration | |
| description | a sarcophagus chamber lined with stone slabs – the excavator called it a built sarcophagus; the painted decoration of sarcophagus chamber consisted of the false door, a list of offerings and wedjat eyes; it also includes a passage from the Pyramid texts dealing with ritual anointing (Utterances 72-78) (Fischer 1968: 88). |
| notes | Meni was a possible owner of the tomb(s) S2530/2531 in the Western Cemetery |
Container findspot
| locality | Dendera |
| site | |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | |
| material of tomb | brick |
| dating | OK, late 6 |
| tomb owner | Meni |
| social position | royal family |
| title | HAty-a, sDAwty bity – count and seal-bearer of the king of Lower Egypt |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | |
| remarks on archaeological context | the entrance to the BCH was closed by two slabs painted as a door with a pair of udjat eyes (Petrie 1900: 6) |
Petrie, William Matthew Flinders – Griffith, Francis Llewellyn et al.
1900 Dendereh 1898, London: Trübner, pl. III, IV.
Fischer, Henry George
1968 Dendera in the Third Millennium B.C. Down to the Theban Domination of Upper Egypt, New York: J. J. Augustin.