Container owner
| name | Weta |
| title | (j)r(j)-(j)x.t nswt |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | limestone |
| present location | Egyptian Museum, Cairo, GEM_15017 |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 5/6 (Baer), 4 (Borchardt) |
| type | rectangular – Reisner type d |
| updated typology | |
| shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
| lid | yes |
| length | 1.95m |
| width | 0.76m |
| height | 0.69m |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | undecorated no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes | Provenance uncertain: according to Reisner “from mastaba near Third [Menkaure] Pyramid”; listed in CG as from Saqqara polished surface; text on W and E walls (Sethe, Urkunden, I, 22, 1-4) JdE, n.30189, n.1787 CGC(=59 Maspero) |
Container findspot
| locality | Giza |
| site | South necropolis |
| location | |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | mastaba of Weta |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 5 |
| tomb owner | Weta |
| social position | low-ranking official |
| title | (j)r(j)-(j)x.t nswt – custodian of the king’s property/property custodian of the king (Bárta 1999) |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context |
Bibliography
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1893. Notes et remarques. Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 14, pp. 20-38, 165-185.
Sethe, Kurt
1932-1933. Urkunden des Alten Reichs [I,1-308], 4 vols. Urkunden des Ägyptischen Altertums I (1-4 [= Band 1]). Leipzig: Hinrichs, pp. 22, 1-4.
Junker, Hermann
1957. Weta und das Lederkunsthandwerk in Alten Reich (=Stb.Ost.Ak. Der Wiss.-Phil.Hist.Klasse, 231, Band 1), Wien.
Helck, Wolfgang
1954. Untersuchungen zu den Beamtentiteln des ägyptischen Alten Reiches (=Aeg. Forsch.,18), Glückstadt-Hamburg-nox York, pp.107-108,
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. 309, 311.
Donadoni Roveri
1969. tav.XXXVI, 1 (B 60).