Container owner
name | Pepi Nebi |
title | Xrj-tp nswt |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | |
material | limestone |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | OK |
dynasty | end 6 |
type | rectangular |
updated typology | |
shape | |
lid | yes |
length | – |
width | – |
height | – |
inscription | yes |
decoration | undecorated no |
inner decoration | no |
description | |
notes | – |
Container findspot
locality | Saqqara |
site | South Saqqara |
location | near the pyramid of Pepi II |
tomb type | mastaba |
code of tomb | mastaba N IV |
material of tomb | limestone |
dating | 6 |
tomb owner | Pepi, Nebi |
social position | middle-ranking official |
title | Xrj-tp nswt – king’s liegeman/royal chamberlain, he who is under the head of the king (Jones 2000: 788, no. 2874) |
shaft | |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | |
archaeological context | primary |
remarks on archaeological context |
Bibliography
Jéquier, Gustave
1983. Fouilles à Saqqarah: tombeaux de particuliers contemporains de Pepi II. Le Caire: L’Organisation égyptienne générale du livre, p. 105.
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. 182-183.