207_Saq_S
Container owner
| name | Pepi II |
| title | |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | granite |
| present location | in situ |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | end 6th |
| type | qeresu |
| updated typology | |
| shape | |
| lid | |
| length | 2.84m |
| width | 1.3m |
| height | 1.19m |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | undecorated no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes | material is identified as black granite but it can be also grawacke or basalt |
Container findspot
| locality | Saqqara |
| site | South Saqqara |
| location | |
| tomb type | pyramid |
| code of tomb | pyramid of Pepi II |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 6 |
| tomb owner | Pepi II |
| social position | king |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context |
Bibliography
Maspero, Gaston
1892. La pyramide du roi Pepi II. Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 12, pp. 53-95, 136-195.
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 Institut, pp. 94.
Jéquier, Gustave
1983. Fouilles à Saqqarah: tombeaux de particuliers contemporains de Pepi II. Le Caire: L’Organisation égyptienne générale du livre, I, pp. 11-13, tav.XXV.
Jéquier, Gustav
1940 Douze ans de fouilles dans la nécropole memphite 1924-1936 (= Mémoires de l′Université de Nouchatel, 15), Nouchatel, pp. 38, fig. 12.