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208_Saq_S

Container owner

name Pepi I
title
sex male

Container properties

number
material greywacke
present location in situ
state of preservation
period OK
dynasty 6
type qeresu
updated typology
shape
lid
length  2.7m
width  1.23m
height  1,13m
inscription yes
decoration undecorated
no
inner decoration no
description
notes

Container findspot

locality Saqqara
site South Saqqara
location
tomb type pyramid
code of tomb pyramid of Pepi I
material of tomb limestone
dating 6
tomb owner Pepi I
social position king
title
shaft
burial apartment burial chamber
body inside
archaeological context primary
remarks on archaeological context

Bibliography
[Birch, S.]
1880-1881. [The pyramid of Sakkara recently opened: a description of the pyramid of king Pepi and the position of the inscriptions and sarcophagus]. Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology [3], pp. 93-96.
Brugsch, Heinrich
1881. Zwei Pyramiden mit Inschriften aus den Zeiten der VI. Dynastie. Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 19, pp. 1-15.
Maspero, Gaston
1884. La pyramide du roi Pepi Ier. Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l’archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 5, pp. 157-198.
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. 91.