Container owner
| name | Niankhre I |
| title | jmj-r kAt nbt nt nswt, |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | limestone |
| present location | in situ |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | end 4th/early 5th |
| type | qeresu |
| updated typology | |
| shape | |
| lid | |
| length | 2.47m |
| width | 1.1m |
| height | – |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | undecorated no |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes | polished sarcophagus; canopic jars and model vessels found in BCH |
Container findspot
| locality | Giza |
| site | GIS cemetery |
| location | Mastaba is located along south side of Khufu Pyramid, east of Mastaba IV, west of Mastaba VI |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | Lepsius 52 |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 5 |
| tomb owner | Niankhre (I) |
| social position | higher |
| title | jmj-r kAt nbt nt nswt – overseer of all works of the king (Jones 2000: 262, no. 950) |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context |
Bibliography
Junker, Hermann
1951. Gîza X: Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Gîza. Der Friedhof südlich der Cheopspyramide, Westteil. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Denkschriften der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse 74 (1). Wien: Rudolf M. Rohrer, p. 159, tav.XII b.
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. 234-235.