Container owner
| name | Mereri |
| title | tAjtj TAtj (n) zAb |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | limestone |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6, Merenre – beginning Pepi II |
| type | rectangular |
| updated typology | |
| shape | – |
| lid | |
| length | 3.26m |
| width | 1.45m |
| height | 2m |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | seven sacred oils no |
| inner decoration | yes |
| description | |
| notes | seven sacred oils on the E wall of the sarcophagus case |
Container findspot
| locality | Saqqara |
| site | North Saqqara |
| location | W of the Step pyramid |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | adjacent to tomb of Ptahotepa (I), shaft no. 4 |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 6 |
| tomb owner | Mereri |
| social position | vizier |
| title | tAjtj TAtj (n) zAb – he of the curtain, chief justice and vizier (Jones 2000: 1000, no. 3706) |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context | mortar between the lid and the case intact, but the sarcophagus robbed by a hole in the E wall |
Bibliography
Hassan, Selim
1975. Mastabas of Princess Ḥemet-R’ and others. Edited by Zaki Iskander. Excavations at Saqqara 1937-1938 (3). Cairo: General Organisation for Government Printing Offices, p. 36, figs. 19,20, pls. XXI, XXII, 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. 607-608.