Container owner
name | Mereruka |
title | tAjtj TAtj (n) zAb |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | |
material | limestone |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | OK |
dynasty | 6, beginning-mid Teti – mid Pepi I |
type | rectangular – Reisner type d |
updated typology | |
shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
lid | yes, flat |
length | 4.5m |
width | 1.8m |
height | 1.5m |
inscription | yes |
decoration | undecorated no |
inner decoration | no |
description | |
notes | texts in the interior are over written wooden coffin: 594_Saq_W |
Container findspot
locality | Saqqara |
site | North Saqqara |
location | Teti Pyramid Cemetery, in the first row in “Rue de Tombeaux” |
tomb type | mastaba |
code of tomb | tomb of Mereruka |
material of tomb | limestone |
dating | 6 |
tomb owner | Mereruka |
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 | the sarcophagus is walled and accessible by a ramp |
Bibliography
Firth, Cecil M. and Battiscombe Gunn
1926. Teti pyramid cemeteries, 2 vols. Excavations at Saqqara. Le Caire: Imprimerie de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale. At head of title: Service des antiquités de l’Égypte, p. 24, fig. 19, tav. 2, pp. 149-150, tav. 60, nn. 3-8.
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. 525-523.