Container owner
| name | Meriteti |
| title | tAjtj TAtj (n) zAb |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | limestone |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 6, mid Pepi I |
| type | rectangular |
| updated typology | |
| shape | cuboid with roughly manufactured edges |
| lid | yes, flat |
| length | 3.15m |
| width | 1.6m |
| height | 1.55m |
| inscription | |
| decoration | undecorated |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes | sarcophagus lid: the name of the owner overwritten with name Pepiankh – another son of Mereruka who usurped his part of the tomb |
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 | mastaba of Meriteti |
| 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 | a layer of rubble around the sarcophagus reached almost to the edge of the tub, the lid shifted to the east |
Bibliography
Kanawati, N. and M. Abder-Raziq 2004. Mereruka and his family. Part I: the tomb of Meryteti. Australian Centre for Egyptology: Reports 21. Oxford: Aris and Phillips, pp. 21, 44.
PM III.2, 536, pl.37-38, 55b.