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.