230_Giz_S

written by AEBC | 16. 10. 2023

Container owner

name	Meresankh (III)
title	zAt nswt
sex	female

Container properties

number
material	granite
present location	Grand Egyptian Museum, GEM_45475
state of preservation
period	OK
dynasty	4/5
type	rectangular
updated typology
shape	cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d)
lid	yes, typewith concave cornice
length	2.16m
width	0.87m
height	0.79
inscription	yes
decoration	palace facade
inner decoration	no
description
notes	skull and bones of 50 year old woman; JdE, n.54935

Container findspot

locality	Giza
site	Eastern Cemetery
location	Cemetery G 7000
tomb type	mastaba
code of tomb	G 7530-7540
material of tomb	limestone
dating	4
tomb owner	Meresankh (III)
social position	member of the royal family
title	Bibliography Dunham, Dows and William Kelly Simpson 1974. The mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III. G 7530-7540: based upon the excavations and recordings of the late George Andrew Reisner and William Stevenson Smith. Museum of Fine Arts – Harvard University Expedition. Giza Mastabas 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, p. 21, plan E, pl.XIV, XV, Simpson, William Kelly 1978. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II: G 7110-20, and 7150 and subsidiary mastabas of Street G 7100. In collaboration with the Pennsylvania-Yale Archaeological Expedition to Egypt. Boston: Department of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art. Museum of Fine Arts, fig. 72. Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria 1969. I sarcofagi egizi dalle origine alla fine dell’Antico Regno. Serie archeologica 16. Roma: Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente – Università, 119 (B 22), tav.XXVIII/1. Reisner, [G. A.] 1927. The tomb of Meresankh, a great-granddaughter of queen Hetep-heres I and Sneferuw. Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 25 (151), pp. 64-79, fig. 20.