Container owner
| name | Meresankh (II) |
| title | zAt nswt n Xt.f |
| sex | lemale |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | granite |
| present location | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MFA 27.441a-b |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | mid 4th |
| type | rectangular |
| updated typology | |
| shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
| lid | yes |
| length | 2.24m |
| width | 0.93m |
| height | 0.85m |
| inscription | yes |
| decoration | palace facade – case; Anubis sign – lid |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes |
Container findspot
| locality | Giza |
| site | Eastern Cemetery |
| location | Cemetery G 7000 |
| tomb type | mastaba |
| code of tomb | G 7410-7420 |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 4 |
| tomb owner | Meresankh (II) |
| social position | member of the royal family |
| title | zAt nswt n Xt.f – king’s daughter of his body (Jones 2000: 819, no. 2993) zAt nswt n Xt.f, Hmt nswt jmA wrt |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context |
Bibliography
Dows, Dunham
1927. New installation in the Egyptian Department. Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 25 (152), pp. 96-98.
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, p. 50.
Smith, W. Stevenson 1933. The coffin of prince Min-Khaf. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 19 (3/4), pp. 150-159.