233_Giz_S
Container owner
| name | Menkaure |
| title | |
| sex | male |
Container properties
| number | |
| material | basalt/greywacke |
| present location | |
| state of preservation | |
| period | OK |
| dynasty | 4 |
| type | rectangular |
| updated typology | |
| shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
| lid | |
| length | 2.43m |
| width | 0.94m |
| height | 0.88m |
| inscription | no |
| decoration | palace facade |
| inner decoration | no |
| description | |
| notes | the boat with sarcophagus sank when transported to Europe |
Container findspot
| locality | Giza |
| site | Giza |
| location | |
| tomb type | pyramid |
| code of tomb | pyramid of Menkaure |
| material of tomb | limestone |
| dating | 4 |
| tomb owner | Menkaure |
| social position | king |
| title | |
| shaft | |
| burial apartment | burial chamber |
| body inside | |
| archaeological context | primary |
| remarks on archaeological context |
Bibliography
Perring, J. S. 1840. The pyramids of Gizeh from actual survey and admeasurement, part II: the second and third pyramids, the three smaller to the southward of the third, and the three to the eastward of the Great Pyramid. London: Fraser, p. 9, tav. V.
Vyse, Howard 1840-1842. Operations carried on at the pyramids of Gizeh in 1837: with an account of a voyage into Upper Egypt, and an appendix, 3 vols. London: James Fraser; John Weale; G. W. Nickisson, pp. 81-85.
Prisse d’Avennes, E. 1997. Atlas of Egyptian art. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, tav. VI.
Perrot, Georges and Charles Chipiez 1882. L’Égypte. Histoire de l’art dans l’antiquité 1. Paris: Hachette, pp. 508-511, fig. 289.
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. 8.