Meruka
Western Cemetery
Details
- ID
- Meruka
- Alternate IDs
- Meruka
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: Baer Date; date: Dynasty 6; type: Harpur Date; date: Teti; type: Kanawati Date; date: Early Djedkare; type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 6
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Chauvet, Violaine. “Decoration and Architecture: The Definition of Private Tomb Environment.” Servant of Mut. Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente. Leiden: Brill, 2008, p. 46 notes 22, 24, 26. Fischer MIO 7, (1960), 310-2, pl. 2. García, Juan Carlos Moreno. "A New Old Kingdom Inscription from Giza (CGC 57163), and the Problem of sn-Dt in Pharaonic Third Millennium Society." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 93 (2007), p. 122. Junker, in Anzeiger, Wien, 63 (1926), pp. 95 [1], 98. Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950, pp. 70-83, figs. 23, 28, 30-3, pls. 11(c), 12(a, c), plan 1 after pl. 20. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G355. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, pp. 118-119, plan 11. Spiekermann, Antje. "Steindorff und Mastaba G 2005." In Antje Spiekermann, ed. Zur Zierde gereicht. . . Festschrift Bettina Schmitz zum 60. Geburtstag am 24. Juli 2008, HIldesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 50. Hildesheim: Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg, p. 244.
- Remarks
- Mastaba is just off southern side of G 2000, west of Nikaukhnum. Lintel of entrance doorway, with offering-text of deceased and father, in Hildesheim Mus. 3049. Lintel with deceased with wife, probably from north false-door, from Ballard excavation in 1902, formerly Dattari Colln., now in Cleveland Mus. of Art, 20.1994. Panel of south false-door, deceased at table, from Ballard excavation, formerly Dattari Colln., now in New Haven (conn.), Yale Univ. Art Gallery, 1937.214.
