Red granite sarcophagus of Meresankh II

Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7410-7420

Red granite sarcophagus and lid of Meresankh II; inscribed on all four sides.

ID

MFAB_27.441a-b
Department

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Classification

Tomb equipment-Coffins and sarcophagi
Findspot

G 7410-7420: pit G 7410 B
Material

Granite
Dimensions

Height x width x length: 93.2 x 85.5 x 225 cm (36 11/16 x 33 11/16 x 88 9/16 in.)
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Object Ownership Information

MFA
Period

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
Owner

Meresankh II (G 7410-7420)
Notes

This object was excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, but was not recorded in any object register book. Excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1927: assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Egypt. (Accession Date: July 7, 1927)

G 7410-7420
- Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Donadoni Roveri, Anna Maria. I Sarcofagi Egizi Dalle Origini Alla Fine Dell'Antico Regno. Rome: Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente - Università di Roma, 1969, p. 116, pls. XXX, XXXI.

Dunham, Dows. "New Installation in the Egyptian Department." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 25, No. 152 (1927), pp. 96-97.

Eaton-Krauss, Marianne. "Embalming caches." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 94 (2008), p. 292, note 37.

Holden, Lynn. "An Anubis Figure in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts." In William K. Simpson and Whitney M. Davis, eds. Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan. Essays in honor of Dows Dunham on the occasion of his 90th birthday, June 1, 1980, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, p. 101, fig. 4.

Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania–Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven and Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, p. 160, fig. 242.

Roveri, Donadoni, and Anna Maria. I Sarcofagi Egizi dalle Origini alla Fine Dell'antico Regno. Università Di Roma Istituto di Studi del Vicino Oriente Serie Archeologica 16. Roma: Istituto di studi del vicino Oriente, Università, 1969, p. 116, no. B 18, pls. 30 (1-2), 31 (1-3).

Sethe, Kurt. Urkunden des Alten Reichs. Erster Band. Urkunden des Ägyptischen Altertums Abteilung 1, Hft. 1-4. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1903/1933, p. 156 [6 (97)].

Smith, William Stevenson. "The Coffin of Prince Min-Khaf." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 19 (1933), pp. 152, 159.

Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), p. 64.

Unsigned. "'Notes' (Sarcophagus of Meresankh)." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 25, No. 150 (1927), p. 60.

Ancient People

Meresankh II (G 7410-7420)
- Type Owner
- Remarks Meresankh buried in G 7410.