Digital Giza | Meni [I]

Tomb Owner

Meni [I] (Meni [I])
Attested

Meni [II] (Meni [II])
Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
PorterMoss Date

Late Dynasty 6
Site Type

Mud-brick mastaba
Shafts

3 shafts; chapel
Remarks

Mastaba built in area west of D 100, west of S 2536/2538 and southeast of Inpuhetep. Unlcear if S 2530/2531 and Meni [II] are the same and is also possible Meni [II] and Meni [I] are same mastaba. Shafts not labeled.

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. 140-143, 144-152, figs. 65-67, pls. 14 [b, d], plan 3.

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, p. 107, plan 13.

Meni [II] (Meni [II])
- Type Attested
- Remarks Owner of Meni [II] (probably to be identified with S 2530/2531, brick mastaba west of Meni [I]). Same as Meni I?
Meni [I] (Meni [I])
- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of Meni [I] (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Eight fragments (Hildesheim 3053) from false door of chapel, inscribed with offering formulae; architrave fragment (Hildesheim 3053c) inscribed [smsw pr mnj ms=f sS aAHwtHr mjtrt Htpnbw ...Ts...] elder of the house Meni, his children: scribe Aahathor, mitret Hetepnebu, [Nefer]tjes[hathor]; all found in debris of chapel of Meni [I]. Possibly same as Meni [II] ?

Hermann Junker
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
- Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.

Meni [I]