Meritites IV
Meritites in hieroglyphs | |||||
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Meritites Mrj.t jt=s Beloved of her father |
Meritites IV (also known as Meritites II as she was the second queen by that name) was a
Pepi II
. One more evidence for that theory is that her name means "Beloved of her father".
Titles
Her titles include: Great one of the hetes-sceptre, She who sees Horus and Seth (m33t-hrw-stsh), Great of Praises (wrt-hzwt), King’s Wife (hmt-nisw), King’s Wife, his beloved (hmt-nisw meryt.f), and Companion of Horus (smrt-hrw).[2]
Burial
Meritites IV was buried in Saqqara.[3] Her pyramid lies to the south of the pyramid of Pepi I. Meritites' pyramid lies to the southwest of the complex of Queen Inenek-Inti and to the south of the queen's pyramid referred to as the "Southwestern pyramid".[4]
References
- ^ Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004)
- ^ Grajetzki, Wolfram: Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary p.25
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004)
- ISBN 0-8021-3935-3