Meritites IV
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Meritites IV (also known as Meritites II as she was the second queen by that name; fl. c. 2250 BC) was a queen consort from the Sixth Dynasty. She was believed to be a wife of Pepi I,[1] but her title of King's Daughter of his body of Pepy-Mennefer (s3t-niswt-nt-kht.f-ppy-mn-nfr) is now understood to indicate that she was a daughter of Pepi I Meryre and wife of a king Neferkare, presumably Pepi II. One more evidence for that theory is that her name means "Beloved of her father".
Titles
[edit ]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
[edit ]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
[edit ]- ^ 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)
- ^ Verner, Miroslav. The Pyramids: The Mystery, Culture, and Science of Egypt's Great Monuments. Grove Press. 2001 (1997). pp. 356, 359; ISBN 0-8021-3935-3
