Meidum
Coordinates: 29 ° 23 ′ 42 ″ N , 31 ° 9 ′ 29 ″ E
 
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Meidum is an ancient Egyptian necropolis and the site of the Meidum pyramid , built under Pharaoh Sneferu .
buildings
Some mastaba structures from the early 4th dynasty are also known :
- the mastaba no.17, tomb of an unknown prince,
- the mastaba no.6, the tomb of Rahotep (son of Sneferu ), general and high priest of Re , and his wife Nofret (their superbly preserved statues were found here, which can be admired today in the Cairo Museum)
- the mastaba no. 16, the grave of Sneferu's son Nefermaat (architect of the Meidum pyramid) and his wife Itet. The so-called “goose frieze” from this mastaba (now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo) and the artistically valuable, seldom found paste reliefs are famous .
The necropolis continued to be used in the New Kingdom and the later period.
The Meidum pyramid
Mastaba M17
The goose frieze from Mastaba M16
Statue of Rahotep from Mastaba M6
See also
literature
- Dieter Arnold : Lexicon of Egyptian architecture. Artemis & Winkler, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-7608-1099-3 .
- Hans Bonnet : Meidum. In: Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. 3rd unchanged edition, Nikol, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-937872-08-6 , p. 446.
- IES Edwards : Meydum. In: Kathryn A. Bard (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 527-528.
- Wolfgang Helck / Eberhard Otto : Meidum. In: Small Lexicon of Egyptology. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-447-04027-0 , p. 183.
- Miroslav Verner : The pyramids (= Rororo. Volume 60890; rororo non-fiction). Rowohlt, Reinbek 1999, ISBN 3-499-60890-1 , pp. 185 ff The pyramid of Snefru in Meidum.
Web links
Commons : Meidum - collection of images, videos and audio files
