Menet (princess)

Menet was an ancient Egyptian king's daughter. It is best known from an inscribed sarcophagus , which is located in a tomb next to the pyramid of Sesostris III. (c. 1872 BC to 1852 BC) took place in Dahshur . Therefore, it is often assumed that she was the daughter of this ruler, who was probably under King Sesostris III. or Amenemhet III. was buried. She bore the title of King's Daughter and United with the Beauty of the White Crown .

Your grave complex

Menet was buried in a burial chamber, which branches off from a passage. In this underground passage there were various burials of royal women, whose burial chambers were all accessible from the main passage. However, all of these burials were robbed when they were rediscovered in modern times . Menet himself was once buried in a limestone sarcophagus. This had a short inscription that gave their titles and their names. Most of the other sarcophagi in the neighboring burial chambers, however, were unlabeled.

literature

Jacques de Morgan : Fouilles a Dahchour, Mars-Juin 1894. Vienna 1895, p. 56, fig. 122
Dieter Arnold : The Pyramid Complex of Senwosret III at Dahshur, Architectural Studies. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2002, ISBN 0-87099-956-7 , p. 72, plate. 119

personal data
SURNAME	Menet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	King's daughter of the ancient Egyptian 12th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	19th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	19th century BC BC or 18th century BC Chr.