Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (10.1998(1999))

_WEST SAQQARA

EGYPT

TEXT:

A) Left inner jamb:
h3ty-c smr wcty Mr.f-nb.f
[Prjince, Count, Sole Friend, Meref-nebef;
B) Left middle jamb:
hry. sit) n Pr-dw>t Mr.f-nb.f
[...] Master of Secrets of the Robing-
Room,5) Meref-nebef;
C) Left outer jamb:
1. [...] sb? Hr hnty pt imih(w)

[... Administrator] of the "sb? Hr hnty pt"-
domain,6) honoured one,
2. [... i]mlhw hr Inpw Tpy-dw.f
[... hjonoured by Anubis-Who-Is-Upon-
His-Hill,
3. Mr.f-nb.f
Meref-nebef;
D) Right inner jamb
hlty-c smr wcty Mr.f-nb.f

Fig. 1. Stele of Meref-nebef
(Photo: Z. Kosc)


Master of the Secrets of the Robing-Room: cf. A. M. Blackman, JEA 5 (1919), pp. 148-165; W. Helck,
Untersuchungen zu den Beamtentiteln des agyptischen Alten Reiches (= AA 18) (Gluckstadt 1954), pp. 43-44, 66, 68; N.
Strudwick, The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom (London 1985), 312.
6) cd-mr sb3 Hr hnty pt - Administrator of the nsb3 Hr hnty pf'-domain: Wb V, 430 [8]; Helck, op. cit., p. 68; E. Martin-
Pardey, Untersuchungen zur agyptischen Provinzialverwaltung bis zum Ende des Alten Reiches (=HAB 1) (Hildesheim
1976), pp. 45, 50, 52.

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