Meriiti (
Meri-
iti, ''beloved of the father'') was an
ancient Egypt
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ian official living at the end of the
First Dynasty around 2900 BC. He is only known from his stela found in tomb 810.H.11 at
Helwan
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. The stela was found in the burial chamber next to the coffin. It shows on the left Meriiti sitting on a chair with offerings in front of him. On the right side of the stela is a list of Meriiti's titles.
On this stela Meriiti bears seven titles making him one of the few officials of the period with a longer string of titles.
Meriiti's titles:
*priest of
Khnum, companion of the house
*director of the dining hall of the chamber of life
*master/carpenter of
Nekhen
Nekhen (, ), also known as Hierakonpolis (; , meaning City of Hawks or City of Falcons, a reference to Horus; ) was the religious and political capital of Upper Egypt at the end of prehistoric Egypt ( 3200–3100 BC) and probably also during th ...
*director of the dining hall and the great magazine (as in storehouse)
*commander of the qedhetep-administration
*helping hand
*manager of the office of the west, carrier of
Anubis
Anubis (; ), also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian (), is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine hea ...
[E. Christiana Köhler, Jana Jones: ''Helwan II, The Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Funerary Relief Slabs'', Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens, Band 25, Rahden 2009, , p. 154-155]
References
{{First Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, state=expanded
People of the First Dynasty of Egypt