Meru was a high-ranking official on the court docket of the eleventh Dynasty King Mentuhotep II, who reigned till 2004 BC and who, like Meru, was buried on the necropolis of North Asasif, the ministry stated in an announcement on Thursday, February 9.
Meru’s rock-hewn tomb was restored by the Polish Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology on the College of Warsaw and Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities.
“That is the primary web site from such an early interval in Western Thebes to be made accessible to guests,” the ministry assertion quoted Fathi Yassin, Basic Director of Antiquities in Higher Egypt, as saying.
The tomb, which confronted the procession avenue to Mentuhotep II’s temple, accommodates a hall resulting in an providing chapel with a distinct segment for a statue of the deceased. A burial shaft descends to a burial chamber with a sarcophagus.
“That is the one embellished room of the tomb, with an uncommon ornament of portray on lime plaster,” Yassin stated.
Meru’s tomb had been identified since at the least the mid-Nineteenth century, based on the Polish Egyptian archaeological mission. Italian conservators cleaned a number of the wall work in 1996.
Among the Center Kingdom’s most outstanding officers had been buried at North Asasif, the assertion stated.
Prime: An Egyptian worker works on the 4,000-year-old tomb of Meru. Picture courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities/Handout through Reuters.
