Some Notes on the Family of Mereruka

IMMEDIATELY to the north of the pyramid of King Teti of Dynasty VI at Sakk1rah is a group of contemporary mastabas. Among these one of the most noted is that of Mereruka. This structure contains the chapels of Mereruka, who bore the good Meri (section A), of his wife Wattetkhethor, with the good Seshseshet, who was daughter of his body (section B), and of Meriteti, an eldest son of his body (section C), who is also shown on the walls both of the chambers of his mother, Wattetkhethor, and those of Mereruka. Section C is actually an addition to the original structure, and its entrance is cut through the wall of one of the rooms of section A. From the time of Daressy's publication of the inscriptions from this tomb complex 2 there have been put forth various theories concerning the relationships of Wa tetkhethor and her son Meriteti. Daressy called Meriteti the son of Mereruka and Watetkhethor,3 but noted that in section C the Meri (the good name of Mereruka) was a later addition, and that the of Meriteti was secondary.4 Sethe, writing in 1918,5 concluded that since Meriteti was called king's son of his body, but not the son of Mereruka in the latter's chambers (with one exception which Sethe was inclined to

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