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The hieroglyphic
name of Meir |
The contemporary village of
Meir is placed due west of the town
el-Qusiya in Middle Egypt. To the southern of the village is the archaeological site, the necropolis of the former capital of Nome XIV of
Upper Egypt.
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| The tombs of Meir |
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| Meir Location |
Very little is noted about this site, which was extensively broken in the nineteenth century and heedlessly excavated in the twentieth century. There is not even an accurate site plan, but some of the the
Old and
Middle Kingdom tombs are nicely recorded in issues. Decorated with strong reliefs, these rock-cut tombs were inscribed in the low hills westward of Meir. A
First Intermediate Period cemetery perchance gone on the desert plain to the east.
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| Group A of Meir tombs |
Although finds at the site run in date from the Old Kingdom to Graeco-Roman times, the archeologic record is very poor for most periods except the Old and Middle Kingdom. From these periods are five densities of rock-cut tombs, designated A, B, C, D and E, in an order from north to south. The most serious Old Kingdom group is A, where the finely decorated and well extended tombs of the chief priests of the cult of
Hathor of Qusiya are placed. Tomb A2, of Pepi-ankh, is well knew for its unusually detailed representation of the funerary ritual. Groups B and C contain tombs of the
12th Dynasty, with lively and passing well carved reliefs and paintings, accepting the famous ancestor list of the governor (
nomarch) Ukhhotep III (Tomb B4). Tomb C1, belonging to Ukhhotep IV, is special in that, apart from the tomb owner, only females are showed on its walls. Substitute tombs here have likewise developed a high quantity of Middle Kingdom coffins graphic with funerary texts famous as the Coffin Texts.
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