Gemniemhat (also called Gemni) was an ancient Egyptian official who is known from his well preserved burial excavated at Saqqara. Gemniemhat dates to the end of the First Intermediate Period[1] or early Middle Kingdom.[2] His burial was found by Cecil Mallaby Firth in 1921,[3] who excavated part of the cemeteries around the pyramid of Teti. The burial of Gemniemhat was found at the bottom of a shaft and contained two decorated coffins. The head of the deceased was covered with a mummy mask. Around the coffins were found many wooden models showing the production of food, two female offering bearers and a small wooden statue of Gemniemhat. The objects are today in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, although only the inner coffin could be preserved.[4] Above ground there was a small mud brick mastaba decorated with a false door. Here, Gemniemhat bears several titles, including royal sealer, steward, overseer of the granaries. He was also funerary priest at the pyramid of kingMerikare.
References
↑Khaled Daoud: Necropoles Memphiticae, Inscriptions from the Herakleopolitan Period, Alexandria 2011, Шаблон:OCLC, 111-115
↑James P. Allen: The High Officials of the early Middle Kingdom, in N. Strudwick, J. H. Taylor (editors), The Theban Necropolis, Past, Present and Future, The British Museum Press, London 2003, Шаблон:ISBN, 17
↑C. M. Firth, B. Gunn: Teti Pyramid Cemeteries. Cairo 1926, pp. 52–54, 187, 227–231, 267–269, plates 22–31
↑Mogens Jorgensen: Catalogue, Egypt I (3000–1550 B.C.), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Copenhagen 1996, Шаблон:ISBN, pp. 124–151
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