Meni (high official)
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Meni's full name was Men-ankh-Pepy, which can be translated as "Pepy's life is enduring" and makes reference to that king. However, in most inscriptions his name is rendered just as Meni, which was hi
One of the 5 stelae depicting Meni. This one is kept in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.
Door drum bearing the inscription "the high official Meni"
Remains of the Pyramid of Merenre in Saqqara, where Meni managed the funerary estate
Meni as a fit young man, wearing a short kilt and a wig, clad in a leopard skin
Pyramid Texts
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The Pyramid Texts are the oldest ancient Egyptian funerary texts, dating to the late Old Kingdom. They are the earliest known corpus of ancient Egyptian religious texts. Written in Old Egyptian, the P
Meni (high official)
…Egyptian noble required for his daily personal needs: unguents, eye-paint, food, etc. Strikingly, Meni's decoration also includes a passage from the Pyramid Texts, a borrowing that wasn't attested elsewhere. The text, distributed in ten columns, deals with ritual anointing (Utterances 72-78). Inscriptions bearing…
Pyramid Text inscribed on the wall of a subterranean room in Teti's pyramid, at Saqqara
Cartouches of Pepi I and Pyramid Texts. Limestone block fragment from the debris of the north wall of the antechamber within the pyramid of Pepi I at Saqqara. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Painted relief fragment with the spells 354 and 255 of Pyramid Texts. From the pyramid of Pepi II at Saqqara. Neues Museum