Merenre Nemtyemsaf was an Ancient Egyptian pharaoh and the fourth king of the Sixth Dynasty. He ruled Egypt for six to eleven years in the early 23rd century BC, toward the end of the Old Kingdom peri
A small box of hippopotamus ivory inscribed with the royal titulary of Merenre Nemtyemsaf, Musée du Louvre
Merenre's cartouche on the Abydos King List
The smaller copper statue from Hierakonpolis, representing Merenre or a young Pepi I
The smaller copper statue from Hierakonpolis, representing Merenre or a young Pepi I
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
Merenre Nemtyemsaf I
…meaning 'the appearance of the perfection of Merenre' and likely completed prior to the king's death. The subterranean chambers were inscribed with the Pyramid Texts. In the burial chamber, the black basalt sarcophagus of the king still held a mummy when it was entered in the 19th century. The identification of the…
Pyramid Text inscribed on the wall of a subterranean room in Teti's pyramid, at Saqqara
Pyramid of Merenre I, one of the earliest pyramids in which Maspero discovered the Pyramid Texts.
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