Medunefer

False-door from the mastaba of Medunefer (Cairo EMC CG 57123), during Schiaparelli's excavations, 1903.

Medunufer, also transcribed Medunefer , was an ancient Egyptian priest who lived in the Old Kingdom, during the Fifth Dynasty. Medunefer is only known from his mastaba in Giza (Giza G 4630), excavated by Ernesto Schiaparelli in 1903 and later again by George Reisner around 1913-1914.

Medunefer's titles include lector priest, scribe of divine books and sema-priest of Anubis. The offering room with the two false doors was part of a larger mud-brick cult complex, which also enclosed the later-added mastaba G 4631.

The Museo Egizio photo archive preserves a set of eight images of the mastaba and its finds. His son Ankhires reports that he made the false door for his father. There is a short dedicatory statement on the false door, in which the eldest son Ankhires says that he made the monument for his father.

Within the mastaba, Ankhires had also his own false door, now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, CG No. 57189. This second false door was dedicated to Ankhires by his son Medunefer.

The two false doors are documented together on plate E00309 in the Museo Egizio photo archive.