About Meritites IV
Born 2300 BC. Meritites IV was a politician and monarch.
Meritites IV (also known as Meritites II as she was the second queen by that name; ) was a queen consort from the Sixth Dynasty. She was believed to be a wife of Pepi I, but her title of King's Daughter of his body of Pepy-Mennefer (s3t-niswt-nt-kht.f-ppy-mn-nfr) is now understood to indicate that she was a daughter of Pepi I Meryre and wife of a king Neferkare, presumably Pepi II. One more evidence for that theory is that her name means "Beloved of her father".
Titles Her titles include: Great one of the hetes-sceptre, She who sees Horus and Seth (m33t-hrw-stsh), Great of Praises (wrt-hzwt), King's Wife (hmt-nisw), King's Wife, his beloved (hmt-nisw meryt.f), and Companion of Horus (smrt-hrw).
Burial Meritites IV was buried in Saqqara. Her pyramid lies to the south of the pyramid of Pepi I. Meritites' pyramid lies to the southwest of the complex of Queen Inenek-Inti and to the south of the queen's pyramid referred to as the "Southwestern pyramid".
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Who was Meritites IV?
ancient Egyptian queen consort
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Meritites IV was born in 2300 BC.
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Meritites IV was a politician and monarch.
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