Object owner details: MFA accession number: 13.3085

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Pit G 2381 A, [chamber] (500)

Wood

Description: Wood coffin, [ends and sides mitred and fastened with pegs and thongs, bad parts of wood neatly patched; band of inscription along sides and on top: upper band reads: ...(smr) watj nswt ... wabt? jmj-r wabt jmAxw xr PtH Mrj-PtH-anx-Ppy rn=f nfr PtH-Spss jmpjj; translation: the (sole) companion ... royal ... of the workshop (?), overseer of the workshop, revered before Ptah, Mery-ptah-ankh-pepy, his good name is Ptah-shepses Impy]; lower boards decayed owing to moisture. Illustration: No

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Selected Published References:
Brovarski, Edward. The Senedjemib Complex, Part 1: The Mastabas of Senedjemib Inti (G 2370), Khnumenti (G 2374), and Senedjemib Mehi (G 2378). Giza Mastabas 7. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2001, p. 33. Brovarski, Edward. "The Senedjemib Complex at Giza: An Interim Report." L'Égyptologie en 1979. Axes prioritaires de recherches, tome II. Colloques Internationaux du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique No. 595. Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1982, p. 116, note 8. Reisner, George A. "A Family of Builders of the Sixth Dynasty, about 2600 B.C." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 11, No. 66 (November 1913), p. 60, fig. 13. Smith, William Stevenson. Ancient Egypt as Represented in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1960 (6th ed.), pp. 55, 64-65, 68.

Remarks: Coffin mainly inscribed for Impy, but with short inscription of Sabuptah Ibebi: [(jmAx) xr wsjr sAbwptH smr watj Xrj-Hb rn=f nfr jbbj] "(revered) before Osiris Sabuptah, sole companion, lector-priest, his good name Ibebi"