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Meresankh IV
Meresankh IV (also Mersyankh IV; fl. c. 2420 BC) was an ancient Egyptian queen believed to have lived during the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Her familial ties are the subject of ongoing speculation.
There are few surviving attestations that can offer insight into Meresankh IV's life. However, it is very probable that she reigned sometime during the Fifth Dynasty, owing to the satisfactorily dated monuments that surround her burial.
In her treatise, Decoration in Egyptian Tombs of the Old Kingdom: Studies in Orientation and Scene Content, historian Yvonne Harpur offers a more precise range, linking Meresankh IV to either of the last two kings of the Fifth Dynasty, Djedkare, or less likely, Unas.
More recent attempts to date Meresankh IV's life have coalesced around other kings such as Nyuserre and Menkauhor. British Egyptologist and historian Aidan Dodson suggests she lived during the reign of Menkauhor, whereas French Egyptologist Michel Baud, while preferring Nyuserre or Menkauhor, finds no reason to exclude any of the last four kings of the Fifth Dynasty.
Meresankh IV held the title King's Wife to an unnamed king. Accordingly, she was a figure of royal stature and would have been present at court in the course of her life.
It has been speculated that Meresankh IV fell into disgrace at some point during her life. Wilfried Seipel believes that she can be linked with a grave adjacent to the funerary complex of the king Djedkare, from which she would have later been ostracised. Baud acknowledges the possibility, but he notes that such a conclusion is conjectural, given the lack of any positive evidence to support this.
Meresankh IV was accorded the following titles:
Other epithets ascribed to her are known from her burial, which include: great one of the Hetes-Sceptre, she who sees Horus and Set, attendant of Horus, companion of Horus, and consort of the beloved of the Two Ladies.
Meresankh IV
Meresankh IV (also Mersyankh IV; fl. c. 2420 BC) was an ancient Egyptian queen believed to have lived during the Fifth Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Her familial ties are the subject of ongoing speculation.
There are few surviving attestations that can offer insight into Meresankh IV's life. However, it is very probable that she reigned sometime during the Fifth Dynasty, owing to the satisfactorily dated monuments that surround her burial.
In her treatise, Decoration in Egyptian Tombs of the Old Kingdom: Studies in Orientation and Scene Content, historian Yvonne Harpur offers a more precise range, linking Meresankh IV to either of the last two kings of the Fifth Dynasty, Djedkare, or less likely, Unas.
More recent attempts to date Meresankh IV's life have coalesced around other kings such as Nyuserre and Menkauhor. British Egyptologist and historian Aidan Dodson suggests she lived during the reign of Menkauhor, whereas French Egyptologist Michel Baud, while preferring Nyuserre or Menkauhor, finds no reason to exclude any of the last four kings of the Fifth Dynasty.
Meresankh IV held the title King's Wife to an unnamed king. Accordingly, she was a figure of royal stature and would have been present at court in the course of her life.
It has been speculated that Meresankh IV fell into disgrace at some point during her life. Wilfried Seipel believes that she can be linked with a grave adjacent to the funerary complex of the king Djedkare, from which she would have later been ostracised. Baud acknowledges the possibility, but he notes that such a conclusion is conjectural, given the lack of any positive evidence to support this.
Meresankh IV was accorded the following titles:
Other epithets ascribed to her are known from her burial, which include: great one of the Hetes-Sceptre, she who sees Horus and Set, attendant of Horus, companion of Horus, and consort of the beloved of the Two Ladies.