A son of vizier Kagemni Memi in the Teti Pyramid Cemetery, Saqqara

This article publishes a photograph and line-drawing of an inscribed, multi-figure architrave belonging to Pepymer, who describes himself as a son of vizier Kagemni Memi of the 6th Dynasty. The architrave was excavated in the Teti Pyramid Cemetery, Saqqara, by Cecil Firth and Battiscombe Gunn between 1920–22, although an illustration of the architrave was not published at the time. A photographic print is held in the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford (Gunn MSS, xiv, 55 [2]), and the architrave is now kept in the storage magazines for the Saqqara archaeological area. This architrave is of particular interest because it attests two members of vizier Kagemni’s kin group who are otherwise not named in his mastaba: a possible son or grandson, Pepymer, and his son, Kagemni. The decoration of the architrave and its inscriptions are discussed, and it is contextualized among the wider commemorative activities in the Teti Pyramid Cemetery which honoured Kagemni’s memory. A new outline of Kagemni’s kin group can be hypothetically proposed, combining this architrave with other loose, decorated blocks from this cemetery and the interior decoration of Kagemni’s mastaba.