Meritites IV (also known asMeritites II as she was the secondqueen by that name;fl.c. 2250 BC) was aqueen consort from theSixth Dynasty. She was believed to be a wife ofPepi I,[1] but her title ofKing'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, presumablyPepi II. One more evidence for that theory is that her name means "Beloved of her father".
Her titles include:Great one of the hetes-sceptre,She who seesHorus and Seth (m33t-hrw-stsh),Great of Praises (wrt-hzwt),King's Wife (hmt-nisw),King's Wife, his beloved (hmt-nisw meryt.f), andCompanion of Horus (smrt-hrw).[2]
Meritites IV was buried inSaqqara.[3] Her pyramid lies to the south of the pyramid ofPepi I. Meritites' pyramid lies to the southwest of the complex of QueenInenek-Inti and to the south of the queen's pyramid referred to as the "Southwestern pyramid".[4]
