Princess Idut's tomb
| During the excavations along the outside southern wall
south of Djoser in 1927 the princess Idut’s mastabe was discovered, who
was probably Unas’s daughter, and had lived between the end of the V and
the beginning of the VI dynasty. The tomb, built for the visir Ihy (contemporary
to Unis), as the decorations on the eastern wall of the second room, was
usurped by the princess. The mastaba includes ten rooms (five decorated ones, five deposits), accesible from the southern side and a chapel. This funeral stand is in the most inner point of the superstructure and is reached after going through some rooms with the walls decorated with beautiful relief, that represent scenes of fishing, hyppopotamus huns, of the funeral (the transport of the statue and of the mummy to the tomb). The last two rooms, the chapel and the room that precedes it, are consecrated to the preparation and presentation of the offers, evoked by the images on the walls (offer carriers and scenes of the buthering of the animals destined to the sacrifice). Illustrated texts accompany the relief. Interesting, but not always accesible to the visitor, are the nearby mastabe belonging to the judge and visir Mehu (a little eastward (at the south) and to the queen Khennut (very ruined). In the first one, discovered in 1940, the decorations have kept well their colors.
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