Vol.35.p.012

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G 2438
Plan page 883. A filled stone mastaba built against the east face of G 2440. Retaining walls of masonry on south, east, and north. At the north, G 2438 encloses the northeast corner of G 2440. A rubble wall runs between the north wall of G 2438 and the north wall of G 2440. There seems to have been a further addition to G 2438 to the west from the northwest corner, now destroyed except for a fragment of its north wall adjoining the rubble wall above mentioned. In the southern part of G 2438 in an interior chapel with single uninscribed ka door in the south end of its west wall. The chapel is entered at the north end of its east wall from a door (with embrasure) in the east wall of the mastaba. On the ka-door are traces of plaster. In the chapel, drift sand, and below, on the floor before the ka-door two late burials: two skulls and broken bones. North of chapel door, near center of east wall of mastaba, is embrasure. For stele??
In the mastaba are four shafts A, B, C, D all north of the chapel. There are four secondary shafts X, Y, Z, U, V.
21.8 x 4.4. area, 95-92 square meters. Proportion - 1:4.9

Shaft A [G 2438 A]: Lined with masonry above, cut in rock below. Chamber on south (page 892). [margin note: page 892]

Shaft B [G 2438 B]: Lined with rubble. Ends in limestone filling. Built chamber on north. No blocking. [margin note: page 892]

Shaft C [G 2438 C]: Lined with masonry. Ends at rock. No chamber.

Shaft D [G 2438 D]: Masonry lining. Chamber on east, masonry built. No blocking. In chamber limestone north-south coffin, head (?) thrown east of it. In chamber debris: wooden headrest decayed, broken, fragments of pot. [margin note: 892, 893]

Shaft X [G 2438 X]: Ends at rock. Masonry lining topped with rubble. Chamber on north, built. No blocking. Cleared. [margin note: 892]

Shaft Y [G 2438 Y]: Ends at rock. Lined with rubble. Chamber on north, masonry built. No blocking. Cleared. Empty. [margin note: 894]

Shaft Z [G 2438 Z]: Ends at rock. Masonry lining. Chamber on east, masonry built. No blocking. Skeleton hcsk, head north, facing east. [margin note: 894]

Shaft U [G 2438 U]: Masonry lined. Ends at rock. Chamber on east, built of masonry. No blocking. One of roof slabs is inscribed, sunk relief. [margin note: 894]

Shaft V [G 2438 V]: Against south wall of mastaba. Lined above with crude brick. Cut in rock below. Ends at rock. No chamber. [margin note: page 960]

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