G 4240
Western Cemetery
Details
- ID
- G 4240
- Alternate IDs
- G4240; G 4240
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Middle Dyn 4 to early Dyn 5; type: Baer Date; date: Not before Khafre
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Ballerini, Notizia, p. 64 [middle and bottom] with note 3. Curto, Silvio. Gli Scavi Italiani a el-Ghiza (1903). Rome: Centro Per Le Antichitá E La Storia Dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1993, pp. 85-90, figs. 36, 38, pl. XXIVb. Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 6: 1934-1935. Part 2: The Offering List in the Old Kingdom. Cairo: Government Press, 1948, pp. 113-114, pls. 1-7. Jánosi, Peter. "The Tombs of Officials. Houses of Eternity." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 38, note 31. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 125, plan 15. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 465-471, figs. 110, 281, pls. 47, 48 [a-c], 53, 56 [a], 57 [b]. Reisner, George A. "Accessions to the Egyptian Department During 1914." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 13, No. 76 (April 1915), pp. 29-30, 32, figs. 1, 12. Reisner, George A. "Note on Objects Assigned to the Museum by the Egyptian Government." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 36, No. 214 (April 1938), pp. 28, 30. Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L13, Description of Cemetery G 4000, pp. 8-9. Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pp. 227-252, fig. 239, pl. 6 [b]. Smith, William Stevenson. "The Coffin of Prince Min-Khaf."Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 19 (1933), p. 154. Smith, William Stevenson. "The Origin of Some Unidentified Old Kingdom Reliefs." American Journal of Archaeology 46 (1942), p. Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press on behalf of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946, pls. 7 [a, c], pp. 23, 25 [3], 26 [10].
- Remarks
- Major mastaba in field east of G 4000, south of G 4250, east of G 4140 and west of G 4340. Reisner originally called this mastaba IV 2.
