G 8733
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8733
- Alternate IDs
- G8733; G 8733
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Rock-cut tomb
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Middle Dynasty 5 or later
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 3: 1931-1932. Cairo: Faculty of Arts, Fouad I University & Government Press, 1941, pp. 41-46, figs. 38-41, pls. 18-19. Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 9: 1936-37-38. The Mastabas of the Eighth Season and their Description. Cairo: General Organisation for Government Printing Offices, 1960, folded plan, S-13. 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. 279, plan 23, E-8.
- Remarks
- Mastaba southeast of G 8720 (Kai (1)) and west of G 8862 (Dersemat). Excavated in 1931-1932 by Hassan.
- Research Activity
- Substructure. Two burial shafts that end in burial chamber. Superstructure. A northern doorway, surmounted by a beautifully inscribed double lintel, gives access to a long narrow chapel. Its northern wall has two false-doors and behind each is a shaft that ends in a burial-chamber, drum with name and title, two lintels with offering text, and panel with daughter and offering-bringers before deceased and wife at table.
