Meshaef
Western Cemetery
Small mud-brick mastaba located southeast of the mastaba of Semerka near the western edge of the Abu Bakr Cemetery.
Details
- ID
- Meshaef
- Alternate IDs
- Meshaef
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Mud-brick mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5-6
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Brovarski 2018 Leclant, in Orientalia, N.S. 23 (1954), p. 72 [2, a]. 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. 47, plan 7.
- Remarks
- Abu-Bakr Excavation (1953). The mastaba of Semerka overlaps the northwest corner of Meshaef’s mastaba, indicating that Meshaef was likely built against the former.
