G 8957
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8957
- Alternate IDs
- G 8957; G8957
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 2: 1930-1931. Cairo: Faculty of Arts of the Egyptian University & Government Press, 1936, pp. 87-95, figs. 92-100, pls. 27-28. 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, W-10/11. 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. 281, plan 23, C/D-9/10.
- Remarks
- Mastaba is southwest of G 8960 (Kaunisut) and southeast of G 8970 (Mastaba of Shaft 322). Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
- Research Activity
- Substructure. 6 shafts, four of them are without side-chambers. Superstructure. The mastaba has no chapel. It has in its eastern outer wall the recesses of two false doors, only the northern of which was found. It is decorated with inscriptions and figures of owner and family and offerings.
