Mastaba X
G I-South Cemetery
Mastaba X, excavated by Hermann Junker, is in the G I-South Cemetery (along the south side of the Khufu Pyramid).
This is different from Mastaba X (ABC), which is an anonymous mud-brick mastaba in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery (ABC).
Details
- ID
- Mastaba X
- Alternate IDs
- Mastaba X; MastabaX
- Site Name
- G I-South Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Menkaure
- Tomb Owner
- No
- Bibliography
- Jánosi, Peter. "Aspects of Mastaba Development: The Position of Shafts and the Identification of Tomb Owners." In Filip Coppens, ed. Abusir and Saqqara in the year 2001. Proceedings of the Symposium (Prague, September 25th-27th, 2001). Archiv Orientální 70, No. 3 (August 2002). Prague: Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, pp. 343, 349, fig. 5. Junker, Hermann. Gîza 10. Der Friedhof südlich der Cheopspyramide: Westteil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 74, Abhandlung 1. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1951, fig. 5, plan 2 of 2 after p. 211. Junker, Hermann. Gîza 11. Der Friedhof südlich der Cheopspyramide: Ostteil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 74, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1953, pp. 74-77, fig. 41-42, pl. 7 [b, d], plan after p. 298. 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. 222, plan 19.
- Remarks
- Mastaba is second last of nine major tombs (as well as two "potential" ones) built in a line along south side of Khufu Pyramid, off southeast corner of Khufu Pyramid, east of Mastaba IX and north of Lepsius 55. Junker indicates north and south shafts but no chapel. Junker assigned numbers I to XI for this row of mastabas. Mastaba II was not assigned as the space where II would have been was filled with collection of smaller mastabas. Reisner assigned numbers I to X sequentially to the nine major mastabas that were actually built (and Lepsius 52 = Junker's Mastaba V = Reisner's G IV S).
