Lepsius 19
Western Cemetery
Lepsius 19, belonging to Ipi, is a stone-built mastaba south of Mastaba X in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. Part of the "Persen Complex."
Details
- ID
- Lepsius 19
- Alternate IDs
- Lepsius19; Lepsius 19
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5 or later; type: Baer Date; date: ?
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Brovarski 2018 Leclant, in Orientalia, N.S. 21(1952), 241, fig. 17. Lepsius, Denkmaeler Text 1, 44, vol. 2, fig. 82. 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. 48, plan 17. Smith, AJA 56 (1952) 40, pl. 2.
- Remarks
- Abu-Bakr Excavation (1950-51). Recleared in 2000 by Cairo Univ - Brown Univ Expedition. Lepsius 19, Mastaba X, and Lepsius 20-21 were probably roughly contemporaneous and may have formed a family complex within a brick-built palace-facade enclosure wall, along with a double row of small, contiguous mud-brick mastabas just east of Lepsius 19 and Mastaba X (ABC 2 - ABC 4, ABC 7 - ABC 19).
