Lepsius 20-21
Western Cemetery
Abu Bakr Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Lepsius 19; Mastaba X (ABC); Lepsius 20-21; ABC 2; ABC 3; ABC 4; ABC 7; ABC 8; ABC 9; ABC 10; ABC 11; ABC 12; ABC 13; ABC 14; ABC 15; ABC 16; ABC 17; ABC 18; ABC 19; Akhethetep
Lepsius 20, belonging to Persen, is a stone-built mastaba north of Mastaba X in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. Lepsius 21 is the brick-built northern chapel of Lepsius 20, which seems to have been usurped by Irukakhufu. Part of the "Persen Complex."
Details
- ID
- Lepsius 20-21
- Alternate IDs
- Lepsius20-21; Lepsius 20-21
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: Baer Date; date: Early Dynasty 5.; type: Harpur Date; date: Userkaf - Sahure; type: Kanawati Date; date: Djedkare - Unis; type: Reisner Date; date: late Menkaure - post-Neferirkare; type: Strudwick Date; date: Early Dynasty 5; type: PorterMoss Date; date: Probably early Dynasty 5
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Brovarski 2018 Handoussa & Brovarski, Preliminary Report on the 2000 Field Season of the Cairo University - Brown University Expedition, pp. 1-4 Leclant, in Orientalia, N.S. 21 (1952), p. 240, fig. 12. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G281-G282. Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Text 1: Unteraegypten und Memphis. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1897, pp. 44-5. Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Plates 2, Band 3. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1849-1859, fig. 17d. Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Plates 2, Band 4. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1849-1859, fig. 83a-b. Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Ergänzungsband. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1913, fig. 8. 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, pp. 48-9, plans 17, 24. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 217, 311.
- 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).
