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ID
Lepsius 53
Alternate IDs
Lepsius53; Lepsius 53
Site Name
G I-South Cemetery
Site Type
Stone-built mastaba
Site Dates
type: PorterMoss Date; date: End of Dynasty 5 or Dynasty 6; type: Baer Date; date: Very end of Dynasty 5 or later; type: Harpur Date; date: Unis - Teti; type: Jacquet-Gordon Date; date: Dynasty 6; type: Junker Date; date: Beginning of Dynasty 6
Tomb Owner
Yes
Bibliography
Allen, James P. "Some Aspects of the Non-royal Afterlife in the Old Kingdom." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, p. 10 [n. 11]. Arnold, Dieter. "Old Kingdom Statues in their Architectural Setting." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 44, fig. 22. Chauvet, Violaine. “Decoration and Architecture: The Definition of Private Tomb Environment.” Servant of Mut. Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente. Leiden: Brill, 2008, p. 46 note 22. Delvaux, Luc and Eugène Warmenbol. "Trois Seshemnefer et Trente-Six Domaines." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 84 (1998), pp. 64, 68, note 47. Gamer-Wallert, Ingrid."Die bewegte Geschichte der Mastaba Seschemnofers III. (G 5170)." Sokar 9 (2. Halbjahr, 2004), p. 30. Grdseloff, ASAE 42 (), 58-61. Jacquet-Gordon, Domaines funéraires, 306-9 (43G6), figs. 92-3. Jánosi, Peter. "The Tombs of Officials. Houses of Eternity." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 39, note 73. Junker, Hermann. Gîza 3. Die Mastabas der vorgeschrittenen V. Dynastie auf dem Westfriedhof. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1938, pp. 10, 34-5. 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. 92-96, 100-119, 126-131, 137-241, figs. 49-53, 60-87, 89-95, pls. 1, 5, 7, 11-23, 24a-b, 26, plan after p. 298. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G284. C. R. Lepsius, Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Text 1 (Berlin), pp. 77-79. C. R. Lepsius, Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Vol. 2 (Berlin), fig. 80-81. C. R. Lepsius, Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Abteilung 1, Vol 1 (Berlin), pl. 25. Mariette, Auguste. Les mastabas de l'ancien empire. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1889, pp. 529-30. 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. 223-226, plan 19. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 271, fig. 189. Sethe, Kurt. Urkunden des Alten Reichs. Erster Band. Urkunden des Ägyptischen Altertums Abteilung 1, Hft. 1-4. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1903-1933, pp. 57 [39], 178 [22 (113)]. Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press on behalf of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946, p. 247, fig. 95 Woods, Alexandra. "Contribution to a Controversy: A Date For the Tomb of kA(=j)-m-anx at Giza." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 95 (2009), pp. 168, 169, note 64.
Remarks
Mastaba is in the cemetery along the south side of Khufu's pyramid, linked to Lepsius 54, south of Lepsius 55, east of Heneni and north of Ptah-hetep.

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Ancient People 28

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