Digital Giza | G 8975

ID: G 8975
Alternate IDs: G8975; G 8975
Site Name: Central Field (Hassan)
Site Type: Stone-built mastaba
Site Dates: type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 6
Tomb Owner: Yes
Bibliography: Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 2: 1930-1931. Cairo: Faculty of Arts of the Egyptian University & Government Press, 1936, pp. 46-64, figs. 42-61, pls. 15-20. 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, V-9. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G407. 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. 271, plan 23, C-9.
Remarks: Mastaba built north of G 8970 (Mastaba of Shaft 322) and west of G 8976 (Washptah (2)). Shaft 312 later used as the serdab. Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
Research Activity: Substructure. 8 shafts behind the hall's false-doors. Superstructure. The rectangular mastaba is partly destroyed. The chapel has a hall with its roof supported by three pillars. Its western wall has 4 false-doors decorated (except for the second) with inscriptions and owners' figures. A doorway in the southern wall leads to a little chapel with two (western) false-doors that share one decorated lintel with figure of deceased and inscriptions, an offering-table, a group-statue of two (possibly deceased and wife?) and three statuettes. Between the third and fourth false-doors is the opening of the serdab. In the southern wall of the pillared chapel is the aperature of...