G 8862
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8862
- Alternate IDs
- G 8862; G8862
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Rock-cut tomb w/ stone casing
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5-6
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 3: 1931-1932. Cairo: Faculty of Arts, Fouad I University & Government Press, 1941, pp. 7-13, figs. 6-13, pls. 3-5. 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, T-12/13. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G409. 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. 280, plan 23, D/E-8.
- Remarks
- Mastaba bult north of G 8860 (Washptah (1)), west of G 8884 (Uninscribed Rock Cut Tomb; Rock Cut Tomb (D/E-8/9)), and east of G 8733 (Khuta). Excavated in 1931-1932 by Hassan.
- Research Activity
- Substructure. Northern chapel has two shafts (S 537 & S 538) and southern chapel has a small burial chamber. Superstructure. Two chapels. Northern one is roughly cut and has an unfinished false-door in the western wall. Southern and principal one is neatly cut with some traces of paint. It's western wall has a false-door.
