Digital Giza | Itjef

Tomb Owner

Itjef (Itjef)
Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
Junker No

S 9
PorterMoss Date

Dynasty 6
Site Type

Stone-built mastaba
Shafts

S 8; S 9; serdab 1; serdab 2; serdab 3

Fragment of lower part of seated statue of a man
- RPM_3265
Head of a statue of a man
- RPM_3183
Limestone seated group statue of Itjef and family
- KHM_ÄS_8410
Two fragments of architrave of Itjef
- RPM_3260

Plan 5: Cemetery G I-South, of German-Austrian excavation concession (west half)

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 10. Der Friedhof südlich der Cheopspyramide: Westteil. Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 74, Abhandlung 1. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1951.
- Date: 1951
Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1. Text. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000.
- Date: 2000
Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 2. Abbildungen. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000.
- Date: 2000
Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 3. Katalog. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000.
- Date: 2000
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.
- Date: 1974

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 10. Der Friedhof südlich der Cheopspyramide: Westteil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 74, Abhandlung 1. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1951, pp. 92-105, figs. 37-39, cf. 4, pls. 2 [a], 9 [c, d], 13 [c-d], 15 [a-e], 19 [d], 23 [b, e], plan 1 of 2 after p. 211.

Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G341.

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. 216-217, plan 19.

Ancient People

Itjef (Itjef)
- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of Itjef (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Fragments of lintel (Hildesheim 3260) inscribed for Itjef, identified as [sHD jrjw-mDAt] inspector of letter carriers; found in mastaba of Itjef. Uninscribed seated family group statue attributed to Itjef; lower part found in situ in mastaba of Itjef west serdab.

Modern People

Hermann Junker
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
- Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.