Digital Giza | Iuf

Tomb Owner

Iuf (Iuf)
Attested

Meri (in Iuf)
Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
PorterMoss Date

Late Dyn 5 or early Dyn 6
Site Type

Stone-built mastaba
Shafts

S 2247; S 2257, serdab
Remarks

Mastaba is built against south wall of Nikaukhnum, east of S 2228/2231, and well north of D 110.

Painted limestone statue of Iuf and Meri
- EMC_JE_49691

Plan 3: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian excavation concession (central strip)

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. 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 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950.
- Date: 1950
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

Fischer in A. Z. 93 (1966), p. 62 [4], fig. 4.

Hornemann, Types, v, pl. 1192.

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950, pp. 67-68, 70, figs. 23, 27, pl. 7 [d], plan 1 after pl. 20.

Junker in Anzeiger, Wien, 63 (1926), pp. 101-102, pl. 7 [b].

Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G312.

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. 119, plan 11.

Ancient People

Iuf (Iuf)
- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of Iuf (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Seated pair statue (Cairo JE 49691) inscribed for Iuf and his wife Meri; Iuf identified as [rx nswt xrp ??] royal acquaintance, director of tomb-makers(?); found in situ in mastaba of Iuf serdab.
Meri (in Iuf)
- Type Attested
- Remarks Wife of Iuf (owner of Iuf, unnumber mastaba excavated by Junker). Seated pair statue (Cairo JE 49691) inscribed for Iuf and his wife Meri; Meri identified as [rxt nswt mjtrt] royal acquaintance, mitret; found in situ in mastaba of Iuf 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.