G 8853
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8853
- Alternate IDs
- G 8853; G8853
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Rock-cut tomb
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Probably late Dynasty 5
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 2: 1930-1931. Cairo: Faculty of Arts of the Egyptian University & Government Press, 1936, pp. 155-158, figs. 184-187, pl. 55. 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, S-9. 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. 262-263, plan 23, C-8.
- Remarks
- Mastaba west of G 8893 (Mastaba A) and G 8894 (Mastaba B), east of G 8830 (Unfinished Rock Cut Tomb; Rock Cut Tomb (C-7/8)). Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
- Research Activity
- Substructure. Two shafts are cut deep in the floor of the chapel and have side burial chambers. Superstructure. Its main entrance, with inscribed lintel, leads to a long unfinished chapel. The lintel has the name and titles of the deceased and a representation of him seated. The drum is unfinished. The chapel has a false-door on its western wall and its eastern wall has another entrance, both are unfinished. In the southern wall of the chapel is a small opening that leads to a very small square chamber that was used later as a burial place.
