G 8720
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8720
- Alternate IDs
- G 8720; G8720
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Rock-cut tomb w/ mud brick
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Early or middle Dynasty 5
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Brovarski, Edward. "The Doors of Heaven." Orientalia 46 (1977), p. 110. Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 3: 1931-1932. Cairo: Faculty of Arts, Fouad I University & Government Press, 1941, pp. 29-40, figs. 29-37, pls. 12-17, plan 3. Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 4: 1932-1933. Cairo: Government Press, 1943, pp. 71, 85-86, fig. 42. 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, R/S-12/13. Jánosi, Peter. "Grab oder Wohnanlage? Die Mastaba 'C' im Central Field." In Ernst Czerny, Irmgard Hein, Hermann Hunger, Dagmar Melman and Angela Schwab (eds.) Timelines. Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak, vol. I. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 149. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2006, pp. 157, 160. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G398. 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. 277, plan 23, D/E-7/8. Radwan, Ali. "The Nun-basin of Renpetneferet." In Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond: Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005. Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, p. 281, note 20.
- Remarks
- Mastaba built east of G 8712 (Tomb E), west of G 8732 (Tomb D) and north of G 8721 (Mastaba of Shaft 570). Excavated in 1931-1932 by Hassan.
- Research Activity
- Substructure. A shaft (16.65 m.) in the second chamber ends in a passage and a burial chamber. Superstructure. The chapel consists of two successive rock-cut chambers opening eastwards and preceeded by a mud-brick hall (flanked on either side by a small storeroom) facaded by a limestone-built forecourt. Main entrance bears traces of owner's representations and inscriptions. Two inscribed false-doors adorn each of the western walls of the inner...
