Digital Giza | G 8974

ID: G 8974
Alternate IDs: G8974; G 8974
Site Name: Central Field (Hassan)
Site Type: Stone-built mastaba
Site Dates: type: PorterMoss Date; date: 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. 65-71, figs. 43, 62-75, pl. 21. 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, V-9/10. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G377. 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. 271, plan XXIII, C-9.
Remarks: Mastaba built west of G 8975 (Dag) and north of G 8970 (Mastaba of Shaft 322). Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
Research Activity: Substructure. 4 shafts behind a small false door in the southern part of the tomb. 6 shafts in northern part of tomb. Superstructure. The oblong mastaba has a partly inscribed western entrance. The lintel is inscribed with text that states the name and titles of the deceased. The entrance of the chapel leads to a corridor dividing the tomb into two parts. The northern part has two small false-doors in its eastern wall. The northern door is blank and the southern is decorated but only its lower part remains. Behind the latter is the serdab of Khuenptah (with a statuette). The tomb's southern part has three small blank false-doors in its eastern wall.