Wentjet
Western Cemetery
Mud-brick mastaba located north of the mastaba of Neferhetepes & Menu at the northwestern edge of the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. The mastaba incorporates a number of later shafts and was probably a family burial place that grew organically as more and more individuals were interred there.
Details
- ID
- Wentjet
- Alternate IDs
- Wentjet
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Mud-brick mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5-6
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Brovarski 2018 Cairo University - Brown University Expedition, 2004 season plans. Leclant, in Orientalia, N.S. 23 (1954), p. 73 [2, d]. 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. 48, plan 7.
- Remarks
- Abu-Bakr Excavation (1953). False-doors found in mud-brick mastaba north and west of Lepsius 19. The mastaba of Wentjet was built up against the northwestern corner of the mastaba of Neferhetepes & Menu with an unfinished wall of limestone rubble, and thus must postdate Neferhetepes & Menu.
