Digital Giza | G 8981

ID: G 8981
Alternate IDs: G8981; G 8981
Site Name: Central Field (Hassan)
Site Type: Stone-built mastaba
Site Dates: type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 6
Tomb Owner: Yes
Bibliography: Allen, James P. "Some Aspects of the Non-royal Afterlife in the Old Kingdom." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, p. 10 [n. 10]. Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 2: 1930-1931. Cairo: Faculty of Arts of the Egyptian University & Government Press, 1936, pp. 32-45, figs. 31-41, 43, pls. 9-14. 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. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G387. 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. 272, plan 23, C-9.
Remarks: Mastaba built south of G 8983 (Shepseskafankh), east of G 8976 (Washptah (2)), and north of G 8975 (Dag). Three false-doors for three related men. Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
Research Activity: Substructure. Serdab behind the false-door. Two shafts with side burial chambers were found to the east of this mastaba. Skeletons were found in both shafts. Superstructure. Entrance doorway with offering text, drum with names and titles of Sekhemankhptah and Nisu-usert. On the western wall of the chapel are three decorated false-doors with inscriptions and figures of owners and wives receiving offerings; offering list and butchers. The right jamb has an uninscribed false door.