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Mud-brick mastaba with five shafts located north of the mastaba complex of Itji & Neferseshemes and south of ABC 245 in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery.

Details

ID
Senenu (1)
Alternate IDs
Senenu (1); Senenu(1)
Site Name
Western Cemetery
Site Type
Mud-brick mastaba
Site Dates
type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5; type: Brovarski Date; date: Dynasty 4-6
Tomb Owner
Yes
Bibliography
Brovarski 2018 Fischer, Henry G. "The ideographic use of [GLYPH] in a group of Old-Kingdom names." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 60 (1974), pp. 247 [or possibly referring to Senenu (2)]. Handoussa & Brovarski, Preliminary Report on the 2000 Field Season of the Cairo University - Brown University Expedition, pp. 4-5. Kaplony, Inschriften. Suppl. Pls. 24-26 [1057], pp. 30-31. Leclant, in Orientalia, N.S. 22 (1953), pl. 17 [30-31], p. 94 [2, b]. 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. 52, plan 7.
Remarks
Abu-Bakr Excavation (1952). Reopened by Cairo Univ - Brown Univ Expedition in 2000. The southern end of the eastern wall of Senenu’s mastaba is built against the plastered west wall of ABC 852, indicating that the mastaba of Senenu postdates ABC 852.

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