G 8887
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8887
- Alternate IDs
- G8887; G 8887
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5-6
- Tomb Owner
- No
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 2: 1930-1931. Cairo: Faculty of Arts of the Egyptian University & Government Press, 1936, pp. 139-150, figs. 169-176, pls. 45-54. 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, T-10. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G299. 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, pp. 264-265, 268, plan 23, C-8.
- Remarks
- Mastaba is south of G 8993 (Kaemnefret Complex) and northwest of G 8988 (Rawer (1)). Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
- Research Activity
- Substructure. Behind the false-doors are two shafts (S 294 and 294 bis) with side burial chambers. The first shaft was found intact; among its objects are a gold diadem and necklace). Superstructure. The entrance to the chapel of this mastaba has two pairs of jambs. No traces of inscriptions are now visible. The doorway leads to a chapel. On the western wall of this chapel are two false-doors which were plastered and probably decorated. In the northern wall of the chapel is the opening of the serdab which was used as a burial place in ...
