G 8712
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8712
- Alternate IDs
- G8712; G 8712
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Half-stone/half rock-cut
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5-6
- Tomb Owner
- No
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 3: 1931-1932. Cairo: Faculty of Arts, Fouad I University & Government Press, 1941, pp. 50-52, figs. 44-45, pl. 20. 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, R-13. Kendall, Timothy. "An Unusual Rock-Cut Tomb at Giza." In William Kelly Simpson and Whitney M. David, eds. Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, p. 107, n. 11. 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. 261, plan 23, E-7.
- Remarks
- Mastaba built west of G 8720 (Kai (1)) and east of G 8670 (Mastaba F), with G 8708 Mastaba of Shaft 601) and G 8710 (Mastaba of Shaft 600) against its south side. Called Tomb E in Porter-Moss III. Excavated in 1931-1932 by Hassan.
