Digital Giza | G 8983

ID: G 8983
Alternate IDs: G8983; G 8983
Site Name: Central Field (Hassan)
Site Type: Stone-built mastaba
Site Dates: type: PorterMoss Date; date: End of Dyn 5 to middle Dyn 6
Tomb Owner: Yes
Bibliography: Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 2: 1930-1931. Cairo: Faculty of Arts of the Egyptian University & Government Press, 1936, pp. 15-31, figs. 15-30, pls. 5-8. 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. G393. 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, plans 23, C-9, 34.
Remarks: Mastaba is north of G 8975 (Dag), southwest of G 8980 (Wetetj-hetep), and south of Khafre Causeway. Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
Research Activity: Substructure. The mastaba has three shafts. The principle shaft is cut inside the chapel and lies between the second and the third false-doors. A sarcophagus is cut in the floor of the burial chamber. It contained a skeleton extended on its back with head facint the north anf face turned left. Superstructure. The entrance leads to a long, narrow and rectangular chapel, the western wall of which has three decorated false-doors with inscriptions - owner's and family's representations. The southern wall has offering scenes. The jambs of the doorway and drum and lintel are all damaged. The lintel is inscribed with the name and titles of the deceased. The serdab is situated on the southern wall and was found empty.