G 8875
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8875
- Alternate IDs
- G 8875; G8875
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 6
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Bolshakov, Andrey. "Osiris in the Fourth Dynasty Again? The False Door of Jntj, MFA 31.781." In Hedvig Györy, ed. Mélanges offerts à Edith Varga. Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément-2001, Budapest: Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 2001, p. 71. Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 3: 1931-1932. Cairo: Faculty of Arts, Fouad I University & Government Press, 1941, pp. 23-25, figs 22-25, pl. 10. 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-12. Jánosi, Peter. "Grab oder Wohnanlage? Die Mastaba 'C' im Central Field." In Ernst Czerny, Irmgard Hein, Hermann Hunger, Dagmar Melman and Angela Schwab (eds.) Timelines. Studies in Honour of Manfred Bietak, vol. I. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 149. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2006, p. 157. 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. 278, plan 23, D-8.
- Remarks
- Mastaba built into southwest corner of G 8988 (Rawer (1)) and north of G 8872 (Mastaba C). Excavated in 1931-1932 by Hassan.
- Research Activity
- Substructure. Behind false-door is a shaft that ends in a side burial chamber. Superstructure. Eight courses of the original masonry of the mastaba are preserved. In its eastern facade is fixed a false-door on which an inscription can be seen.
