Digital Giza | G 8872

ID: G 8872
Alternate IDs: G8872; G 8872
Site Name: Central Field (Hassan)
Site Type: Mud-brick mastaba
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. 26-28, figs. 26-28, pl. 11 (incorrectly labeled "Mastaba of Thererw"). 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, pp. 157-162. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G279. 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 is north of G 8862 (Dersemat) and south of G 8875 (Tjereru). Excavated in 1931-1932 by Hassan.
Research Activity: Substructure. Each of three halls has a shaft and a burial chamber (S 975 & S 976). Superstructure. The mastaba contains three different sized halls. The main (western) entrance leads to the first one, which gives access to the others through doorways in its southern and eastern sides.