Digital Giza | G 8882

ID: G 8882
Alternate IDs: G8882; G 8882
Site Name: Central Field (Hassan)
Site Type: Rock-cut tomb w/ mud brick
Site Dates: type: PorterMoss Date; date: Middle to late Dynasty 5
Tomb Owner: Yes
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Remarks: Mastaba built south of G 8884 (Rock Cut Tomb; Uninscribed Rock Cut Mastaba), east of G 8860 (Washptah (1)) and west of G 8900 (Nimaatre & Neferesris). Shafts 374 A-D in fore-court are parasite burials from later period. Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
Research Activity: Substructure. Behind the two false-doors is Shaft 375. Behind the chapel of Ibi is Shaft 374 which contained the remains of a limestone false-door. Superstructure. The mastaba is divided into two parts which are the funerary chapel and the burial pits. The entrance leads to a vestibule where the southern wall has an opening to a serdab with contained parts of five statues of owner's wife. The chapel's western and northern walls have decorated doorways to two chapels. The first is of owner and wife who have two badly damaged decorated false-doors in the western wall. The second is of their son Ibi. Only its eastern wall is decorated. It has father-to-son will, witnesses, and scenes of arts and crafts. In its western wall are two niches.