Digital Giza | G 8980

ID: G 8980
Alternate IDs: G8980; G 8980
Site Name: Central Field (Hassan)
Site Type: Stone-built mastaba
Site Dates: type: PorterMoss Date; date: Late Dynasty 4 or Dynasty 5
Tomb Owner: Yes
Bibliography: Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 2: 1930-1931. Cairo: Faculty of Arts of the Egyptian University & Government Press, 1936, pp. 1-4, figs. 1-4, pls. 1-3. 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-W-8/9. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G351. 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. 273, plan 23, B/C-9/10.
Remarks: Mastaba is north of G 8978 (Khamerernebti [II]), east of G 8983 (Shepseskafankh), and south of Khafre Causeway. Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
Research Activity: Substructure. The mastaba has three shafts. The main one is placed behind the false-door, though a little further to the north. The burial chamber is exactly behind it. Superstructure. The drum of the doorway is inscribed with the name and titles of the deceased. The doorway leads to a small passabe. In the western wall of this passage is the opening of the serdab of the mastaba. The roof of the serdab was found broken, and three broken statuettes were found there. The passage way itself was re-used as a burial chamber. It leads to another doorway that opens in its southern wall. This door gives access to a rectangular chamber, which was also re-used as a burial chamber. There is an unfinished false-door in the western wall of this chamber.