S 639
Western Cemetery
Maps and plans: Plan 4: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian Excavation Concession (Central Strip - Cemetery en Echelon)
Details
- ID
- S 639
- Alternate IDs
- S 639; S639
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Shafts only (no superstructure)
- Tomb Owner
- No
- Bibliography
- Junker, Hermann. Gîza 8. Der Ostabschnitt des Westfriedhofs, Zweiter Teil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 1. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1947, pp. 161, 166, fig. 83, plan after pl. 28. 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. 168, pl. 16.
- Remarks
- Shaft is northeast of Lepsius 30 close to the pyramid wall. Junker's Giza 8 plan after plate 28 incorrectly labels this as shaft 689. Seems to be a typo.
