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ID
Isis Temple
Alternate IDs
Isis Temple; IsisTemple
Site Name
Khufu Pyramid Complex
Site Dates
type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dyn 21 with Dyn 26 enlargement
Tomb Owner
No
Bibliography
Breasted, James H. Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, Collected Edited and Translated with Commentary, Vol. 1: The First to the Seventeenth Dynasties. Ancient Records. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906, pp. 84-85. Flentye, Laurel. "The Development of Art in the Fourth Dynasty: The Eastern and GIS Cemeteries at Giza." In Mamdouh Eldmaty and Mai Trad, eds. Egyptian Museum Collections Around the World: Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002, p. 388. Hassan, The Sphinx, pp. 216-227. Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 8: 1936-1937. The Great Sphinx and its Secrets. Historical Studies in the Light of the Recent Excavations. Cairo: Government Press, 1953, pp. 101-102, 110-118, 299, 307, pls. 51-56. Hawass, Zahi. "The Great Sphinx at Giza: Date and Function." In Gian Maria Zaccone and Tomaso Ricardi di Netro (eds.) Sesto Congresso Internazionale di Egittologia. Atti, Volume II. Turin, 1993, pp. 181-182. Hawass, Zahi. "The Khufu Statuette: Is it an Old Kingdom Sculpture?" In Paule Posener-Kriéger, ed. Mélanges Gamal Eddin Mokhtar, vol. I. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1985, pp. 382-383, 394. Lepsius in A. Z. 20 (1882), taf. i [5-6]. Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 139. Mariette, Auguste. Les mastabas de l'ancien empire. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1889, pp. 564-565 [v]. Petrie in Sayce MSS. 27c [upper]. 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, pp. 17-19, plan 5. Quibell, A.A. The Pyramids of Giza. Cairo: C.M.S. Bookshop, undated, p. 15. Smith, William Stevenson. "The Old Kingdom in Egypt," The Cambridge Ancient History, rev. ed. of vols. I & II, Cambridge University Press, 1962, p. 29.
Remarks
Temple of Isis Mistress-of-the-Pyramid was constructed in Street G 7000, between east wall of G I-c and west wall of G 7140 portion of G 7130-7140.

Finds 386

Excavation Diary Pages 53

Maps and Plans 14

Drawings 50

Photos 133

Ancient People 20

Modern People 2

Published Documents 4

Unpublished Documents 36