D 12
Western Cemetery
Details
- ID
- D 12
- Alternate IDs
- D 12; D12
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba complex
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Hornemann, Types 6, pl.1483. Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950, plan 2 after pl. 20. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G3. 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. 109, plan 14. Ranke, Personennamen 1, pp. 277 [1], 221 [21]. Steindorff, Georg, and Uvo Hölscher. Die Mastabas westlich der Cheopspyramide 1-2. Edited by Alfred Grimm. Münchner Ägyptologische Untersuchungen 2. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991, pp. 21-22, pl. 3.
- Remarks
- Mastaba is south of D 9, west of D 11, and northeast of D 13. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on plan EG002029.
- Problems/Questions
- Problem; There are tombs 12 a,b,c,d. To which do these names and dynasty relate?
