D 215
Western Cemetery
Details
- ID
- D 215
- Alternate IDs
- D 215; D215
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Mud-brick mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Middle Dynasty 5
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Hornemann, Types 5, pl. 1181. Ippel and roeder, Denkmaler...Hildesheim, fig. 10, p. 50, pl. 11 (names). Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G47. 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. 117, plan 14. G. Steindorff and U. Hoelscher, Die Mastabas westlich der Cheopspyramide, Muenchener Aegyptologische Untersuchungen 2 (Frankfurt am Main, 1991), edited by A. Grimm, p. 110.
- Remarks
- Mastaba is in field north of G 4000, southeast of D 213, west of D 216, east of D 104 and north of D 107. Mastaba not drawn on any plan, though it may be a piece of its southern wall just north of D 107 & D108 on Steindorff's Lagerplan for 1903.
- Problems/Questions
- Problem; Location unknown. What is tomb type?
