G 9210
Sphinx Complex
Details
- ID
- G 9210
- Alternate IDs
- G9210; G 9210
- Site Name
- Sphinx Complex
- Site Type
- Rock-cut tomb w/ mud brick
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5-6
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- 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, p. 61, plan on pl. 16. 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, pp. 13-15, figs. 1-3, pls. 2-4, folded plan, V/W-3. 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. 214, plans 6, 18.
- Remarks
- Rock-cut mastaba in the cliff bordering the northern side of the sphinx depression, immediately north of the Sphinx and northwest of the mud-brick temple of Amenhetep II, well west of G 9120 (Rock Cut Tomb No. 4), south of G 9220 (Rock Cut Tomb No. 1) and southwest of G 9200 (Rock Cut Tomb No. 2). Excavated in 1936-1937 by Hassan.
- Problems/Questions
- Problem; Correct mastaba name ?
