G 8894
Central Field (Hassan)
Details
- ID
- G 8894
- Alternate IDs
- G8894; G 8894
- Site Name
- Central Field (Hassan)
- Site Type
- Rock-cut tomb
- Tomb Owner
- No
- Bibliography
- Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 2: 1930-1931. Cairo: Faculty of Arts of the Egyptian University & Government Press, 1936, pp. 153-154, figs. 181-183. 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, folded plan, S-9. 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, plan 23, drawn not labeled.
- Remarks
- Mastaba is east of G 8853 (Kaaper), north of G 8893 (Mastaba A) and west of G 8993 (Kaemnefret Complex). Excavated in 1930-1931 by Hassan.
- Research Activity
- Substructure. Two shafts, with side-burial chambers on the west, are in the northern part of the chapel. Superstructure. Though finely cut, it is totally undecorated, like neighboring Mastaba A. Its entrance leads to a rectangular chapel, where the western wall has two unfinished false-doors. The lintel of the entrance doorway are not inscribed.
