Minnefer
Western Cemetery
A single stone-built mastaba extends above the rock-cut chapel of Minnefer and the anonymous adjacent chapel ABC 834-850. Exterior rooms associated with both chapels are enclosed within the mastaba on top of the scarp on the northwest slope of the Giza plateau.
Details
- ID
- Minnefer
- Alternate IDs
- Minnefer
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Brovarski 2018 Handoussa & Brovarski, Preliminary Report on the 2000 Field Season of the Cairo University - Brown University Expedition, pp. 5-6.
- Remarks
- This mastaba was excavated by Abu-Bakr and recleared as part of the 2000 Cairo Univ - Brown Univ Expedition. Both the anonymous rock-cut chapel and the one belonging to Minnefer have associated anterooms within the stone-built mastaba, and the anonymous complex (ABC 834-850) also contains a small vestibule. Built against Minnefer’s anteroom, the anonymous anteroom and vestibule (as well as the associated chapel) are clearly later in date, but how much later is impossible to tell.