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Details

ID
G 1457
Alternate IDs
G1457; G 1457
Site Name
Western Cemetery
Site Type
Mud-brick mastaba
Site Dates
type: Reisner Date; date: Menkaure; type: PorterMoss Date; date: Probably Dynasty 5; type: Baer Date; date: Dynasty 5
Tomb Owner
Yes
Bibliography
Hawass, Zahi. "Unique Statues at Giza V: The Exceptional Statue of the Priest Kai and His Family." In Khaled Daoud, Shafia Bedier & Sawsan Abd el-Fatah, eds. Studies in Honor of Ali Radwan. Supplément aux Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, no. 34. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2005, p. 26, plan 2. Hawass, Zahi. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Egyptian Archaeologists." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 163. Hawass, Zahi. "The Statue of the Dwarf Pr-n(j)-anx(w) Recently Discovered at Giza." Festschrift für Werner Kaiser. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 47 (1991), pp. 157, 162. 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. 64. Reisner, George A. "Report on the Egyptian Expedition during 1934-35." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 33, No. 199 (October 1935), pp. 70, 72, fig. 2. Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L 8, Appendix J: The Mastabas in Cemeteries G 1400 and G 3000, pp. 38-42.
Remarks
Mastaba built on independent site west of G 1407 and south of G 1454+1455.

Finds 39

Excavation Diary Pages 2

Maps and Plans 14

Drawings 31

Photos 40

Ancient People 2

Modern People 1

Published Documents 2

Unpublished Documents 89