Rock Cut Tomb No. 8
Sphinx Complex
Details
- ID
- Rock Cut Tomb No. 8
- Alternate IDs
- RockCutTombNo.8; Rock Cut Tomb No. 8
- Site Name
- Sphinx Complex
- Site Type
- Rock-cut tomb
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Old Kingdom
- Tomb Owner
- No
- 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, 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, folded plan, Y-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, plan 6.
- Remarks
- Rock-cut tomb in cliff bordering north side of Sphinx depression, east of G 9090 (Rock Cut Tomb No. 7) and higher up than G 9080 (Rock Cut Tomb No. 10). Drawn and labeled 8 on The Great Sphinx plan, but not shown on other plans. Excavated in 1936-1937 by Hassan.
- Problems/Questions
- Problem; Position uncertain
