ABC 270
Western Cemetery
Easternmost of two enigmatic domed brick structures built directly against the south side of Lepsius 19, thought by the excavators to be animal pens or “hyena cages.”
Details
- ID
- ABC 270
- Alternate IDs
- ABC 270; ABC270
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- sitetypeid: 59
- Tomb Owner
- No
- Bibliography
- Brovarski 2018 Phillips, Steven R. "Two Enigmatic Circular Mud Brick Structures in the Western Field at Giza. A Preliminary Report." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, pp. 239-258.
- Remarks
- Lepsius 19, Mastaba X, and Lepsius 20-21 were probably roughly contemporaneous and may have formed a family complex within a brick-built palace-facade enclosure wall, along with a double row of small, contiguous mud-brick mastabas just east of Lepsius 19 and Mastaba X (ABC 2 - ABC 4, ABC 7 - ABC 19).
