D 15 B
Western Cemetery
Details
- ID
- D 15 B
- Alternate IDs
- D 15 B; D15B
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Mud-brick mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Dynasty 5-6
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950, plan 2 after pl. 20. Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G5. 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. 109, plan 14. Steindorff, Georg, and Uvo Hölscher. Die Mastabas westlich der Cheopspyramide 1-2. Edited by Alfred Grimm. Münchner Ägyptologische Untersuchungen 2. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991, pp. 25-26, pl. 5.
- Remarks
- Mastaba is built against north end of D 15 at the west side, south of D 85 and east of D 16. Steindorff mentions and draws four intrusive shafts against outside of west wall of D 15 B and D 15 (at north end).
