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Itji & Neferseshemes

Western Cemetery

Mud brick mastaba complex just north of ABC 78-80 and west of ABC 100 in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery.

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Itji (Itji & Neferseshemes)
    Neferseshemes (Itji & Neferseshemes)
  • Attested
    Messa (in Itji & Neferseshemes)
  • Excavator
    Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr, 1907–1976
    Edward Brovarski
  • CBE (Brovarski) No.
    ABC 90
    ABC 96
    ABC 102-103
  • Site Type
    Mud-brick mastaba
  • Remarks
    The mastaba complex of Itji & Neferseshemes includes three small mastabas. ABC 96 was constructed first and then enclosed with a wall (ABC 101). ABC 90 was then built in the southwest corner of the enclosure. Finally ABC 102-103 was subsequently built against the north wall of ABC 90 and the west wall of ABC 96.

Finds 2

Full Bibliography

  • Brovarski 2018

People 5

Ancient People

  • Itji (Itji & Neferseshemes)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Co-owner (with his wife Nefersehsemes) of a complex of three small mastabas (ABC 96, ABC 90, ABC 102-103) in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. Several lintels (ABM 444-447), drums (ABM 450, unnumbered), and a false door panel (ABM 449) inscribed for or depicting Itji, identified as [xrp fnxw rx nswt] director of carpenters, royal acquaintance; one drum (unnumbered) found deposited in front of ABC 102-103 (after initial clearance by Abu Bakr), the rest rediscovered in the Abu Bakr Magazine.

  • Messa (in Itji & Neferseshemes)

    • Type Attested
    • Remarks Son (?) of Itji and Neferseshemes, co-owners of a complex of three small mastabas (ABC 96, ABC 90, ABC 102-103) in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. Mentioned on lintel (ABM 447) inscribed for his parents; rediscovered in the Abu Bakr Magazine.

  • Neferseshemes (Itji & Neferseshemes)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Co-owner (with her husband Itji) of a complex of three small mastabas (ABC 96, ABC 90, ABC 102-103) in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. Several lintels (ABM 444-447), drums (ABM 450, unnumbered), and a false door panel (ABM 449) inscribed for or depicting Neferseshemes, identified as [mjtrt rxt nswt] mitret, royal acquaintance; one drum (unnumbered) found deposited in front of ABC 102-103 (after initial clearance by Abu Bakr), the rest rediscovered in the Abu Bakr Magazine.

Modern People

  • Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates 1907–1976
    • Remarks Egyptian Egyptologist.

  • Edward Brovarski

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates
    • Remarks Egyptologist and co-director of the Cairo University-Brown University Excavations (CBE) in the Abu Bakr Cemetery.