Hetepu Ipu
Western Cemetery
Mud-brick mastaba located to the east of ABC 800 near the northwestern edge of the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery.
Details
- ID
- Hetepu Ipu
- Alternate IDs
- Hetepu Ipu; HetepuIpu
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Mud-brick mastaba
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Brovarski 2018 Handoussa, Tohfa. "The False Door of Hetepu from Giza." In Zahi Hawass, Peter Der Manuelian, and Ramadan B. Hussein, eds. Perspectives on Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Edward Brovarski. Supplément aux Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 40. Cairo: Imprimerie du Conseil Suprême des Antiquités, 2010, pp. 137-152.
- Remarks
- The core of Hetepu’s tomb is the mastaba ABC 811, containing two shafts and an open-air corridor chapel. Built against the north end of the core mastaba was another two-niched mastaba (ABC 819), with Hetepu’s inscribed false door (ABC 821) inserted in its southern niche.
