G 5040
Western Cemetery
Details
- ID
- G 5040
- Alternate IDs
- G5040; G 5040
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: PorterMoss Date; date: Late Dynasty 5 or Dynasty 6
- Tomb Owner
- Yes
- Bibliography
- Curto, Silvio. Gli Scavi Italiani a el-Ghiza (1903). Rome: Centro Per Le Antichitá E La Storia Dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1993, pp. 51-58, figs. 11, 14-16, 18, pl. 14. Junker, Hermann. Gîza 7. Der Ostabschnitt des Westfriedhofs, Erster Teil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 72, Abhandlung 3. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1944, fig. 1, plan after pl. 40. 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. 145, plan 16.
- Remarks
- There are two rock-cut offering rooms associated with this mastaba; west chapel has entrance lintel and drum lintel inscribed for Kaemked; south chapel has entrance lintel and false door inscribed for Bashepses. Bashepses chapel appears in Porter & Moss (p. 145) as Bashepses, a separate entry from G 5040.
