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ID
G 2041
Alternate IDs
G 2041; G2041
Site Name
Western Cemetery
Site Type
Stone-built mastaba
Site Dates
type: Baer Date; date: Early - mid Dynasty 5; type: Harpur Date; date: Userkaf - Neferirkare; type: Kanawati Date; date: Unis; type: Reisner Date; date: Late Menkaure - post-Neferirkare; type: Smith Date; date: Menkaure; type: Strudwick Date; date: Early Dynasty 5; type: Reisner Date; date: Dynasty 4; type: PorterMoss Date; date: Early Dynasty 5
Tomb Owner
Yes
Bibliography
Capart, L'Art ég. 3, pl. 438. Manuelian, Peter Der. "A Re-examination of Reisner's Nucleus Cemetery Concept at Giza. Preliminary Remarks on Cemetery G 2100." 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. 227-229. Manuelian, Peter Der. "Unfinished Business: The Giza Tablet of Tjenti (JE 72135)." In Mamdouh Eldmaty and Mai Trad, eds. Egyptian Museum Collections Around the World: Studies for the Centennial of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2002, p. 788. 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, pp. 68-69. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 217, 311. Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pp. 247-248. Roth, Ann Macy. "Little Women: Gender and Hierarchic Proportion in Old Kingdom Mastaba Chapels." 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. 284-285, table 1. Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press on behalf of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946, p. 164, pl. 45.
Remarks
Porter & Moss, p. 69, incorrectly attributes JE 56994 (the false door of Tefnen, found in G 1304) to debris north of G 2041.

Finds 9

Excavation Diary Pages 18

Maps and Plans 6

Drawings 3

Photos 225

Ancient People 5

Modern People 1

Published Documents 6

Unpublished Documents 33