Giza Mastabas 8.1

The Giza Mastabas Series
Edited by Peter Der Manuelian and William Kelly Simpson
Mastabas of Nucleus
Cemetery g 2100, Part 1
n 1902 the Egyptian Antiquities Service granted permits for scientific

excavations at the royal pyramids and private mastaba tombs of Giza, arguably the
worlds most famous archaeological site. The American team, under archaeologist,
Museum of Fine Arts curator, and Harvard professor George Andrew Reisner
(18671942), became the Joint Egyptian Expedition of Harvard University and the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1905, and continued almost uninterrupted until
1946. Despite the publication of his monumental History of the Giza Necropolis I
II, Reisner was unable to begin the tomb-by-tomb publication series he originally
envisioned. This task was initiated by William Kelly Simpson in the early 1970s,
in the form of the Giza Mastabas Series. In coordination with the Giza Archives
Project Web site (www.gizapyramids.org) launched in 2005, the goal of the series is
to augment and complete the publication of the HUMFA Expeditions excavations
at Giza, fully documenting the mastaba tombs with descriptive text, hieroglyphic
translations, facsimile line drawings, plans, sections, and photographs.
Volumes in Print
Giza Mastabas 8: Peter Der Manuelian, Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100, Part1,
Major Mastabas G 21002220. Boston, 2009
Giza Mastabas 7: Edward Brovarski, The Senedjemib Complex, Part 1, The Mastabas
of Senedjemib Inti (G 2370), Khnumenti (G 2374), and Senedjemib Mehi (G 2378).
Boston, 2001
Giza Mastabas 6: Ann Macy Roth, A Cemetery of Palace Attendants including
G20842099, 2230+2231, and 2240. Boston, 1995
Giza Mastabas 5: Kent R. Weeks. Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000, including Iymery
(G 6010), Neferbauptah (G 6020), Ity (G 6030), and Shepseskaf ankh (G 6040). Boston,
1994
Giza Mastabas 4: William Kelly Simpson, Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, Part 1,
G 1029, 2001, 2196, 2197, 2352/53, 2337x, 2343, 2366. Boston, 1980
Giza Mastabas
Volume 8
Edited by
Peter Der Manuelian and William Kelly Simpson
Mastabas of Nucleus
Cemetery g 2100
Part 1: Major Mastabas g 21002220
Giza Mastabas 3: William Kelly Simpson, The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and
II, G 711020, 713040, and 7150 and Subsidiary Mastabas of Street 7100. Boston, 1978
Giza Mastabas 2: William Kelly Simpson, The Mastabas of Qar and Idu, G 7101
7102. Boston, 1976
Giza Mastabas 1: Dows Dunham and William Kelly Simpson, The Mastaba of
Queen Mersyankh III, G 75307540. Boston, 1974
Manuelian
Ann Macy Roth. Some Middle-Class Tombs at Giza: G 2061, G20712077, G 2232
2246 and G 25052509
Edward Brovarski. The Mastabas of Hordjedef (G 721020), Babaef (G 731020), an
Anonymous Prince (G 733040), Hetepheres II (G 7350), Horbaef and Meresankh II
(G741020), Minkhaf (G734040), and Ankh-haf (G 7510)
Peter Der Manuelian

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est of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu
laid out scores of mastaba tombs for the elite members of ancient Egyptian
society. Specific clusters of tombs seem to form architectural and archaeological
units, prompting the modern division of the Giza Necropolis into discrete
nucleus cemeteries. This book interprets the complete archaeological record of
the mastabas of Cemetery g2100, one of the six nucleus cemeteries at Giza. As a
key to understanding Old Kingdom mortuary development at Giza, it explores
the distinguishing features of such a grouping of tombs and tomb owners: relative
chronology and individual artistic styles; common administrative titles; possible
familial connections to the king; and the relationship of the earlier, major mastabas
to the subsequent, minor burials surrounding them.
More than a century has elapsed since the fourteen major mastabas and about
sixty-two smaller subsidiary tombs of Cemetery g2100 were first excavated by
the Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition at Giza under
George A. Reisner (18671942). In addition, the southern edge of Cemetery g2100
fell within the excavation concession granted to the German/Austrian expedition
under Georg Steindorff and then Hermann Junker, on behalf of institutions in
Leipzig, Hildesheim, and Vienna. The author has undertaken a re-examination
of this cemetery. The results incorporate excavations between 1845 and 1940, and
include objects from museums in Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Cairo, Copenhagen,
Hildesheim, Paris, Philadelphia, Rome, and Vienna. Art-historical treasures,
significant artifacts, and unique architectural elements unattested anywhere else at
Giza are set in their proper archaeological context, often for the first time. Examples
include the Boston reserve head of Nefer (mastaba g2110); Nefers chapel reliefs
spread today across three continents; one of the best-preserved and oldest female
mummies (g2220); and two complete chapels removed to EuropeMerib in Berlin
(g2100-1), and KaninisutI in Vienna (g2155). The chapel of Merib, long known
only from C.R. Lepsiuss illustrations from the 1840s, is represented in new color
photography prepared especially for this volume
The book contains historical and interpretive remarks, followed by individual
chapters on the major mastabas. Several detailed 3D computer illustrations
reconstruct unique views of the tombs from above and below ground. Part2 of Giza
Mastabas8 will describe the later, subsidiary structures in Cemetery g2100. Both
volumes enhance the much larger corpus of information available, in undigested form,
on the Museum of Fine Artss Giza Archives Project Web site (www.gizapyramids
.org). The work should prove useful to those investigating Old Kingdom history
and chronology, mortuary architecture, ceramic and faunal remains, inscriptional
material, and art-historical style.
Front jacket illustration: MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g 2110 a (see Chapter 6, figs. 6.39,
6.906.100). Museum of Fine Arts, sc62136
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The Author
Peter Der Manuelian received a BA from Harvard University in 1981, and a Ph.D. in
Egyptology from the University of Chicago in 1990. Joining the curatorial staff of
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1987, he has been Giza Archives Director there
since 2000. The Giza Archives Project serves as a comprehensive online resource
for all archaeological research at the Pyramids (www.gizapyramids.org). He is the
author of Studies in the Reign of Amenophis II; Living in the Past: Studies in Archaism
of the Egyptian Twenty-sixth Dynasty; and Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis, as well
as several Egyptological childrens books. Since 2000 he has also taught Egyptology
at Tufts University.
Volumes in Preparation
Peter Der Manuelian. Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100. Part 2, Subsidiary
Mastabas and Minor Burials
Edward Brovarski. The Senedjemib Complex, Part 2, The Mastabas of Nekhebu
(G2381), Mehu-akhti (G 2375), Other Mastabas of the Senedjemib Complex, and the
Intact Burial of Ptahshepses Impy
Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery g 2100, Part 1
Back jacket illustration: The Western Cemetery at Giza, looking northwest from the top of the Great
Pyramid, and highlighting the mastabas of Cemetery g2100. November 16, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
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Department of Art of the Ancient World

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Giza Mastabas
Volume 8
Edited by
Mastabas of Nucleus
Cemetery g 2100
Peter Der Manuelian

Based upon the Recording of
The Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition:
George Andrew Reisner, Albert M. Lythgoe, Clarence S. Fisher,
William Stevenson Smith, Alexander Floroff, Nicholas Melnikoff,
Said Ahmed, Mohammed Said Ahmed, and Mahmoud Said Ahmed
With Contributions by the Expedition Staff of the Giza Mastabas Project,
Renate Germer, and Nancy C. Lovell

2009
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Front jacket illustration: MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a;
(see Chapter 6, figs.6.39, 6.906.100). Museum of Fine Arts, SC62136
Back jacket illustration: The Western Cemetery at Giza, looking
northwest from the top of the Great Pyramid. November 16, 1993.
Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.130.23
Frontispiece: MFA 07.1002, detail of standing figure of Nefer from
the north entrance thickness of the chapel of mastaba g2110
(see Chapter 6, figs.6.50, 6.53). Museum of Fine Arts, cr7351_d1
Endpapers: Overview plan of the Giza Necropolis, showing the location of
nucleus Cemetery g2100
Typeset in Adobe Garamond, Syntax, and Cleo (hieroglyphs)

Copyedited, typeset, designed, and produced by Peter Der Manuelian
Published with the assistance of William Kelly Simpson
Copyright Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2009

All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted
in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy,
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Contents
Chapter 4. The Tomb of Merib:
Mastaba g2100-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69116
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
List of Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Bibliography and Publication Abbreviations . . . . . . .
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Section 1: Interpretive Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapter 1: Excavation History and Sources. . . . . . . . . 322

Chapter 2: Architectural History and Chronological
Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2348
The Three Initial Nucleus Cemeteries
in the Western Cemetery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
28
Cemetery g2100: General Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summary of the Original Twelve Mastabas
of Cemetery g2100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Relative Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Superstructures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Casings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Chapels, Niches, and False Doors . . . . . . . . . . .
Serdabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Substructures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Section 2: Catalogue of the Major Mastabas . . .
47
Chapter 3. The Tomb of Sedit, Mother of Merib:

Mastaba g2100 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Summary of Reisners Description . . . . . . . . . . . .

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Shafts and Burials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Tomb Owner and Dependents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
69
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Chapter 5. The Tomb of Nensedjerkai:

Mastaba g2100-11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
117150

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 6. The Tomb of Nefer: Mastaba g2110 . . . . .

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 7. The Tomb of Seshatsekhentiu:

Mastaba g2120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
209238

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
209
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216
Chapter 8. The Tomb of Khentka: Mastaba g2130

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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240
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Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
240
241
241
241
242
Chapter 9. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2210 . . . . .

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 10. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2135

(=g4770, Junker VII NN). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281292
281
Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 11. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2140 . . . .

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 12. The Tomb of Kanefer: Mastaba g2150 . .

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Chapter 13. The Tomb of Kaninisut (I): Mastaba

g2155 (=g4870; Junker VIII NN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
367414

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
367
367
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368
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369
382

Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Excavation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Finds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Decoration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Indexes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 455
I. General . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 456
II. Private Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 469
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III. Private Names in Transliteration . . . . . . . . . . . . .
471
IV. Titles and Epithets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
473
V. Egyptian Words and Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
475
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PREFACE
hile some publication projects proceed uninterrupted

from start to finish, others start and stop over a longer
term, due to the intervention of other work. The present
volume is an example of the latter scenario. It was initiated many
years ago, and great changes have since taken place, in Egyptology,
archaeology, technology, and museology, that have altered the books
final form. Giza Mastabas8 represents the first volume in the series
published since the launch (in 2005) of the Giza Archives Project
Web site (www.gizapyramids.org), and the rise of the Internet in
general as a serious Egyptological research tool. By aiming to provide
all of the worlds archaeological documentation from Giza, the Web
site serves as a sort of companion volume, enhancing and adding
to the illustrations and documentation printed here. It provides
new research avenues that were hitherto impossible. It is also the
first completely digital Giza Mastabas Series volume, where even
the epigraphy is largely the result of hand-drawn vector lines on a
digitizing tablet, rather than pen and ink. The book thus includes
the results of labors and technologies from as early as 1905, and as
late as 2009.
One of the personal advantages in undertaking a project over a
longer period is the ability to make the acquaintance and incorporate
the contributions of a large number of individuals around the world.
It has been a privilege to work with such a wide variety of talented
and generous colleagues from a host of different disciplines, and to
have traveled to many lands, in the production of this volume. My
colleagues have shown great patience in assisting me to augment
and interpret the archaeological data from field seasons now more
than a century past. It seems appropriate to list them below by city,
arranged in alphabetical order with the exception of Boston first,
since most of the work was accomplished there.
Boston. I thank Rita E. Freed, the John F. Cogan Jr. and Mary
L. Cornille Chair of the Department of Art of the Ancient World at
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for her constant support of my
research over many years, and her permission to publish portions
of the extensive Giza collection and excavation archives under her
care. It is to her vision and foresight that we owe the continued
existence of the Giza Mastabas Series, and the growth of the Giza
Archives Project. Our curatorial colleagues in the Department of Art
of the Ancient World have been a constant source of inspiration in
my work: Lawrence Berman, Denise Doxey, Laura Gadbery, Joyce
Haynes, Yvonne Markowitz, and Nicholas Picardo.
My gratitude goes to Malcolm Rogers, the MFAs Ann and
Graham Gund Director, and Katie Getchell, Deputy Director for
Curatorial Administration. I also thank the four MFA department
heads who have supervised the Project over the years and have
encouraged and supported the Giza work, including Nancy Allen
(Information Resources), and Maureen Melton (Libraries and
Archives). The Project is currently affiliated with the Conservation

and Collections Management Department, formerly headed by
Arthur Beale, and now by Matthew Siegal. Conservation and
Collections Management staff have facilitated every aspect of my
research, and I thank Linda Pulliam, Jeff Steward, Emily Dean,
Kenneth Leibe, Kay Satomi, and Brooks Rich.
Digital imaging advice over many years has come from
John Woolf, of the MFAs digital imaging studio, Department of
Intellectual Property. I thank him in particular for the montage of
the fragmentary slab stela reproduced in fig.7.67. I am also indebted
to the Publications Department, especially Mark Polizzotti, Emiko
Usui, and Terry McAweeney, for their assistance, as well as to the
head of Rights and Licensing, Debra Lakind, for facilitating the
use of many of the MFA object images that appear throughout the
present volume.
Giza Archives Project staff have been instrumental in helping
to make this publication a reality, whether by working directly with
Cemetery g2100, or indirectly by relieving the Project Director of
other burdens. Giza Research Associate Diane Victoria Flores has been
with the Project since its inception in 2000, and her meticulousness,
accuracy, and scholarly acumen have proven indispensable time and
time again. Much of the Giza data heavy lifting, has been borne
by her. Project Archivist Catherine Pate has organized the chaos
of the original Expedition records, and her technological skills are
unmatched in ensuring the smooth continuity of the Giza workflow.
Ruth Bigio has provided many of the archaeological redrawings
from the original Expedition archives. Her vector drawing skills are
unique among Giza Archives Project staff, and are matched only by
her infinite patience in drawing block after block, tomb after tomb.
My Egyptological interns over many years have contributed great
service to the Project, and I thank them for their time, patience,
and good scholarship: Heidi Saleh, Heather Evans, Christine End,
Nicholas Picardo, and Rachel Aronin. In addition, several MFA
volunteers have adopted the Project, among their other duties, and
we would not be as productive without their assistance. In particular,
I thank Steven Klitgord, Myron Seiden, and the invaluable women
of the Museum Associates for many years of dedicated Giza work.
The teaching aspect of the Giza Archives Project for Egyptology
and archaeology students in the Boston area has proven especially
fruitful, and I am grateful to many students who have contributed
directly to the production of the present work. Laurel Hackley
assembled Expedition diary pages and object lists pertaining to
Cemetery g2100; and Meghan Place confirmed shaft measurements
and object numbers against Reisner manuscripts. Elizabeth
Lehtola created the preliminary formatting for many of the digital
hieroglyphs I have inserted in the text, and Caryn Horowitz provided
supplemental photographic caption information. Melissa Kisala
and Ariana Dunning proofread chapters for consistency of figure
numbers and references.
The Giza Archives Project is now an international collaboration,
and the colleagues listed below have proven to be distinguished and
indispensable partners in processing and providing access to their
Giza data. Since the mastabas covered in the present volume span two
different excavation concessions, American and GermanAustrian,
it will be readily apparent below how important their materials
are. For their participation in the Giza endeavor I thank Joan
Knudsen, Elizabeth Minor, and the late Catherine Keller (Berkeley);
Dietrich Wildung, Klaus Finneiser, Stephan Seidlmayer, Stefan
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Grunert, and Elke Freier (Berlin); Zahi Hawass and Wafaa el-Saddik
(Cairo); Katja Lembke, Bettina Schmitz, and Antje Spiekermann
(Hildesheim); Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert and Friederike KamppSeyfried (Leipzig); David P. Silverman, Josef Wegner, and Jennifer
Houser Wegner (Philadelphia); Eleni Vassilika, Giovanni Bergamini,
Matilde Borla, and Elisa Fiore Marochetti (Turin); and Manfred
Bietak, Peter Jnosi, and Regina Hlzl (Vienna).
Berlin. Since Lepsius was active in Cemetery g2100, crucial
materials, in particular the chapel of Merib (g2100-1), are housed
at both the gyptisches Museum and the Berlin-Brandenburgische
Akademie der Wissenschaften. At the Museum, Dietrich Wildung
kindly granted permission to publish the chapel of Merib (M1107)
and its related objects, and Klaus Finneiser was instrumental in
putting the relevant materials at my disposal. I also thank conservator
Rolf Kriesten, from Restaurierung am Oberbaum, for his spectacular
new photography and photo-montaging of Meribs many relief
blocks, prior to the chapels reassembly in the Neues Museum.
At the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Stephan Seidlmayer kindly provided much of the Merib
documentation from the original Lepsius expedition. I thank him
for his collaboration in the midst of his move from Berlin to the
Deutsches Archologisches Institut in Cairo. I am also indebted to
his colleagues at the BBAW, Stefan Grunert, and Elke Freier.
Birmingham, England. Philip Watson, Head of Collection
Management, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, was
instrumental in providing a photograph of the west wall fragment
from Nefers chapel (g2110), Birmingham 241/57.
Cairo and Giza. First and foremost, my thanks go to Zahi
Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Our collaboration at Giza stretches back to my first season there, in
the summer of 1977, and I have valued his friendship, admired his
scholarship, and treasured his assistance ever since. He will recognize
many old friends in the following pages, whose tombs lie not a
stones throw from his office in the tafteesh at Giza. Inspectors at Giza
have become close friends over many years, and without them, my
work there would be impossible. Over many seasons I received every
kind of assistance, advice, and logistical support for my work in the
Western Cemetery. I thank in particular Adel Hussein, Mansour
Boraik, Mohamed Shiha, Amal Samuel, Mahmoud Afifi, Mohamed
Salah, Mohamed Sadek, Magdy Abdel Salam, and Hasan Mohamed.
I am also grateful to past chairmen of the EAO, including Abdel
Halim Nour el-Din and Mohammed Ibrahim Bakr, and chief
inspectors at Giza, including the late Ahmed Moussa.
On the other side of the Wall of the Crow, the expedition staff of
Ancient Egypt Research Associates, under the directorship of Mark
Lehner, have also shared their expertise, hospitality, and friendship
over many years. I consider myself doubly fortunate to benefit not
only from AERAs presence at Giza, but also at its US home base
in Boston. I am grateful for many fruitful discussions with Mark
Lehner, Ana Tavares, John Nolan, Camilla Mazzucato, and Farrah
Brown about the site, our ongoing collaboration, and GIS strategies.
Ana Tavares and her staff graciously undertook some re-surveying
of portions of Cemetery g 2100 in 2008, and Camilla Mazzucato
georeferenced several disparate Reisner-era plans of the area (see
fig.2.5). In Boston, Wilma Wetterstrom and I have shared graphic
design and publication information as our respective projects have
grown increasingly ambitious.
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In Cairo, Egyptian Museum directors Mohamed Saleh and

Wafaa el-Saddik offered me every assistance with the objects from
Cemetery g 2100 under their care. May Trad solved countless
numbering discrepancies for me over the years, and lent her wisdom
and unparalleled knowledge of the Museum for my benefit. And my
Giza expeditions received all manner of support from the American
Research Center in Egypt. I am especially indebted to Gerry Scott and
Amira Khattab. My friend and colleague Cynthia May Sheikholeslami
has provided help and advice during my stays in Cairo, and I have
learned much from our many discussions about the Giza Necropolis.
Copenhagen. Mogens Jrgensen was a gracious host during
my collation visit to the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in 1991 for the
two Nefer reliefs in his collection (see figs. 6.59 and 6.75). More
recently, he leapt into action as publication deadlines loomed and
provided excellent new color photography of these two reliefs (taken
by photographer (Ole Haupt/Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek).
Edmonton. My thanks go to Nancy C. Lovell of the
Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, for her analysis
of the Giza skeletal remains at such a wide variety of locations. The
descriptions under the Shafts and Burials section of each respective
tomb chapter are hers. Most of the major mastabas covered in the
present volume were plundered, but much more of her work is
contained in Part2, on the subsidiary mastabas and burials.
Hamburg. My thanks go to Renate Germer for her
contribution to the analysis of the extraordinary female mummy and
its linen wrappings from g2220 (see Chapter16).
Hildesheim. Fully engaged in their own VolkswagenStiftungfunded Giza project, Bettina Schmitz and Antje
Spiekermann nevertheless took the time to answer my every query,
email, and photographic request about the mastabas included in
Steindorff s and Junkers Giza concessions. I am particularly grateful
for information regarding the mastabas g2100-11, g2135, and g2155.
None of this assistance would of course have been possible without
the enthusiastic support of the director of the Pelizaeus-Museum,
Katja Lembke.
New York. To the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation I owe the
very existence of the Giza Archives Project, which has streamlined my
own Egyptological work, and I hope made research easier for many
others as well. Initiated in 2000, thanks to a grant from the Mellon
Foundation, the Giza Archives Project at the MFA has benefited to
date from more than $3 million in support, and contributions of time
and expertise from more than 400 colleagues, students, volunteers,
and museum docents. My thanks go to Angelica Zander Rudenstine,
Program Officer, Museums and Conservation, who initiated the
Project and, since 2004, to Donald J. Waters, Program Officer,
Scholarly Communications, who has continued to support our work
in every way. Additional Scholarly Communications personnel at
the Mellon Foundation who have my sincere gratitude are Helen
Cullyer, Associate Program Officer, Hans Rutimann, Senior Advisor,
and Paula Muir, Program Associate.
I am most grateful to the Mellon Foundation for the its vision
of setting our Project on the road to endowment and long-term
sustainability.
Oxford. Jaromr Mlek kindly provided a negative of the
missing relief from the south facade of g2150 (fig.12.70), as well as
countless references from the Topographical Bibliography.
Paris. For providing the excellent new photograph of the
south entrance thickness relief from the tomb of Nefer (g 2110,
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g2100
fig.6.56), I am indebted to Elisabeth Delange of the Dpartement

des Antiquits Egyptiennes, Muse du Louvre. I also thank
Christiane Ziegler for her replies to many earlier inquiries about
this relief.
As this publication was heading to press, a fruitful
collaboration was developing between the Giza Archives Project
in Boston and Dassault Systmes in Paris (www.3ds.com).
Building upon the Giza 3D modeling expertise already gained by
Dassault in assisting Jean-Pierre Houdins reconstruction of the
Great Pyramid, we decided to expand the Giza computer model
and to base it on actual archaeological data from the various
excavations. Some of the early results of this collaborative work
are reproduced below by kind permission of Dassault Systmes
(see Chapters 16, and 13). For their interest and their support of
applying new technologies to scientific research, I am indebted
to Mehdi Tayoubi, Interactive Strategy & Marketing Director;
Richard Breitner, Passion for Innovation Program Manager;
and Nicolas Serikoff, 3D Project Head. The computer models
of the individual mastabas were produced in collaboration with
the talented infographistes of Emissive, Paris, and I thank the
members of this talented team: Emmanuel Guerriero, Fabien
Barati, Pierre Gable, Vanessa Jorry, Adrien Cachinho, Marc
Leprtre, Jean-Baptiste Sarrazin, and Nicolas Montels. A special
word of thanks is due to Pierre Gable, who patiently endured
our many lengthy weekly video conferences.
Philadelphia. I am grateful to David Silverman,
curator of the Egyptian Section of the University of Pennsylvania
Museum, for permission to publish the drum of Nefer from
g3015a (e13531; figs. 6.476.49). Jennifer Houser Wegner
very kindly photographed the drum in storage, and prepared
a preliminary tracing of the inscription. And in January 2006,
Stephen R. Phillips gave generously of his time at Giza to
accompany me to the bones magazine for additional analysis of
the skeletal remains from g2100a and g2132b.
Providence. My thanks go to James P. Allen of Brown
University for his assistance with the short hieratic texts on
fragments of linen from the female mummy from g2220.
Rome. Photography and collation visits during the
1990s to the Museo Barracco in Rome considerably improved
my drawing of the false door tablet of Nefer from g 2110
(C.M.B. 1; figs. 6.76. 6.78. 6/84). For her assistance, I thank
curator Maresita Nota.
Vienna. My Giza partnership with Egyptological
colleagues in Vienna stretches back many years. Time and
time again, the objects and expedition archives housed in the
Kunsthistorisches Museum and the gyptologisches Institut
der Universitt Wien have proven indispensable to my
research. Over many visits I have enjoyed the hospitality and
benefited from the scholarly expertise of Helmut Satzinger,
Elfriede Haslauer, and Regina Hlzl at the Kunsthistorisches
Museum, and Manfred Bietak, Peter Jnosi, and Irmgard Hein
at the University. In recent years, Peter Jnosi and Regina
Hlzl have provided images, documentation, and scholarly
advice on a host of Giza-related topics, far beyond merely the
mastaba of KaninisutI housed in Vienna and discussed below
(S8006, see Chapter13). I am also extremely grateful to Liza
Majerus, for permission to reproduce a number of her excellent
archaeological plans of tombs and chapels.
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My friend and colleague of many years, Rus Gant, has worn

many hats in support of my research. At times archaeological
photographer, technology consultant, graphic designer, and general
expedition problem-solver, his vision of the larger picture of what
is possible at Giza is wonderful and at times breathtaking. I will be
pleased indeed if we are able to realize even a portion of this vision.
On the photographic and visual side, another Boston-based
friend, Brian Snyder, has assisted me with all types of digital imaging
issues. I was fortunate to have his services as expedition photographer
during a short documentation season in April 1999. For the present
work, his images in the tomb of Kanefer (g2150, see Chapter12) are
particularly welcome, as they fill a major gap in the original HU
MFA Expeditions photographic documentation.
I am particularly indebted to Edward Brovarski for his comments
on earlier versions of this manuscript. He has provided stimulating
suggestions, corrected numerous inaccuracies, and freely shared his
considerable knowledge of the Old Kingdom with me for many years.
I thank my wife Lauren Thomas for her help in proofreading
the manuscript, and for many design suggestions and improvements.
Not least should be acknowledged her skill in helping me to acquire
for the MFA in 2006 the newly (re)discovered seventy-two Arabic
Expedition Diary volumes from the family of George Reisners reises
in Cairo. For their generous support of our Giza diaries adventure,
and of my Giza endeavors in general, I also thank David Pendlebury,
Monique Nelson, and Sara Waldheim, all of Bend, Oregon.
On a production note, thanks are to due Jonathan Sawyer, of
Sawyer Printers; and Paul Parisi, Ron Raye, Isilda Lang, and the
staff at Acme Bookbinding, both of Charlestown, MA, for their
patience in dealing with the idiosyncracies of digital hieroglyphs,
vector graphics, customized Egyptian transliteration fonts, and
unusual publishing formats. All of this work has been invested in a
publication with a relatively small print run, and in a time of great
economic pressure from online media and overseas presses. Giza
Mastabas 8 represents the thirtieth Egyptological volume I have
produced with these two publishing firms, and this number speaks
for itself to the durability and success of this working relationship.
My final word of thanks goes to William Kelly Simpson, the
man who first revived the Giza tradition at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, and established the Giza Mastabas Series, among his many
other Egyptological accomplishments. If George Reisner was an
original patriarch of Giza archaeological research, Kelly Simpson
has certainly been a worthy counterpart for the modern era. I
cannot hope to match the Giza expertise he has gained after forty
years as professor of Egyptology at Yale University, and as curator
of the Egyptian Department at the MFA. But it is my wish that the
present work might serve as a small token of thanks for many years
of encouragement, support, and friendship. With sincere gratitude,
I dedicate this book to him.
Peter Der Manuelian
Boston, July 2, 2009
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1.10
Area west of Cemetery g2100 (right background: g2100-11,

g2100-1, g2110), being cleared by the GermanAustrian
expedition, looking north. 1912(?). GermanAustrian
Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna, aeos_1_5431.
1.11
Western Cemetery, middle and northern sections, looking

northwest, from the top of the Khufu Pyramid. June25, 1932.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim,
a6973.
1.12
Sequence of images showing the computer modeling process,

from excavation photograph of burial chamber of g2100a
(top; 19051906, HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, b893), to wireframe build (center), to final
rendered image, which can be rotated in real time (bottom).
Reconstruction based on original HUMFA Expedition data.
Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
1.13
Sequence of images showing the computer modeling process,

from excavation photograph of burial chamber of g2100a
(top; January5, 1936, HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Mohammedani Ibrahim, a7363), to wireframe build (center),
to final rendered image (bottom). Reconstruction based
on original HUMFA Expedition data. Courtesy Dassault
Systmes, 2009.
1.14
Wireframe computer images for reconstructing the g2100

family complex (looking northwest), based on original HU
MFA and GermanAustrian Expedition plans and survey
data. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
1.15
Rendered computer model of the g2100 family complex

(looking northwest), based on original HUMFA and
GermanAustrian Expedition plans and survey data. Courtesy
Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Figure
Frontispiece
MFA 07.1002, detail of standing figure of Nefer from the

north entrance thickness of the chapel of mastaba g2110 (see
figs.6.50, 6.53). Museum of Fine Arts, cr7351_d1.
Chapter 1: Excavation History and Sources
1.1
Cemetery g2100, looking northwest, from top of the

Khufu Pyramid. November16, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.131.12.
1.2
General view of the Western Cemetery, western half, looking

north from upon the Khafre Pyramid (photographed in the
evening). First clearance of Cemeteryg2100 (indicated by
arrow). December 1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Said Ahmed, a13022 [=a6354].
1.3
General view of the Western Cemetery, western half, looking

west from upon the Khufu Pyramid. June 1912. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Badawi Ahmed a765.
1.4
Redrawn sketch of the westernmost row of Cemetery g2100

tombs and the area further west, from Reisner and Lythgoe
second report, 1906.
1.5
Cemetery g2100, area east of g2170, and north of g2180

(= g4990), showing g2231x, g2227 (=g2177), g2224,
g2225, g2174, g2173, g2176, g2175, g2172, g2179, g2178,
g2186, and g2184, looking south from a photographic
tower. January6, 1913. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Mohammedani Ibrahim, a821.
1.6
Cemetery g2100, area east of g2170, g2184 (foreground

left) and g2186 (foreground right), showing g2172, g2175,
g2227 (=g2177), g2174, g2173, g2225, and g2224, looking
northwest from a photographic tower. January7, 1913. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a822.
1.7
Cemetery g2100, area north and east of g2170, g2154, and

g2154a in the foreground. Further away are mastabas g2223,
g2224, g2227 (=g2177), and g2175; looking southeast from
photographic tower. January8, 1913. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a825.
1.8
Cemetery g2100, looking northwest, from upon the Khufu

Pyramid. 1912(?). GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5441.
1.9
Area south of Cemetery g2100 (g2100-11 and g2120), cleared

by the GermanAustrian expedition, looking northwest.
1912(?). GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5443.
Chapter 2: Architectural History and Chronological

Development of the Core Mastabas
2.1
Overview plan of the Giza Necropolis, with the American,

GermanAustrian, and Egyptian expedition concessions
indicated. Drawing by Liza Majerus.
2.2
Western Cemetery from three-quarters of the way up the

Khufu Pyramid, showing the three earliest nucleus cemeteries
marked in colors. December23, 1927. HUMFA Expedition
2.3
T-shaped portcullis groove in a burial shaft at Meidum, after

J.de Morgan, Fouilles Dahchour1, p.9, figs.34.
2.4
T-shaped portcullis groove in the shaft of tomb II/1 at

Dahshur, after N. Alexanian, Kunst des Alten Reiches, p.2,
fig.1.
2.5
Overview plan of Cemetery g2100, based on Reisners Map

5 from GN1 (eg002028), with additions to the east from the
unpublished Cemetery en Echelon plan (eg000498), and
various other sources. Original plans drawn by Alexander
Floroff and traced by Nicholas Melnikoff. 2008 Survey by A.
Tavares, El Azab A. Hassan, and Sayed Talbeah, combined
with GIS referencing and rectification by Camilla Mazzucato
(Ancient Egypt Research Associates).
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2.6
Computer reconstruction of the mastabas of the g2100 family

complex, looking northwest; from right to left: g2100 (Sedit)
and g2100-1 (Merib) and g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai). Courtesy
3.7
3613, alabaster model dishes from g2100a; rows 2, 3, and

4, nos.19 in each row; 27 model dishes. February 14, 1936.
HU-MFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim,
b8609.
2.7
Computer reconstruction of the burial shaft arrangement

for the g2100 family complex, looking east towards the
Khufu pyramid. From left to right (north to south): g 2100a,
g2100-1b, g2100-1c, and g2100-11a (with sarcophagus).
3.8
3613, two alabaster model dishes from g2100a. May15,

2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00520 and pdm_
img00525.
3.9
3614, bones of human skeleton from g2100 a, profile

of teeth in the lower jaw. November 22, 1993. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_1993.110.25.
3.10
3614, bones from g2100 a. January16, 2006. Peter Der

Manuelian, pdm_06287.
3.11
MFA 06.1892, restored alabaster jar from g2100d and

drawing, 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, B656 [=g7473] and drawing.
3.12
Ceramic profiles sketches adapted from A.M. Lythgoes tomb

card sketch (eg014396).
3.13
Two views of flints from g2100f (originally labeled by A.M.

Lythgoe as g2500). Date not listed. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, photographer not listed, c13020 (left) and c13021
(right).
3.14
332183, fragmentary alabaster dish east of g2100. Top:

March 22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, c13413 (detail). Middle: June25, 2008. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_img02138. Bottom: drawing.
2.8
Computer reconstruction of mastaba g2110 (Nefer), looking

southwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
2.9
Computer reconstruction of mastaba g2155 (KaninisutI),

looking southwest, including the adjoining subsidiary
mastabas g2156 (KaninisutII) to the east and g2156a
(KaninisutIII) to the north. Courtesy Dassault Systmes,
2009.
2.10
Typical Khufu-era mastaba superstructure, with an exterior

chapel protecting the offering place containing the slab stela.
After Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.82, fig.2. Drawing by
Liza Majerus.
2.11
Reisners casing types, as attested in Cemetery g2100; after

Reisner, GN1, p.179, figs.8486, 89. Redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
2.12
Comparison of chapel types attested in Cemetery g2100.
2.13
Schematic comparison of chapel wall decoration programs

attested in Cemetery g2100.
2.14
Comparison of north niches attested in Cemetery g2100 (all

images by Peter Der Manuelian).
a: g2100-1 Merib, November21, 1993. pdm_1993.107.21.
b: g2110 Nefer. November21, 1993. pdm_1993.108.19.
c: g2130 Khentka, November3, 1993. pdm_1993.055.12.
d: g2150 Kanefer, November4, 1993. pdm_1993.060.16.
e: g2155 KaninisutI, November20, 1993. pdm_1993.096.30.
3.15
332184, steatite amulet from east of g2100. May15, 2008.

Peter Der Manuelian, composite from images pdm_img00573,
00574, 00575, 00577, 00578. Line drawing sketch from HU
MFA Expedition Object Register.
3.16
332189, fragment of a tablet of Nefri from east of g2100.

Left: February17, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, b8280 (detail). Right: line drawing sketch from
HUMFA Expedition Object Register.
Chapter 3. The Tomb of Sedit: Mastaba g2100
3.17
Plan and section of the Merib family complex including (in

chronological order) the mastabas of Sedit (g2100), Merib
(g2100-1), and Nensedjerkai (g2100-11). Adapted from
Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib, inside back cover.
G2100, east face, slab stela emplacement, looking west.

19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe,
c857 [=c12421].
3.18
Northwest corner of g2100, lined casing block, and west

side of mastaba, looking south. November15, 1993. Peter Der
3.19
Section of the street east of g2100, looking north.
3.20
West side of g2100, looking northeast. 19051906. HUMFA

Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b955 [=b7421].
3.1
3.2
Computer reconstruction of mastaba g2100 (Sedit), looking

southwest, with the contiguous mastabas g2100-1 (Merib)
and g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai) in the background. Courtesy
3.3
G2100, plan.
3.21
3.4
G 2100, east face, cleared southwards to the north niche of

g2100-1 (=Lepsius 24, Merib); shafts associated with g2114
and g2105 in the street, looking southwest. 1906. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, a511 [=a5965]
(rephotographed as c5280).
Filling and toeholds in the shaft of g2100a, looking

northeast. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, c1653 [=c12442].
3.22
Excavating shafta of g2100, with pit d in the background,

left, looking northeast. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1475 [=c1244].
3.23
G2100a, looking south down the emptied shaft. 19051906.

HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b718
[=b7428].
3.5
Shafts along the east face of g2100, looking northwest.

c1345 [=c12424].
3.6
3612, alabaster model basin (also visible in fig. 3.6, bottom

row, third from left). May31, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts,
sc32813.
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3.24
3.25
3.26
G2100a, corridor from the shaft on the north wall, with

entrance to the burial chamber showing blocking in the
passage, looking north out the door of the burial chamber.
b893 [=b7327]. For a computer reconstruction of this image,
compare also fig.1.12.
G2100-1, plan.
4.3
G2100a, northeast corner of the burial chamber after

clearance, looking northeast. January 12, 1936. HU-MFA
Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, A 7380.
G2100-1, showing the area around the chapel removed by

Lepsius, looking west. March 10, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8289.
4.4
G2100-1, street east of the area around the chapel removed by

Lepsius, looking southwest towards the tomb of Nensedjerkai
(g2100-11). January 3, 1938. HUMFA Expedition
4.5
Computer reconstruction of mastaba g2100-1 (Merib),

looking northwest, with the contiguous mastaba g2100
(Sedit) and mastaba g2110 (Nefer), with protruding exterior
chapel, in the background. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
4.6
Computer reconstruction of the decorated chapel entrance

facade of mastaba g2100-1 (Merib), looking southwest, with
the contiguous mastaba g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai), in the
background. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
4.7
Lepsius plan and sections of g2100-1, from Lepsius,

Denkmaeler1, pl.22.
3.28
Computer reconstruction of g2100a, looking southeast, with

shafts g2100-1b and g2100-1c in the background. Courtesy
3.29
Computer reconstruction of g2100a, looking southeast,

showing portcullis stone in shaft, corridor blocking, and
burial chamber. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
3.30
Plan of the floor and red paint lines on the ceiling of the
burial chamber of g2100a.
3.31
G2100a, southeast corner of the burial chamber, wih

tumbled limestone blocks, scattered bones (3614), and
model vessels (3613), looking southeast. 19051906. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b934 [=b7323].
3.34
G2100-1, general view showing the area around the chapel

removed by Lepsius, looking northwest. January 9, 1938.
a7896.
4.2
Plan and section of g2100a.
3.33
4.1
Entrance to chamber of g2100a, with door blocking at the

bottom of the shaft, looking south. 19051906. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1279 [=c12451].
3.27
3.32
Chapter 4. The Tomb of Merib:

Mastaba g2100-1
4.8
G 2100a, burial chamber, after clearance, with the canopic pit

in the southeast corner, looking southeast. January 12, 1936.
a7381.
Lepsiuss sketch plan of g2100-1, from Lepsius, Denkmaeler1,

p.46.
4.9
Lepsiuss sketches of ceramics from g2100-1, after Lepsius,

Denkmaeler1, p.48.
G 2100a, deposit in the canopic pit in the floor of the

southeast corner of the burial chamber, with tumbled
limestone blocks, scattered bones (3614), and model vessels
(3613), looking southeast. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b883 [=b7320].
4.10
Berlin M 1320, ceramic model dish from g2100-1c. 2008.

Courtesy gyptisches Museum, Berlin.
4.11

4.12

4.13
Berlin M 1607, unbaked mud seals from g2100-1b. 2008.

4.14
G 2100-1 (=Lepsius 24), chapel entrance, looking northwest.

November 4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.064.24.
4.15
G 2100-1, fossil located on top of the mastaba, looking west.

August 11, 2005. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_03564.
4.16
Joint between g2100-1 to the left (south) and g2100 to the

right (north), looking southwest. February 1906. HUMFA
4.17
Area of the joint on the west side of g2100-1 (behind

meter stick) and g2100 (left foreground), looking south.
November15, 1987. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.077.09.
G 2100a, burial chamber as found in 1936, looking southwest.

January 5, 1936. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
3.35
G 2100a, northwest corner of burial chamber after clearance,

looking northwest. January 12, 1936. HUMFA Expedition
3.36
G 2100a, southwest corner of burial chamber after clearance.

January 12, 1936. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
3.37
G 2100d, mouth of pit, looking southeast. 19051906. HU

MFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c866 [=c12454].
3.38
G 2100d, looking down shaft. 19051906. HUMFA

Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, C 844 [=c11956].
3.39
G 2100d, fragments of alabaster jar in situ, MFA06.1892.

c1598 [=c12655].
4.18
Joint between g2100-1 to the left (north) and g2100 to

the right (south), looking east across the top of mastaba.
3.40
Plan and section of g2100e.
4.19
3.41
G 2100f in foreground with shaft b of g2100-1 (= Lepsius 24)

in background, looking southeast. February 1906. HUMFA
Lined casing block, in northwest corner of g2100.

November15, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.077.02
4.20
G2100-1, north niche, looking west. November 21, 1993. Peter

Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.107.22.
4.21
G2100-1, plan and section of north niche.
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G2100-1b, mouth of shaft, looking north. November 4, 1993.

Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.064.11.
4.23
G2100-1b, plan and section.
4.24
G2100-1c, view into the partially dismantled shaft,

looking west. November 4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.064.17.
4.25
G2100-1c, plan and section.
4.26
Computer reconstruction of the burial chamber of g2100-1c,

looking northeast. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
4.27
Computer reconstruction of the chapel entrance facade of

g2100-1, looking west. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
4.28
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, chapel entrance facade

from g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs and digital
montage by Rolf Kriesten, Restaurierung am Oberbaum,
Berlin. For the epigraphy of this wall, see Part2 of the present
work.
4.29
G2100-1, entrance facade and chapel as originally exhibited

in the gyptisches Museum, Berlin. Date not listed. Courtesy
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0568.
4.40
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, south wall from chapel

of g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs and digital
work.
4.41
Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2100-1, looking

south towards the south wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes,
2009.
4.42
G2100-1, chapel, south wall; modern painted plaster

reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.030.02.
4.43
G2100-1, chapel, south wall; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2,

pl.20ef.
4.44
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, north wall from chapel

work.
4.45

north towards the north wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes,
2009.
4.30
G2100-1, chapel, entrance facade; after Lepsius,

Denkmaeler2, pl.18.
4.46
4.31
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, south entrance thickness

and east (blank) and south (livestock; next page) rebates
from chapel of g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs
and digital montages by Rolf Kriesten, Restaurierung am
Oberbaum, Berlin. For the epigraphy of this wall, see Part2 of
the present work.
G2100-1, chapel, north wall; modern painted plaster

reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.030.04.
4.47
G2100-1, chapel, north wall; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2,

pl.22c.
4.48
4.32
G2100-1, chapel, south entrance thickness and rebate with

livestock; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.22a.

west towards the west wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
4.49
4.33
G2100-1, chapel, south entrance facade and south entrance

thickness as originally exhibited in the gyptisches Museum,
Berlin. Date not listed. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna, o_neg_nr_0232.
G2100-1, chapel, south wall and south half of west wall;

modern painted plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter
4.50
G2100-1, chapel, north wall and north half of west wall;

modern painted plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter
4.51
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, west wall from chapel

work.
4.52
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, thicknesses from chapel

of g2100-1, west wall, south false door. September2,
2008. Photographs and digital montage by Rolf Kriesten,
Restaurierung am Oberbaum, Berlin.
4.53
G2100-1, chapel, west wall, south false door thicknesses; after

Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pls.20ef and 20d.
4.54
G2100-1, chapel, west wall, south false door; modern painted

plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.030.09.
4.55
G2100-1, chapel, west wall, south false door tablet; modern

painted plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der
4.56
G2100-1, chapel, west wall; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2,

pls.1920.
4.34
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, north entrance thickness

from chapel of g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs
and digital montage by Rolf Kriesten, Restaurierung am
Oberbaum, Berlin. For the epigraphy of this wall, see Part2 of
the present work.
4.35
G2100-1, chapel, north entrance thickness; after Lepsius,

Denkmaeler2, pl.22b.
4.36

east towards the east wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
4.37
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, east wall from chapel

work.
4.38
G2100-1, chapel, east wall; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2,

pls.2122d.
4.39
G2100-1, chapel, east wall; modern painted plaster

reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian, digital
montage of pdm_1993.030.01 and pdm_1993.030.06.
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4.57
gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, thicknesses from chapel

of g2100-1, west wall, north false door. September2,
2008. Photographs and digital montage by Rolf Kriesten,
Restaurierung am Oberbaum, Berlin.
5.14
G2100-11, general view, including excavations to the south,

looking west. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian
4.58
G2100-1, chapel, west wall, north false door thicknesses; after

Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pls.20c and 20b.
5.15
4.59
G2100-1, chapel, west wall, north false door; modern painted

plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.030.11.
G2100-11, eastern half, general view, with excavations to the

south, looking north. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian
5.16
G2100-11, western half, general view, with excavations to the

south, looking north. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian
5.17
G2100-11, westeast section, looking north; after Junker, Gza

2, p.106, fig.6.
5.18
G 2100-11, south exterior face and window, looking north.

March12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.029.03.
5.19
G 2100-11a, mouth of shaft, looking north. November 4,

1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.065.07.
5.20
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11a, burial chamber

with canopic niche and sarcophagus of Nensedjerkai, looking
northwest from passage. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
5.21
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11a, burial chamber

with canopic niche and sarcophagus of Nensedjerkai, looking
south. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
5.22
G2100-11a, burial chamber with sarcophagus, looking

northwest. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition
photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
aeos_1_5346.
5.23
G2100-11a, burial chamber with sarcophagus, looking

west. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition
aeos_1_5376.
5.24
G 2100-11, chapel, exterior architrave, illuminated by

sunlight exclusively during the early morning hours.
November 26, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, digital montage
of pdm_1993.117.02, pdm_1993.117.04, pdm_1993.117.05,
pdm_1993.117.026, and pdm_1993.117.07.
5.25
G 2100-11, chapel portico, drawing of exterior architrave; after

Junker, Gza 2, p.115, fig.7.
5.26
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, chapel portico with

decorated west faces of pillars and serdab squint on south
wall, looking south. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
5.27
G 2100-11, chapel pillars, east faces, looking west. November

18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.087.05, and
pdm_1993.087.09.
5.28
G 2100-11, chapel, drawing of pillars, east faces; after Junker,

Gza 2, p.117, fig.8.
5.29
G 2100-11, chapel pillars, west faces, looking east. Circa

February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_11_2516,
and aeos_11_2515.
5.30
G 2100-11, chapel, drawing of pillars, west faces; after Junker,

Gza 2, p.117, fig.8.
5.31
G 2100-11, chapel, pillared portico, interior, looking

southwest. November 17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.084.10.
4.60
G2100-1, chapel, west wall, north false door tablet; modern

painted plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der
4.61
G2100-1, chapel, west wall, offering scene above north false

door; modern painted plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989.
Chapter 5. The Tomb of Nensedjerkai:

Mastaba g2100-11
5.1
G 2100-11, portico emerging during excavation. Circa

February 10, 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
5.2
G2100-11, general view, looking west. Circa February

1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
5.3
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, looking northwest,

with the contiguous mastabas g2100-1 (Merib) and g2100
(Sedit) in the background. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
5.4
G 2100-11, plan.
5.5
G 2100-11, plan; after Junker, Gza 2, fig.1.
5.6
G 2100-11, general view, looking northwest. March 12, 1993.

5.7
G 2100-11, chapel, courtyard, and pillared portico,

looking south. November 21, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.107.20.
5.8
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, chapel courtyard,

looking west. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
5.9
Detail of reused(?) stone with rectangular offering basin

depression in the space between g2120, to the left (north),
and g2100-11 to the right (south), looking east. November 21,
5.10
G 2100-11, north face, with west face of g2120 in foreground

left, looking south. November 20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.105.23.
5.11
G 2100-11, chapel courtyard, east wall, looking east.

5.12
G 2100-11, entrance to chapel courtyard, in northeast corner,

looking down to the east at the block with the door socket
above the door. November 18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.087.12.
5.13
G 2100-11, north side of entrance to chapel courtyard, lower

door socket hole, looking east. November 27, 1993. Peter Der
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G 2100-11, chapel, pillared portico, interior, looking

northwest. November 17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.084.09.
5.33
G 2100-11, chapel, interior architrave and drum, looking west.

5.34
G 2100-11, chapel, interior drum, looking west. November 17,

5.35
G 2100-11, chapel, drawing of interior architrave and drum;

after Junker, Gza 2, p.115, fig.7.
5.36
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, view of double doors

from inside interior chapel, looking east towards west face
of decorated south pillar of the portico. Courtesy Dassault
Systmes, 2009.
5.37
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, interior chapel,

looking southwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
5.38
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, interior chapel,

looking northwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
5.39
G 2100-11, interior chapel, looking north. November 17, 1993.

5.40
G 2100-11, interior chapel, looking south. November 17, 1993.

5.41
G 2100-11, interior chapel, door sockets in floor. November 17,

5.42
G 2100-11, interior chapel, door sockets in ceiling above door.

5.43
G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, upper half. Circa

Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0128.
5.44
G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, plan and section.
5.45
G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, detail of seated

figure on upper architrave. November 17, 1993. Peter Der
5.46
G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, detail of standing

figure on left (south) jamb. Circa February 1912. German
Austrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5330.
5.47
5.53
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, central

portion. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition
aeos_1_5873.
5.54
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, looking

pdm_1993.085.09.
5.55
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, lower portion.

Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition
aeos_11_2610.
5.56
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, upper half,

looking northwest. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian
5.57
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, architrave. Most

likely later than 1912, due to disappearance of sizing and
paint. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, digital montage of
aeos_1_5870+5877.
5.58
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, looking

pdm_1993.085.15.
5.59
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, detail of seated

figure on architrave. November 17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.085.21.
5.60
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, detail of seated

figure on tablet. November 17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.085.22.
5.61
G 2100-11, interior chapel, drawing of north false door; after

Junker, Gza2, p.120, fig.10.
5.62
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door. Circa February

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, digital montage of
aeos_1_5876 and aeos_1_5875.
5.63
G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door; tablet. November

17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.085.11.
G 2100-11, interior chapel, drawing of south false door; after

Chapter 6. The Tomb of Nefer: Mastaba g2110
5.48
G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, upper half. Circa

5.49
G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, tablet.

pdm_1993.085.03.
5.50
G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, looking

pdm_1993.084.23.
6.3
G2110, plan.
6.4
5.51
G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, painting of tablet

and lintel by GermanAustrian Expedition staff. Courtesy
Institut fr gyptologie, Universitt Wien.
Plan of the subsidiary shafts lining the west face of g2110,

along with g20512054 further to the west. Drawing by
Nicholas Melnikoff; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
6.5
5.52
Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, interior chapel, south

and north false doors, looking west. Courtesy Dassault
Systmes, 2009.
G2110, west and south faces, looking northeast. 19051906.

[=b7431].
6.6
G2110, recleared door socket zones inside chapel entrance,

looking east. November 27, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.119.05.
6.1
G2110, chapel, looking northwest. 19051906. HUMFA

6.2
G 2110, chapel, looking northwest. November 21, 1993. Peter

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6.7
G2110, south side of chapel entrance, north door socket hole

with basalt stone at the bottom, looking south. November 27,
6.24
G2110, section, looking south, showing the constricted

passage between g2110 and g2130. Drawing by Alexander
Floroff, April 13, 1938; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
6.8
Computer reconstruction of g2110, looking southwest.

6.25
G2110, section, looking north; after Reisner, GN1, p.423, fig.

240; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
6.9
Computer reconstruction of g2110, looking southeast.

6.26
6.10
36123, photograph (May18, 2006) and line drawing of

fragment of limestone relief from g2110. Museum of Fine
Arts, sc172649.
G 2110, space between the core and casing along the east face,
looking north. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, b887 [=b7439].
6.27
3821, fragment of limestone relief from g2110, redrawn

from sketch in HUMFA Expedition Object Register, vol.29,
p.1,482.
G 2110, space between the core and casing along the east face,
looking south. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, b953 [=b7438]
6.28
HUMFA Expedition Object Register, vol. 29, detail of

p.1,482, with entries for relief fragments 3821, 3823, and
offering basin of Muti, 3822 (housed in the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston).
6.29
Detail of HUMFA Expedition note card, written by

Mahmoud Said Diraz, listing inscribed objects from g2110,
including the relief fragment 3823.
6.30
G 2110, north niche, looking west. November 20, 1993. Peter

6.31
G 2110, east face, north half with north niche, looking

northwest. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, c1269 [=c12512].
6.32
G 2110, plan of north niche; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
6.33
G 2110 a, plan and section.
6.34
Computer reconstruction of g2110, looking west and showing

the relationship of the burial shaft to the superstructure.
6.35
G 2110a, mouth of the shaft, looking east. March12, 1993.

6.36
Computer reconstruction of g2110 a, looking northwest

down into the shaft, with reserve head of Nefer (MFA
06.1886) at the bottom. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
6.37
G 2110a, view down the stone-lined shaft, with miscellaneous

unidentified limestone blocks in view, looking south. 1905
c1432 [=c12519].
6.38
G 2110a, bottom of shaft, with sawn-off sarcophagus lid lug

handles just visible in the upper right (southwest) corner (see
image below); reserve head not yet revealed; looking south.
c1533 [=c12521].
6.39
G 2110a, shaft bottom with view of sawn-off sarcophagus

lid lug handles and reserve head (MFA06.1886), looking
south (based on c1533). 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
6.40
G 2110, intrusive burial inside the chapel, by the north wall,

looking north. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, c1646 [=c12506].
6.41
G 2110u, plastered door blocking, looking east. February5,

1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, b8932.
6.42
G 2110u, burial (skeleton, 3829) in chamber, looking

east. February17, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Mohammedani Ibrahim, c14121.
6.11
6.12
3823, relief fragment, redrawn from sketch in HUMFA

Expedition Object Register, vol.29, p. 1,482.
6.13
Photograph and line drawing of unnumbered fragment of

limestone relief from g2110, west wall. July8, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, b8335
(detail).
6.14
6.15
6.16
Photograph and drawing of two unnumbered fragments

of limestone relief from g2110. July8, 1933. HUMFA
(detail).
Photograph and drawing of unnumbered fragment of
limestone relief from g2110. July8, 1933. HUMFA
(detail).
(detail).
6.17

(detail).
6.18
3822, photograph and line drawing of offering basin of

Muti from g2110r. April 3, 1938. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Mohammdani Ibrahim, b8948 (detail).
6.19
G2110, view of street and chapel, from the top of the mastaba
core, looking east. November 20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.095.19.
6.20
View of street between g2110 (right, west) and g2130 (left,

east), looking south towards the Khafre pyramid. 19051906.
[=b7437].
6.21
G2110, northwest corner and west facade, looking southeast.

6.22
Constricted passage between g2110 (left, west) and g2130

(right, east), looking north. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
6.23
Foundation blocks supporting the chapel of g2110, looking

south through the constricted passage between g2110 (right,
west), and g2130 (left, east). November 15, 1993. Peter Der
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G 2110, unidentified shaft. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition

6.64
G 2110, south wall, lower half, looking south, August 29, 1937.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8862.
6.44
Computer reconstruction of the exterior stone chapel of

g2110, looking northwest towards the north entrance
thickness (MFA 07.1002). Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
6.65
G 2110, chapel, south wall, looking south. Digital montage of

HUMFA Expedition photographs. Mohammedani Ibrahim,
a5751 (July23, 1930) and b8777 (detail) (January17, 1937).
6.45
MFA 21.3080, limestone entrance drum of a man named

Nefer (not the owner of g2110), found in g1461. February6,
2002. Museum of Fine Arts, CR6572-d1.
6.66
Drawing of g2110, south wall.
6.67
G 2110, chapel, west wall, south half, looking west.

6.68
G2110, chapel, west wall, detail of slaughter scene still in

situ (adjoins Copenhagen relief IN819), looking west.
January7, 2004. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_00179.
6.69
G 2110, chapel, general view of west wall from above,

looking south. November20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.105.10.
6.70
University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, E13531,

limestone entrance drum of Nefer, detail of inscription.
May27, 2009. Jennifer Houser Wegner. Courtesy University
of Pennsylvania Museum.
Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2110, looking

2009.
6.71
6.49
Uncollated drawing of limestone entrance drum of Nefer,

University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, E13531.

southwest towards the south and west walls. Courtesy
6.72
6.50
MFA 07.1002, from g2110, north entrance thickness.

Museum of Fine Arts, E14211CR_d1.
G 2110, chapel, west wall, south half, looking west. July 23,
Ibrahim, a5753.
6.51
MFA 07.1002, from g2110, north entrance thickness, face of

Neferu. 1999. Peter Der Manuelian, PDM_1999.210.01.
6.73
6.52

Weni. 1999. Peter Der Manuelian, PDM_1999.210.02.
Birmingham 241/57, from g2110, chapel, west wall, south

half, raised-relief fragment preserving part of the only
attestation of the name of Nefers wife, Wenankhes. Courtesy
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
6.74
6.53
Drawing of MFA 07.1002, from g2110, north entrance

thickness.
6.54

Khentykauef. 1999. Peter Der Manuelian, PDM_1999.210.03.
6.55

Senenuka. 1999. Peter Der Manuelian, PDM_1999.210.04.
G 2110, chapel, digital montage of the west wall, composed

from pdm_1993.108.1112 (by Peter Der Manuelian, November
21, 1993), unnumbered fragment (by Mohammedani Ibrahim,
July28, 1933, HUMFA Expedition photograph, b8335),
Birmingham 241/57 (courtesy Birmingham Museums and Art
Gallery), Copenhagen IN819 (pdm_1993.138.1718, July14,
1991), and Museo Barracco, Rome C.M.B. 1 (by Dahi Ahmed,
June4, 1938, HUMFA Expedition photograph, a8032).
6.56
Muse du Louvre, Paris B151, from g2110, south entrance

thickness. January12,2008. Christian Dcamps. Courtesy
Runion de Muses Nationaux, cd020738 (02 dae 1099
nuca).
6.75
6.57
Drawing of Muse du Louvre, Paris B151, from g2110, south

entrance thickness.
G 2110, west wall, central portion, digital montage of

Copenhagen IN819 (May, 2009) and lower right fragment
still in situ (pdm_1999.011.03; April25, 1999). Photographs
by Ole Haupt/Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, and Peter Der
Manuelian.
6.76
6.58
G 2110, chapel, east wall, north half, standing figures of Nefer

and Wenankhes, looking east. August8, 1930. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a5794.
Museo Barracco, Rome C.M.B.1, from g2110, chapel, west

wall, north half, false door tablet. Rephotograph of Alinari
photograph. June 4, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, a8032.
6.59
G 2110, chapel, east wall, south half, scribes and offering

bearers. Copenhagen IN937. May 2009. Ole Haupt/Ny
Carlsberg Glyptotek.
6.77
G2110, chapel, reduced overview line drawing of entire west

wall.
6.78
6.60
G 2110, chapel, east wall, digital montage of preserved relief

on wall, aaw554 (Brian Snyder, April25, 1999), and relief
fragment, Copenhagen IN937, pdm_1993.138.15 (Peter Der
Manuelian, July14, 1991).
Museo Barracco, Rome C.M.B.1, from g2110, chapel, west

wall, north half, false door tablet (detail). Photograph by G.
Galazka, courtesy Museo Barracco.
6.79
G 2110, chapel, west wall, north half, looking west. Museo

Barracco C.M.B.1 derives from the top of the niche (location
of meter stick). November21, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.108.11.
6.80
G 2110, chapel, undecorated north wall, looking north. March

3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.138.03.
6.46

limestone entrance drum of Nefer, found in g3015a but
most likely originally from g2110a. Courtesy University of
Pennsylvania Museum, 31293.
6.47

limestone entrance drum of Nefer. May27, 2009. Jennifer
Houser Wegner. Courtesy University of Pennsylvania
Museum.
6.48
6.61
Drawing of g2110, chapel, east wall.
6.62
Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2110, east and

south walls. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
6.63
MFA 31.780, from g2110, chapel, south wall, upper half.

May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00699.
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6.106
G 2110 p, plan and section.
6.107
G 2110 q, plan and section.
6.108
G 2110 r, plan and section.
6.109
G 2110 s, plan and section.
Drawing of g2110, chapel, west wall.
6.110
G 2110 t, plan and section.
6.84
Drawing of g2110, chapel, west wall, false door tablet.
6.111
G 2110 u, plan and section.
6.85
MFA 07.1002, from g2110, chapel, detail of north entrance

thickness. Museum of Fine Arts, CR7351_d1.
6.112
G 2110 v, plan and section.
6.113
G 2110 w, plan and section.
6.86
Muse du Louvre, Paris B151, from g2110, chapel, detail of

south entrance thickness. Courtesy Runion des Muses
Nationaux.
6.114
G 2110 x, plan and section.
6.115
G 2110 y, plan and section.
MFA 31.780, from g2110, chapel, detail of south wall, upper

half. November1, 1937. Museum of Fine Arts, c8105.
6.116
G 2110 z, plan and section.
6.117
General view of subsidiary shafts along the west face of

g2110, including shafts w, x, y, and z, looking south towards
the Khafre pyramid. January 1906. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b1549 (detail).
6.81

west towards the west wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
6.82

north towards the (undecorated) north wall. Courtesy
6.83
6.87
6.88
G 2110, west wall, south half, detail. November21, 1993. Peter

6.89
G 2110, west wall, detail of Nefers face from false door tablet,
Museo Barracco, Rome C.M.B1. pdm_1993.133.01.
6.90
MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a. April7,

2003. Museum of Fine Arts, sc62136 [e7175cr-d1].
6.91
MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a, 3/4 view

proper right. 1991. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.138.10.
6.92

proper left. 1991. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.138.06.
6.93
MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a, profile

6.94

6.95

proper right. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, b884 [=b7441].
Chapter 7. The Tomb of Seshatsekhentiu:

Mastaba g2120
7.1
G2120, excavations along the east face, chapel area, looking

southwest towards the Khafre pyramid. 19051906. HUMFA
7.2
G2120, east face, looking south towards the Khafre pyramid.

March19, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
7.3
G2120, plan.
7.4
G2120, chapel area, looking southwest. March19, 1938.

a7992.
7.5
G2120, plan of chapel, drawn by Nicholas Melnikoff, July 16,

1938; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
6.96

proper left. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, b878 [=b7440].
7.6
G2120, section AB of chapel area; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
7.7
6.97

proper right. February 1906. HUMFA Expedition
G2120, section CD of chapel; drawing by Alexander Floroff;

redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
7.8
G2120, chapel, looking northwest. March16, 1938. HUMFA

7.9
G 2120, chapel, looking northwest. November 19, 1993. Peter

Der Manuelian, aaw1594.
7.10
G 2120, chapel and monolithic false door, looking west.

7.11
G2120a, mouth of the shaft showing the T-shaped porcullis

grooves, looking south. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1341 [=C12560].
6.98

proper right. February 1906. HUMFA Expedition
6.99
MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a, back.

Museum of Fine Arts, c17895.
6.100
MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a, back. 1991.

pdm_1993.138.08.
6.101
G 2110, west wall, south half, detail of Wenankhes.

7.12
6.102
MFA 31.780, from g2110, chapel, south wall, upper half,

detail of Wenankhes. November1, 1937. Museum of Fine
Arts, c8105.
G2120a, mouth of the shaft showing the T-shaped porcullis

grooves, looking west. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1667 [=C12561].
7.13
G2120a, excavated shaft and blocking stones at bottom,

A.M. Lythgoe, b879 [=b7446].
6.103
G 2110m, plan and section.
6.104
G 2110 n, plan and section.
6.105
G 2110 o, plan and section.
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7.14
G2120a, alabaster jar (3317), pottery model vessels, and

cast of basket (33130) in situ in shaft, looking northwest.
January4, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Mohammedani Ibrahim, b8264.
7.15
G2120a, portcullis slab, looking south. January5, 1933. HU

7.16
G2120a, reconstruction of sarcophagus from fragments

found in shaft.
7.17
G2120a, plan and section.
7.18
G2120a, burial chamber, west wall, casing, looking west.

January11, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, a7037.
7.19
7.20
38311, two red granite drum fragments from g2120a.

Left: May14, 1939. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Mohammedani Ibrahim, c14340a. Right: drawing. Compare
Reisner, GN1, p.427, fig.246.
Pottery and alabaster vessels from g2120a. Top row:
33112 (MFA33.1156, model bowl); 33110 (MFA33.1028,
model jar); 33111 (one of two bag-shaped jars); 33111
(one of two bag-shaped jars); (the final jar in the top row is
33133=MFA33.1043, from g2180=4990). Middle row:
[g2120a] 3315 (MFA33.1025, base fragment); 33114
(MFA33.1029, small jar); 3319 (MFA33.1027, small jar);
33116 (MFA33.1031, base fragment); 33115 (MFA33.1030,
base fragment). Bottom row: [g2120a] 3316 (MFA33.1026,
fragments of alabaster bowl); 321216 (alabaster model jar);
3313 (MFA33.1023, alabaster model dish); additional objects
from g2160 and g2170. March16, 1933. Dahi Ahmed, HU
MFA Expedition photograph, b8300.
7.32
33111a and b (MFA33.1155.1, 33.1155.2), two bag-shaped drt

offering jars from g2120a. Left: drawing. Center: 33111a.
May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00609.
Right: 33111b. May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_img00620.
7.33
33112 (MFA33.1156), model basin from g2120a, drawing.
7.34
33113, neck and rim of large jar from g2120a, drawing.
7.35
33114 (MFA33.1029), small r0und jar with pointed base

from g2120a, Left: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_img00612. Right: drawing.
7.36
33115 (MFA33.1030), base of small jar from g2120a. Left:

May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
7.37
33116 (MFA33.1031), base of small jar from g2120a. Left:

May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00600. Right:
drawing.
7.38
33117 (MFA33.1032), recurved rim fragment of a bowl from

g2120a. Left: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_
img00617. Above: drawing.
7.39
33118 (MFA33.1033), fragments of large ceramic tub or

bowl from g2120a. Top left: March22, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7065 (detail). Top
right: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00654.
Bottom: drawing.
7.40
Fragments of ceramic jars and bowls with spouts from

g2120a. Top row: 33125 (MFA33.1039, mended section
of shoulder jar); number not known (mended section of
jar), 33116 (MFA33.1031, base fragment of jar); number
not known (two unidentified mended sections of jars);
33119 (MFA33.1034, base fragment of footed bowl).
Bottom row: 33124 (mended, incomplete shoulder jar);
33121 (MFA33.1036, fragment of spouted bowl); number
not known (mended section of jar); 33120 (MFA33.1035,
fragment of spouted bowl); 33122 (MFA33.1036, mended,
incomplete shoulder jar with pot mark). June15, 1936.
Mohammedani Ibrahim, HUMFA Expedition photograph,
b8707.
7.21
321216, alabaster model jar with pointed base from g2120a,

drawing.
7.22
321219, ceramic tub or bowl from g2120a, drawing.
7.23
3313 (MFA33.1023), alabaster model basin from g2120a,

drawing.
7.24
3315 (MFA33.1025), lower part of cylinder jar from

g2120a, drawing.
7.25
33110, model neckless shoulder jar from g2120a, drawing.
7.41
7.26
3316 (=MFA33.1026), alabaster fragments of two flatbottomed bowls with contracted mouths from g2120a.
February22, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts, sc27879.
33119 (MFA33.1034), fragments of round offering table(?)

from g2120a, drawing.
7.42
33120 (MFA33.1035), fragment of bowl with tubular spout

7.27
3316a (MFA33.1026), alabaster flat-bottomed bowl with

contracted mouth from g2120a, drawing.
7.43
33121 (MFA33.1036), fragments of basin with short tubular

spout and roll rim from g2120a, drawing.
7.28
3316b (MFA33.1026), alabaster flat-bottomed bowls with

7.44
33122 (MFA33.1037, fragment of large jar from g2120a,

drawing.
7.29
3317, alabaster one-handled jug with ringstand from

g2120a. Left: March16, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13405. Right: drawing.
7.45
33123, fragment of large jar from g2120a, drawing.
7.46
33124 (MFA33.1038), fragment of large jar from g2120a,

drawing.
7.47
33125 (MFA33.1039), fragment of large jar from g2120a.

Left: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00605.
Right: drawing.
7.30
3319 (MFA33.1027), ceramic jar from g2120a, drawing.
7.31
33110 (MFA33.1028), model neckless shoulder jar from

g2120a. Top: drawing. Bottom: May15, 2008. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_img00593.
7.48
33126, fragment of large jar from g2120a, drawing.
7.49
33127 (MFA33.1040), fragment of ringstand from g2120a.

Left: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00626.
Right: drawing.
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7.50
33128, fragment of coarse offering jar from g2120a,

drawing.
7.51
38316 (left) and 38317 (right), raised relief fragments from

northwest corner of g2120. Top: April 3, 1938. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, b8948.
Bottom: drawings.
7.52
33130, plaster basket cast from g2120a. Top left: May15,

2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00664. Top right:
May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00670. Bottom
left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, c13412 (detail). Bottom right: section drawing.
Chapter 8. The Tomb of Khentka(?):

Mastaba g2130
8.1
G 2130, southeast corner, with g2120 in foreground left,

looking northwest. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
8.2
G2130, southwest corner, with the street between g2100,

to the west (left), and g2130 and g2120 to the east (right),
looking northeast from the top of g2100. 19051906. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b720 [=b7350].
8.3
G 2130, north face, looking south (with loose patch stone

midway between the meter stick and the northwest corner
at right). November 20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, digital
montage of pdm_1993.104.23 and pdm_1993.104.24.
7.53
G 2120, remains of exterior chapel, looking west. The arrow

indicates the original location of the slab stela. November 20,
8.4
7.54
G 2120, chapel, section drawing of unfinished monolithic false

door.
G 2130, north niche, looking west. November 21, 1993. Peter

8.5
G 2130, north niche, plan.
7.55
G2120, chapel, looking downward (east) from top of mastaba.

8.6
G 2130, plan. (x = location described in Expedition Diary,

vol. 3, p.72, March22, 1912.).
7.56
G2120, construction square(?) and groove depression in the

floor stone just south of the false door in the remains of the
exterior chapel, looking south. November 24, 1993. Peter Der
8.7
G 2130, chapel area, looking west. November 21, 1993. Peter

8.8
G 2130, northeast corner and north niche, looking southwest.

March 12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.026.14.
8.9
G 2130, section westeast, looking north.
8.10
G 2130, chapel area, looking southwest. 19051906. HUMFA

8.11
G 2130, north half of chapel, looking north. 19051906. HU

8.12
G 2130, chapel area, from on top of the mastaba, looking east.

7.57
7.58
G2120, exterior chapel, different levels in roomsb, c, d, and

e, with a thin layer of plaster applied, looking southwest. April
7, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, c14148.
G2120, remains of exterior chapel, floor of roomb on
debris section, and lower floor, looking north. April7, 1938.
c14147.
7.59
G2120, chapel area, empty slab stela emplacement, looking

west. March19, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
8.13
7.60
G2120, chapel area, empty slab stela emplacement,

pdm_1993.109.04.
G 2130, chapel, interior door socket area, with lower door

socket hole on the south side, looking east. November 27,
8.14
G 2130a, mouth of shaft, looking west. November 3, 1993.

7.61
G2120, graffito on monolithic block from chapel, looking

west. December23, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
8.15
G 2130a, mouth of shaft, looking down, west. November 3,

8.16
G2120, graffito inscription (in reversed orientation from

previous figure), after Smith, JNES11 (1952), p.118, fig.6.
G 2130a, mouth of the shaft, looking south. November 3,

8.17
G2120y, chamber constructed in shaft, looking east. January

7, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, c14103.
G 2130a, mouth of shaft, looking down, northeast. 1905

c1282 [=c12676].
8.18
7.64
G2120y, burial (skeleton) in chamber in shaft, looking

northeast. January 14, 1938. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, b8917.
G 2130a, hard stone (black granite and limestone) casing,

east wall, looking east. March 16, 1912. HUMFA Expedition
8.19
7.65
G2120 z, plan and section.
7.66
MFA 06.1894 from g2120, slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu.

Colorized drawing showing the four decorative sections.
G 2130a, burial chamber, hard stone (black granite and

limestone) casing, south wall, looking southwest. March 17,
Ibrahim, a654.
7.67
MFA 06.1894, slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu from g2120.

Photograph and digital reconstruction by John Woolf.
August14, 2000. Museum of Fine Arts, based on sc167854.
8.20
G 2130a, plan and section.
8.21
7.68
Drawing of MFA 06.1894 from g2120, slab stela of

Seshatsekhentiu.
G 2130a, burial chamber, broken sarcophagus, looking

southwest. December 31, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
8.22
G 2130a, burial chamber, reconstruction of broken

sarcophagus.
7.62
7.63
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8.46
32125, flint razor from g2130a. March 16, 1933. HUMFA

Expedition photographs, Dahi Ahmed, a7063a7064.
G 2130, chapel, east wall, looking east. November 3, 1993.

Peter Der Manuelian, digital montage of pdm_1993.056.17,
pdm_1993.056.18, and pdm_1993.056.19.
8.47
G 2130, east wall, drawing of detail of preserved decoration.
8.25
32124 and 32125, drawing of flint razors from g2130a.
8.48
8.26
32126, mud seal from g2130a. Top left: HUMFA

Expedition photographs, Dahi Ahmed, b8311 (April 10, 1933),
and b8312 (March 29, 1933). Top right: May15, 2008. Peter
Der Manuelian, pdm_img00643. Bottom: drawing.
G 2130, chapel, preserved decoration on false door lintel,

looking west. March 25, 1931. HUMFA Expedition
8.49
G 2130, chapel, preserved decoration on false door lintel,

pdm_1993.053.10.
8.50
G 2130, chapel, drawing of false door.
8.51
G 2130, chapel, false door, north jamb, looking west.

January14, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
8.52
G 2130, chapel, false door, north jamb, looking west.

8.53
G 2130, chapel, thickness of outer niche of false door,

looking north. November 3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.053.05.
8.54
G 2130, chapel, drawing of thickness of outer niche of false

door.
8.55
G 2130w, plan and section.
8.56
G 2130x, plan and section.
8.57
G 2130y, plan and section.
8.58
G 2130z, plan and section.
8.23
32124, flint razor from g2130a. March 16, 1933. HUMFA

Expedition photographs, Dahi Ahmed, b8303b8304.
8.24
8.27
8.28
351250, fragment of limestone block with red masons mark

from g2130, annex, casing. Left: February8, 1936. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, c13664.
Right: May18, 2006. Museum of Fine Arts, sc171092.
3615, limestone architrave of Neferherenptah with sunkrelief inscription, from east of g2130. Top: March 14, 1936.
a7532. Bottom: drawing.
8.29
G 2130, general view of chapel, looking west. March 12, 1993.

8.30
G 2130, chapel, false door, looking northwest. 19051906.

HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1479
[=c12597].
8.31
G 2130, chapel, south wall, looking south. 19051906.

[=c12595].
8.32
G 2130, date graffito from a casing stone; after Smith, JNES11

(1952), p.118, fig. 6.
8.33
G 2130u, upper chamber, looking west. September16, 1913.

c5220.
8.34
G 2130u, door blocking, looking south. September17, 1913.

c5242.
8.35
G 2130u, burial, looking south. September17, 1913. HU

MFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, c5251.
8.36
G 2130v, door blocking, looking northeast. March23, 1912.

c4833p.

9.1
G 2210, southeast corner and chapel area, with g2130 at left,

looking northwest. March 12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.026.12.
9.2
Street east of g2210, showing g2220 (to the left, east)

and g2210 (to the right, west), looking south towards the
Khafre Pyramid. March 11, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.004.19.
9.3
G 2210, south side, looking north. November15, 1993. Peter

9.4
G 2210a, remains of chapel, looking west. May 20, 1935.

HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7279.
9.5
G 2210a, remains of chapel, looking west. March 12, 1993.

9.6
G 2210, west face, from top of g2000, looking east.

8.37
G 2130v, entrance to burial chamber, looking northeast.

March23, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
8.38
G 2130v, burial, looking east. September16, 1913. HUMFA

8.39
G 2130u, plan and section.
8.40
G 2130v, plan and section.
9.7
G2210 plan, after Reisner, GN1, Map5.
8.41
G 2130, chapel, south entrance thickness, looking south.

9.8
8.42
G 2130, chapel, south entrance thickness, looking south.

3291, fragment of limestone sunk relief-stela(?) from area

of g2210, reproduced from HUMFA Expedition Object
Register vol.24, p. 1148.
9.9
3292, 3293, 3294, 3295, 3296, relief fragments

found in the vicinity of g2210, drawn from HUMFA
Expedition Object Register vol.24, p. 1148.
9.10
3295, fragment of limestone relief from area of g2210.

May18, 2006. Museum of Fine Arts, sc172222.
8.43
G 2130, drawing of south entrance thickness.
8.44
G 2130, chapel, east wall, looking east. November 3, 1993.

8.45
G 2130, chapel, overview drawing of east wall.
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9.11
3296, fragment of limestone relief from area of g2210.

9.12
9.13
9.14
9.15
9.16
9.17
9.18
9.34
3297, fragment of limestone sunk relief from area of g2210,

reproduced from HUMFA Expedition Object Register 24,
p.1149. Present location not certain.
G2210a, burial chamber corner, casing of west wall, looking

west. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, a7020.
9.35
3298, base fragment of alabaster jar from area of g2210,

drawn from HUMFA Expedition Object Register 24,
G2210a, burial chamber corner, casing of north wall, looking

north. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, a7017.
9.36
3299, fragment of limestone head from area of g2210,

reproduced from HUMFA Expedition Object Register 24,
G2210a, burial chamber corner, casing of east wall, looking

east. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, a7018.
9.37
32103, 321011, potters marks on ceramics from floor

of burial chamber of g2210a: after Reisner, GN1, p.435,
fig.253.
G2210a, north wall of chamberII, quarry marks on two

casing stones. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8261.
9.38
G 2210, southeast corner, looking northwest. March 11, 1993.

G2210a, limestone block from door blocking, first row,

block no.III west. August13, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
9.39
G 2210, chapel profile and street, looking south, with

workman at north niche of g2130. November3, 1993. Peter

block no.III west. August13, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
9.40
G2210 chapel area, sketch plan. Drawing by Alexander

Floroff, June4, 1935.
G2210a, limestone blocks from lining of chamberII and

from door blocking.
9.41
G2210a, limestone block from door blocking, second row,

block no.V east. August14, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
9.19
G2210 chapel area, section AB looking north
9.20
G2210, chapel area, sketch of west wall casing stones, looking

west. Drawing by Alexander Floroff, June1, 1935. Compare
figs.9.49.5.
9.42
9.21
G 2210, chapel profile and street, looking north. November3,


block no.V south. August12, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
9.43
9.22
G2210a, mouth of shaft, looking south. November 3, 1993.


block no.III south. August12, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
9.23
G2210a, mouth of shaft, looking east. November 3, 1993.

9.44

block no.V south. August14, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
9.24
G2210a, window above chamber II, looking south. July25,

Ibrahim, A6988
9.45

block no.II bottom. August14, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
9.25
G2210a, outer blocking of passage, looking south. August5,

Ibrahim, b8247.
9.46
G2210a, floor of burial chamber, looking south. August12,

Ibrahim, a7000.
9.26
G2210a, sections of chambers I and II.
9.47
9.27
G2210a, plans of chambers I and II.
9.28
G2210a, section CD, looking north, and BA, looking east,

showing the lining of the burial chamber walls.
G2210a, burial chamber, remains of burial (skeleton) and

debris on floor, looking west. August14, 1932. HUMFA
9.48
9.29
G2210a, section CD, looking south, casing of south wall of

chamber II.
G2210a, burial chamber, plan of remains of burial (skeleton)

and debris on floor.
9.49
G2210x, plan and section.
9.30
G2210a, plan and section of window to chamberII.
9.50
G2210y, plan and section.
9.31
G2210a, looking south through passage into chamber.

August13, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Chapter 10. Anonymous Tomb:

Mastaba g2135 (=g4770, Junker VII NN)
9.32
G2210a, inner blocking of passage, looking south. August7,

Ibrahim, b8248.
10.1
Street and chapel area east of g2135, looking north. Most

likely March 1912. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Viennaaeos_1_5461.
9.33
G2210a, burial chamber corner, casing of south wall, looking

south. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, a7019.
10.2
Plan of area east of g2135 and surrounding area, based on and

augmented from Junker, Gza1, p.228, fig.52; idem, Gza6,
p.81, fig.21, and p.93, fig.26.
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10.3
Street and chapel area east of g2135, looking south

(=Junker, Gza1, pl.37a). Most likely March 1912. Courtesy
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Viennaaeos_1_5284.
10.4
Street and chapel area east of g2135, looking south towards

the Khafre Pyramid. November20, 1993. Peter Der
11.7
321218 (=MFA47.1661), combed-ware amphora. Left:

May11, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc139375. Center:
June18, 1942. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
photographer not listed, b9313 (detail). Right: drawing.
11.8
Photograph and drawing of 38320, limestone sunk relief

from north of g2140. April3, 1938. HUMFA Expedition
10.5
Chapel area of g2135, looking west. November21, 1993. Peter

11.9
G2140, chapel plan and section.
10.6
G 2135, north end, looking south towards shafta.

11.10
G2140, east face, looking south across the chapel entrance.

10.7
G 2135a, mouth of shaft, looking north. November3, 1993.

11.11
G2140, chapel entrance, looking west. November17, 1993.

10.8
G 2135a, mouth of shaft, looking south. November3, 1993.

11.12
10.9
G 2135a, plan and section, adapted from Junker, Gza1,

p.228, fig.52.
G2140, chapel, entrance, blocks over the doorway with a

rectangular cutout on the south (right) side for the upper
door socket hole, looking east. November17, 1993. Peter Der
10.10
Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 3051, limestone sarcophagus

from g2135a. Courtesy Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim.
11.13
10.11
Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 3051, limestone sarcophagus

from g2135a. About 1959. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0566 (3051_Pos_01; Hildesheim
941_3051_a).
G2140, chapel, entrance, stone floor (no door socket holes),

looking east. November27, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.119.11.
11.14
G2140, chapel, north wall, looking north. November17, 1993.

11.15
G2140, chapel, south wall, and false door on west wall,

looking southwest. November17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.083.21.
11.16
G2140, chapel, west wall, unfinished false door architrave,

looking west. November17, 1993. HUMFA Expedition
photograph. Mohammedani Ibrahim, a5771.
11.17
G2140, chapel, west wall, detail of unfinished false door

architrave, looking west. November17, 1993. Peter Der
11.18
G2140, chapel, west wall, drawing of unfinished false door

architrave.
11.19
G2140a, stone-lined shaft, with entrance to burial chamber,

A.M. Lythgoe, c863 [=c12622].
10.12
Drawing of limestone sarcophagus from g2135a, PelizaeusMuseum, Hildesheim 3051, after Junker, Gza1, p.55, fig.5.
10.13
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7799 from g2135

(=VIInn, g4770). Colorized drawing of the slab stela
fragment, showing three of the four decorative sections.
10.14
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7799 from

g2135 (=VIInn, g4770), slab stela fragment. Courtesy
Kunsthistorisches Museum.
10.15
Drawing of slab stela fragment Kunsthistorisches Museum,

Vienna, S7799 from g2135 (=VIInn, g4770).

11.1
G2140, plan.
11.20
11.2
G2140, east face, looking west towards the chapel entrance

from the top of the mastaba g2160. November21, 1993. Peter
G2140a, entrance to burial chamber, looking southwest.

b894 [=b7329].
11.21
11.22
G2140a, burial chamber, limestone blocks and skeleton

(321220) on floor, looking south. 19051906. HUMFA
11.3
Excavation of g2140, chapel area, looking southwest. 1905

1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1188
[=c12613].
11.4
Street between g2140 (Fishers VIII.3) to the left (west)

and g2160 (Fishers VIII.4) to the right (east), with shafts
associated with g2148 (foreground), g2147 (middle of street),
g2146 and g2145 (abutting east face of g2140), looking
north. February16, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
photographer not listed, a635p.
11.5
G2140, south face, looking north. November15, 1993. Peter

11.6
G2140, top of the mastaba, looking south. November18,

Chapter 12. The Tomb of Kanefer:

Mastaba g2150
12.1
G2150, plan.
12.2
Street between g2150, to the west (right) and g2170, to the

east (left), showing the east face and exterior mud brick chapel
of g2150, looking south from top of g2220. March23, 1912.
c4817.
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12.3
G2150 (=Fishers IX.3), entrance to interior chapel and

exterior chapel at south end of east face after removal of
mud-brick debris down to floor level, looking west. February
4, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph, photographer not
listed, a631.
12.4
G2150, chapel, looking southwest. February 1906. HUMFA

12.5
G2150, chapel area, looking northwest. 19051906. HUMFA

12.6
G2150, section of core and casing blocks, looking west.
12.7
G2150, south face, looking north. November 15, 1993. Peter

12.8
G2150, section and plan of chapel and serdab..
12.9
G2150, chapel entrance, door-socket hole on left (north) side,

looking east out of the chapel. November 18, 1993. Peter Der
12.10
MFA 06.1889, fragments of alabaster bowl from g2150.

c820 [=c12668].
12.11
32127c (MFA34.58), from g2150, south entrance thickness

fragment. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, b921 [=b7463].
12.12
32128 (MFA34.57), from g2150, north doorjamb (quarter

view). 1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b750 [=b7464].
12.13
32127a (MFA34.58), from g2150, south doorjamb (quarter

view). 1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b743 [=b7465].
12.14
32127b (MFA34.58), from g2150, south facade, adjoining

south doorjamb. December28, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a7031 (detail).
12.15
321210, g2150, north facade of chapel entrance. April5,

2006. Museum of Fine Arts, sc170361.
12.16
32129, from g2150, chapel, east wall, relief over interior

entrance doorway. October14, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts,
sc156677.
12.17
321211, from g2150, relief fragment from chapel (north false

door?). April5, 2006. Museum of Fine Arts, sc170362.
12.18
321212.12, from g2150, chapel, north wall, two connecting

relief fragments with legs of Shepsetkau. April5 and May18,
2006. Digital montage of Museum of Fine Arts sc169018 and
sc171080.
12.19
MFA06.1878, from g2150, granite hammer. Left:

December2, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts, e7184cr_d1
(detail). Right: 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c992.
12.20
12.21
3314 (MFA33.1024), fragment of alabaster statue from

g2150a, part of the base including the toes of the left foot.
Left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, c13411. Right: May21, 2005. Museum of Fine
Arts, sc129920.
33134, neckless shoulder jar from g2150a. March 15, 1933.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299
(detail).
12.22
33135 (MFA33.1044), alabaster model cylinder jar from

g2150a. Left: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (detail). Center: May 15,
2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00481. Right: drawing.
12.23
33136 (MFA33.1045), eight alabaster model basins from

g2150a. Top: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (detail). Top right: drawing.
Bottom: May 15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00486.
12.24
33137a (MFA33.1157), complete shoulder jar with hieratic

inscription on shoulder, from g2150a. Top left: March 15,
1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299
(detail). Top right: March11, 2005.Museum of Fine Arts,
sc139359. Bottom left: drawing.
12.25
Copper model chisels from g2150a. February27, 2004.

Museum of Fine Arts: 33138 (MFA33.1046, two copper
chisels), sc92884; 33139 (MFA33.1047, chisel), sc92885;
33140 (MFA33.1048, chisel with pointed end), sc92886;
33141 (MFA33.1041, broken chisel and tip fragment of
another), sc92886.
12.26
33142, drawing of copper model neckless shoulder jar from

g2150a (compare fig.12.27 2/1).
12.27
Objects from g2150a. Top row: 33143 (MFA 33.1049,

copper model lid), 33145 (MFA 33.1051, faience disk), 331
46 (MFA 33.1052, gold foil), 33144 (MFA 33.1050, fragments
of carnelian disk). Bottom row: 33142 (copper model
neckless shoulder jar), 33150 (MFA 33.1055, copper razor),
33139 (MFA 33.1047, copper chisel), 33141 (broken copper
chisel and tip fragment of another), 33140 (copper chisel),
33138 (MFA 33.1046, two copper chisels). March16, 1933.
12.28
33143, drawing of copper cover(?) or lid from g2150a

(compare fig.12.27 1/1).
12.29
33144, drawing of carnelian disk from g2150a (compare

fig.12.27 1/4).
12.30
33145, drawing of faded green-glazed faience disk from

g2150a (compare fig.12.27 1/2).
12.31
33147+33166 (MFA33.1053), fragments of a jar with

slender neck and slightly flaring mouth, from g2150a. Left:
March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, b8299 (detail). Center: drawing. Right: May15, 2008,
pdm_img00631.
12.32
33148 (MFA33.1054): fragments of large jar from g2150a.

Top left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, a7065 (detail). Top right: May15, 2008, pdm_
img00633. Bottom: drawing.
12.33
33149, drawing of jar fragments from g2150a.
12.34
33150 (MFA33.1055), copper model dished rectangular razor

from g2150a. Top: February27, 2004. Museum of Fine Arts,
sc92887 (compare fig.12.27 2/2). Left: drawing.
12.35
33151 (MFA34.48ab), two fragments of carved wood,

probably from a chair or a coffin, from g2150a. Top:
March15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph. Dahi
Ahmed, c13402. Center: July 16, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_img02397. Bottom: drawing.
12.36
33152 (MFA33.1056), wood piece worked on all four sides,

from g2150a. Top: July 16, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
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12.38
12.39
12.40
12.41
33157 (MFA33.1057), white sandstone whetstone, copperstained on all sides, from g2150a. Left; March 22, 1933. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13412. Center:
September1, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc154007. Right:
drawing.
33162 (MFA33.1061): 33 alabaster model basins from
g2150a. Above: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (details from rows 1/12
1/112; 2/812). Right: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_img00470.
33163 (MFA33.1062), alabaster model cylinder jar from
g2150a. Left: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (detail, 2/5). Right: May15,
2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00497.
33164 (MFA33.1063): alabaster model barrel belted jar
from g2150a. Left: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (detail, 2/6). Center:
May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00499. Right:
drawing.
33420, red granite sarcophagus from g2150a. Top left
(east side and south end): April05, 2006. Museum of Fine
Arts, sc169952. Remaining images: March15, 2006, Peter Der
Manuelian. Center left (south end): pdm_06353. Center right
(north end): pdm_06356. Bottom left (west side): pdm_06355.
Bottom right: drawing.
12.42
32122, alabaster fragment from right leg of a standing male

statuette, from debris of g2150b. Left: March 22, 1933. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13411 (detail).
Right: March21, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc129916.
12.43
32123, alabaster fragment from left arm of a standing male

statuette, from debris of g2150b. Left: March 22, 1933. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13411 (detail).
Right: March21, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc129917.
12.44
3311 (MFA33.1021), alabaster fragment from left shoulder of

a standing male statuette, from debris of g2150b. Left: March
22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
c13411 (detail). Right: March21, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts,
sc129918.
12.53
G2150a, burial chamber, sarcophagus 33420 in situ,

looking southwest. April20, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7073.
12.54
12.55
G2150b, mouth of shaft (filled in), looking west.

12.56
G2150b, plan and section.
12.57
G2150, intrusive burial by west face, looking east. 19051906.

[=c12628].
12.58
G2150, intrusive burial by west face, looking northeast.

c1150 [=c12627].
12.59
G2150, intrusive burial by west face, looking north. 1905

c1190 [=c12630].
12.60
G2150, architrave found in the street east of the mastaba,

looking west. Top: November4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
digital montage of pdm_1993.059.21+pdm_1993.059.23.
Bottom: drawing..
12.61
Muse du Louvre, Paris B49: false door and tablet of Mery

(not from Giza), upper part, with drum lintel of a Kanefer
(C155) inserted, possibly from g2150. June 4, 1936. HUMFA
12.62
Muse du Louvre, Paris C155, drum lintel of a Kanefer,

possibly from g2150, set into false door and tablet of Mery
(B49, not from Giza). Courtesy Runion des Muses
Nationaux.
12.63
G2150, chapel, south entrance thickness, looking southeast.

12.64
G2150, chapel, north entrance thickness, looking northeast.

12.65
G2150, reconstruction sketch of chapel entrance, showing

MFA reliefs 34.57 and 34.58 outlined in red.
12.66
G2150, chapel, reconstruction of south entrance thickness:

digital montage of MFA34.58 with portions still in the
mastaba. December19, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts,
cr4237_d1 (detail). November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.090.17 through pdm_1993.090.21.
12.67
G2150, chapel, drawing of south entrance thickness.
12.68
G2150, chapel, reconstruction of north entrance thickness:

digital montage of MFA34.58 with portions still in the
mastaba. December19, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts,
cr4237_d1. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.090.14 through pdm_1993.090.16.
12.45
3312, alabaster fragment from left shoulder of a statuette,

from debris of g2150b. Left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13411 (detail). Right:
March21, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc129919.
12.46
G2150, general view, looking southwest. November 15, 1993.

12.47
G2150, general view, looking northwest. March 12, 1993. Peter

12.48
G2150, north niche, looking west. November 4, 1993. Peter

12.69
G2150, chapel, drawing of north entrance thickness.
12.49
G2150, north niche, plan and section.
12.70
12.50
G2150, north niche, rectangular offering basin, looking

down westwards. November 4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.61.25.
12.51
G2150a, mouth of shaft, looking south. November4, 1993.

G2150, reconstruction of facade south of chapel, looking

west. Digital montage of Museum of Fine Arts, cr4240_d1
(December19, 2002), unnumbered photograph courtesy
Jaromir Mlek, and pdm_1993.061.11 by Peter Der Manuelian
(November4, 1993).
12.71
G2150, chapel, drawing of south facade.
12.52
G2150a, burial chamber, with sarcophagus 33420, looking

south. January11, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, a7036.
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12.72
G2150, chapel, reconstruction of north facade, looking west,

including the two heads on MFA321210. Digital montage
of pdm_1993.059.01 by Peter Der Manuelian (November4,
1993), and sc170361 by Museum of Fine Arts (April5, 2006).
12.92
G2150, chapel, drawing of west wall, south half.
12.93
G2150, chapel, west wall, area between the two false door,
looking southwest. July23, 1930. HUMFA Expedition
12.94
G2150, chapel, west wall, area north of south false door,

looking west. Digital montage HUMFA Expedition
photographs a5755 (July 26, 1930) and a5756 (July 27, 1930),
both by Mohammedani Ibrahim.
12.95
G2150, chapel, west wall, between the false doors, detail of

standing figure of Kanefer, looking west. April24, 1999. Brian
Snyder, aaw529.
12.96
G2150, chapel, west wall, detail of inscription between the

two false doors, looking west. November18, 1993. Peter Der
12.97
G2150, chapel, drawing of west wall, north half, with

destroyed north false door, and fragment MFA321211.
12.98
G2150, chapel, west wall, detail of leopard skin face on

Kanefers standing figure between the two false doors,
looking west. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.091.07.
12.99
G2150, chapel, west wall, north false door, left (south jamb),
pdm_1993.090.01.
12.100
G2150, chapel, west wall, fragmentary north false door,

pdm_1993.089.22.
12.101
G2150, chapel, west wall, north false door, right (north)

jamb, looking west. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.090.04.
12.102
G2150, detail of head of Kanefer from facade, south of chapel

entrance. Unnumbered photograph courtesy Jaromir Mlek.
12.103
G2150, detail of head of Kanefer from west wall,

pdm_1993.091.06.
12.104
G2150, detail of head of Kanefer from north wall,

looking north. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.091.01.
12.105
G2150, detail of head of Kanefers wife Shepsetkau, from

north wall, looking north. November18, 1993. Peter Der
12.106
G2150, detail of head of Kanefer from south entrance

thickness; MFA34.58. December19, 2002. Museum of Fine
Arts, cr4237_d1 (detail).
12.107
G2150, detail of scribe from south entrance thickness;

MFA34.58. December19, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts,
cr4238_d1 (detail).
12.108
G2150s, plan and section.
12.109
G2150t, plan and section.
G2150, chapel, west wall, architrave above south false door,

looking west. Digital montage of HUMFA Expedition
photographs a5739 and a5740 (July 21, 1930), both by
Mohammedani Ibrahim.
12.110
G2150u, plan and section.
12.111
G2150v, plan and section.
12.112
G2150x, plan and section.
G2150, chapel, west wall, south false door, looking

west. July21, 1930. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
12.113
G2150y, plan and section.
12.114
G2150z, plan and section.
12.73
G2150, chapel, reconstruction of north facade, looking west,

detail, including the two heads on MFA321210. Digital
montage of pdm_1993.060.08 by Peter Der Manuelian
(November4, 1994) and sc170361 by Museum of Fine Arts
(April5, 2006).
12.74
G2150, chapel, north facade, detail, looking west.

12.75
G2150, chapel facade, looking west. 19051906. HUMFA

Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b881 [=b7460]
(detail).
12.76
G2150, chapel, north facade, detail of dwarf and monkey,

pdm_1993.061.05.
12.77
G2150, chapel, drawing of north facade.
12.78
G2150, chapel, east wall, looking southeast. July23, 1930.

a5750.
12.79
G2150, chapel, reconstruction of east wall. Composite

arrangement of aaw516, aaw531, aaw533, aaw548, aaw553,
aaw598, all by Brian Snyder (April26, 1999), and sc156677
(showing MFA32129) by Museum of Fine Arts
(October14, 2005).
12.80
G2150, drawing of east wall
12.81
G2150, chapel, south wall, looking south. July20, 1930. HU

12.82
G2150, chapel, drawing of south wall.
12.83
G2150, chapel, reconstruction of north wall, including MFA

321212, looking north. Digital montage of HUMFA
Expedition photographs b1571 [=b7882] by A.M. Lythgoe
(February, 1906), and a7030 by Mohammedani Ibrahim
(December28, 1932).
12.84
G2150, chapel, drawing of north wall.
12.85
G2150, chapel, general view of north wall, looking north.

12.86
G2150, chapel, north wall, top half, looking north. April24,

12.87
G2150, chapel, reduced overview drawing of entire west wall.
12.88
G2150, chapel, view of west wall through entrance, looking

southwest. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, b877 [=b7458].
12.89
12.90
12.91
g2150, chapel, west wall, south of south false door, looking

west. Digital montage of HUMFA Expedition photographs
a5746p (July23, 1930), and a5747 (December28, 1930), both
by Mohammedani Ibrahim.
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Chapter 13. The Tomb of Kaninisut (I):

Mastaba g2155 (=g4870; Junker VIII NN)
13.21
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7447 from g2155(?).

Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
13.1
G2155, chapel area during excavation, looking west. Circa

January 1913. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
13.22
Drawing of Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7447

from g2155(?).
13.23
13.2
G 2155, east face, north half, looking west. November 20, 1993.
Additional slab stela fragment, after Junker, Gza1, p.230,

fig.53a; present location not known.
13.24
13.3
G2155, plan.
13.4
General view looking north towards the southeast corner of

g2155, with g4860 to the left (west) and g4970 to the right
(east). GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy

Colorized facsimile drawing showing three of the four
decorative sections.
13.25

Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5312_
S 7447.
13.26
Computer reconstruction of entrance facade to chapel of

g2155, looking west. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
13.27
Computer reconstruction of entrance tbicknesses to chapel

of g2155 (with wood door restored), looking west. Courtesy
13.28
G2155, chapel, south entrance thickness, looking southeast.

GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
13.29
G2155, chapel, north entrance thickness, looking northeast.

GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
13.5
Computer reconstruction of g2155, showing exterior mudbrick chapel and g2156, looking northwest. Courtesy
13.6
Computer reconstruction of g2155, southwest corner, looking

northeast. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
13.7
Computer reconstruction of g2155 and g2156a, northwest

corners, looking southeast. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
13.8
Narrow passage south of g2155, with g4860 to the

left (south), looking west to tomb of Nefer (g4761).
13.9
G 2155, north niche, looking west. November 20, 1993.

13.30
13.10
G2155, west face, looking east. November 15, 1993. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_1993.073.05 and pdm_1993.073.06, with
pdm_1993.073.07 at right.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of south

entrance thickness from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0220.
13.31

entrance thickness from g2155. aeos_8006_sw_beiderTuer.
13.32

13.33

entrance thickness from g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
13.34

Museum, Vienna, aeos_8006_sw_beiderTuer.
13.35

13.36
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of north

13.11
G 2155, chapel area, reburied, looking west. November20,

13.12
G 2155, north face, looking south. November 20, 1993. Peter

13.13
G2155, southeast corner and chapel entrance during

excavation, looking northwest. Circa January 1913. German
13.14
13.15
G2155, dismantling the chapel, looking north. Circa January

G2155, dismantling the chapel (for shipment to Vienna),
looking north. Circa January 1913. GermanAustrian
13.16
Computer reconstruction of g2155, looking southwest.

13.37
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of north

13.17
Computer reconstruction of the subterranean layout of g2155,

looking northwest, showing chapel (top center) and shafta
(right). Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
13.38
G2155, chapel, east wall, still in situ, looking east. Circa

13.18
G2155a, mouth of shaft, looking north. November 3, 1993.

13.39
13.19
Computer reconstruction of the burial chamber of g2155a

(with sarcophagus restored), looking southwest. Courtesy
Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2155 (with wood

door restored), looking east towards the east wall. Courtesy
13.40
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, from

g2155, detail of east wall, above the entrance. Courtesy
13.20
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13.41
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, from g2155,

detail of east wall, above the entrance. Drawing by Christa
Mlinar.
13.42
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, east wall

from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
aeos_8006_36528.
13.43
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of east

wall from g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
13.44
G2155, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail

of east wall. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
13.45
G2155, chapel, south wall in situ, looking south. Circa

13.60
G2155, chapel, west wall, detail in situ of northern half,

looking west. Circa January 1913. GermanAustrian

14.1
Street between g2160 (Fishers VIII.4) to the left (west) and

g2180= g4990 (Fishers VIII.5) to the right (east), showing
g2165, g2167, and g2166, looking north. February16, 1912.
HUMFA Expedition photograph (photographer not listed),
a633p.
14.2
G 2160, plan.
14.3
G2160, northeast corner, looking southwest. March12, 1993.

14.4
G2160, north face, looking south. November20, 1993. Peter

13.46

2009.
13.47
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, south wall

aeos_8006_35395.
14.5
3318, fragment of large pottery bowl with tubular spout

from g2160a. Left: March 16, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8300 (detail). Right: drawing.
13.48
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, south wall from

g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
14.6
13.49
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, north wall

aeos_8006_35392.
G2160, chapel area, and mud layer beneath limestone

blocks, looking north. November27, 1993. Peter Der
14.7
G2160, northwest corner, looking southeast. March12, 1993.

13.50
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, north wall

from g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
14.8
13.51
G2155, chapel, north wall, still in situ, looking north. Circa

January 1913. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
aeos_1_5494.
Street east of g2140, with g2140 to the right (west) and

g2160 to the left (east), looking south. March11, 1993. Peter
14.9
G2160, shafta (filled in), looking north. November3, 1993.

13.52

north towards the north wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes,
2009.
14.10
13.53
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west wall

aeos_8006_35389.
13.54
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west

wall from g2155, between the two false doors. Courtesy
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Digital montage of
aeos_8006_35402 and aeos_8006_35408.
13.55
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west wall from

g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
13.56
Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2155, looking west

towards the west wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
13.57
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west wall from

g2155, south false door. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
13.58
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west wall,

north false door from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches
13.59
G2155, chapel, west wall, detail in situ of area between the

two false door, looking west. Circa January 1913. German

15.1
G 2170, general view, looking northwest. Peter Der

15.2
G2170, plan.
15.3
G 2170, chapel area at south end of east face, and avenue

with subsidiary tombs between g2160 to the left (south) and
g2170 to the right (north), looking west. February 25, 1912.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, photographer not listed,
a640p.
15.4
32121, alabaster bowl fragment from g2170a. Above:

February22, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts, sc27878. Upper
right: March 16, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, b8300 (detail). Right: drawing.
15.5
321213 (MFA 33.721), one-handled jug from g2170a. Left:

May11, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc139360. Center: March
22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photography, Dahi Ahmed,
a7065 (detail). Right: drawing.
15.6
G 2170, chapel area at south end of east face looking west.

15.7
G 2170a. looking west. November4, 1993, Peter Der

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15.8
G 2170a, door blocking, looking west. December29, 1932.

a7028.

16.1
G 2220, chapel and south end of east face of, looking west.
November 20, 1993. pdm1993.096.10.
16.2
G2220, plan.
16.3
G2220, plan of chapel area.
16.4
G 2220, chapel, looking north. November 3, 1993. Peter Der

Manuelian, pdm1993.056.01.
16.5
G 2220, casing blocks just south of chapel entrance,

looking north. November 4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm1993.059.06.
16.6
16.18
G2220b i, door blocking, looking north. January13, 1933.

16.19
G2220b i, chamber with wood coffin, looking north.

January13, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, b8266.
16.20
G2220b i, chamber with south end of wood coffin, looking

north. January13, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, b8267.
16.21
33421 (MFA33.1016), cedar coffin from g2220b, with a

modern reproduction of the female mummy, prepared for
MFA Mummies & Magic exhibition in 1981. Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, sl16173.
16.22
G2220b i, plan and section.
16.23
G 2220, chapel interior, two fragments of fallen drum lintel

from chapel entrance, looking northwest. November 3, 1993.
Peter Der Manuelian, pdm1993.056.06.
G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) in wood coffin

(33421= MFA33.1016), looking south. January19, 1933.
16.24
16.7
G 2220, chapel interior, larger of two fragments of fallen

drum lintel from chapel entrance, looking west. November 3,
1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm1993.056.05.

(33421= MFA33.1016), looking north. January19, 1933.
16.25
16.8
Four limestone blocks with masons marks from debris

on top of g2220: left, upper: 37-7-1; left, lower: 3772;
middle: 3773; right: 3774. October11, 1938. HUMFA

(33421= MFA33.1016), foot end, looking west. January16,
1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7039.
16.26

(33421= MFA33.1016), head end, looking west. January16,
1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7038.
16.9
Five limestone blocks with masons marks from debris on

top of g2220: left, upper: 3775; left, lower: 3776;
middle: 3777; right, upper: 3778; right, lower: 3779.
October11, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
16.27
G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) without sheet

covering body. January21, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph. Dahi Ahmed, a7043.
16.28
G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) without sheet

covering body. January21, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
16.29
G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) head end,

partially unwrapped. January23, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
Left to right: 33421.1, 33421.2, 33421.3

(MFAOP1.33.1016, OP2.33.1016, OP3.33.1016, OP4.33.1016),
wooden pegs from coffin from shaftb. Top: March14,
Ibrahim, c14140. Bottom: July16, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_img_02379.
16.30
Drawing of wood coffin (33421= MFA33.1016), from

g2220b i.
16.31
Diagram of linen sheet folds on mummy from g2220b.
16.32
Diagram of linen wrapping layers on mummy from g2220b.
16.33
Diagram of linen wrapping layers on mummy from g2220b.
33421 (MFA OP1.33.1016, OP2.33.1016, OP3.33.1016,

OP4.33.1016), wooden peg elements from the coffin from
shaftb. July16, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img_02390.
16.34
Sketch of linen threads by N.F. Wheeler.
16.35
Sketch of linen head wrapping by N.F. Wheeler.
16.13
33183 (MFA33.1067), limestone headrest from g2220b.

Left: March16, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, c13403 (detail). Center: July16, 2008. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_img_02344. Right: drawing.
16.36
33422 (MFA 33.1017.2), hieratic text on linen from mummy

wrappings from g2220bi. February7, 2002. Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston, cr6989-d1.
16.37
16.14
G 2220, chapel, west wall, south false door, looking

northwest. November15, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.077.22.

wrappings from g2220bi. January25, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8272. (detail)
16.38
16.15
G 2220, chapel, west wall, north false door, looking west.

33422, cloth from mummy wrappings (worn) from

g2220bi. April13, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, b8316.
16.16
G2220b, mouth of shaft, looking north. November18, 1993.

16.39
16.17
G2220b, mouth of shaft, looking down, eastwards.

33422, cloth from mummy wrappings (patched) from

Dahi Ahmed, b8317.
16.10
16.11
16.12
Three limestone blocks with masons marks from debris

on top of g2220: left: 37710; middle: 37711; right:
37712. October11, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
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16.40

wrappings from g2220bi. January26, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13376.
16.41
33422 (MFA 33.1017.1), detail of hieratic text on linen from

mummy wrappings from g2220bi. January26, 1933. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13376.
16.42
16.43
16.44
16.47
G2220c, looking southwest. November 3, 1993. Peter Der

16.48
G2220 c, looking down, north. November 3, 1993. Peter Der

16.49
G2220 c, plan and section.
16.50
G2220, chapel, east wall, looking east. November3, 1993.

16.51
33422, linen from mummy wrappings from g2220bi.

May4, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, a7078.
G 2220, chapel, east wall, north end, looking east.

February28, 1931. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
16.52

Ahmed, a7077.
G 2220, chapel, east wall, south end, looking east.

February28, 1931. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
16.53
G2220, chapel, drawing of east wall.
16.54
G 2220, chapel, east wall, north end, obliques view of

unfinished relief carving, looking northeast. February28, 1931.
a6335.
16.55
G 2220, interior chapel, east wall, reduced-size overview

drawing.

April23, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, a7075.
16.45

April29, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, a7078.
16.46

Ahmed, a7079.
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Nucleus Cemetery
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Abbreviations
List of ABBREVIATIONS
HUBMFA
Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian

Expedition
IFAO
Institut Franais dArchologie Orientale du Caire
JESHO
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Leiden
JNES
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Chicago
Kmi
Kmi. Revue de Philologie et dArchologie Egyptiennes et Coptes,

Paris
KMT
KMT Magazine, Sebastopol, CA
meter
MS
Mnchner gyptologische Studien
A 1Aa 31
Alan H. Gardiner, Egyptian Grammar. Being an Introduction

to the Study of Hieroglyphs, Sign-List, pp. 442543. 3d rev.
ed. London: Oxford University Press for Griffith Institute,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1964
MDAIK
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archologischen Instituts, Abteilung

Kairo; to 1944: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Instituts fr gyptische
Altertumskunde in Kairo, Berlin, Wiesbaden; from 1970: Mainz
MFA
gyptologische Abhandlungen, Wiesbaden
MIFAO
AT
gypten und Altes Testament, Wiesbaden
Mmoires publis par les membres de lInstitut Franais

dArchologie Orientale du Caire, Cairo
ACE
Australian Centre for Egyptology
MIO
Mitteilungen des Instituts fr Orientforschung, Berlin
AcOr
Acta Orientalia, Leiden, from Vol. 21: Copenhagen
MMAB
See under BMMA
ADAIK
Abhandlungen des Deutschen Archologischen Instituts Kairo,

Glckstadt, Hamburg, New York
MMJ
The Metropolitan Museum Journal, New York
n.
note
AJA
American Journal of Archaeology, Baltimore, from 1897, Norwood
NAWG
AnOr
Analecta Orientalia, Rome
Nachrichten von der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Gttingen,

Phil.-hist. Kl., Gttingen
APAW
Abhandlungen der Preuischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,

Berlin
n.d.
no date
OIP
Oriental Institute Publications, Chicago
ArOr
Archiv Orientln, Prague and Paris; vols. 14 and 15: Stuttgart and
Prague
Or
Orientalia, Rome
ASAE
Annales du Service des Antiquits de lEgypte, Cairo
OBO
Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, Freiburg, Switzerland, and

Gttingen
ASE
Archaeological Survey of Egypt, London
OLP
Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica, Leuven
AV
Archologische Verffentlichungen, Deutsches Archologisches

Institut, Abt. Kairo, vols. 13, Berlin; vols. 4ff., Mainz
OMRO
Oudheidkundige Mededelingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

te Leiden, Leiden
BACE
Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology, Sydney
PDM
Peter Der Manuelian
BAe
Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca, Brussels
PSBA
Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, London
BdE
Bibliothque dEtude, Cairo
RACE
Reports of the Australian Centre for Egyptology, Sydney
BeitrgeBf
Beitrge zur gyptischen Bauforschung und Altertumskunde,

Kairo
REA
Revue de lEgypte Ancienne, Paris
BMMA
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
RdE
Revue dEgyptologie, Paris
BSA
British School of Archaeology in Egypt, London
RecTrav
Recueil de Travaux rlatifs la Philologie et lArchologie

Egyptiennes et Assyriennes, Paris
circa
SAK
Studien zur Altgyptischen Kultur, Hamburg
CdE
Chronique dEgypte, Bulletin Periodique de la Fondation

Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth, Brussels
SAWW
Sitzungsberichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien,

Vienna, and Leipzig
CG
Catalogue gnral des antiquits gyptiennes du Muse du

Caire, Cairo
SDAIK
Sonderschrift, Deutsches Archologisches Institut, Abt. Kairo,

Mainz
cm
centimeter
Sign List
DE
Discussions in Egyptology
EA
Egyptian Archaeology, Egypt Exploration Society, London
Alan Gardiner. Egyptian Grammar. Being anIntroduction to the

Study of Hieroglyphs, pp. 44253. 3d rev. ed. London: Oxford
University Press for Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, 1964
EDAL
Egyptian and Egyptological Archives and Libraries, Milan
TB
Tbinger gyptologische Beitrge, Bonn
EEF
Egypt Exploration Fund, London
th.
thickness
EES
Egypt Exploration Society, London
UGA
EG
Museum of Fine Arts, Department of Art of the Ancient World

illustration ID number
Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Altertumskunde gyptens,

Leipzig
VA
Varia Aegyptiaca, San Antonio
ERA
Egyptian Research Account, London
VIO
FuB
Forschungen und Berichte, Berlin
Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Institut fr

Orientforschung, Verffentlichungen, Berlin
GM
Gttinger Miszellen, Gttingen
w.
width
h.
height
WVDOG
HB
Hildesheimer gyptologische Beitrge, Hildesheim
Wissenschftliche Verffentlichungen der Deutschen

Orientgesellschaft, Berlin, Leipzig
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WZKM
Wiener Zeitschrift fr die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Vienna
ZS
Zeitschrift fr gyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, Leipzig/

Berlin
ZDMG
Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlndischen Gesellschaft, Leipzig/

Wiesbaden
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INTRODUCTION
t is now more than a century since the tombs described

in the present volume were first excavated by the Harvard
UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition at Giza
under George Andrew Reisner (18671842). The lengthy interval
between excavation and publication only confirms, as earlier
scholars foresaw,1 that the massive amount of material unearthed at
the beginning of the twentieth century could not be processed and
published nearly as quickly as it came to light.
Recent volumes of the Giza Mastabas Series have focused on
groups of mastabas in their archaeological context, i.e., in coherent
clusters where interrelationships can be examined. In Giza Mastabas5,
Kent R. Weeks treated Cemetery g6000, a cluster of large tombs at
the southwest corner of the Western Cemetery belonging to three or
four generations of the same family of Fifth Dynasty administrative
district overseers.2 These tombs are the most thoroughly decorated
in the entire Giza Necropolis. In Giza Mastabas6, Ann Macy Roth
discussed a smaller cluster of tombs at the northeast corner of
the great anonymous mastaba g2000, built for palace attendants
(ntyw- pr-).3 These tombs were originally constructed along a
unified plan that was altered several times through the Fifth Dynasty.
In Giza Mastabas7 Edward Brovarski published the first portion of
the Senedjemib Complex, containing the contiguous mastabas of
a family of viziers and royal architects under Izezi and Unas. This
complex lies at the northwest corner of the Khufu Pyramid, and
in recent years has been restored and opened to the public by the
Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA).
The present volume (the first of two parts) is an attempt to
expand upon this approach to include one of Reisners six4 nucleus,
or core, cemeteries in its entirety: Cemetery g2100, west of the Great
Pyramid of Khufu. A comprehensive look at a nucleus cemetery
is essential to any attempt to understand better the layout and
development of the early Old Kingdom mastaba field.5 Questions
that arise include:
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ote, for example, Dows Dunhams decision to take retirement from the
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curatorship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in order to publish the backlog
of Reisners Nubian excavations; Dunham, Recollections of an Egyptologist, p.48.
K.R. Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000.
A.M. Roth, A Cemetery of Palace Attendants.
There are four nucleus cemeteries west of the Great Pyramid (Cemeteries g1200,
g2100, g4000, and the Cemetery en Echelon), one east of the pyramid (Cemetery
7000), and one south (cemetery G1-S); see Reisner, GN1, pp.1219. For reviews
of this publication, see M.A. Murray, in The Museums Journal46, no.7 (October
1946), p.137; W.C. Hayes, in AJA50, no.3 (JulySept. 1946), pp.42223; R.O.
Faulkner, in JEA32 (1946), pp.105106; J.W. Crowfoot, Antiquity20, no.80
(December 1946), pp.18690; J. Capart, Erasmus1 (1947), pp.74346.
D. OConnor, Political Systems and Archaeological Data in Egypt: 26001780
B.C., World Archaeology vol. 6, no. 1, Political Systems (June, 1974), pp.2022.
Is the core cemetery an ancient phenomenon, or an artificial

modern archaeological scheme of division? Are Reisners nucleus
cemeteries, like Manethos dynasties, unrelated to the ancient
Egyptian perspective on mastaba field construction?6
If the nucleus cemetery is indeed a bona fide ancient concept, what
are its distinguishing features? Is there significance to the presence
of specific administrative titles, of familial relations to the king, of
particular architects or workshops employed in a specific area, or
of geography and quality of bedrock on the Giza plateau?
Can individual artistic styles be determined within a single nucleus
cemetery decorative scheme? Can distinct architectural features
be determined that are absent elsewhere?
Can the relative dates of the tombs be established with any certainty?
Comparative studies of all the nucleus cemeteries in the

Western Cemetery would do much toward answering some of these
questions. Spatial analyses7 and increased attention to the general
geomorphology of the Giza Plateau are also of critical import.8 A
major step in enhancing our knowledge of Gizas development has
been provided by P.Jnosis monumental Giza in der 4. Dynastie.9
In addition, the Giza Archives Project Web site, an initiative by
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the support of the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, has at this writing posted most of the
HarvardMFA excavation records on the Internet. Additional
materials supplied by international partners in Berkeley, Berlin,
Cairo, Hildesheim, Leipzig, Philadelphia, Turin, and Vienna are
also online or scheduled for online publication in the future (see
below).10 Perhaps the more detailed treatment of Cemetery g2100
here as a unit will lead to further progress in the examination of the
remaining core cemeteries.
In selecting Cemetery g2100, with its dozen or so massive core
mastabas, as the focus of our analysis, we also gain an opportunity
to examine the development of minor mastabas, smaller intrusive
tombs often built later against or in proximity to the walls of the
larger mastabas. These subsidiary burials, to be presented in volume2
of this work, often appear to choke the once clear and neatly laid
out streets between the major tombs. Questions concerning the
development and layout of the minor tombs are also worthy of study:
f. D.B. Redford, The Historiography of Ancient Egypt, in Egyptology and the

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Social Sciences, pp.1618.
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f. M. Farouk, A Spatial Study of the Giza Cemetery, forthcoming (paper
presented at the Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology Conference, Cambridge,
UK, May 2009). I am grateful to Ms. Farouk for sending me this paper in
manuscript form.
8 M. Lehner, in Lehner and Wetterstrom, Giza Reports1, pp.49 (Geomorphology
and Site Location); idem, Giza: Overviews and Ground Truths, Aeragram9.2
(Fall 2008), pp. 1415; idem, The Development of the Giza Necropolis: The
Khufu Project, MDAIK 41 (1985), pp. 10943; idem, Giza. A Contextual
Approach to the Pyramids, AfO32 (1985), pp.13658.
9 P. Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie.
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t present the Giza Archives Project Web site is located at www.gizapyramids.org
(= www.mfa.org/giza). The Projects mission is to serve as a centralized online
repository for all archaeological activity at the Giza Necropolis, beginning with
the Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts excavations (19021947).
For general discussions, see Manuelian, Eight Years at the Giza Archives Project:
Past Experiences and Future Plans for the Giza Digital Archive, Egyptian
and Egyptological Archives and Libraries, An Annual (EDAL) 1 (Milan, 2009),
forthcoming; idem, Virtual PyramidsReal Research: The Giza Archives Project
Goes Live Online, KMT16, no.3 (Fall, 2005), pp.6880; idem, Das GizaArchiv-Projekt, Sokar10 (2005), pp.1017; and idem, The Giza Archives
Project, Egyptian Archaeology28 (Spring 2006), pp.3133.
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Did the minor mastabas belong to familial relations of the tomb

owners who built the large mastabas on the site?11
Were they servants of the respective funerary cults, or merely later
individuals vying for any open ground available at Giza upon
which to built their sepulchres?
Were there orientation guidelines for later burials?12
Did a necropolis administration define who could build where, and
were its orders respected?
When were the subsidiary mastabas constructed?
Where the subsidiary mastabas blocked the entrances to the chapels
of the major mastabas, what conclusions may be drawn about the
longevity of those mortuary cults?
If the subsidiary burials did indeed come to block access to many

of the chapels of the major core mastabas, this would indicate that the
funerary cults of the latter were no longer in service, and the minor
mastaba owners were both later in time and unrelated to the owners
of the major tombs of this nucleus cemetery.13 If on the other hand,
there was still access to the major mastaba chapels, then perhaps the
minor mastaba owners were indeed closer contemporaries, related
family members, or funerary cult supporters.
After emphasizing the need to treat a nucleus cemetery as a
unit, we must note with some irony that in modern times Cemetery
g2100 was actually divided and excavated by several different
archaeological missions over many years. The major portion of the
area was cleared by Reisner, just after he switched affiliations from the
Hearst Expedition of the University of California, Berkeley (1899
1904), under the sponsorship of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, to
the Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition.
Reisner continued to work at Giza as director of the HarvardMFA
Expedition until his death in 1942; the work closed down officially
in 1947. The southern edge of Cemeteryg2100, however, fell within
the central strip of the Western Cemetery concession obtained by
the German/Austrian expedition, first granted to Georg Steindorff
and then to Hermann Junker, on behalf of the Akademie der
Wissenschaften in Vienna, the Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim and
the University of Leipzig.14 Selected aspects of the mastaba tombs
covered in detail below may thus be found in both Reisners History
of the Giza Necropolis1, and in various volumes of Junkers twelvevolume Gza series. To further complicate the issue, two of the best
preserved chapels were removed from the site (one by Lepsius, the
other by Junker), and may now be found in European collections.
The chapel of Merib (g2100-1) is in the gyptisches Museum,
Berlin (both the original blocks, gyptisches Museum1107, as well
as a 1:1 painted plaster cast reproduction),15 while that of KaninisutI

(g2155) is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (S8006).16
Moreover, even before the initial clearance by Reisners expedition,
individual blocks had been removed from other mastabas, turning
up later in collections in Europe. This volume will attempt to reunite
these disparate elements of Cemetery g2100.
Dangers abound in attempting to interpret the archaeological
work of other expeditions, especially excavations that took place so
long ago, and large gaps will be found in the pages that follow. The
present volume is doubtless hindered by the excavation methodology
employed during the first half of the twentieth century. The absence
of the original excavators georeferenced survey work, matrix analyses
of structural relationships, or single context mapping of features all
obscure the archaeological record of Cemetery g2100. Nevertheless,
the data that can be gathered are summarized here, without an
overabundance of interpretation. They are intended to enhance and
focus the much larger corpus of information available, in undigested
form, on the Giza Archives Project Web site (www.gizapyramids.org).
It is hoped they will prove useful to those investigating the Egyptian
Old Kingdom, necropolis development, ancient architectural
techniques, faunal remains, inscriptional and grammatical material,
and art-historical styles.
The layout followed in the pages of the present work will
focus on the major mastabas of Cemetery g2100. After general
and interpretive remarks in Section1, which contains Chapters12,
Section2 will follow with a catalogue of individual chapters on the
major mastabas themselves. Each mastaba discussion will include all
illustration figures at the end of its respective chapter; there is thus
be no plates section at the end of the volume. Wherever possible,
objects are represented in original expedition photography, more
recent, color photography, and archaeological drawings if the original
piece was accessible. Scenes and inscriptions are illustrated with
digital epigraphy, typically at a scale of 20 percent, although some
oversized scenes had to be further reduced.
Part 2 of Giza Mastabas 8 will describe the subsequent,
subsidiary structures in Cemetery g2100: both the post-nucleus
cemetery large mastabas, such as the tomb of Kahif (g2136), and all
the minor burials in the streets around and between the major core
mastabas. With a few notable exceptions, the identities of most of
these subsidiary tomb owners are lost, but the skeletal remains are
usually far richer than in the major mastabas covered in Part1. There
is also some important evidence to link some major and minor tomb
owners together, as the latter individuals are in a few cases listed or
represented on the walls of the major mastaba chapels.
15
11
ompare, for example, the remarks of Reisner, GN1, pp.7778; Helck, Zur
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Entstehung des Westfriedhofes an der Cheops-Pyramide, ZS81 (1956),
pp.6265, and El-Metwally, Entwicklung der Grabdekoration, pp.108109.
12 F
or remarks on the organization of the necropolis at Saqqara, see A.M. Roth,
Social Change in the Fourth Dynasty: The Spatial Organization of Pyramids,
Tombs, and Cemeteries, JARCE30 (1993), pp.3355.
13 The duration of funerary cults has recently been re-examined by Y. Shirai, Ideal
and reality in Old Kingdom private funerary cults, in The Old Kingdom Art and
Archaeology, pp.32533.
14 On the history of Wilhelm Pelizaeuss involvement with ancient Egypt, see
Bettina Schmitz in Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, pp.830. Junker describes the
history of his concession in Gza1, pp.iiivi; idem, Vorbericht 1912, pp.36,
and more recently, see P. Jnosi, sterreich vor den Pyramiden.
16
Lepsius, Denkmaeler, Text1, pp.4649, Plates2, pls.1822.; Priese, Die

Opferkammer des Merib; E. Freier, Die Expedition von Karl Richard Lepsius
in den Jahren 18421845 nach den Akten des Zentralen Staatsarchivs, Dienstelle
Merseburg, Karl Richard Lepsius (18101884), pp.11314; Freier and Grunert,
Eine Reise durch gypten, pp.3642; Wildung, Preussen am Nil, p.32 fig.21 and
p.44. It should be noted that, as this volume went to press, Meribs chapel was
being reconstructed in the Neues Museum in Berlin. New photography of the
individual relief blocks montaged togther was obtained prior to reconstruction,
but the time remaining did not suffice to allow new epigraphic drawings from
these long-awaited photographs. Thus I hope to present the new epigraphy as an
addendum in volume2 of the Cemetery g2100 publication.
H. Junker, Gza2, pp.13572; idem, Die Kultkammer des Prinzen Kanjnjswt;
idem, The Offering Room of Prince Kaninisut; Hlzl, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine
des Alten Reiches2, pp.3387; idem, Ka-ni-nisut.
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Interpretive Remarks
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Chapter1
EXCAVATION HISTORY
AND SOURCES
ll of the major nucleus cemetery mastabas under discussion

in this volume were plundered long before the age of scientific
excavation.1 With one exception (g2220b, wrapped female
mummy within a cedar coffin, see Chapter16), the burial chambers
were either empty or contained merely scattered bones and a few
assorted small vessels and implements. Even the shaft roofing,
if indeed there were any particular roofing elements, is missing
from these tombs. Nor is Cemetery g2100 the exception; most of
the major mastaba burial chambers in the Western Cemetery were
similarly plundered. Faunal studies are much more promising with the
later intrusive burials and subsidiary mastabas, covered in the second
volume of this publication.
Carl Richard Lepsius was the first Egyptologist to investigate
portions of Cemetery g2100. In December1842, his expedition
unearthed the decorated chapel of Merib, and numbered the tomb
LG 24 (= Reisners number g2100-i; see Chapter 4). Permission
was obtained to remove to Berlin the chapel facade, jambs, and
four interior chapel walls. Dismantling and packing began in
August1845. By the time the chapel arrived in Germany, most of
the polychromy had disappeared. Fortunately, watercolors of the
decoration had been prepared by Lepsiuss artist, J.J. Frey, at Giza
prior to the dismantling of the walls. Based upon these illustrations,
later published as plates1922 of Lepsiuss Denkmaeler, a full-scale,
painted plaster reproduction of the four chapel walls was produced
in Berlin between 1982 and 1984 and exhibited in the Bode Museum
for many years.2 The chapel is now reconstructed in Berlins Neues
Museum (Inv. Nr.1107).
At some point between 1875 and 1912 a relief fragment from
the exterior chapel facade of the mastaba of Kanefer (g2150) was
removed. It eventually surfaced in the private collection of Lord
Amherst of Hackney.3 On April19, 1881, W.M. Flinders Petrie
copied several inscriptions in Kanefers chapel.4 We may also assume
that these years saw the removal of several chapel reliefs from the
1
2
3
eisner, GN1, pp.17576.

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Not included in the plaster reproduction are the decorated reliefs on the facade,
the entrance architrave, drum, and door thicknesses.
See below, Chapter12, figs.12.7012.71. Its present location is not known; see J.
Mlek, New Reliefs and Inscriptions from Five Old Tombs at Giza and Saqqara,
BSEG 6 (1982), pp.4850. For this reference, I am grateful to Edward Brovarski,
and to Jaromr Mlek for supplying a negative of the relief.
Ibid., pp.5052 (Sayce Mss. 24, middle, Griffith Institute). For more on Petries
experiences at Giza, see M.S. Drower, Letters From the Desert, p.14ff; J. Mlek,
New Reliefs and Inscriptions from Five Old Tombs at Giza and Saqqara,
BSEG6 (1982), pp.4850.
tomb of Nefer (g2110) which were subsequently accessioned by

museums in Paris, Copenhagen, Rome, and Birmingham, England
(see Chapter6).5
In 1905, under George A. Reisners direction, the Hearst
Expedition of the University of California was transferred to the
sponsorship of Harvard University and the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston. Reisner had already been investigating Cemeteries g1000
and g1200 at the westernmost edge of the Western Cemetery.6
During the 19051906 season, Cemetery g2100 became one of the
first areas of concentration of the newly formed Harvard University
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition.7 The primary years of work
in this cemetery were 19051906, 19121913, and 19311932. Reisner
directed Albert M. Lythgoe, his student at Harvard and, since 1902,
the first curator of the MFAs new Egyptian Department, to supervise
the Expeditions inaugural season, which ran from November1,
1905 to March1, 1906. Work in Cemetery g2100 proper did not
actually begin until January28, 1906. The excavation records in the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, are at their sparsest for this campaign;
perhaps no excavation diary was kept by Lythgoe that early in the
Expeditions long history.8 All that I have so far been able to locate
are several handwritten reports penned by Lythgoe and Reisner that
outline the early seasons. The first report, written by Lythgoe, covers
the period from November1 through December10, 1905, the date
appearing just below Lythgoes signature. Accompanying the report
are photographs and a cover letter addressed by Reisner at Girga
to the Joint Committee on the Egyptian Expedition of Harvard
University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, dated December6,
1905. Most of this report, however, predates the expedition work in
Cemetery g2100 proper, concentrating on the chapels of g2000
and the minor mastabas further to the east.9 This area came to be
called StripI in the reports, while Cemetery g2100 received the
appellation StripII.
The second report, written in Reisners hand, covers the
period from December10, 1905, through February11, 1906, once
5
6
iegler, Catalogue des stles, pp.16770.

Z
For his earliest work at Giza, see Manuelian, On the Early History of Giza:
The Lost Wadi Cemetery (Giza Archives Gleanings: III), JEA 95 (2009),
forthcoming.
F
or a description of the division of the Western Field between American
(Reisner), Italian (Schiaparelli), and German (Steindorff ) expeditions, see
Reisner, GN1, pp.2226, and the authors summaries in Tombs of the High
Officials at Giza, in The Treasures of the Pyramids, pp.190223; Excavating the
Memphite Cemeteries: The Giza Necropolis, in Egyptian Art in the Age of the
Pyramids, pp.13953; and A Race against Time in the Shadow of the Pyramids.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Giza Necropolis, 19021990, KMT
(Winter, 199091), pp.1021.
A miscellaneous note by W.S. Smith in the archives of the Museum of Fine
Arts states that This material is confused due to the absence of the Lythgoe
diary It is not quite clear whether Smith means the 190506 diary was lost,
or that no diary was ever kept. Reisner, like the present author in recent years,
was searching for records of these early seasons. In letters dated to March24,
1934, he wrote to Lythgoes widow Lucy, asking if he might have inadvertently
taken Giza notes with him to New York. Lucy Lythgoe replied on April12, 1934
and July9 1934, however, that her searches for Giza materials proved fruitless.
Recent inquiries at the Egyptian Department of The Metropolitan Museum of
Art, and with descendants of the Lythgoe family in Connecticut and Alaska,
have similarly failed to produce any supplemental Giza documentation. I
wish to thank Dorothea Arnold, Marsha Hill, and Adela Oppenheim at The
Metropolitan Museum, as well as Katharine Richardson of Fairbanks, Alaska, for
their kind assistance.
P
art of this area is slated for a future Giza Mastabas volume by A.M. Roth.
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Fig.1.1. Cemetery g2100, looking northwest, from top of the Khufu Pyramid. November16, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.131.12.
Reisners cover letter sent with Lythgoes first report:
again describing StripI, but including g2041, the minor mastaba

of Senenuka, located just west of g2100.10 The final page of this
report is marked C. The Work after January28 [1906], and begins
the description of Cemetery g2100 proper. Many Expedition
photographs accompany this report as well. It is here, with a third
report, that a more detailed description of Cemetery g2100 should
begin. However, the next report preserved is not the third but a
typewritten fourth report, dated 1906April15, 1907. It describes
the relocation of the work force to the pyramid temple of Menkaure.
Moreover, it mentions that the previous (missing) third report dealt,
not with Cemetery g2100, but with the discovery of fragments of
the colossal statue of Menkaure now in the Museum of Fine Arts
(MFA09.204). Thus, of all four reports, only a single page (at the
end of the second report) deals primarily with Cemetery g2100.
There is nevertheless some useful information in these reports
on the procedure of the expedition, the construction of the
Decauville railway tracks for removal of debris, and the chronology
of the excavation. Hence the following quotes are included (with my
own editorial remarks added as footnotes):
10
The west wall of Senenukas chapel was removed to the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston (MFA07.1000 + 07.1001 + 07.1003 + 07.1004 + 07.1005).
To the Joint Committee on the Egyptian Expedition of Harvard

University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Girga, Upper Egypt Dec. 6, 1905
Gentlemen,
I have to report to you that I arrived at the Pyramids on
Saturday, Nov. 18. Mr. Lythgoe arrived on Oct. 28 in Cairo. I had
previously sent him a memorandum in regard to site of work,
transport of men, etc. As soon as was possible after his arrival,
Mr. Lythgoe started the excavation of the selected site. His report,
which accompanies this, describes fully the work done up to the
present.
The site selected is a strip in front (i.e. on the east side) of the
large tomb, or mastaba, known as Lepsius 23. This strip includes
the mastaba of Merib, son of Cheops,11 the chamber of which
was torn out by Lepsius and sent to Berlin. The strip is about 70
meters long by 40 meters wide, running north and south. On the
west side, we ought to find the external offering chapel of Lepsius
23, and determine the name and date of its owner. On the east,
we ought to find one or two new Cheops mastabas of the 4th
11
ontrary to Reisners statement, Merib was not a son of Khufu; see K.-H. Priese, Die
C
Opferkammer des Merib, p.27; Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.123 with n.706.
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Lepsius penetrated to this depth. Mariette has left no account of

his work in this cemetery. Lepsius reports of the mastaba, L. 23,
that it does not contain a chapel.
A number of blocks of stone bear masons marks in red ink.
Among these we may hope to find the names of the reigning king
and of the owner of the mastaba.
The difficulty of searching the northern end of the strip has
been overcome by running the tracks up a steep grade. As soon
as the rubbish and the sand are completely cleared away from the
chapel, the southern end of the strip will, as usual, be divided into
divisions each about 5 x 10 meters in area and assigned by lot to
the gangs, one division to each of the two gangs.
Very respectfully,
George A. Reisner
dynasty. In between, there must be mastabas of the 5th dynasty

which may contain statues, stelae and inscribed chambers.
The terrain is rather more difficult to approach with the railway
than I had anticipated. When I arrived, Mr. Lythgoe pointed
out that he had been obliged to raise the embankment for the
railway to a point about six meters above the level of the lower
edge of the strip. We immediately decided to attempt to run in
on a lower level through the old dump heaps of Lepsius(? and
Mariette?) nearer the face of Lepsius 23. The double track railway
was started; and the whole force put to work clearing away the old
dump heaps and the drift sand down to the level of decay, of the
chapel of the great mastaba. But the RR was soon stopped again
by stone walls; and it is probable that to avoid the long carry, we
shall have to run out, later on, on the first embankment.
On November29, I came up to Girga to look over the plans
and mss. for the volume now in press. I expect to return to the
Pyramids about December12. I am sending this down to Mr.
Lythgoe to be enclosed with a report of his own and photographs
of the work.
I regret to be obliged to report that during the last six months
there has been a considerable increase in the prices of common
foodstuffs and as a consequence an increase in wages in Egypt.
This seems to be due to a combination of causes, the cattle
plague, the increase in acreage under cotton and sugar cultivation,
the failure of crops in the Sudan, the land speculation, etc. Mr.
Quibell, in the government excavations at Saqqarah, has found it
necessary to pay men five piasters (25 cents) a day and boys three
piasters (15 cts) a day. To meet the new conditions, we also have
been forced to raise our scale of wages by 1/2 or 1/4 piaster all the
way through. We are now paying 5, 4 1/2, 4, 3 1/2, 3, 2 3/4, 2 1/2,
and 2 1/4 piasters to our different grades of men and boys. The
net results is an increase of about 50 piasters ($2.50) a day in our
wage list. That means a 12% increase in our expenditure for wages
or about a 4% increase in the cost of a years work. We shall be
able to meet this, by a small reduction in our working time. The
increase in wages is therefore not yet serious; but I am not certain
that the collapse of the present wild speculation in land and other
things will lead to a return of the old conditions. Wages in Egypt
have, I fear, been abnormally low. The prompt rise in wages is due
to the fact that field laborers are paid in kind, for the most part, so
that their wages follow the increase in value of wheat, corn, etc.
Yours very respectfully
George A. Reisner
P.S. (December13).

Gizeh Pyramids
I returned to the Pyramids on the 11th; and I take this
opportunity of adding a note on the present state of the excavations.
Photographs of the 11th have been added to the series.
In my absence, Mr. Lythgoe has almost entirely finished
removing the modern rubbish heaps and the drift sand from the
chapel of Lepsius 23. The mastaba is built with a great niche, the
three sides of which are, like the walls of the mastaba, of masonry
of the style of the Cheops reign. A smaller niche or chamber
has been constructed in this niche apparently in the Chephren
period. The masonry, fine white limestone beautifully fitted and
faced, has been torn away in part by stone thieves (people who
stole stone for building material), probably at the time when the
other Cheops mastabas were denuded of their white limestone
(Turah limestone). This was perhaps a few centuries ago. In front
of this niche, mud brick walls are appearing which must have
formed part of the external chapel of Lepsius 23.
These external chapels of the Cheops period originally
contained statues. The famous Sheikh el-Beled and his wife, one
of the statues of Ra-nefer and his wife were found in such chapels.
Mr. Lythgoe has now come on the headless statue of a woman,
unfortunately much weatherworn, in the sand in front of our
niche; and we may hope at any moment to find the statue of the
man. This find indicates moreover that the disturbance of the
soil here is due to stone thieves and not to the modern searchers
for antiquities. It is therefore probable that neither Mariette nor
Lythgoes first report:

To the Committee of the Expedition:
Gentlemen
I beg leave to submit the following outline of my share in the
work of the expedition.
I reached Cairo on Saturday, October28, and on the following
day called upon Mr. J.E. Quibell, of the Dept. of Antiquities who
had been employing 30 of our men in the government excavations
at Sakkara. These men were sent up to me at once by Mr. Quibell,
enabling me to make a start in the years work on the morning of
November1st and I therefore cabled Mr. Lane to that effect on
that day. In the meantime I had come out to the site, made lists
of the men who were to be summoned from their village (Kuft)
in Upper Egypt and had the word sent to them. With the 30 men
returned by Mr. Quibell and a dozen men who had been kept
here by Dr. Reisner as guards during the summer, work began
in transferring the railway from the position of the site where it
had been used on the Hearst Expedition, in cleaning and oiling
the cars, and in placing everything ready at hand near the section
of the site which had been previously agreed upon between Dr.
Reisner and me as the place to be cleared the present season.
While this work of putting things in order was going on I was
able to photograph the site of the work from several points of
view, as a record of the actual condition of this portion of the
site. On November6 the work of clearing for the admission of
the railway began.
The portion of the site to be excavated at present may be
defined as lying about 150 meters west of the Great Pyramid and
running north from the line of the north side of the pyramid,
[] due west that distance to the edge of the pyramid plateau;
viz. [Lythgoe included a sketch plan here].
If the work of this year be confined to the limits set at present
it will include the section bounded on the south by the line above
described, on the north by the edge of the plateau, and on the east
and west by two lines of tombs of the 4th dyn., the southernmost
of the east eastern row being the tomb of Mer-ib while on the
western side is the very large mastaba which Lepsius numbered 23
in his plan of the plateau.
The plan of work being to begin clearing along the southern
end of the section on a line drawn from the souther face of Mer-ib
to Lepsius 23 I first tried to introduce the railway on a north &
south line about 15 m west of Mer-ib and the succeeding tombs
in the same row,12 and to incline it to the southern edge of the
section. This southern end of the section has a level some 5m
higher than the northern end, where there is a gradual drop to
that extent as one approaches the edge of the plateau. It proved
impossible, after a weeks work, to cut in to this higher level at the
south sufficiently low to avoid building up a dike for the railway,
12
Lythgoe means g2100, parent of Merib and g2110, Nefer.
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Fig.1.2. General view of the Western Cemetery, western half, looking north from upon the Khafre Pyramid (photographed in
the evening). First clearance of Cemeteryg2100 (indicated by arrow). December 1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Said Ahmed, a13022 [=a6354].
Fig.1.3. General view of the Western Cemetery, western half, looking west from upon the Khufu Pyramid. June 1912.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Badawi Ahmed, a765.
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as it approached the plateau edge, which could only be cleared

afterward with a considerable amount of labor and expense.
At the point opposite Mer-ib the tops of the tomb-walls were
in some cases so near the present surface that the extension of
the line was clearly impossible at anything like a working level
and therefore work at this point must be for the time suspended.
The only place where the proper level seemed possible was in the
other or western side of the section. Here all along the eastern
face of Lepsius23 was a great mound of sand and refuse thrown
up probably by Mariette during his work some 50 years ago. By
cutting in to the side of this mound and by taking advantage
of the tops of several large tombs near the northern edge of the
plateau which might be used as stepping stones as the dike was
extended north, a way through the section to its southern line
seemed possible, and at the same time advantage could be taken
of the nearness of the railway to the eastern face of Lepsius 23 to
clear it as the line advanced.
On November15 34 more men arrived by steamer from Kuft and
on the next morning this whole force was set to work cutting in
for the new line of rails mentioned above. A week later (Nov. 22)
30 more men & boys arrived by steamer and these again were put
on at the same work, giving us a total force of almost 100 men. It
seems probable that we shall hold to approximately that number
of men straight through the season. Since November15 then the
work has been concentrated on clearing along the east face of
Lepsius 23 towards the south, including the great southernmost
niche or chapel of this tomb near its southeastern corner. In
this work the sand and debris have been cut away to a depth at
the face of the wall of about 4m. At that depth the tops of late
construction (probably 5th or 6th dyn.) have begun to appear and
give proof of the fact that this whole section between Lepsius 23
and Mer-ib was, in the dynasties following their construction,
filled with tombs of smaller size.
This corresponds exactly with the conditions which Dr. Reisner
found to exist on the farther or western side of Lepsius 23 in the
work of the Hearst Expedition. When this upper level of sand
and debris has been cleared from the whole southern end of the
section the work of clearing the tombs themselves will be begun
and continued down to the original ground level upon which the
tombs were constructed. At the same time the work of clearing
the great niche or chapel of Lepsius 23 will be continued in order
to determine its construction and to obtain any other evidence
which may be preserved.
These are the main facts in outline regarding the progress of the
work up to the present date, and I beg to call your attention to the
accompanying photographs which I have selected in illustration
of the work at its several stages.
Very respectfully yours
Albert M. Lythgoe
Gizeh Pyramids
December10, 1905

Excerpts from second report written by Reisner and signed by

Reisner and Lythgoe:
Report of the Work of the Expedition of Harvard University
and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts up to January31, 1906
A. Progress of the Work
In our first report, we explained that we had selected a strip of
the cemetery of the Great Pyramids lying just east of the work
carried on by the expedition for the University of California and
separated from it by the enormous mastaba (tomb) known as
Lepsius 23. We described the preliminary work and sent a series of
photographs showing the progress of the work from the beginning

of Novemberup to December10th [1905].
At that time, we were ready to begin clearing the southern
end of the strip (Strip i) but were in difficulty in arranging the
railway owing to the steepness of the slope towards the north.
This difficulty was overcome by laying the two lines in wide
curves, one to the west and one to the east, running up a steep
grade to about 17 meters from the southern edge of the strip (see
map p. 2 [= fig. 1.4 below] and Photographs Group iv 13 and
15). Here turntables were laid; and the two lines were connected
by a cross-line. Switches were run out from the eastern turntable
and from the cross-line to the points of excavation (see Map and
Photo. Groupiv 2). The two lines approached each other towards
the north until they ran parallel about 2 meters apart and were
then joined together by a second pair of turntables on the dump
heap. Thus the circuit was completed; and the cars ran out loaded
on the east line where was the lesser grade, were emptied at the
dump, and came back empty on the west line.
The work then proceded in the regular course. The men were
divided into 10 companies of 10 or 11 men, each company under
the leadership of a working foreman and an assistant-foreman.
Certain numbers of men from each company were detailed to
push the R.R. cars and to handle the dirt at the dump. The rest,
working with turyah (native hoe) and baskets, did the digging and
filled the cars. That part of Strip I which is south of the railway
was then divided into working sections each about 5 x 10 meters
in area; and a section at a time was assigned to each gang (see Map
a.a.a. etc. marked in yellow; and see Photo. Groupiia2, where
the turyah men and the basket-boys of each gang stand in the
working section of their gang. The baksheesh for all antiquities
found in any section is divided among all the members of the
gang which worked that section.
The southernmost end of the strip (see Mapa.a.a.a. etc.) which
adjoins the German concession south of us, was first cleared of
sand and surface debris to the level of decay. The level of decay is
in this case, an irregular surface of hard packed debris formed
by the decay of the superstructures of the tombs in ancient
times before the cemetery was covered with sand (about the 6th
dynasty) (see Photo. Groupiia18). The tombs of this period,
it may be explained in passing, are called mastabas (plu. English,
from the Arabic word mastaba, a mud bench or bank used instead
of a divan in shops and houses) and consist (1)of a rectangular
superstructure containing on the valley side, the chapel in
which the monthly and yearly offerings to the dead were made
and (2)of a subterranean chamber for the burial, reached by a
shaftdescending from the top of the superstructure in the long
axis of the tomb. The superstructures consist of retaining walls of
mud-brick or of stone with a filling of limestone chips and gravel.
The whole is very often cased with an additional wall of stone or
mud-brick. When, after the lapse of years, the presentation of
offerings ceased in tomb after tomb, the mud-brick melted and
fell to pieces, stone was stolen from the casing for later tombs, the
filling poured out in places into the streets of the cemetery and
the whole gradually fell into decay forming the uneven surface
described above. The hollows in this surface filled up with drift
sand; and finally the drift sand, stopped by the great wall north of
the second Pyramid, was banked up over the whole site to a depth
of from 1 to 7 meters in the hollows. But the tops of the higher
mastabas were always visible.
After the surface of decay in the part south of the railway had
been laid bare and photographed, the debris of decay was cut
out, and the ancient ground level of the 4th and 5th dynasties
(ca. 2500 b.c.) was exposed to view (see Photo. Group ii a 16)
and iii 915). The burial pits were cleared yielding a large number
of sealed burial chambers. After the work of excavation is over
for the season, these chambers will opened by Lythgoe personally
being photographed at each stage of the proceeding until finally
the skeleton is ready to be examined in position by Dr. Elliot-
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belong, as a matter of fact, mostly to the 5th dynasty. Strip II

however contains part of the royal cemetery of Cheops (see below
c. The Work after Jan. 28) and its mastabas are therefore of the
4th dynasty15
Dump-heap
8. Tomb 2041 was a mastaba found entirely under the level

of decay (see Photo. xii 14). It was built on the lowest level, in
the style of masonry and with the kind of limestone used in the
days of the first pyramid. It had been recased however in the style
of masonry and with the kind of limestone used in the time of
Mykerinos (3rd Pyramid,i.e., end of the 4th dynasty). In this
connection, it may be said that one of the most interesting points
discovered during our excavations at the Pyramids has been the
effect produced on the skill of the stone workers and on the numbers
of trained stone workers in Egypt by the building of the first and
second pyramids. The increase in the number of skilled masons
caused a more general use of the best work and enables us to date
the different styles of masonry by a comparison with the work
found in the pyramids and in the royal mastabas. In accordance
with the style of the outer case, the final form of the mastaba is
that with the southern niche enlarged to an interior chapel,a
type which we have dated to the late 4th and early 5th dynasties. It
is therefore certain that the tomb belongs to this early period,a
fact which is important on account of the reliefs on the walls of
the chapel. For the western wall is covered with offering scenes
and inscriptions in very fine low relief (see xii 613), some parts
of which being unfinished show in the most interesting manner
the stages of the work. The design was drawn in black ink; the
background was cut out roughly with copper chisels and the
surface was finished by rubbing with smooth hard stones.
C. The Work after Jan. 28
An examination of the ground east of the tomb of Mer-ib, son
of Cheops [sic], showed that we had there a group of very early
mastabas with a considerable depth of sand between them. The
back of the mastaba just north of Meri-ib16 had been uncovered
during the work on Strip i; and was seen to have been recased in
the fine style of the late 4th dynasty.
The railway was laid in a cutting made in the street between
the second and third row of tombs;17 and a new dump heap was
formed on the edge of the valley to the north. Photo. Group xv
14 show the appearance of Strip ii before work began. Photo.
Group xv 510 show the installation and operation of the railway
on our usual double track plan. Nos. 810 show especially how
we save basket carrying by driving our lines up to the points of
excavation.
A complete report of this, the final stage in the active digging
work of the season will made later.
Approximate Plan
of Strip I, 19056
Railway
Working
sections
Lepsius 23
(G 2000)
C
C
C C C B B
C
C B B B B
C
C B B B B
C
A A A A A A A A
A A
German
work
redug
Nefer
(G 2110)
B
B
B
B
B
A
A
(G 2100)
A A A A A A
Merib
(G 2100-I)
Fig.1.4. Redrawn sketch of the westernmost row of Cemetery g2100

tombs and the area further west, from Reisner and Lythgoe second
report, 1906.
Smith for determination of sex and age, measurements, traces of
disease, etc.
The part of the strip immediately north of the railway was next
cleared in the same way (see Map b.b.b.b. etc., and see Photo.
Groupiia9). The turntables were then shifted to where the two
lines approach each other (see Mapx); the cross-line was taken
up; and the sand and the debris under the cross line were removed
as before, thus joining up the two pieces a.a.a.a. and b.b.b.b. See
Photo. Groupiia1012.
So the work was continued northward stage by stage until
Strip I was cleared including the chapel of Lepsius 23 ( see Photo.
Group xiv and iv). On January28 [1906], the work was then
transferred to Strip ii13 which adjoins Strip i on the east and
includes the group of late Cheops mastabas of which the tomb
of Mer-ib, son of Cheops [sic], has been known for sixty years.
The mastabas found in the first strip are the tombs of priests and
officials and their families who lived in the City of the Glory of
Cheops (Glory of Cheops is the name of the First Pyramid)14
and had under their care the Pyramid with its two temples, the
maintenance of the offerings to Cheops, and the administration
of the estates left by Cheops for the maintenance of the offerings
and the government of the city itself. They are therefore to be
dated to the period subsequent to the death of Cheops, and
13
14
I .e., Cemetery g2100.

Horizon of Khufu is currently the more common translation for t wfw (ed.).
George A. Reisner
Albert M. Lythgoe
This concludes the early unpublished reports dealing with parts

of Cemetery g2100. The complete report mentioned at the end
of the passage above was either lost or never written. However, a
short summary was published by Lythgoe in the Annual Report,
1905 of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Dated to February1,
1906, and written at the Pyramids in the middle of the Cemetery
g2100 excavation season, the report describes the establishment of
the Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition.
Portions are excerpted below:
15
16
17
he report continues with B. Description of the Antiquities Found in Strip I,

T
including remarks on g2009, g2036, g2002, g2035, g2038, g2037, g2011,
g2003, g2000 (labeled here 2001), and g2016, are omitted from the excerpt
above. Tomb g2041, of Senenuka, is included since it relates to Cemetery g2100.
I.e., g2110, the mastaba of Nefer.
I.e., running northsouth in front of the east faces of g2120 and g2130.
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In September last I left America to undertake a plan of

work here in Egypt, for the Museum and Harvard University
jointly, which, from the time of my appointment to the
Museum, I had hoped would prove possible as a means of
developing our Egyptian collection on a sound basis,by
the acquisition of material resulting from systematic work
of excavation, where every object had been closely recorded
and would in consequence have a determined value and
place in the development of the collection.
The plan for the work gave to the University the record
and the publication of the results, while the sculpture and
the other works of art which the work should produce were
to be given to the Egyptian collection of the Museum. In
the following month of June it proved possible to effect
a combination by which the expedition took over the
organization and the concessions of the Hearst Egyptian
expedition, with Dr. G.A. Reisner as Director and myself as
Field-Director of the new plan of work.
Work was begun, on November 1st, on the most important
concession acquired from the Hearst expedition, in the
pyramid-field of Gizeh. The point at which the work is now
proceeding is on the northern end of the plateau, in a line
due west from the northwest angle of the Great Pyramid and
about 150 metres from it. That part of the field is covered by
the great cemetery of mastaba tombs laid out in a uniform
plan in the fourth dynasty, under Khufu, the builder of the
Great Pyramid. The tombs, which are separated by streets
running north and south as well as east and west, stretch out
row upon row in regular order. In the succeeding dynasties of
the Old Empire advantage was taken of the streets between
the tombs of this original plan to place in them smaller
tombs of the same type; but since that time the cemetery
has been practically unused. The work of clearing the tombs
of the drift sand and deposit with which they were covered
has already yielded most satisfactory results in the portion
of the field on which the work has been concentrated, and
the importance of making as complete a photographic
record as possible has been emphasized at every point in
the progress of the work. Additional facts and material
have been gained for the history of the development of
the mastaba tomb, and their publication should establish
the value of the results on that side. The statue-chambers
of the tombs already uncovered have produced a series of
portrait statues, both single statues and groups, of which the
Museum will ultimately receive its share in the division with
the Egyptian government. These will place our collection
on a new footing in its representation of Old Empire
sculpture in the round. In addition the work has yielded
a number of inscribed offering-stelae or false-doors, and
two tombs have proved to contain offering chambers with
walls sculptured in low relief,in the case of one chamber
its color beautifully preserved.18
The work of excavation will be continued until March1st,
and I am confident that the final results of the year will prove
it to have been a strong one in the systematic development of our

collection.19
Albert M. Lythgoe
Pyramids of Gizeh, February1, 1906
Additional formally published MFA Annual Reports give only

two scant references directly concerning Cemetery g2100. The 1906
Report, written by Temporary Assistant in Charge Oric Bates,
provides a list of new acquisitions. Object no.7 is the reserve head of
Nefer from g2110 (MFA06.1886), and object no.14 is a fragmentary
dish from the tomb of Merib (g2100-1).20 The other concerns the
acquisition of the lower part of a false door from g2132 in 1938.21
The next two reports, the third and fourth, are both typewritten
and dated to 190607, but they cover solely the pyramid complex of
Menkaure.22
After clearing the subsidiary mastabas between Cemetery
g2100 and the east face of the large mastaba g2000 (=Lepsius 23),
the HarvardMFA Expedition concentrated on the westernmost,
earliest mastabas of the cemetery: g2100 (Sedit), g2100-1 (Merib),
g2110 (Nefer), g2120 (Seshatsekhentiu), and g2130 (Khentka(?)).
From here, work shifted to the temples of the Menkaure pyramid.
On July19, 1906, Lythgoe left the Museum of Fine Arts to become
the first Egyptian Department curator at The Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York.
The 19121913 season was led first by Clarence S. Fisher from
January1 through February20, 1912, and later, from February21
through April4, by Reisner himself.23 Reisners original plan was
for Fisher to begin clearing a portion of Cemetery g4000 that was
newly acquired through the departure of the Italian expedition
under Schiaparelli. Fishers field diary mentions this area at the
beginning of his campaign (see entry for January3, 1912; www.
gizapyramids.org). However, on January8, 1912, Fisher writes: In
the first post received a letter from the acting Director of the Service
des Antiquits stating that M. Schiaparelli had not given up his right
to the original Italian concession, but had applied for its renewal.
Fisher cabled Reisner in Boston for guidance, and in the meantime
opted to work in the HarvardMFA Expedition concession area
northwest of the great anonymous mastaba Lepsius 23 (g2000).
While excavating g1501, Fisher received a cable from Reisner on
January10, 1912, stating: Begin dig mastabas northeast corner edge
Lythgoes work. Fisher proceeded accordingly, reaching the eastern
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20
21
22
18
ythgoe is referring here to the tomb of Tjetu, g2001, further west of

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Cemetery g2100, and published by W.K. Simpson in Mastabas of the
Western Cemetery, pp.715. While most of the photoraphs taken (by
Lythgoe himself ) during the field season in question are simply labeled
19051906, several of the Tjetu excavation images are dated to January
1906, the same period when Lythgoes published report was written.
23
ythgoe, Report of the Curator of the Egyptian Department, Museum of Fine

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Arts, Boston, Thirtieth Annual Report, 1905, pp. 5355.
O. Bates, Report of the Department of the Egyptian Art, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston Thirty-first Annual Report for the Year 1906, pp.7576. For these
two objects, and Batess Annual Report text, see the respective Chapters4 and 6
below on mastabas g2100-1 (Merib) and g2110 (Nefer).
S ee Part2, chapter on the tomb of Seniwehem, g2132; Dunham, Department
of Egyptian Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Annual Report 1938, p.41 (quoted
below).
The third report is labeled, Third Report of the Egyptian Expedition of Harvard
University & the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 190607. Special Report,
relating to the finding of fragments of two alabaster statues of Mykerinos. The
fourth report is entitled, Fourth Report of the Egyptian Expedition of Harvard
University & the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 190607.
Remarks on Clarence Fishers career may be found in Alan H. Gardiner JEA27
(1941), p. 164; by J.A. Wilson, Signs and Wonders upon Pharaoh, p.220; by
Dawson and Uphill in Who Was Who in Egyptology, p.105, and in Expedition21,
no.2 (Winter, 1979), pp.2226.
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Fig.1.5. Cemetery g2100, area east of g2170, and north of g2180 (= g4990), showing g2231x, g2227 (=g2177),
g2224, g2225, g2174, g2173, g2176, g2175, g2172, g2179, g2178, g2186, and g2184, looking south from a
photographic tower. January6, 1913. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a821.
G2000
G2150
G2220
G2170
Fig.1.6. Cemetery g2100, area east of g2170, g2184 (foreground left) and g2186 (foreground right), showing g2172,
g2175, g2227 (=g2177), g2174, g2173, g2225, and g2224, looking northwest from a photographic tower. January7,
1913. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a822.
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G2170
G2154
G2154a
G2220
Fig.1.7. Cemetery g2100, area north and east of g2170, g2154, and g2154a in the foreground. Further away are mastabas g2223, g2224, g2227
(=g2177), and g2175; looking southeast from photographic tower. January8, 1913. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a825.
edge of Cemetery g2100 by January17, 1912, and photographing

much of the progress on January21, 1912. He cleared many of the
subsidiary mastabas surrounding the major tombs, numbering the
burial shafts with his own system, often placing number cards in the
photographs themselves. In all, 1,231 photographs were registered in
1912, although many show areas located outside of Cemetery g2100.
One particular focus in 1912 was on the eastern half of Cemetery
g2100, especially the cluster of densely packed subsidiary mastabas
in the wide area north of g2150 and south of g2220 (fig.2.5). After
April1, 1912, the Expedition focus was outside of Cemetery g2100.
Reisners diary for March5, 1912, notes that [Earle] Rowe is in charge
of recording of pits; Fisher is in charge of mastaba plans and map.
Diary entries for January1913 describe additional work on subsidiary
tombs (g2170s, figs. 1.51.7) directed by Louis Coulton West, a
graduate student from Harvard University.24 Fisher left the Museum
in September1914 to join the University Museum, University of
Pennsylvania, and later received from Reisner his own portion of

the Western Cemetery to publish further to the west.25 Reisners
Expedition meanwhile moved eastward, clearing the later mastabas
of the cemetery, including the Senedjemib complex (g23702381),
and portions of the so-called Cemetery en Echelon.
An outline description of Cemetery g2100 was the subject of
Appendix C of Reisners monumental History of the Giza Necropolis1
(pp.41753). The summary of the main features of the area from
pp.41718 is reproduced below:
About 50 m east of the great mastaba g2000 is the western
side of a nucleus cemetery of eleven mastabas, designated g2100.
That great mastaba stands on sound, but uneven, nummulitic
limestone with the rock on the eastern side much lower than
on the west. The space between g2000 and Cem. g2100 slopes
gently upwards to the east and is mainly covered by a weak
geological deposit of red gravel mixed with boulders of various
25
24
The 1937 Harvard Directory lists: West, Louis Coulton [g. 11-12, A.M. Sc.].
he minor Cemetery g3000 was excavated from January28 through March9,

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1915: see C.S. Fisher, The Minor Cemetery.
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Fig.1.8. Cemetery g2100, looking northwest, from upon the Khufu Pyramid. 1912(?). GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
sizes. The western line of mastabas in Cem. g2100 is built on a

low ridge east of this space and also shows some patches of bad
rock. From this ridge under g2100 and g2110 the rock surface
slopes gently down to the east and is mainly of sound rock. This
rock also slopes gently to the north. The foundation courses of
the cores and the casings are founded on rock and the streets and
avenues were packed with limestone debris to the level of the
adjacent chapel floor. The finished sloping casings are dressed to
the level of the packed floor of the streets.
The nucleus Cemetery g2100 consists of eleven core-mastabas
of typeIIa or lIb. These cores, eleven in number, were laid out in
four NS lines. The cemetery fell into two groups. The western
group of five mastabas were in two NS lines, two in the western
line and three in the eastern line, but not in rows. That is, they
were built after the manner of a family cemetery. All the cores
were correlated by the use of the portcullis groove in the shafts,
the only shafts with portcullis grooves in the necropolis. These
cores were constructed before the eastern group and were finished
in general before any core of the eastern group. The eastern group
consisted of six core-mastabas of typeIIa laid out in two lines of
three cores each, set in three EW rows of two mastabas each.
These six cores were aligned with each other and those of the
middle row had their southern ends aligned with the southern
end of the core g2120, the southern core in the eastern line of the
western group. The northern row stood in a similar relation to
g2130. The cores were numbered by me as follows:
Western group, western line: from south to north, g2100 and
g2110.
Western group, eastern line: line 2: from south to north, g2120,

g2130, and g2210.
Eastern group, western line: line 3: from south to north, g2135,

g2140, and g2150.
Eastern group, eastern line: line 4: from south to north, g2155,

g2160, and g2170.

The eastern group gave the cemetery its appearance of a unified

plan and was obviously built after the western group. The cores
also were finished, with the exception of g2135, after the cores in
the western group. g2135 and g2155 were excavated by Professor
Junker and published in Giza I and II respectively under the
numbers 7 NN (4770) and 8 NN (4870) (tomb of Kaninisut).
But as the cores belong to Cem. g2100, not to Cem. g4000, I
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Fig.1.9. Area south of Cemetery g2100 (g2100-11 and g2120), cleared by the GermanAustrian expedition, looking
northwest. 1912(?). GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5443.
Fig.1.10. Area west of Cemetery g2100 (right background: g2100-11, g2100-1, g2110), being cleared by the German
Austrian expedition, looking north. 1912(?). GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
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Fig.1.11. Western Cemetery, middle and northern sections, looking northwest, from the top of the Khufu Pyramid. June25, 1932. HUMFA Expedition
have renumbered them g2135 and g2155 and described them here
with Cem. g2100.
In spite of the fact that the western group of five cores all had
shafts with portcullis grooves and were all built by the same
gang of workmen about the same time, the cores were finished
as mastabas at different times. I place them in the order of their
finishing, as g2100, g2130, g2120, g2110, g2210. The first
mastaba of the eastern group to be finished, g2135 (Junker), was
finished about the same time as g2210. Thus it may be concluded
that the six cores of the eastern group were built before the cores
in the western group were finished and probably in continuation
of the western cores. The cores in the eastern group were finished
in the order, g2135 (connected with the western group), g2140,
g2150 (after Mycerinus), g2155 (about the time of Neferirkara).
The two cores, g2160 and g2170, were used unfinished and
uncased for unimportant persons about the same time as g2150
and g2155. Thus the cores were constructed from west to east and
finished as mastabas also from west to east with slight variation in
the order of growth.
The building of Cem. g2100 in two groups, of which only the
eastern group of six was laid on a unified plan, created streets
and avenues of different widths in two groups. The spaces in the
western group were comparatively small and occupied by a few

very small mastabas. The spaces in the streets and avenues of the
eastern group were larger and filled with complexes of small and
medium-sized mastabas. North of g2150 and g2170 was built
the large mastaba g2220 (east of g2210), before the cemetery of
the secondary mastabas was begun on this side, and left a wide
empty space between this large mastaba and the eastern group.
This space was filled with complexes of mastabas beginning with
a mastaba of a funerary priest of g2150. South of the western
group, between it and the northern end of Cem. g4000, again
(page 418) a wider space was left and occupied mainly with the
mastabas of Prince Merib and his daughter added in succession
to g2100. West of the western group, the space between it and
g2000 was filled with complexes of small and medium sized
mastabas of Dyn. V and Vl close up to the backs of 2110 and
2100. East of the whole cemetery ran the northern ends of the
three lines of the Cem. en Echelon built later with its streets
filled with secondary mastabas. East of g2220, north of the Cem.
en Echelon, the cemetery of the secondary mastabas extended
eastwards to the Senezemib complex, NW of the NW corner of
the Cheops Pyramid.
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During the years 19121914, Hermann Junker excavated the

GermanAustrian concessions strip of Cemetery g2100.26 This
area contained the tombs at the southernmost edge that protruded
over the German/American boundary formed by continuing an
imaginary line westwards from the northwest corner of the Great
Pyramid (figs.1.81.10, 2.5).27 Some of Reisners crew, including an
Egyptian photographer, were borrowed for Junkers expedition, and
sometime after January8, 1913, a clearance ramp was constructed over
the already examined eastern portion of Cemetery g2100 (covering
g4980, g2180, and the subsidiary g2170s tombs).28 Major portions
of this ramp still cover g2180, and the subsidiary g2170s tombs,
rendering detailed reexamination impossible without considerable
reclearance (fig. 1.10). A brief outline of Junkers activities as they
pertain to Cemetery g2100, gleaned from his Vorberichte and Gza
volumes, follows:
First season, January22April7, 191229
January21, 1912. Arrival of the expedition (from Nubia) in Cairo
February10, 1912. Discovery of the mastaba of Nensedjerkai (g2100-11)
February27, 1912. Permission granted by Reisner for construction of
railway through the American concession out to the north
February28March1, 1912. Completion of the new railway
March7, 1912. Outlines of mastaba of Qedfy (g2135a) become visible
March8, 1912. Discovery of the pair statue of Qedfy (g2135a) and his wife
March1013, 1912. Excavation of the area surrounding the mastaba of
Qedfy (g2135a)
April8, 1912. Departure of the Expedition (after 2 1/2 month season)
Second season, December16, 1912March24, 191330
December16, 1913. Arrival of the expedition
January9, 1913. Discovery of the mastaba of KaninisutI (g2155)
February4, 1913. Excavation of area north of g2155
February6, 1913. Discovery of the mastaba of Kahif (g2136)
February8, 1913. Discovery of undecorated sarcophagus of Kahif (g2136)
February11, 1913. Discovery of second undecorated shaft of Kahif (g2136)
February12, 1913. Clearance of large serdab in the extension of g2136 west
towards the mastaba of Nensedjerkai (g2100-11)
February15, 1913. Discovery of the statue of Nimaatre (g2136b)
March9, 1913. Discovery of the sarcophagus of Nensedjerkai (g2100-11)
March24, 1913. Departure of the expedition
Third season, January3April23, 191431
January3, 1914. Arrival of the expedition
January26, 1914. Junker travels to Luxor concerning the purchase of the
mastaba of KaninisutI (g2155)
February25, 1914. Cleaning of chapel of Kasewedja (g5340; son of
Kanefer, g2150)
March17, 1914. Beginning of the dismantling of the chapel of KaninisutI
(g2155)
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27
28
29
30
31
For Junkers introductory remarks on the GermanAustrian expedition, with

summaries of Reisners Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts articles and his own
Vorberichte, see Giza 1, pp.iiivi, and Giza12, pp.15.
Junkers mastabas included g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai), g2135 (anonymous), g2155
(KaninisutI), g2156 (KaninisutII), g2136 (Kahif ), and the unnumbered tombs
of KaninisutIII, NeferIII, Djednefret, Nimaatre, Qedfy, and Irienre.
See Junker, Vorbericht 19121913, p.159 (=p.9 of separately printed version).
In Reisners diary entry of January8, 1913, p. 3, comes the note: Finished g2172,
2175 etc. and gave Junker permission to build road through. For a recent
discussion of American and GermanAustrian relations at Giza, see Manuelian,
Hemiunu, Pehenptah, and American/German Collaboration at the Giza
Necropolis (Giza Archives Project Gleanings:II), in Fs. Schmitz, pp.2957.
Junker, Vorbericht 1912, pp.46.
See Junker, Vorbericht 19121913, pp.18788 (= pp.3738 of separately printed
version).
Junker, Vorbericht 1914, pp.4345.
April16, 1914. Removal of the crates of KaninisutI (g2155) to Cairo

April23, 1914. Departure from Cairo
Fourth season January4April20, 192632
January29, 1926. Discovery of the mastaba of KaninisutIII and Irienre
March20, 1926. Clearance of the burial chamber of KaninisutI33
Major excavation in this part of the necropolis did not

recommence until the end of the 1932 season, when g2100 and
g2210, originally excavated by Lythgoe, were reexamined (fig.1.11).
(Reisners eyesight had been failing since 1930). From December16,
1932 to April4, 1933, Noel F. Wheeler excavated a number of large
shafts in both Cemetery g2100 and the Cemetery en Echelon, with
the assistance of Hansmartin Handrick, between the American and
Austrian concessions. The year 1934 saw the clearance of the exterior
walls and chapel of g2210, and the last major period of concentrated
work in Cemetery g2100 by the original HarvardMFA Expedition
occurred in 1938.
Excavated objects from Cemetery g2100, and indeed the rest
of the Western Field, came to rest in a variety of locations. Divisions
between the HarvardMFA Expedition and the Egyptian antiquities
authorities resulted in additions to the collections of both the
Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Some objects remained in storage magazines at Giza; others were
reburied or never removed from burial chambers. Skeletal remains
seem to have been the most widely dispersed, with specimens today
in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Peabody Museum, Harvard
University; the Hearst (formerly Lowie) Museum of Anthropology,
University of California, Berkeley (even though the excavation of
Cemetery g2100 postdated the work of the Hearst Expedition);
and storage magazines still standing as late as 1993 on the original
site of Harvard Camp west of the Khafre Pyramid. These remains
were subsequently moved to a storage facility further west, after the
original Harvard Camp magazines were torn down. In the early
1990s, additional skeletons were rediscovered at the Kasr el Aini
Faculty of Medicine in Cairo.
In continuation of the more recent Giza Mastabas Project,
initiated in the early 1970s by William Kelly Simpson, Cemetery
g2100 was chosen as the subject of the present volume in the
Giza Mastabas Series. Research began with the archives (original
Expedition diaries, registers, plans, drawings, and photographs) in
the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Original Expedition photographs
were enlarged for preliminary epigraphic tracings following the
32
33
J unker, Vorbericht 1926, pp.11820. The 1926 season was actually the second
return to Giza by the Austrian expedition after World WarI. In winter, 1925, a
rescue campaign was undertaken to complete the documentation of the first
three seasons prior to the outbreak of the war. It was only after this 1925 season,
which never received an actual campaign number, that the expedition obtained
the funding to continue with a bona fide fourth season in 1926. For the 1925
salvage campaign, see Junker, Vorbericht 1925, pp.14754. The only work
mentioned here concerning Cemetery g2100 directly was the painting of two
watercolors by Uvo Hlscher, one of the complex of tombs of Qedfy, Nefer, and
Kaninisut, and the other of Nensedjerkai (ibid., p. 153).
Ibid., p. 120. Both SeshemneferII and KaninisutI are mentioned in the entry.
But this must be an error, at least in Kaninisuts case: Junker, Gza 2, p. 135
notes that the chapel reliefs were already sent to Vienna on April16, 1914 and
reassembled in the Kunsthistorisches Museum there in 1926.
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Chicago House method.34 These were later finalized using digital

epigraphy. In March1993, a two-day photographic survey of
Cemetery g2100 was undertaken with photographer Rus Gant.
A formal concession for the reexamination and publication of
Cemetery g2100 was granted for a five-week season from October30
to November28, 1993, supported by a grant from the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation. The goals of the November, 1993 field season
were to:
1) Prepare a first collation of the drawings of the decorated
surfaces of the tombs. These drawings were prepared from
photographic enlargements of the original Harvard University
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Expedition photographs, dating as
early as 1905, and stored in the collections of the MFA. In most
cases, black-and-white photographic enlargements (16 x 20) were
traced in Boston for collation at Giza
2) Complete the color photographic documentation of all
the architecture, reliefs, and inscriptions. Many of these images
provided comparison photographs with the original Expedition
plates from 19056, 191213, and 193132
3) Confirm (where possible) and expand upon the original
expedition records with additional plans, notes, and measurements
4) Seek the skeletal remains from the original Reisner
excavations to determine how many and which individuals from
Cemetery g2100 could be identified for physical anthropological
analysis
5) Analyze the cemetery as a whole, with a view towards
understanding the development and the interrelationships
of tombs within a single nucleus cemetery, from the original
Dynasty4 tombs through the later burials of Dynasty6; conduct
limited re-excavation where necessary
6) Survey the records of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, for
objects from Cemetery g2100
Additional study of Cemetery g2100 was undertaken amid

other work at Giza during short seasons in April1999, January2004,
March and August2005, and January and November2006.
It should be noted that Reisner did not fully clear Cemetery
g2100. As is clearly indicated on his plan (fig.2.5),35 the northernmost
edge of the nucleus cemetery was left unexcavated. The streets in
front (east) of g2220 and on both east and west of g2210 remain
uncleared. This area could be the focus of renewed study in the
future. The results would most likely provide a clearer picture of the
northwest half of g2220, the third largest mastaba in the entire Giza
Necropolis (after the anonymous mastaba g2000 in the Western
Cemetery; and g7510, Ankh-haf, in the Eastern Cemetery); as well as
reveal a number of later, subsidiary burial shafts surrounding g2210.
Museum Expedition Sources. Numerous sources exist for the

publication of Cemetery g2100. Most are stored in a variety of
archives in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.36 Many gaps, however,
are present in the records, especially from the 19051906 Lythgoe
season, the earliest years of work in the area. By combining and
comparing dates assigned to photographs, excavation directors and
reiss diary entries, and published and unpublished descriptions of
the area, it is generally possible to piece together the chronology

of the excavations. While discrete areas were the focus of particular
field seasons, the Expedition also returned sporadically over the years
to specific tombs and streets for additional excavation, sometimes
decades after the original clearance of the area. For this reason, dates
have been appended to all datable photographs; a particular image
could range from 1905 to 1939, or even represent a more modern
comparative view dating between the 1970s and the present. All
original HarvardMFA Expedition photography, as well as most of
the more recent color photography, is at this writing available online
on the Giza Archives Project Web site (www.gizapyramids.org).
Expedition Diaries. No diaries could be located for the years

19051906 when Lythgoe began clearing Cemetery g2100. For
the work of 1912, the diary of Clarence Fisher runs from January1
through February20. At that point Reisner himself took over and
continued until April1, 1912, when the Expedition moved elsewhere
in the Western Cemetery. Noel F. Wheeler kept the Expedition
diaries marked XII and XIII for the period from August8, 1932 until
March9, 1933. His employment for the Expedition was terminated
on September1, 1933.
Reiss Diaries: In addition to the diaries kept by Reisner and his
Western colleagues, the Expeditions Egyptian reises were often also
recording the daily progress of the work. These trusted foremen,
all trained by Reisner, included Said Ahmed Said (Diraz; reis from
1908 to 1926);37 his nephew Duwy Mahmud Ahmed (reis from 1933
to 1935); after Saids sudden death of pneumonia on February14,
1926, during the Hetepheres excavations, Mahmud el-Meyyit (reis
from 1905 to 1907 and 1926 to 1931); then one of Said Ahmeds sons,
Mohamed Said Ahmed (Diraz, b.February16, 1911; d.February25,
2004, reis from 1936 to 1947). This sons Arabic diaries dating to the
1930s were translated into English and typed by his brother Mahmud
Said Ahmed (Diraz, b.1914; d.1974 or 1975). Earlier Giza Arabic
diaries were kept by Duwy Mahmud. Unfortunately, the English
translations from the later years often omit copies of the architectural
sketch plans present in the original Arabic versions. Oddly enough,
none of the original Arabic diaries (covering Giza and other sites)
came to Boston when Dows Dunham and William Stevenson Smith
closed Harvard Camp and shipped all the archaeological archives
back to Boston in 1947.38
I was fortunate to make contact with the third-oldest son of
Reisners last reis (Mohamed Said Ahmed [Diraz]) in August2005
37
38
34
f. L. Bell, The Epigraphic Survey: Philosophy of Egyptian Epigraphy after Sixty

C
Years Practical Experience, in Problems and Priorities in Egyptian Archaeology,
pp.4355.
35 Original, simpler version in Reisner, GN1, map5.
36 For a more detailed description of the records of the HarvardMFA Expedition,
see A.M. Roths remarks in Giza Mastabas 6, A Cemetery of Palace Attendants,
pp.46.
s an indication of the high esteem in which he held these diaries, Reisner wrote
A
in a letter to MFA Director A. Fairbanks, dated July11, 1918: Saids merits are,
however, far more than the technical skill and courage necessary to mechanical
jobs. He keeps a diary which if it were the only diary of the expedition would be
no mean scientific record of our work, illustrated with drawings of tombs and
strata of debris, and lists of the finds. This Arabic Diary is destined to a place in
the archives of the Egyptian Department of the Museum along with my Diary
(Reisner to Fairbanks, page4; archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
M
y explanation for the diaries remaining in Egypt after the close of Harvard
Camp in 1947 assumes that they were stored in the reiss dig house, rather than
with the rest of the archaeological archives in the main buildings, and thus
escaped packing and shipping by Dunham and Smith in 1947. It is difficult to
believe that Dunham would not have wished to take the books home, had he
known about them. But I have no reason to suspect an intentional withholding of
the documentation on the part of the Diraz family. I have so far seen no references
to the diaries in the post-1947 correspondence between employees of the MFA and
Mohamed and his brother Mahmoud Said Ahmed Diraz.
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and January2006.39 This man, Hagg Hassan Mohamed Said Ahmed

Diraz (b.January20, 1938), had spent ten years as a boy at Harvard
Camp, and was four years old upon Reisners death (June6, 1942).
He and his family had carefully preserved the original Arabic diaries
of his grandfather, father, and first cousin. Seventy-two books
had lain in storage in the familys village in el-Qella, near Quft,
presumably since some time after 1947. In Novemberof 2006, the
books were obtained for the Museum of Fine Arts and shipped back
to Boston.40 Forty-two books concern the Giza excavations; the rest
cover Reisners other sites in Egypt and Nubia.41 They range in date
from 1913 to 1947. At this writing, the plan is to post the Arabic
Giza volumes and English translations on www.gizapyramids.org,
alongside their English-language counterparts. In many cases, the
Arabic diaries include more information than the English versions.
Object Registers. One object from Cemetery g2100 was recorded

in 1913; otherwise everything dates to the 1930s. The Object Registers
(40 x 44cm ledger books stored in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
have been scanned, with their entries converted to database fields,
and are posted online at www.gizapyramids.org.
Tomb Cards. These cards contain rough plans and sections of

individual shafts. Skeletal positions are often sketched in. The cards
are especially important since the HarvardMFA Expedition staff
decided to omit the skeletal remains on most of the final publicationready inkings made from these burial shaft tomb cards (see below).
ShaftInkings. Many of the burial shafts were retraced and inked by

the original Expedition. Shafts that were omitted usually contained
no subterranean chamber, often ending at bedrock. These drawings
have been redrawn for the present publication.42
Pottery and Small Object Drawings. Selected pottery and
small objects were inked by the original Expedition. Many of these
drawings were published in AppendixC of Reisners GN1.43
Photographic Registers. The Expedition photographs, on glass
negatives housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, provide the
foundation upon which all volumes of the Giza Mastabas series
depend. Moreover, since the photographic metadata are in most
cases intact, they are extremely useful in tracking the workflow of
the Expedition and linking objects with images and register entries.
In many cases, the ancient monuments have deteriorated or even
39
40
41
42
43
ohamed Said Ahmed (Diraz) had twelve children in all. I am grateful to Giza
M
inspector Mohamed Shiha for his assistance in locating Hagg Hassan Mohamed
Said Ahmed Diraz.
For their assistance in relocating the diaries to Boston, I am indebted to Zahi
Hawass, Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities,
his staff, and to Hagg Hassan Mohamed Said Ahmed Diraz. For their help
in expediting the shipping, we thank Elhamy Boulos (Cairo), and Pat Loiko
(formerly Registrar, MFA, Boston). In addition to the diaries, tomb cards with
plans and sections of individual burial shafts were retrieved for the following
tombs: g2103h, i, j, k, y, z, and g2104b ande.
Images and passages referring to Mohamed and Mahmoud Said Ahmed
(Diraz) may be found in W.S. Smith, Harvard Camp, The Earliest American
Archaeological Center in Egypt, Archaeology2 (1949), pp.19495, and B.V.
Bothmer, Egypt 1950, esp. figs.4648.
It should be noted that, in 1912, Clarence Fisher apparently devised his own
system for numbering the subsidiary burial shafts, covered in Part2 of this study.
Giza pottery and stone vessel typologies were published in Reisner and Smith,
GN2, Appendix III, pp.60102.
disappeared since these photographs were taken, hence the images

have only increased in value over time. Photographic plates were
given size designations (a: 18 x 24cm; b: 13 x 18cm; and c: 9 x
12cm) along with their negative numbers. Photographic Registers
contained descriptive information (site, date, photographer, etc.).
The images from the 19051906 season, the most important season
for Cemetery g2100, were produced primarily by Albert Lythgoe,
but rarely contain dates other than the year. The majority of the
remaining HarvardMFA photographs consulted and reproduced in
this volume were taken by Expedition photographers Mohammedani
Ibrahim, Mahmud Shaddf, and colleagues.44 All of these images
are also posted online at www.gizapyramids.org.
Giza Necropolis 23 (Unpublished Reisner Manuscripts).

Reisner originally envisioned his monumental History of the Giza
Necropolis continuing after volume1 through volumes24. On p.ix
of GN1, he outlined the contents of each of his volumes:
Giza Necropolis1 (published): Chapters IVIII
Giza Necropolis 2 (unpublished):
Chapter IX:
Service Equipment of the Chapels: Statues,

Offering-basins, and Vessels
Chapter X:
Burials and Burial Equipment
Chapter XI:
Funerary Equipment found in Burial

Chambers: Canopic Receptacles, Reserveheads; Stone Vessels; Pottery
Chapter XII:

Chambers; Miscellaneous Objects
Chapter XIII:

Chambers; Miscellaneous Objects (continued)
Chapter XIV:
The Masons Lines and the Quarry-marks

found in the Mastabas
Appendixes:
Nucleus Mastabas in the Cemetery en Echelon

and Cemetery 7000
Chapter XV:
The Chronology of the Finished Mastabas of

the Giza Necropolis;
Historical chapters on the royal family of
Dynasty4 and important families buried in
the Giza Necropolis
Appendixes: Secondary mastabas in the
Western Field
Secondary mastabas (completion) and rockcut tombs

Manuscripts for many of these chapters are preserved in the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and are posted on www.gizapyramids
.org. Reisners publication scheme was confused somewhat when,
after his death, William Stevenson Smith published the tomb of
44
or more information on the photographic operations of the Harvard University

F
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Expedition, see the authors edited version of one
chapter from Reisners unpublished manual on archaeological fieldwork: George
Andrew Reisner on Archaeological Photography, JARCE29 (1992), pp.134.
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Hetepheres (g7000x) and Giza pottery and stone vessel typologies

under the rubric of Giza Necropolis2. Thus, there is a published
volume Giza Necropolis2 (Hetepheres, by the [deceased] Reisner
and Smith), and a completely separate, unpublished manuscript
by Reisner called Giza Necropolis2 outlined above, as well as
manuscripts for Giza Necropolis3 and 4. These are all abbreviated
below as Reisner, GN.
Most of the summary descriptive material for the Cemetery
g2100 tombs in the present volume derives from six principal
sources: the published AppendixC from GN1 (pp.41753, major
mastabas only), AppendixMN from Reisners unpublished GN3
(pp.7a36b, subsidiary mastabas g2102 to g2157), AppendixA
from the unpublished Cemetery en Echelon manuscript of GN3
(pp.7287, subsidiary mastabas from g2161 onwards), Reisners
separate List of Finished Mastabas manuscript (pp.2225),
miscellanous manuscripts and notes, and supplementary work at
Giza undertaken in recent years.
Original Expedition Plans and Drawings. In A History of the

Giza Necropolis1, Reisner published a series of loose maps surveyed
and drawn by Alexander Floroff and traced by Nicholas Melnikoff.
Map5 (now numbered eg002028 on the Giza Archives Project Web
site) from GN1 is the main plan for Cemetery g2100, although it is
not without problems, and does not include the minor mastabas from
g2165 onwards. It has been modified somewhat in the present work
(fig.2.5), and now includes outline plans of the subterranean burial
chambers for the major mastabas, as well as mastabas omitted from the
original (primarily in the southern part of the cemetery). Additional
maps and plans critical to the study of Cemetery g2100 include
the Map of Cemetery en Echelon for the eastern groups of tombs
g21652179 and g22212225 (eg000498), a preliminary plan showing
the row of subsidiary burial shafts west of g2110 and their relation
to g20512054 (figs. 6.46.5, 6.117) and Map of Cemetery2000
(eg000497) for the street west of the cemetery, including the related
tombs g2041, g2051, and g2052 (not published here).
In addition to architectural plans and sections, a large number
of three-dimensional object and two-dimensional wall and stela
drawings round out the original Harvard UniversityBoston
Museum of Fine Arts Expedition archival materials. Many of these
have been redrawn, especially in those cases where the original wall
or object (in Boston or Cairo, or at Giza) was accessible for study
and collation. In other cases, the reproduction of original Expedition
drawings or, failing those, rough sketches based on Object Register
entries, were the only options. Wherever possible, digital epigraphy
was the method of choice for rendering facsimile illustrations.45 No
ink was used for the vast majority of the drawings in both Parts1 and 2
of the present work. For wall scenes and inscriptions, reduction scales
are generally 20 percent. In a few cases, however, additional reduction
was necessary due to space constraints.
his abbreviations and terminology. For positions of skeletal remains,

Reisner employed the following abbreviations:
term
csk
explanation
contracted body on the left side, with head facing north
tcsk
lcsk
tightly contracted on left side, with head facing north

leg contracted on the left side, with head facing north;
heels brought up under and near the buttocks
half contracted on left side, with head facing north; legs
bent slightly at the knees
extended skeleton, body on the back, with legs straight,
and head facing north
hcsk
exsk
Reisners ceramic and stone vessel typologies were published

after his death in Reisner and Smith, GN1, AppendicesI and II.
In recent years, several new ceramic publications have substantially
improved upon Reisners system.46
The Giza Archives Project and New Giza Tomb Numbers.

Since late 2000, a project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon
Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has been
preserving and presenting the Giza archives on the Internet. The
Projects mission is to serve as a centralized online repository for all
archaeological activity at the Giza Necropolis, beginning with the
Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts excavations.47
In recent years the Project has initiated its international phase,
collaborating with all of the worlds major Giza collections and
archives in Berkeley, Berlin, Cairo, Hildesheim, Philadelphia,
Leipzig, Turin, and Vienna.48 Many of the images and drawings in
the present volume are also posted on the Giza Web site, and many
more images and documents not reproduced here are available for
study there. These online items are cited in the pages below with
the photographic ID numbers or file names under which they may
be found on the Giza Archives Project Web site.49 While the URL
for the site will most likely change in years to come as the Internet
evolves, the ID numbers of individual items should remain intact, as
should access to the data online.
One of the goals of the Giza Archives Project is to organize
those parts of the necropolis that lack consistent tomb numbers.
46
47
48
Original Expedition Skeletal and Vessel Typology and

Terminology. Summaries of Reisners descriptions of the individual
mastabas, from both published and unpublished sources, are
provided in the chapters below. These descriptions include some of
45
his method is described in Manuelian, Digital Epigraphy: An Approach

T
to Streamlining Egyptological Epigraphic Method, JARCE35 (1998), pp.97
113 and idem, Digital Epigraphy at Giza, Egyptian Archaeology17 (Autumn,
2000), pp.2527.
49
A. Wodziska, A Manual of Egyptian Pottery, v 2: Naqada IIIMiddle Kingdom.

See also Hawass and Senussi, Old Kingdom Pottery from Giza.
See Manuelian, Virtual PyramidsReal Research. The Giza Archives Project
Goes Live Online. KMT16 (2005), pp.6880; idem, Das Giza-ArchivProjekt, Sokar10 (2005), pp.1017; and idem, The Giza Archives Project,
Egyptian Archaeology28 (2006), pp.3133.
For their tireless collaboration, expertise, and encouragement, the Giza
Archives Project staff are deeply indebted to the late Cathleen A. Keller, Joan
Knudsen, and Elizabeth Minor (Berkeley); Dietrich Wildung, Klaus Finneiser,
Stephan Seidlmayer (now DAI, Cairo) and Stefan Grunert (Berlin); Zahi
Hawass and Wafaa el-Saddiq (Cairo); Katja Lembke, Bettina Schmitz, and
Antje Spiekermann (Hildesheim); Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert and Friederike
Kampp-Seyfried (Leipzig and Berlin); David P. Silverman, Josef Wegner, and
Jennifer Houser Wegner (Philadelphia); Eleni Vassilika, Giovanni Bergamini,
Matilde Borla, and Elisa Fiore Marochetti (Turin); and Manfred Bietak, Peter
Jnosi, and Regina Hlzl (Vienna).
Junker himself followed a similar practice, often citing his expedition photographs
by their ID numbers, even though they remained unpublished images omitted
from his Gza volumes; see, for example, his Gza2, pp.13839; Gza6, pp.88,
9192, 94, 100, 103, 128, and 15455.
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Working with the SCA in Egypt, Giza Archives Project staff have
created new tomb numbers for several previously unnumbered
zones.50 In particular, the Central Field, excavated by Selim Hassan,
has now been named Cemetery g8000, and scholars have begun
citing these tombs under their new numbers.51 In Cemetery g2100,
covered in the present volume, several tombs, mostly those of the
Junker concession, have received new numbers. A concordance chart
is provided below.
Previous tomb designation
New Giza tomb number
Qedfy
g 2135a
Djednefret
g 2136a
Nimaatre
g 2136b
g2136 (Reisner tomb; not Kahif )
g 2136
g2156 (Redines; not KaninisutII)
g 2156
KaninisutIII
g 2156a
Irienre
g 2156b
Ankhmare
g 2156c
3D Computer Modeling. As an outgrowth of the Giza Archives

Project work listed above, recent work in 3D computer modeling have
allowed for unique, reconstructed views of the Giza Necropolis and,
in particular, selected mastabas of Cemetery g2100 (figs.1.121.15,
2.62.9, and Chapters36, 13). In contrast to some archaeological
modeling projects, which aim at hypothesized architectural models,
these reconstructions are based on the actual excavation images and
data collected by the original Giza expeditions, and supplemented
by extensive Egyptological consultation. Thus each loose block,
ceramic vessel, and bone fragment could be plotted in 3D on
the floor of a burial chamber in exactly the position recorded by
excavation photography as early as 19051906 (see figs. 1.121.13).
Simulations and reconstructions, such as the restoration of statues
to their original serdabs, are of course, also possible. Produced as
a collaboration between the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and
Dassault Systmes, Paris, the Giza computer model displays spatial
relationships between Giza features, both above and below ground,
that previously could not be visualized in three dimensions. This
process will evolve and improve over time as we attempt to create
new types of real-time interfaces and research approaches to the
Giza data. Sample rendered images from the Giza computer model
are included in the present volume for mastabas g2100, g2100-1,
g2100-11, g2110, and g2155.
Principles of Chapel Description. For tombs with extensive
amounts of relief decoration, a system was sought for describing
consistently the sequence of walls and scenes. The description
procedure outlined below is based, with some abbreviation and
50
51
I am particularly grateful to Zahi Hawass, Secretary General, and Mohamed

Shiha, chief inspector at Giza, both of the Supreme Council of Antiquities,
for their permission, support, and encouragement in our efforts to (re)number
selected Giza mastabas.
See, for example, P. Jnosi, an intact burial-chamber belonging to a great lady
of the Royal Family of the Fourth Dynasty oder: Wo waren Chephrens Tchter
bestattet?, in Fs. Schmitz, pp.13139.
Fig.1.12. Sequence of images showing the computer modeling process,

from excavation photograph of burial chamber of g2100a (top;1905
1906, HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b893), to
wireframe build (center), to final rendered image, which can be rotated
in real time (bottom). Reconstruction based on original HUMFA
Expedition data. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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modification, on W. Schenkel and K.P. Kuhlman, Das Grab des IbiI,

p.9ff:
Entrance (architrave, drum, etc.)
South entrance thickness
North entrance thickness
South (right) facade
North (left) facade
East Wall
South Wall
North Wall
West Wall
1. WP rule
The whole is described before its parts. Architectural features are
described before the decoration added to them. The decorated wall
surfaces of a room are treated in a series of steps from the whole to
its parts.
2. OI rule
The outside is described before the inside. Decorated walls are treated
in order, beginning with the wall containing the entrance door, and
ending with wall containing the exit door, or, if there is no exit door,
then the wall farthest (across) from the entrance door wall.
3. CE rule
The center is described before the edges on self-contained elements
such as a false door.
4. AB rule
Scenes and registers above are generally described before those below.
Text-critical key:
[]
<>
{}
()
tr/trs
destroyed
omitted by the Egyptians by mistake
added by the Egyptians by mistake
approximate translation/restoration
traces
Fig.1.13. Sequence of images showing the computer modeling process,

from excavation photograph of burial chamber of g2100a (top; January5,
1936, HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim,
a7363), to wireframe build (center), to final rendered image (bottom).
Reconstruction based on original HUMFA Expedition data. Courtesy
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Fig.1.14. Wireframe computer images for reconstructing the g2100 family complex (looking northwest), based on original HUMFA and German
Austrian Expedition plans and survey data. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.1.15. Rendered computer model of the g2100 family complex (looking northwest), based on original HUMFA and GermanAustrian Expedition
plans and survey data. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Chapter 2: Architectural History and Chronological Development
Chapter 2
ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
AND CHRONOLOGICAL
DEVELOPMENT
The Three Initial Nucleus Cemeteries

in the Western Cemetery
Well into Khufus reign, plans were underway for the layout and
development of the Giza Necropolis (figs.2.12.2, 2.5). In addition
to the construction of the Great Pyramid itself, most likely organized
and overseen by Hemiunu,1 several discrete mastaba clusters were
constructed in the areas east and west of the pyramid construction
site. The Eastern Cemetery was reserved primarily for members
of the royal family, while the Western Cemetery came to hold
the tombs of the governing classes and high officials. In the early
twentieth century, George Reisner identified these separate areas
as core, or nucleus, cemeteries. The distinguishing feature of a
nucleus cemetery lies in the similar proportions and construction
of the individual mastabas, along with their arrangement in a wellordered, preconceived layout.2 In the Western Cemetery, Reisner
distinguished three initial nucleus cemeteries, and he numbered
them Cemetery g1200, g2100, and g4000 (fig.2.2).
It remains a matter of debate whether there is an earliest or most
important nucleus cemetery. Could construction have continued
in these separate areas simultaneously? Even the reasons behind
specific owners obtaining specific mastabas (royal assignment?
personal choice?) is unresolved. Nevertheless, our picture of the
development of the Giza Necropolis is slowly coming into focus,
thanks to publications in recent years by Simpson, Roth, Baud,
Brovarski, Harpur, Hawass, Weeks, Jnosi, Lehner, and others.3
These scholars, as well as the present author, owe an immense debt
to their predecessorsReisner, Hermann Junker, Selim Hassan,
and Abdel Moneim Abu-Bakrfor providing the foundation upon
which recent advances have built.
1
2
f. W. Helck, Hemiunu, L2, col.1117; B. Schmitz, in Eggebrecht, Das Alte

C
Reich, pp.3638; Junker, Gza1, pp.13262.
Reisner, GN1, pp.7780; Jnosi, Die Grberwelt der Pyramidenzeit, pp.48
59; Lehner, The Development of the Giza Necropolis: The Khufu Project,
MDAIK41 (1985), pp.10943; idem, Giza. A Contextual Approach to the
Pyramids, AfO32 (1985), pp.13658. For Khufus queens and their satellite
pyramids, see Jnosi, Die Pyramidenanlagen der Kniginnen, pp.919.
For many of these Giza publications, the reader is referred to the bibliography.
More recent studies are either in print or in preparation by V. Chauvet, L. Flentye,
S. Winlaw, Y. Shirai, and M. Farouk.
A number of features identify the nucleus cemetery tombs as

the earliest in the Western Cemetery. The presence of slab stelae
at Giza, precursors to decorated niches and interior and exterior
chapels, is usually a clear indicator of Khufu-era tomb occupation.4
Furthermore, stone-lined burial chambers, canopic pits, and reserve
heads, rarely found after the reign of Khufu, abound in the earliest
Western Cemetery tombs.5 Of the three earliest nucleus cemeteries,6
Cemetery g4000, with its forty-one core mastabas, is the largest and
most regularly laid out, occupying an area of solid, level rock that is
centrally located relative to the axis of the Khufu Pyramid.7 While
Cemetery g4000 could have formed the original nucleus cemetery
to the west of the kings mortuary complex, it is equally possible that
we should rather seek the earliest Western Cemetery construction
further away from the pyramid, owing to the debris, scaffolding,
masonry work, and general constructional chaos that must have
surrounded the immediate vicinity of the royal construction site.
If distance from the pyramid were the overriding concern for
the Egyptian tomb-builders, then Cemetery g1200 is the prime
candidate for earliest nucleus cemetery. The preponderance of slab
stelae and stone-lined burial chambers found there, both of them
Khufu-era features, might seem to confirm this interpretation.8 As
the numbers of blocks and personnel needed for the rising pyramid
declined, the mastaba fields could have encroached eastwards,
towards the less encumbered royal construction site.9
The third early nucleus cemetery, numbered g2100, forms
the subject of the present volume.10 The least regular of all three
cemeteries, it nevertheless shares features with Cemeteries g1200
and g4000. For example, at least three slab stelae and one reserve
head were unearthed there, and a number of tombs display stonelined burial chambers. The general sizes of the mastaba cores are
similar to the those of the other nucleus cemeteries, and evidence for
expansion, annexes, and other alterations are abundant. However,
Cemetery g2100 contains one unique feature that associates it with
the period prior to Khufus reign; it thus forges a link to the past
that no other area at Giza can claim. The shafts leading to the burial
chambers in the five earliest mastabas depart from standard Giza
practice by displaying portcullis grooves at their southern ends.
Allowing for the portcullis stone to slide down over the southern
entrance passage to the burial chamber to seal the burial chambers,
these portcullis grooves create a T-shaped burial shaft in plan view,
a feature found earlier at Meidum and Dahshur, but nowhere else
anuelian, Slab Stelae, passim; Jnosi, The Tombs of Officials. Houses of

M
Eternity, in Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, pp.2739.
5 Reisner, GN1, pp.6465, 105; Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.5258.
6 Excluding the clearly later Cemetery en Echelon, at the eastern edge of the
Western Cemetery; see Jnosi, Old Kingdom Tombs and DatingProblems
and Priorities: The Cemetery en Echelon, in The Old Kingdom. Art and
Archaeology, pp.17583.
7 The massive mastaba cores of Cemetery g4000 represented for Reisner the most
influential branch of Khufus family, Reisner GN1, pp.7778.
8 W. Helck also believed Cemetery g1200 to be the earliest nucleus cemetery,
Miszelle, ZS 81 (1956), pp.6265.
9 The last area to be developed in the Western Field, the so-called Cemetery en
Echelon, is actually the closest to the Great Pyramid.
10 Some summary remarks on this cemetery were offered in Manuelian, A Reexamination of Reisners Nucleus Cemetery Concept at Giza: Preliminary
Remarks on Cemetery g 2100, in The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology,
pp.22130.
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Menkaure
Cem.
1200
Western
Cemetery
4000
Rock-cut tombs
Cem.
4000
2000
Cem.
2100
Khafre
Rock-cut tombs
Khufu
Central Field
Sphinx
Cem.
7000
7510
Eastern
Cemetery
300 m
Rock-cut tombs
American excavations
German/Austrian excavations
Egyptian excavations
Fig.2.1. Overview plan of the Giza Necropolis, with the American,

GermanAustrian, and Egyptian expedition concessions indicated.
Drawing by Liza Majerus.
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Fig.2.2. Western Cemetery from threequarters of the way up the Khufu Pyramid,
showing the three earliest nucleus cemeteries
marked in colors. December23, 1927.
HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Fig.2.3. T-shaped portcullis groove in a burial shaft at Meidum, after

J.de Morgan, Fouilles Dahchour1, p.9, figs.34.
Fig.2.4. T-shaped portcullis groove in the shaft of tomb II/1 at Dahshur,

after N. Alexanian, Kunst des Alten Reiches, p.2, fig.1.
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ion
American Concess
ion
B
G 2111
G 2100II
C
K
Z
A
G 2102
A B C D E
A B
G 2112a
A
G 2112c
G 2115
G 2104
F
A G 2114 H
D E
B C
G
F
G 2105
X Y
H
B A D
E F X
C G 2103
G 2112
G 2112b A
G 2110
E
B
G 2100
G 2100I
Concess
GermanAustrian
G 2113
G 2130
G 2120
A
A
G 2121
G 2131
G 2136b
Nimaatre
G 2141 A
G 4760 = VII N
G 2140
131
132
G 2135a
Qedfy
270
281 281 281

f
e
d
281
281
c
280
?
278
278
d
278
a
280
a
Nefer III
137
281
b
G 2136
Kahif
271
280
b
278
b
275
278
c
G 2136a
Djednefret
D C
Y X
G 2147
G 2148
B A
A B
A 2167B
E F G
A B C
X
Y
4984
A B C
Z 2168E F G
H
A B C D X
D
Y
Y X
N100,073
4981a
N100,116
A X
2181 A
2181a
B
G 2151
G2
G 2153
B
2171
A C E F G
A B C
2169 Z
A 2173C
S D B X
Z U
H G F
D C
B C D
2182
Z A
U
2183
B A d
2172
F
D
G 2157
D E
C G 2154
C
B A
B A
G 2154
X
V
B C
2178
X
D 2174
A B C
A B 2176 C
U V
W Z
2224
B C
2225
A
Y
X
D
A
G 2223
2221
2175
C D E F G
B C D
A
2177 A B
c
z aS Y X
E
bX Y
D
A B C
2179
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F
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2184b
G 2223
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X
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G H A
2462a
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2461 B
C D
A B
A
2462
2461 B A
2186
B C
D E F
c
A
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Z
D
2464
N100,159
26
Fig.2.5. Overview plan of Cemetery g2100, based on Reisners Map 5 from GN1 (eg002028), with additions to the east from the unpublished Cemetery en Echelon plan
(eg000498), and various other sources. Original plans drawn by Alexander Floroff and traced by Nicholas Melnikoff. 2008 Survey by A. Tavares, El Azab A. Hassan, and Sayed
Talbeah, combined with GIS referencing and rectification by Camilla Mazzucato (Ancient Egypt Research Associates).
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A
C G 2152
A B
2166
4982
4981
X
A B C
C G 2136
B A
4983
Z U
V
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G 2170
A B C
C D E
B
A
G 2162
U Z
G 2180 = G 4990
G 2156
S T
G 2161
G 2134a X
X
D
D E
C
2165 G
A
D B
G 2134
C D
G 4980
G 2163
G 2156a
Y Z
A C
G 2132
G 2133
G 2144
F
D
G 2146
G 2160
G 2155
X
G 2145
E
C
G 2143
267
130
G 4761 Nefer
266
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G 2135
G 2150
G 2142
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G 2113
N M
G 2110
A
C
B
G 2111
E
F
A G 2114 H
D E
B C
ated
Unexcav
G 2112
G 2112b A
D E
A B
G 2112a
A
G 2112c
G 2115
G 2210
X Y
G 2130
A
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G 2131
G 2150
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G 2133
G 2132
G 2134a X
ated
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W
U
A
D B
G 2134
C
A
B
S T
Z U
V
X Y
G 2151
X
A
C G 2152
G 2139
61
2162
G 2170
G 2157
X
Y
B
2171
A C E F G
A B C
2169 Z
A 2173C
S D B X
Z U
H G F
D C
2172
E
Y
Z A
U
2183
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X
V
B C
2178
X
D 2174
A B C
C G 2154a
C
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A B 2176 C
2224
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A
G 2223a
C
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G 2222 B
A
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2221
2175
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B C D
A
2177 A B
c
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E
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2179
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F
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2184b
U V
W Z
B A
G 2154
G 2223
2225
A
Y
X
D
G 2156
D E
A B
2163
G 2153
4
X
G 2138
C G 2136
A
G 2220
G 2137
B C
D E F
CEMETERY G 2100
Y
X
B
G H A
2462a
E F C D
2461 B
C D
A B
A
2462
2461 B A
2186
X Y
Z
D
2464
2463
A 2463
a
10
20 m
X
X
Surveyed and drawn by A. Floroff

Traced by N. Melnikoff
= False door
N100,159
N100,202
= Subterranean area
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at Giza (figs.2.32.4, and remarks below).11 This feature most likely

indicates a construction tradition imported by Khufus, or his father
Snefrus, architects from the earlier necropoleis to Giza, a tradition
that was only later replaced by square burial shafts lacking the two
portcullis stone grooves. The transition from the older T-shaped to
the newer square burial shafts may be seen within Cemetery g2100
itself, in the two halves of the cemetery: the earlier western mastabas
(T-shaped shafts) versus the later eastern mastabas (square shafts).
Who were the original owners of these nucleus cemetery tombs?
Were they members of separate branches of the royal family?12
Helck argued in 1956 that the three nucleus cemeteries were not
representative of royal family branches, since several individuals
buried in Cemetery g1200 were clearly not princes. He viewed the
owner of the most prominent mastaba in each of the three nucleus
cemeteries as the founder of the mastabas in that area:
Kern und Ausgangspunkt der Mastabengruppen ist die schon
durch ihre Gre hervorgehobene Anlage eines hohen Beamten
der Bauleitung, der in dieser Zeit natrlich noch ein Prinz sein
mu: Wp-m-nfr.t, m-jwnw und wohl auch der Vater des Mrjjb. An diese Kernanlagen anschlieend sind die Mastaben fr
die Angehrigen des Stabes angelegt, wobei deren Gattinnen
eigene Anlagen erhielten. Ein Unterschied zwischen Prinzen und
Nichtprinzen wird hier nicht gemacht.13
Contrary to previous publications on Cemetery g2100, our research

has shown that the owner of g2100, identified as the father of Merib
by Helck, Reisner, Priese, and others, may well be a woman, hence
Meribs mother, Sedit. It would be interesting to know if a woman
had equal authority to found a nucleus cemetery as did a man in
early Dynasty4.14
Other attempts to understand the development of the Western
Cemetery have included archaizing reuse of an earlier burial site,15
11
12
13
14
15
S ee Mastabas I/1 and II/1 at Dahshur: Alexanian, Das Grab des Prinzen
Netjer-aperef, fig.4, pl. 2; Stadelmann, Alexanian, Ernst, Heindl, and Raue,
Pyramiden und Nekropole des Snofru in Dahschur. Dritter Vorbericht ber die
Grabungen des Deutschen Archologischen Instituts in Dahschur, MDAIK49
(1993), p.273 fig.10, p.277, esp. 278 n. 40, and p.279 fig.12; also Alexanian,
Die Mastaba II/1 in Dahschur-Mitte, in Kunst des Alten Reiches, esp. pp.13.
For Meidum, cf. Petrie, Medum, pl. 7; Petrie, Mackay, and Wainwright, Meydum
and Memphis3, pls.1718 (Far Western Cemetery; Harpur, The Tombs of
Nefermaat and Rahotep at Maidum, pp.5152; De Morgan, Fouilles Dahchour1,
fig.3; cf. in general, Wildung, Meidum, in L4, esp. cols. 1213; and for a
brief announcement of a Dynasty4 shaft found within the Dynasty12 mastaba
of Nebit that also bears the T-shaped form, see Arnold, Die letzte Ruhesttte
gyptischer Beamter, Antike Welt6 (2002), pp.62829. On different aspects of
portcullis construction and deployment, see Reisner, GN1, pp.16875; Jnosi,
Die Grberwelt der Pyramidenzeit, p.36 fig.29, p.48 fig.41, p.52 fig.45. Arnold,
Building in Egypt, pp.7374, 22627, Clarke and Engelbach, Ancient Egyptian
Construction and Architecture, pp.7, 168, and Birrell, Portcullis Stones: Tomb
Security during the Early Dynastic Period, BACE 11 (2000), pp.1728.
R
Helck, Wolfgang. Zur Entstehung des Westfriedhofes an der Cheops-Pyramide.
ZS 81 (1956), p. 65.
Cf. Kemp, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period,
c. 26861552 B.C., in Trigger et al., Ancient Egypt. A Social History, p.79. Junker
first suggested that g2100 might belong to Meribs mother, since she appears in
his mastaba chapel immediately to the south; Junker, Gza2, pp.122, 13132.
See Schott, Friedhofsbruche in Giza, in Studien zu Sprache und Religion
gyptens2, pp.112130.
something Reisner himself noted in limited areas, such as the

Senedjemib complex.16
It should be remembered that early construction of a mastaba core
and its ultimate occupation were rarely simultaneous events. There
was often considerable lag time between the various construction
stages of the mastabas. Mastaba core construction formed step one,
followed by the excavation of burial shafts, the potential addition
of casing of various types, and the addition of annexes, niches,
and chapels. In many cases, an interior chapel was subsequently
broken into the originally solid core; in others, stone or mud-brick
chambers were built in the street and appended to the mastaba
superstructure.17 These facts suggest that the only way to understand
the development of the Giza necropolis is in terms of prefabricated
mastaba construction, in other words, the carefully planned and
organized layout of discrete nucleus cemeteries, and then their
subsequent assignment to actual individual families or officials.18
It was only after a mastaba core was assigned to an individual that
decisions were made concerning enlargements, casing types, chapel
form and decoration, and the number of burial shafts. All of these
issues were most likely settled according to the status and resources
of the prospective mastaba owner.19 Additional support for this
interpretation comes from the occasional termination of (unfinished)
burial shafts at ground level, at the bottom of the mastaba core. This
indicates that while the upper portion of the shafts in the mastaba
core were constructed as the core rose, the subterranean portion of
the shaft was a task reserved for later.20 The developmental history of
the major mastabas of the Western Cemetery is one of construction,
expansion, and alteration. Cemetery g2100 displays its share of
use, reuse, and abuse, of multiple phases and eras, from the reign
of Khufu into the Fifth and most likely the Sixth Dynasties. In fact,
the long delays between construction and decoration/occupation, as
well as the unfinished state of so many of the mastabas may indicate
that many of the ultimate owners of Cemetery g2100 tombs were
not Khufu-era individuals at all.
Cemetery g2100: General Remarks
Like many tomb clusters in the Western Cemetery, the mastabas

of Cemetery g2100 generally developed from west to east, moving
closer to the Khufu Pyramid. The twelve core mastabas of this
nucleus cemetery were placed on sound but uneven rock, perhaps
the worst of the three nucleus cemetery locations, as far as a regular,
graded foundation was concerned. East of the depression between
the east face of the great anonymous mastaba g2000 (= Lepsius 23)
and the western edge of Cemetery g2100, the rock slopes downward
gently to the east and north. The builders of Cemetery g2100 packed
16
17
18
19
20
f. Reisner, Note on Overbuilding and Intrusive Burials at Gizah, JEA23

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(1937), p.260. The first volume of the Senedjemib complex mastabas, at the
northwest corner of the Great Pyramid (g2370, g2374, and g2378) was
published by Brovarski, The Senedjemib Complex (Giza Mastabas7).
In Cemetery g2100, eight tombs show alterations to the original mastaba core
(g2110, g2120, g2130, g2210, g2140, g2150, g2155, g2220), while four do
not (g2100, g2135, g2160, g2170). For useful charts on the development of
Giza mastaba types, see Jnosi in Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, p.31,
fig.15; idem, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.277, fig.61; idem, Die Grberwelt der
Pyramidenzeit, p.55, fig.47.
Cf. Junker, Gza1, p.38; Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.281 with n.1784.
See Alexanian, Tomb and social status. The textual evidence, in The Old
Kingdom Art and Archaeology, pp.18.
Cf. Reisner, GN1, p.85.
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Fig.2.6. Computer reconstruction of the mastabas of the g2100 family complex, looking northwest; from right to left: g2100 (Sedit), g2100-1 (Merib)
and g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai). Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
the streets and avenues with limestone debris (from the construction
of the pyramid itself?) level with the floors of adjacent chapels and
mastaba casings.
As he did throughout the necropolis, Reisner labeled the north
south corridors between the mastabas streets, while the eastwest
passages he designated as avenues.21 The northsouth running
streets 1 to 3 (counting from the west) in Cemetery g2100 measure
6.4, 6.2, and 6.8m in width respectively. This averages to 6.4m,
in comparison with 6m for Cemetery g1200, 6.7m for Cemetery
g4000, and 5m for the later Cemetery en Echelon at the eastern
edge of the Western Cemetery. The avenues of Cemetery g2100
(running eastwest) range from 6 to 6.4m.22
The uncertainties of tombnumber assignments during an
ongoing excavation resulted in Reisners numbering the two large
mastabas at the northern edge of the area under discussion in the
2200s, rather than 2100s, as if they were part of a separate cemetery.
It later became clear that they belonged to Cemetery g2100. The
present volume includes these tombs (g2210 and g2220), and also
g2100, Sedit (Mother of Merib)

Little is known about the owner of this uncased mastaba, but he
or she is presumed to be the founder of the family complex that
came to consist, in chronological order and from north to south,
of g2100; g2100-1, the tomb of Merib; and g2100-11, the tomb
of Meribs daughter, Nensedjerkai. Each of the three tombs of this
family complex is treated separately in its own chapter below. G2100
21
23
22
eisner/Fisher, ASAE 1913 article with this explanation. For Reisners description
R
of the topography of Cemetery g2100, see his GN1, AppendixC, p.417.
Reisner, GN1, p.62.
refers to a few others out of the 2100 sequence. G2220 remains one
of the most problematic tombs of the group.23
A brief introductory list of the major mastabas and mastaba
owners, grouped by tomb number, follows below. For more
exhaustive remarks, the reader is directed to the individual mastaba
chapters in Part2.
Summary of the Original Twelve Mastabas of

Cemetery g2100
here are additional mastabas bearing numbers in the 2100s, but these are clearly
T
later constructions, further to the east of the nucleus cemetery under discussion
here. Examples include g2184, the mastaba of Akhmeretnisut; g2190; and others.
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Fig.2.7. Computer reconstruction of the burial shaft arrangement for the g2100 family complex, looking east towards the Khufu pyramid. From left to
right (north to south): g 2100a, g2100-1b, g2100-1c, and g2100-11a (with sarcophagus). Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
thus forms the first of this unique and contiguous family complex.
Only the gender of the skull and scattered bones found in shafta
allow us to determine that the owner was female, most likely the
mother of Merib, Sedit, who is represented several times in her
sons tomb chapel. No decoration of any kind survived from g2100
proper. A slab stela emplacement is present towards the south end
of the mastabas exterior east wall, but no stela or stela fragments
are known.24 Whatever form the mud-brick chapel built in front
(east) of the stela once took has also disappeared beneath subsequent
minor tomb construction.
g2110, Nefer
One of the most intriguing tombs of the entire Western Cemetery
belonged to Nefer, whose many titles included overseer of royal
scribal writing equipment, scribe of the palace, overseer of every
royal ornament, controller of regiments(?) of recruits, overseer of
the double storehouse of provisions, overseer of the weapons house
(armory?), great one of the tens of Upper Egypt, overseer of the double
treasury, master of secrets of the king in every place, and keeper of
the kings property/royal acquaintance.25 This tomb is one of the few

to show completed casing stones with the subsequent addition of
an exterior stone chapel. The decoration on three of the four chapel
walls provides us with Nefers identification, as well as that of his
wife, the mtrt Wenankhes, incorrectly restored to Meresankh in
many earlier publications, and by extension incorrectly assumed to
be the mother of Kanefer, the owner of g2150.26 No children or
parents are represented, however, and Nefers genealogy thus remains
obscure. One of Nefers scribes, however, Senenuka, possessed
tomb g2041 just to the southwest of mastaba g2110. Nefers
burial shaftcontained Cemetery g2100s only reserve head (MFA
06.1886; figs.6.906.100). This fact, plus the existence of portcullis
grooves in the shaft, and the tombs location in the earlier, western
half of Cemetery g2100, speak for its early date. It may also have
once possessed a slab stela, prior to the later construction of its
exterior stone chapel.27 However, several anomalies suggest its final
25
26
24
S ome of the HarvardMFA Expedtion records refer to a slab stela fragment

(MFA 33-2-187) containing the lower torso and legs of the seated tomb owner
that was once thought to belong to this emplacment of g2100. But this is
actually the lower left fragment of the slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu from g2120
(MFA 06.1894); see Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.7778, fig.102.
27
s noted elsewhere the original reading of r nswt was ry-t nswt; see Brovarski,
A
The Senedjemib Complex, p.24, n.55 with important bibliography. For the sake
of convenience, the later interpretation of the title (r nswt, royal acquaintance)
is used throughout the present publication.
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orrect Meresankh to read Wenankhes in the following publications:
Reisner, GN1, p.422; Baer, Rank and Title, p.146 [536]; Jnosi, Giza in der 4.
Dynastie, p.123; PMIII, p.72; Harpur, Decoration, p.286 (table2.3); Piacentini,
Les scribes, pp.9798. The correct reconstruction of Wenankhess name was first
discovered by Fischer, Varia, pp.3132.
S ee the discussion of fragment 3823 below in the chapter on g2110.
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have most often been linked with [r Md]w (Khufu). Moreover, a

graffito bearing rnpt-sp 4? on a dressing stone on the mastabas west
side is usually associated with Khufus reign.
g2210, Anonymous
No information on the owner of this mastaba has survived.While the
original form and dimensions are typical for a Khufu-era mastaba,
a massive extension with giant limestone blocks considerably
enlarged the superstructure to the north and east. The recess among
the massive boulders is all that remains of what was intended as an
interior chapel in the new configuration, but its precise layout can
no longer be determined. Moreover, shafta contains not one but
two burial chambers, indicating multiple construction phases. The
principal chamber is among the largest of Cemetery g2100, and
bears numerous quarry marks on the stones blocking the passage
between the shaftand the burial chamber.
Fig.2.8. Computer reconstruction of mastaba g2110 (Nefer), looking
southwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
occupation and use under Nefer date posterior to Khufus reign. The
burial chamber is not lined, no canopic niche is present, and the
decoration of the chapel extends far beyond the simpler slab stela
decoration program favored in Khufus reign.
g2120, Seshatsekhentiu
Larger than either g2100 or g2110, mastaba g2120 belonged to a
man named Seshatsekhentiu. No titles survive on his fragmentary
slab stela, which, apart from a few granite sunk-relief fragments
bearing ry-tp and tyw,28 give the only indication of the tombs
ownership. Mud-brick offering rooms were replaced by an exterior
stone chapel and the addition of an (unfinished) monolithic false
door, while massive casing blocks served to wall up the earlier slab
stela. North of the false door, a painted masons graffito bore the date
rnpt-sp12, II mw, generally attributed to the reign of Khufu. To
the south, Meribs daughter, Nensedjerkai, built the enclosed portico
to her unusual mastabadirectly abutting, and thus post-dating
Seshatsekhentius casing stones.
g2130, Khentka
This mastaba, the second-largest and certainly one of the oldest of
Cemetery g2100, is primarily noteworthy as the only tomb to receive
solid limestone fill blocks, rather than loose debris, in its mastaba
core. It was clearly intended for an important individual, and
received a northern extension, presumably for the construction of
an additional shaft and burial chamber. An interior stone chapel was
added during the casing alterations, and severely damaged decorated
surfaces here hint at the high quality of the relief carving, as well as
at the tomb-owners name. Fragmentary texts on the chapels sole
false door preserve nt in one place and k in another, suggesting the
name Khentka (or Kakhent). The titles s nswt and smr [wty] are also
preserved here, although the tombs location in the Western (rather
than Eastern) Cemetery casts doubt on Khentkas royal lineage. Seal
impressions (32126) ending in w from the debris of shafta
28
See fig.7.19; Reisner, GN1, p. 427, fig.246; Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.79,
figs.106107.
g2135, Anonymous
Along with g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai) and g2155 (KaninisutI),
g2135 lies south of the eastwest boundary line dividing Reisners
American concession to the north from Junkers GermanAustrian
concession to the south. No substantial changes to this uncased
mastaba are evident after the initial construction of the core and
preparation of a slab stela emplacement and exterior mud-brick
chapel. Unfortunately, the emplacement is no longer visible, and
only a single slab stela fragment emerged from the debris, bearing
neither name nor title(s) of its owner. Therefore there is little that
can be said about the ownership history of g2135, other than that it
appears to form a transitional tomb between the earlier western half
and later eastern half (its actual location) of Cemetery g2100. The
Dynasty6 addition of g2136, the multi-shaft tomb of Kahif, to the
north side cannot be linked genealogically to g2135.
g2140, Anonymous
Alterations to this mastaba include the construction of an interior
stone chapel. However, the only decoration is a partially carved
architrave on the chapels single false door. The inscription terminates
before listing the name and title(s) of the tomb owner. The tomb
contains a single burial shaft.
g2150, Kanefer
Kanefers mastaba is the only one in its street (comprising g2135,
g2140, and g2220) to bear enough decoration to reveal the name
of its owner. Exterior casing, a north niche, and an interior chapel
with a serdab were all added to this mastaba core, which clearly
belongs to the second, later half of Cemetery g2100s core mastabas.
Along with the tomb of Merib (g2100-1; chapel removed by Lepsius
to Berlin), g2150 is the only mastaba to display decoration on its
exterior facade, with carved scenes in raised relief still in place on
either side of the chapel entrance. Inside the chapel, all four walls are
carved, thus ranking Kanefers as one of the very few tombs whose
decoration could be called finished. For purposes of dating, the
tomb provides our clearest example of a terminus ante quem non,
in that both Khafres and Menkaures cartouches are present in
funerary estate place names on the chapels east wall. Despite the
original construction of the core under Khufu, the final occupation
of the tomb most likely dates to early Dynasty5. Kanefer is also
the only core mastaba owner to add a serdab and a second burial
shaft, to the west of his chapel. The two shafts might be thought to
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Fig.2.9. Computer reconstruction of mastaba g2155 (KaninisutI), looking southwest, including the adjoining subsidiary mastabas g2156 (KaninisutII) to
the east and g2156a (KaninisutIII) to the north. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
correspond well to the two false doors in his chapel (similar to Meribs
arrangement in g2100-1), but for the fact that they both appear to be
inscribed for Kanefer himself (the northern false door is damaged).
Furthermore, other mastabas in the cemetery bear two false doors but
only a single (g2155) or even no (g222029) burial shaft.
Kanefer was a kings son,30 overseer of commissions, sole
companion, elder of the chamber of the double administrations,
controller of the two canals of the king, overseer of the marshlands,
master of secrets of every foreign land, controller of interpreters,
controller of the (two?) bowcase bearers, elder of the chamber,
controller of the palace, staff of the subjects, favorite of his god,
and sole companion. His wife, Shepsetkau, was priestess of the
goddesses Hathor and Neith. Presumably, the other woman, the
sole companion, royal acquaintance, Meresankh, who appears on
29
30
S hafts b and c of g2220 are later, intrusive additions. Shafta was apparently
never cut (or, less likely, was missed by the HarvardMFA Expedition).
Once again, mostly likely an honorary title. True princes of the blood royal
under Khufu should have been interred in the Eastern Cemetery, and in
Dynasty5 should be sought in cemeteries other than Giza. For an opposing
view, see Kanawati, Tombs at Giza2, p.17.
the exterior facade, is Kanefers mother, but this is only conjecture.

His daughter, Meretites, was a royal ornament, while his son,
Kasewedja, was the eventual owner of mastaba g5340, much further
east in the Cemetery en Echelon. An overseer of funerary priests,
Ptahwer, appears in his tomb, no doubt the same man who later
constructed a subsidiary mastaba (g2151) with two small exterior
false doors immediately to the north of Kanefers own tomb.31
g2155, KaninisutI
Along with g2135, g2155 is one of two core mastabas that extend
Cemetery g2100 to the south. This may be taken as an indication
that the massive mastaba g2220 was already in existence further to
the north, and that a southern expansion of the nucleus cemetery
was the only remaining option available. A typically sized mastaba
core when first constructed, g2155 underwent substantial alterations
after the reign of Khufu. The core superstructure was cased, given a
north niche, and a southern extension enlarged the mastaba much
31
In addition, a certain Neferherenptah appears on the chapels south facade (see
fig.12.71), and a loose architrave of a sbty nswt, royal instructor, Neferherenptah
(3615), surfaced east of g2130 (fig.8.28).
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further southwards, out of (southern edge) alignment with the older

tomb g2135. Most important, this southern extension housed an
interior stone chapel with two false doors and a serdab. This chapel
was removed to the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Inv.Nr.S8006), by Junker after excavation in 1912.32 It is one of the
very few chapels from Cemetery g2100 that might be considered
finished in terms of decoration. Despite the presence of two false
doors, only a single burial shaft was found in the core mastaba. The
tomb also served as the center of a family complex, with a small
annex building for Kaninisuts son, KaninisutII (g2156), added
on to the center of his fathers exterior eastern facade. In fact, the
son transformed a portion of his fathers exterior east wall into the
decorated west wall of his own interior chapel. Furthermore, a
grandson, KaninisutIII, added his own mastaba (g2156a) abutting
the northern end of g2155.
KaninisutI bore a number of titles, but was doubtfully a prince of
the blood royal. He was the kings (bodily) son, sem priest, controller
of kilts, (sole) companion, stolist of Horus, district administrator of
Dep, mouth of all the people of Pe, master of secrets of the robing
room, who is in charge of el-Kab, chief of reversion offerings of the
house of life, ruler of Bat, controller of the black jar, priest of the lord
of Buto, son of the north, lector priest, follower of Ha, one (among)
the great ones of the festival, controller of the palace, and sole
companion. His wife was the royal acquaintance, Nefre(t)hanisut.
His children included two sons, the royal acquaintance, district
administrator of Dep, mouth of all the people of Pe, Horwer, and
KaninisutII; along with a daughter named Wadjethetep.
For a host of reasonsamong them the style and expansive
repertoire of the chapel decoration, the extension and casing of the
mastaba, and the existence of two chapel false doorsthe tomb as
finally occupied by KaninisutI must postdate Dynasty4. Whether
it once contained a slab stela prior to its extension, and whether this
slab stela belonged to a previous tomb owner other than Kaninisut,
remain open questions.33
g2160, Anonymous
No alterations to this core mastaba are discernible. There is no
sign of a slab stela emplacement, secondary chapel construction,
mastaba casing, or northern niche. The single burial shaft remained
unfinished, with the burial chamber off axis, extending atypically to
the east instead of to the south. No decoration is preserved, and the
dearth of Khufu-era features points to a long-unused mastaba that
only later may have served for an intrusive burial.
g2170, Anonymous
The situation with g2170 is very similar to that of g2160. Again,
no inscriptions or decoration, no casing, northern niche, slab stela
emplacement, or recognizable chapel construction are preserved. The
single shaft in this tomb, however, diverges from the norm under
Khufu in positioning the burial chamber, not to the south, but to
32
33
S ee most recently on the chapel (Vienna, S 8006) Hlzl, Ka-ni-nisut, and idem,
Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches2, pp.3387. See also Junker, Gza2,
pp.13572; idem, Die Kultkammer des Prinzen Kanjnjswt= The Offering Room
of Prince Kaninisut; H. Satzinger, Das Kunsthistorische Museum Wien, pp.9093.
The anonymous slab stela fragment, Vienna Inv.-Nr. S7447, may derive from
g2155; see below, Chapter13, and Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.8891, and correct
the caption in Hlzl, Ka-ni-nisut, p.21, fig.10, to read KaninisutI rather than II.
the west. Reisner believed both burial chambers, those of g2160 and
g2170, dated to late Dynasty4 or early Dynasty5.34
g2220, Anonymous
This mastaba is perhaps the most enigmatic of the entire group.
Considered by some not to be a core mastaba of the original nucleus
Cemetery g2100, we have nevertheless included it, bringing the
total to twelve that other scholars have counted only as eleven.
Unfortunately, the unfinished state of the HarvardMFA Expedition
excavations here left the tomb largely uncleared on its eastern,
western, and northern sides.
This tomb is not only the largest in the nucleus cemetery
(62 x 20.4m), but is in fact, after tombs g2000 (=Lepsius 23;
105x53.2m), and g7510 (Ankh-haf; 101x52m), the largest mastaba
at Giza.35 While this chapel bears features seemingly later than
Khufus reign, it may nevertheless represent a secondary construction
phase for the mastaba. Despite Reisners numbering in the 2200s
instead of 2100s, it is difficult to explain away the significance of
this oversized mastaba for the nucleus cemetery in question. One
wonders if it is to be taken as the principal tomb of Cemetery
g2100, after the manner of g1201 (Wepemnefret) in Cemetery
g1200 and g4000 (Hemiunu) in Cemetery g4000. (Helck argued
in 1956 for such principal tombs for each of the three early nucleus
cemeteries [see above], although he cited g2100 rather than g2220
in the case of Cemetery g2100.36) As further evidence for its early
date, it might be argued that g2220 predates the core construction
of g2135 and g2155, for its location appears to have forced the two
latter tombs out of alignment with the rest of this cemetery. G2135
and g2155 had to be placed further south than any other Cemetery
g2100 mastabas. More research is clearly in order on the concept of
principal mastabas within nucleus cemeteries.
As originally constructed, g2220 aligned with g2210 along its
southern edge. Subsequent extensions can only be estimated, due
to the unfinished nature of the excavations, but they included an
interior stone chapel with two false doors. Extremely sophisticated
preparation of the fine limestone chapel blocks is in evidence here,
even though the walls bear only uncompleted decoration. The only
scenes begun are some large-scale standing figures of the tomb owner
and his family on the east wall.
Even more unusual is the apparent absence of a principal shafta
in the northern half of the mastabas superstructure. Instead, Reisners
expedition located two shafts, b and c, in an eastwest alignment
just to the northwest of the chapel. Both of these shafts are clearly
later intrusive additions. Shaftb, further away from the chapel,
contained the finely wrapped, mummified body of a female, placed
within a massive, undecorated cedar coffin (33421= MFA33.1016).
This is the best-preserved of all the core mastaba burials in Cemetery
g2100. Shaftc, by contrast, was left unfinished.
The identity of the tomb owner, most likely a male to judge
from the unfinished chapel reliefs rather than the female buried in
shaftc, remains unknown. If the chapel was a later addition, then the
presence of two false doors, often dated to Menkaure or later, need
not counter the interpretation of the mastaba core itself as belonging
to the original group of twelve Cemetery g2100 mastabas.
34
35
36
Reisner, GN1, p. 113.

y comparison, the mastaba of Hemiunu (g4000), at 53.2 x 26.77m, is larger
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on the long sides, but smaller on the small sides than g2220.
Helck, ZS 81 (1956), p. 65.
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Relative Chronology
In its finalalbeit never completely finishedform, Cemetery

g2100 came to consist of the twelve major mastaba cores listed above
and a host of later minor subsidiary sepulchres. Reisner correctly
divided the major tombs into two sections, an earlier western half,
and a later eastern half. Each half contains two northsouth rows of
mastabas, and the regularity of their layout increases as one moves
from west to east. The initial irregularity of the older half thus raises
questions about the sequence of construction. If we consider the
four rows from west to east, and list the tombs from south to north,
we find the following mastabas:
Western half, western row:
g2100 Sedit (see below), g2110 Nefer
Western half, eastern row:
g2120 Seshatsekhentiu, g2130 Khentka(?), g2210 (anonymous)
Eastern half, western row:
g2135 (anonymous), g2140 (anonymous), g2150 Kanefer
Eastern half, eastern row:
g2155 (KaninisutI), g2160 (anonymous), g2170 (anonymous)
g2220 (anonymous).
Regularity of alignment appears in all but the westernmost
row of the cemetery (g2100 and g2110). On the eastwest axis, the
southern ends of many of the mastabas clearly align, forming ordered
streets and avenues. Originally these streets allowed unimpeded
access to all the mortuary chapels of the cemetery, and were gradually
filled with subsidiary structures only after the reign of Khufu. The
alignments are clearest at the southern ends of g2100-i = Lepsius24
(Merib), g2120 (Seshatsekhentiu), g2140, and g2160. Another
series of southern end alignments includes g2130 (Khentka), g2150
(Kanefer), and g2170, although there are discrepancies of alignment
between original cores and the subsequent casings. G2210 and
g2220 likewise align along their southern ends, while the two
tombs at the southernmost edge of the cemetery, g2135 and g2155
(KaninisutI), align along their northern ends.
Junker argued that construction of the eastern half of the
cemetery dated to the reigns of MenkaureShepseskaf.37 However,
the presence of g2135 in this half of the cemetery vitiates that
argument. G2135 displays too may features deriving from Khufu-era
mastabas to be dated later: the remnants of a slab stela, a mud-brick
exterior chapel, and a lined burial chamber. As Jnosi has pointed
out, it would make little sense for this tomb to contain the items
just listed and date as late as Menkaure, while other Menkaure-era
mastabas were being adorned with fully decorated chapels and two
false doors.38 Reisners interpretation, namely that all the mastaba cores
of Cemetery g2100 dated to Khufu, regardless of the period of their
subsequent occupation and alterations, is the neater solution. The one
mastaba core that remains problematic in this regard is g2220.
Reisner argued for distinguishing building phases as detailed as
the fifth, tenth, and fifteenth years of Khufus reign, and he devised
his chronological reconstruction accordingly.39 More recently,

however, Jnosi has shown that dating to this level of detail is simply
not supported by the evidence.40 Long delays between completion
and occupation render it unlikely that portions of the Eastern and
Western Cemeteries were complete a mere five years into Khufus
reign. For example, construction graffiti on tombs such as g4000
(Hemiunu) would indicate more than a decade between construction
and completion of that tomb.41 Only about a quarter of the sixtyfour core mastabas of the Western Cemetery could be considered
finished. Since it is unlikely that these tombs languished over two or
more decades of Khufus reign since their initial completion, it seems
safer to dispense with Reisners five-, ten-, and fifteen-year framework
for mastaba construction under Khufu. Rather, considering Khufus
reign as a unit of its own, and attempting to ascertain mastaba
construction/occupation as dating either to Khufu or post-Khufu is
the more prudent approach, based on the evidence at hand.
A number of factors allow us to construct a skeletal framework
for the development of Cemetery g2100, although we are hindered
by the lack of precise geomorphological analysis of the area by the
original excavators. Among the architectural features of chronological
relevance are the form of the chapel, the number of false doors, the
shape of the primary shaft and lining of the burial chamber, the
presence or absence of slab stelae and reserve heads, the presence
of masons marks or dated construction graffiti, seal impressions or
other inscriptional evidence, elements of decoration and style, and
the overall extent of alterations to the core mastaba. Many of these
features can be linked to the reign of Khufu; others appear only later.
SUPERSTRUCTURES. The procedure for cased mastaba

construction took, according to Reisner, the following steps:
1)construction of the core, including the portion of the burial shaft
located in the superstructure; 2) excavation of the subterranean
portion of the burial shaftand chamber; 3) construction of the
offering chapel and exterior casing of the core; 4) decoration of the
chapel; 5) actual burial, placement of the body, burial equipment,
sealing of the burial chamber, and filling of the burial shaft.42
Analysis of the Western Cemetery has revealed a standard core
size for the original Khufu-era mastabas: 23.5 x 10.22m, giving a
proportion of 1:2.17, and 240.5 square meters.43 Curiously, Cemetery
g2100 falls further outside of this norm than either of the other
two nucleus cemeteries. Tombs g2100 (prior to the southern
annex addition of g2100-1, Merib) and g2110 are identical in
superstructure dimensions, but slightly smaller (at 21.6 x 12m) than
the standard mastaba size listed above. By contrast, tombs g2120,
g2130, g2210, and g2220 are much larger than the standard mastaba
size. If Cemetery g2100, and in particular the five core mastabas
of the earlier, western half of the cemetery (g2100, g2110, g2120,
g2130, and g2210), show such unusual (echelon) alignment and
core mastaba sizes, could these features support an extremely early
39
40
41
42
37
38
Junker, Gza 1, pp.1014; Gza 2, p. 136.

Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p. 153. It should be noted, however, that this tomb
lacks the T-shaped portcullis groove found in the burial shafts of all five Khufuera mastabas in the earlier, western half of Cemetery g2100.
43
eisner, GN1, pp.12, 7576, 78. Reisners layout for the Western Cemetery is
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schematically illustrated by Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.130, fig.10. For his
discussion of Junkers chronological reconstruction, see ibid., pp.13642.
Ibid., pp.13132.
Cf. Junker, Gza1, p.161.
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eisner, GN1, pp.3031 and 3952, including a list of indexes for dating the
different stages of mastaba construction. See also J. Sainte Fare Garnot, Etudes
sur la ncropole de Gza sous la IVe Dynastie, RdE9 (1952), pp.7079.
Reisner, GN1, pp.5657. Jnosi gives slightly modified standard mastaba
measurements in Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.151: 23.6 x 10.5m.
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Abb. 2 Re konstr uktion eines grosteinigen Gr abtumulus mit Vorbau aus Ziegeln
Fig.2.10.
Janosi p. Typical
82 fig. 2 Khufu-era mastaba superstructure, with an exterior
chapel protecting the offering place containing the slab stela. After Jnosi,
Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.82, fig.2. Drawing by Liza Majerus.
date in the original layout of the Western Cemetery? Was it only

after the construction of the earlier half of Cemetery g2100 that
mastaba sizes were standardized throughout the rest of the cemetery?
By the time of the construction of the later, eastern half, regularity of
alignment and standardization of core sizes may have set in.
One of the best sources for determining a relative chronology
for these major mastabas lies in the history of their alterations. Fewer
examples of annexes and alterations to the basic mastaba cores are
attested in Cemetery g2100 than in Cemetery g1200.44 And yet the
tombs did not remain static following their original construction.
While the nucleus cemetery was clearly constructed during Khufus
reign, the extent of the alterations, and the apparently long delay
prior to the completion and occupation of some tombs, may indicate
that either some mastaba cores lay unassigned to individuals for a
long time, or that the final tomb owners were not always the original
ones. Otherwise we would have to reconstruct a scenario whereby an
official received a mastaba core during the reign of Khufu, but then
waited a decade or two45 to proceed with its customization.46 Fully
seven or eight of the twelve mastabas show changes to their cores,
while only four do not. Those showing alterations to the core mastaba
include: g2110, g2120, g2130, g2210, g2140, g2150, g2155, and
possibly g2220 (assuming it is indeed contemporary with the rest
of the cemetery). Those occupied (or left unused) without major
alterations include: g2100, g2135, g2160, and g2170.
Of the many core types described in Reisners typology, the
type designated II accounts for the majority of mastabas constructed
in Cemetery g2100. Type II mastabas were built by first laying a
retaining wall course of drab limestone blocks, filled in with a layer
of sand, rocks, chips, and debris. A succeeding course of retaining
44
45
46
f the ten core mastabas of Cemetery g1200, four tombs show annex extensions
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to provide for additional burial shafts. All have lined burial chambers, and three
tombs were given massive stone extension walls on the east side for interior
stone chapels to replace the original cult focus with slab stela. See Jnosi, Giza in
der 4. Dynastie, p. 218, and Reisner and Fisher, Preliminary Report on the work
of the HarvardBoston Expedition in 191113, ASAE 13 (1914), pp.22752.
Absolute chronological reconstructions depend, of course, on the accuracy
assigned to our interpretation of the biennial cattle counts. For a recent
reexamination, suggesting a reduction by approximately 20 percent in the
interval between the counting and the doubling of regnal years, see J. Nolan,
The Original Lunar Calendar and Cattle Counts in Old Kingdom Egypt, in
Basel Egyptology Prize1, pp.7597.
Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p. 219, and A.M. Roth, The Practical Economics
of Tomb-Building in the Old Kingdom: A Visit to the Necropolis in a Carrying
Chair, in For His Ka. Essays Offered in Memory of Klaus Baer, pp.22740.
wall blocks then arose, followed in turn by more interior fill, and so
on until the core and retaining wall were complete. A slab stela was
probably present or planned for emplacement towards the southern
end of the eastern exterior wall in the majority of typeII tombs, and
was protected by one or more mud-brick offering rooms (fig.2.10).
No northern niche was envisioned at this original construction stage.
A single, two-meter square burial shaft was placed in the northern
half of the core and cased down through the superstructure in a
fashion similar to the cores exterior retaining wall.47 Ten mastabas of
Cemetery g2100 were constructed in this fashion, termed by Reisner
typeIIa. His typeIIb was applied to g2130, which is the only core
mastaba in this nucleus cemetery to be filled with small, cut limestone
blocks rather than simply debris.48 This fact probably explains the
currently depleted state of g2130s core, since this tomb is the only
one to provide a ready-made source of small blocks for quarrying away
for other structures. Both the interior core and the exterior casing have
been largely removed from g2130 (see figs.8.18.3).
Three more of Reisners core types, reserved primarily for later
structures, appear in this cemetery: types IV, VII, and IX. Two of
these apply to tombs later than the original twelve core mastabas.
Type IV, as represented in this case by g2220,49 shows a massive
core of large nummulitic limestone blocks. Type VII designates a
filled mastaba with large, sloping nummulitic limestone slabs in
the retaining wall, interior chapel, and two 2-meter square burial
shafts. The tomb of Merib (g2100-1) fits this description,50 but it
is considered an annex building abutting g2100, rather than an
independent, original core mastaba of Cemetery g2100. Finally,
Reisners typeIX is differentiated by its construction of an exterior
stone chapel. Tombs g2110 (Nefer) and g2120 (Seshatsekhentiu),
both originally of core type IIa before the addition of their exterior
chapels, fit into this category.51
CASINGS. The exteriors of the mastabas of Cemetery g2100 do

not present the uniform style found in other areas of the Western
Cemetery. A number of different casing types, and even an absence of
casing, account for the individual appearance of each mastaba. Some
tombs contain fine, sloping white limestone walls with precise joins
and sharp corners, while others show massive nummulitic limestone
slabs, or casings, consisting of small blocks in vertical steps. Some
casings appear completely finished, others are interrupted. Several
portions of casings were later quarried away as a convenient source
of building material. The mastaba cores of Reisners type II, the
primary core type used in Cemetery g2100, were cased about as
often as they were left uncased.52
The four uncased cores of the cemetery are g2100, g2135,
g2160, and g2170. Recent reexamination of mastaba g2100,
however, revealed foundation blocks and grid lines aligned with
the exterior casing of the abutting tomb g2100-1 to the south,
47
48
49
50
51
52
Reisner, GN1, pp.3940.

eisner, GN1, p. 40, and Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.22122.
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eisner, GN1, pp.41, 451.
Reisner, GN1, pp.49, 419.
Reisner, GN1, pp.52 and 42223 for g2110 Nefer: ibid., pp.52 and 425 for g2120.
Although dating to later than the original core mastabas of Cemetery g2100,
g2100-ii (Nensedjerkai) may also be placed in this type IX; ibid., pp.52, 421.
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eisners tomb count of the three early Western Cemetery nucleus cemeteries
(g1200, g2100, and g4000) in 1942 resulted in 17 limestone-cased mastabas
and 45 either uncased or cased with other materials, such as mud brick. See his
remarks in GN1, p.181.
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From Reisner, Giza Necropolis I, p. 179
2
m
Type W
(G 4940)
Filling
Filling
0
Type Z
(G 2150)
Filling
Type Y
(G 7350)
Filling
Type X
(G 5080)
4
m
2
m
Fig.2.11. Reisners casing types, as attested in Cemetery g2100; after Reisner, GN1, p.179, figs.8486, 89. Redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
indicating that g2100 was once intended to be cased (fig.3.18).

According to Reisner, the casing construction on g2120 and g2210
was interrupted
the death of Casing
Khufu, Type
and Yat this
time g2130,
Casing
Type X Gby5080
G 7350
g2100, Fig.
and84
g2135 were finished and perhaps
already
occupied by
Fig. 85
their owners.53 There is, however, no sound evidence to link these
alterations so precisely to the death of Khufu.
Reisner distinguished two casing types, x and y, used during the
reign of Khufu, and four others, z, w, u, and zu, which first appear
after that kings reign. His classification follows below, excluding the
casing types not attested in Cemetery g210054 (fig.2.11):
Casing types attested
in Cemetery
0
1 g2100
2
m
Casing x: finely fitted and smoothly dressed fine white limestone to a
sloping surface: blocks of stone laid with the grain horizontal
SAMPLE:
Casing y: similar appearance to x but with higher courses and with

the blocks (or slabs) set with the grain slanting (parallel to the
dressed face of the casing)
Casing z: gray nummulitic limestone: small blocks set in low-stepped
courses
Masonry w: gray nummulitic limestone: great slabs set in high courses
Filling
and roughly dressed to a sloping surface
Mastaba superstructures seem rarely finished with roof slabs,

but two examples appear in Cemetery g2100. G2100-1 (Merib)
and g2155 (KaninisutI) are both tombs whose final occupation
dates to early Dynasty5 (figs.4.1, 4.3, 4,14, 4.18, 13.2, 13.10).55 Since
the chapel of Merib (g2100-1) was removed by Lepsius, this tomb
affords a particularly instructive sectional view of the roofing stones

(fig.4.14).56
Cemetery
g2100
into
an earlier
CasingBeyond
Type Z theGclear
2150division of Casing
Type
W G
4940
(western)
and
a
later
(eastern)
half,
additional
clues
gained
from
Fig. 86
Fig. 87
the relative positioning of individual mastabas shed light on the
developmental sequence for this nucleus cemetery. A few of these
will be summarized here. Most obvious among them is the sequence
for the unique family complex founded by the owner of g2100.
N mastaba of Merib, g2100-i, envelops and extends the
The annex
southern end of g2100. It must, therefore, postdate g2100 proper,
and the suspicion is likely that the owner of the earlier tomb is either
the father or mother (Sedit) of Merib himself. The extension, or
doubling of the length of this mastaba is comparable to the creation of
the great twin mastabas of the Eastern Cemetery. However, as Jnosi
has noted, the Eastern Cemetery royal mastaba extensions occurred
all within the same generation, while Merib was a descendant of
the owner of g2100.57 Furthermore, the original mastaba, g2100,
was apparently never completely cased, as was g2100-i, although
preparational evidence has been recently located (fig.3.18). And
finally, yet another generation joined this family complex, as Meribs
daughter, Nensedjerkai, added her unique porticoed sepulchre
(g2100-ii) to the southern end of her fathers annex mastaba.58 Taken
together, these three tombs form the clearest evidence of sequential
family development in all of Cemetery g2100, primarily due to
their contiguous layout and the presence of inscriptional evidence
in two of the three chapels. Another family complex, though less
contiguous or linear in its arrangement, developed around g2155,
the tomb of KaninisutI, primarily to the east and north.
56
The chapel area of g2155 (Kaninisut I) lies at this writing completely buried
under sand fill. Other tombs at Giza with roofing stones intact or partially intact
G 2150
includetype
g2100-11
Casing
Z (Nensedjerkai), g2155 (KaninisutI; see esp. Junker, Gza2,
p.140), g5340 (Kasewedja), g2135a (Qedfy; Junker, Gza6, pp.8889), g4940
GN I, Fig. 86
53
54
55
eisner, GN1, p.67.

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Another example of roofing stones may be seen on the mastabas of Kasewedja,
g5230 (Babaef ); PMIII, pp.15556; and Reisner, GN1, pp.17576.
57
58
(SeshemneferI), and g5230 (Babaef ). At Saqqara see, for example, Davies

Ptahhetep1, pls.2324 (offering room), and pl.2 (pillared hall); and Lythgoe
and Ransom, Perneb, p.28 (roof of main offering chamber). For general remarks,
primarily focused on shaft roofing, see Junker, Gza1, p.41.
Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.153.
This tomb is sometimes called g2101 in the older literature; cf. PMIII, p.72.
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For Reisner, g2100 was the first mastaba built in Cemetery

g2100, and the oldest tomb in the westernmost row.59 There is
much evidence to support his claim, since this tomb contained a slab
stela emplacement, portcullis groove on the T-shaped burial shaft,
and a lined burial chamberall Khufu-era features. Another option,
alluded to above, might consider the massive core g2220 as being of
primary significance, similar to g1201 (Wepemnefret) in Cemetery
g2100 and g4000 (Hemiunu) in Cemetery g4000 (assuming one
interprets the interior stone chapel of g2220 as a later alteration to
the original core mastaba). But more likely still as a candidate for
earliest mastaba of Cemetery g2100 might be, as Jnosi argues,60
g2130, the core that was ultimately occupied by Khentka. Like
g2220, this core is also of extraordinary size, and is the only one to
show solid limestone blocks (typeIIb61) instead of fill debris in its
core. It was one of the more labor-intensive and time-consuming
tombs to build; was it therefore Cemetery g2100s prototype tomb
that proved too expensive to imitate? G2130 has the smallest lined
burial chamber of the group, which agrees in dimensions, not with
the huge chamber of the neighboring g2120, but with the typical
chamber sizes of the oldest mastabas of Cemeteries g1200 and
g4000. This led Reisner to posit that shafta of g2130was the
oldest completed burial chamber in the group.62 Like g2100, g2130
likewise shows a T-shaped burial shaft portcullis groove, and a lined
burial chamber. G2130 received a northern extension, presumably to
take an additional burial shaft that was never begun, as well as a stone
interior chapel and northern niche. It thus clearly predates g2210 to
its north, for the latter tomb had no space to its south for expansion,
and was therefore forced to expand further to the north. Whether
the origins of Cemetery g2100 hinge on the initial construction of
g2100 (westernmost tomb), g2130 (solid filled mastaba), or even
g2220 (largest mastaba), remains a matter of conjecture.
Other architectural clues to relative chronology and sequential
development are provided by g2220, whose volume occupies the
space of two individual mastabas. The two mastabas that should
have arisen here would have been, following Reisners numbering,
a northern *g2160 and a northern *g2190. Instead, two core
mastabas, g2135 and g2155 were forced to extend Cemetery g2100
further south and out of alignment; hence they should postdate the
construction of g2220.
Core mastaba construction of g2140 most likely predates the
casing and expansion of g2120, located further west. The original
core of g2120 aligns with g2140, but the southern expansion of
g2120 does not. Likewise, a relational sequence between g2130 and
g2150 may be reconstructed as follows:
1) g2130 extension
2) g2150 core construction
streets and avenues of Cemetery g2100, but these will be discussed

below in the second volume of the present work.
The table below summarizes types and dimensions for the major
elements of the twelve core mastaba superstructures.
Tomb
Casing type
Mastaba
type
IIa
21.6 x 12
24.8 x 14.4
IIa
g2120 !
Seshatsekhentiu
g2130 !
Khentka
g2210 (?)
28 x 12.4
30.4 x 14.8
IIa
x (GN1,
p.422 but
y-finished on
p.180
y-unfinished
30.8 x 12.1
36.15 x 15.1
IIb
y-finished
26.35 x 11.75
34.5 x 17.4
IIa
g2135
(?)
23.45 x 10.3
IIa
stepped,
drab (GN1,
p.433)
uncased
g2140
(?)
23.2 x 10.4
IIa
g2150 !
Kanefer
g2155 !
KaninisutI
g2160 (?)
23.2 x 10.4
25.2 x 12
IIa
23.5 x 10.5
32.2 x 12.4
IIa
23.6 x 10.4
IIa
y and w
mixed
uncased
g2170
(?)
23.2 x 10.8
IIa
uncased
g2220
(?) 62 x 20.4
66.8 x 25.2
(est. Reisner,
GN1, p.451)
IV-iii
unfinished
g2100
Sedit
g2110
Nefer
Extension
Core
mastaba (m)
21.6 x 12
uncased
CHAPELS, NICHES, AND FALSE DOORS. Prior to the

construction of interior or exterior stone chapels, the preference
during the reign of Khufu consisted of a simple slab stela inserted
in the southern half of the mastaba cores eastern exterior wall and
protected by one or more exterior mud-brick chambers.63 At least
three tombs (g2100, g2120, and g2135), and possibly four (g2110),
contained a slab stela, or an emplacement for one.64 G2100 and
g2135 show no subsequent alterations to the chapel area, while
Seshatsekhentiu later walled up his slab stela in g2120 and replaced
the mud-brick with a stone chapel and monolithic false door. To this
list might be added one or two tombs whose slab stela location was
perhaps destroyed when chapel alterations were made. These include
g2110 (casing followed by exterior stone chapel), g2130 (interior
stone chapel), g2155 (southern extension with interior stone chapel,
3) g2150 extension (resulting in southern misalignment with

g2130)
4) g2130 walls off exterior chapel, blocking access from the south
A host of other matrix relationships are in evidence between
the major core mastabas and the later, subsidiary tombs filling in the
63
64
59
60
61
62

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Reisner, GN1, p.40.
Reisner, GN1, p.113.
or an exceptional example of a slab stela set into the mastabas extension casing,
F
see the tomb of Meretites (g4140): Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.93, 9495,
figs.13237, 167.
On the possibility that g2155 also once contained an unusual slab stela, possibly
proving original ownership of the mastaba by someone other than KaninisutI,
see below, Chapter13, and Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.8891. For speculation on
the original appearance of g2110 (Nefer), and mention of the patch stone just
north of the interior chapel of g2130 (Khentka), cf. ibid., pp.16162, 16869,
and below, Chapters6 and 8.
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table scene
Nefer
seated
men & oryx
destroyed
fragment of estate figure
scribes, bringing animals, birds
scribes, bringing animals
standing
couple
15 male and female estates

15 male and femaleestates
bearers: oxen, calf; butchers
13 male estates
standing couple
offering list
seated deceased
journey to west
table scene
standing
female
text
3 standing scribes
destroyed
name & titles

scribes at work
4 scribes
4 scribes
Nefer
standing
G 2110
standing
scribes
couple
bearers sons daughter
10 male offering bearers
standing
deceased
& son
unfinished
2 male priests
2 male offerers
2 male offerers
seated
couple
dec.
standing
destroyed
destroyed
G 2155
men bring wild animals
undecorated/destroyed
destroyed
unfinished
deceased
seated
destroyed
standing couple
son
unfinished
architrave
text
destroyed
destroyed
G 2130
undecorated
undecorated
undecorated
undecorated
G 2220
offering libation
offering duck
standing couple
offering incense
offering linen
offerings
seated deceased
sarcophagi
table scene
standing couple
G 2100-I
Merib
standing,
son
vessels of food, drink

2 kneeling scribes
presenting list; scribe
priest; 3 bearers; butchering ox
1offering list
5 estates
5 female estates
butchery, offerers, livestock
standing
standing couple
2 male offerers
deceased,
2 male offerers, dwarf & monkey
son & male offerers
ka priest
ka priest
bearer
table bearer
scene
Merib
seated
table scene
standing
deceased
wife & daughter
G 2150
bearers
butchers
Merib
standing
son
daughter
son
son
Merib
standing
2 male offerers
2 male offerers
2 male offerers standing deceased & son
2 female offerers
Priests
Priests
Bearers
Bearers
Bearers
Animals
Animals
estates
estates
estates
bearers
butchery
table offerer
scene scribe
bearer
2 boats
journey to
West
G 2140
Merib
standing,
son
10
m
Fig.2.12. Comparison of chapel types attested in Cemetery g2100.
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and annex tomb g2156 abutting the east wall), and g2210 (eastern
extension for interior stone chapel).
Reisner developed an elaborate scheme for designating no less
than thirteen different chapel types at Giza.65 His types1 through 4a
occur in Dynasty4. Type1 represents the mud-brick exterior chapel,
type2 the exterior L-shaped chapel, type3 the interior L-shaped
chapel, and type4 the northsouth offering room with two false
door niches in the west wall and an asymmetrical entrance from the
east. The only mastaba chapel in Cemetery g2100 to bear a different
type number from those outlined above is g2100-11, the unique
structure of Nensedjerkai, which falls outside (i.e., later than) our
group of original core mastabas. Her tomb contains a roofed exterior
chapel built against the facade of a mastaba, with the false doors in
the west wall of the corridor (type8).66
Alterations to the cult focus resulted in superceding the slab
stela with a stone chapel built either inside the mastaba core, or over
the previous mud-brick offering rooms out in the street.67 But it
is a curious feature that the majority of the chapels of Cemetery
g2100 remained unfinished. Only two or possibly three chapels out
of all the original twelve Cemetery g2100 core mastabas may be
considered finished in terms of their decoration: g2130 (Khentka),68
g2150 (Kanefer), and g2155 (KaninisutI).69 KaninisutIs chapel,
however, is of Dynasty5 date, and is set in the southern annex of the
core mastaba.70 Turning now to the unfinished chapels, we find the
chapel of g2110 (Nefer) bears no decoration on its false door jambs71
or north wall (figs.6.74, 6.796.80). Nothing remains of the walls
of the stone chapel of g2120 (Seshatsekhentiu), but his monolithic
false door is unfinished (figs.7.87.10). The sculptors working on
g2140 proceeded no farther than the beginning of a tp nswt
formula on the architrave of the chapels false door (figs.11.1611.18).
They abandoned the carving before reaching the location normally
reserved for the deceaseds name. And finally, the chapel of g2220
shows only rough outlines of the tomb-owner and family standing
on the east wall (figs.16.5016.55). Figures2.122.13 summarize the
surviving decorative progream of the chapels.
Interior chapels were added to six tombs: g2130, g2210 (postextension), g2140, g2150, g2155 (in southern extension), and g2220.
Although g2100-1 (Merib) also possessed a stone interior chapel,
his is a special case, namely, an annexed addition forming a family
complex with the owner of g2100 (and later with Meribs daughter,
Nensedjerkai, owner of g2100-11). Nefer, owner of g2110, provides
the only example of a stone exterior chapel added subsequent to the
casing of the core mastaba. In addition, Nefers chapel shows the
unique layout of an entrance at the south side of the east wall, rather
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
eisner, GN1, p. 296.

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Minor mastabas preserving chapels of additional types in Cemetery g2100
include g2136 (Kahif; type10), and g2175 (Nedju, Khnumnefer, type7). See
Part2 of the present work.
See Reisner, GN1, pp.18384, and Jnosi, Die Grberwelt der Pyramidenzeit,
pp.5457.
Khentkas (g2130) chapel is almost completely destroyed, but seems to show
areas lacking relief sculpture; see below, Chapter8.
Although the definition of completed decoration might be argued, note that
Jnosi claimed KaninisutI (g2155) was the only possessor of a completed chapel
in Cemetery g2100: Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.218.
On the possibility of an earlier slab stela deriving from this tomb, see below and
Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.8891.
The otherwise undecorated false door does, however, have an inscribed panel,
now in the Museo Barracco in Rome; see below, Chapter6 (Nefer, g2110).
than the customary north side. While the orientation of the chapels
original wooden door is clear, and even related to the presence and
absence of decoration on the chapels south wall, no convincing
argument is yet forthcoming to explain this divergence in Nefers
L-shaped chapel layout. Were the architects forced to relocate the
door further south in order to protect the interior (and sole) false
door niche from direct exposure across from the entrance door?
Was a preexisting structure already in the street that necessitated the
southward slide of Nefers entire chapel along his mastabas recently
cased east exterior wall, resulting in the unusual arrangement?72 If
the subsidiary mastaba g2115 did not exist at the time of Nefers
alterations, would his exterior chapel have been placed further north,
so that the false door and entrance could take their usual postions,
i.e. the entrance towards the northern end of the east wall, and the
false door towards the southern end of the chapels west wall?
As the protective locus for the all-important offering ritual, the
chapel73 must be viewed in conjunction with the layout of the false
door(s).74 The chronological progression at Giza is generally agreed
to follow from slab stela to exterior chapel and false door, to interior
chapel.75 In those tombs with preserved chapels, all contain a single
false door except for the two false doors in the chapels of g2100-1
(Merib), g2150 (Kanefer), g2155 (KaninisutI), and g2220.76 In
the cases of g2150 (Kanefer), g2155 (KaninisutI), and the chapel of
g2100-1 (Merib), both doors appear dedicated to the tomb-owner
himself, and not to a spouse or any other individual(s).77 Strudwick
has determined that the west wall between the two false doors
generally displays one of three decorative schemes: a standing figure
just south of the north false door and facing left (south); a standing
figure just north of the south false door and facing right (north);
and a seated figure just north of the south false door and facing right
(north).78 Since the earlier, L-shaped chapels with a single false door
follow the first decorative scheme listed above (a standing figure at
right, facing left [south]), Strudwick labels this the oldest of the three
schemes.79 Cemetery g2100 tombs that follow this layout on their
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
irect exposure of false doors across from the chapel entrance are attested in
D
the chapels of g2100-1 (Merib), g2150 (Kanefer), and g2155 (KaninisutI).
However, in each of these cases we have two false doors, whereas Nefer shows
only one.
For recent discussions on tomb decoration in the Old Kingdom, see R. van
Walsem, Iconography of Old Kingdom Elite Tombs; and Fitzenreiter and Herb,
Dekorierte Grabanlangen im Alten Reich.
O
n false doors in general see Reisner, GN1, pp.33046; idem, The Position
of Early Grave Stelae, in Studies Griffith, pp.32431; S. Wiebach, Die
gyptische Scheintr; Cherpion, Mastabas et hypoges, pp.7075; D. Arnold,
Lexikon der gyptischen Baukunst, pp.22627; A. Rusch, Die Entwicklung
der Grabsteinformen im Alten Reich, ZS 58 (1923), pp.10124; Junker,
Gza12, pp.6875; Hassan, Gza5, pp.65180; G. Haeny, Scheintr, in L
5, cols. 56374; Strudwick, Administration, pp.952; and Piacentini, Les Scribes,
pp.9699.
F
or more on the discussion of false door versus slab stela as original cult focus
at Giza, see G. Haeny, Zu den Platten mit Opfertischszene in Helwan und
Giseh, in Fs. Ricke, esp. pp.15859; Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.16162; and
Fitzenreiter, Zum Phnomen der isolierten Speisetischtafel in der 4.Dynastie,
GM208 (2006), pp.1928.
Tombs outside of the original 12 nucleus mastabas with two false doors include
g2100-i (Merib), g2100-ii (Nensedjerkai), g2151 (Ptahwer), g2041 (Senenuka),
and g2136 (Kahif ).
K
anefers northern false door is preserved only in its lower jambs, but the tomb
owners name and standing figure is preserved on the left (southern) jamb.
Strudwick, Administration, p. 44, with figs.79.
Ibid., p. 49.
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Fig.2.13. Schematic comparison of chapel wall decoration programs attested in Cemetery g2100.
west walls include g2100-1 (Merib), g2150 (Kanefer), and g2155

(KaninisutI).80
There are no examples in Cemetery g 2100 of the so-called
Prunkscheintr, with cavetto cornice and torus molding, a form
that originated at Saqqara around the reign of Djedkare Izezi.81
Northern niches are found on the eastern facades of g2110,
g2130, g2150, and g2155 (along with the annex chapel of g21001, Merib, fig.2.14). In each of these tombs, the northern niche is
set into the exterior casing, rather than the core mastaba. They are
therefore part of the subsequent alterations made to each mastaba.
None of the three tombs definitely equipped with slab stelae (g2100,
g2120, and g2135) shows a northern niche. The simpler northern
niches belong, as one might expect, to the older tombs g2110 and
g2130, each with just one set of jambs. In each case, merely the
80
81
hese tombs all show two false doors. The exception, g2100 (Nefer), displays
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a single false door, atypically placed at the north end of the west wall, and
accompanied by Strudwicks third decorative layout scheme: the deceased seated
at left and facing right (north).
Cf. Strudwick, Administration, p.50, who cites the tomb of Senedjemib Inti
(g2370) as one of the first at Giza to show the Prunkscheintr.
niches lower portion is preserved, so no conclusions can be drawn

about panels, lintels, or architraves. G2130 shows a massive platform
block (figs.2.14c, 8.4, 8.8) just in front of the niche, presumably for
offerings. The only other niche with an offering place in front is
the tiny rectangular basin depression carved in front of Kanefers
elaborate niche (g2150, figs.12.4812.50). This niche is fully formed,
and consists of separately prepared blocks installed into the casing
with little relation to it. It shows two sets of jambs, a drum, lintel,
panel, and apertures. No architrave is preserved; Reisner found an
architrave inscribed for Kanefer in the street east of the mastaba
and assigned it here, but it more likely derives from the entrance
to the chapel proper, further to the south. The northern niche of
g2155 (KaninisutI) bears a single set of jambs, but is preserved high
enough to display a drum; what lay above is lost. Finally, while not
part of the original core mastabas proper, Meribs southern annex
extension (g2100-1) of his mothers mastaba (g2100) shows an
elaborately worked northern niche. Unlike Kanefers separately
produced niche, Meribs niche is clearly conceived as a part of
the casing construction. While two pairs of jambs were planned,
the left (southern) outer jamb remains unfinished. A drum, lintel,
panel, apertures, and architrave complete the composition. If any
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Fig.2.14. Comparison of north niches attested in Cemetery g2100 (all images by Peter Der Manuelian).
a: g2100-1 Merib, November21, 1993. pdm_1993.107.21.
b: g2110 Nefer. November21, 1993. pdm_1993.108.19.
c: g2130 Khentka, November3, 1993. pdm_1993.055.12.
d: g2150 Kanefer, November4, 1993. pdm_1993.060.16.
e: g2155 KaninisutI, November20, 1993. pdm_1993.096.30.
decoration adorned this, and indeed any of the northern niches, it

was painted, not carved, and has not survived.
SERDABS. Early Old Kingdom mastabas rarely show evidence of

a serdab. K. Lehmann has gathered fourteen Giza mastabas from
Dynasty4, ten of which contain a single serdab, three of which
contain two, and one that contains four serdabs.82 (This is in stark
contrast to Dynasty5 at Giza, where 168 mastabas with 229 serdabs
are attested.83) Most of these are located behind the west wall of
82
83
n serdabs, see Reisner, GN2 (unpublished manuscript), ChapterIX, pp.171,

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The Use of Statues and Statuettes Exposed to View or Placed in Concealed
Statue-Rooms (Serdabs). See also K. Lehmann, Der Serdab in den Privatgrbern
des Alten Reiches, p. 23.
I bid., p. 31.
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the chapel, and are overwhelmingly oriented eastwest. Alignment

directly behind a false door, however, appears quite arbitrary. In
Cemetery g2100 only two or three serdabs were present in the
major mastabas, all of them in tombs of the later (eastern) half of
the cemetery, and all occurring behind chapels with two false doors.
G2150 (Kanefer) revealed a serdab behind the northern of its two
chapel false doors. The door itself had been broken open and the
serdab plundered long before excavation by the HarvardMFA
Expedition, but a few alabaster stauette fragments may originally
have been deposited here.84 G2155 (KaninisutI) contained a serdab
behind the southern of its two chapel false doors. It too was discovered
empty. And finally, the southern of the two chapel false doors of
g2220 contains what appears to be a window slit underneath the
drum, but no actual cavity behind the door is readily discernible.85
The table below shows the comparative data for chapels, false
doors, northern niches, and Reisners chapel typology. For the sake of
completeness, we add the chapel information for g2100-1 (Merib),
even though it is not an independent mastaba: 3.85 x 1.56 m; 2 false
doors; north niche.
Tomb
Chapel (m) Number of North

false doors niche
1 a? (traces)
3.7 x 1.15
2b
3.55 x 1.50
g2130 !
Khentka
g2210 (?)
4.50 x 1.60
1 a (ext. mudbrick chapel);

later ext. white
stone: 2 b
3a
3 a(?) 4 a(?)
g2135
(?)
1a
g2140
(?)
2.65 x. 1.10
3a
g2100 [
Sedit
g2110 !
Nefer
g2120 !
Seshatsekhentiu
Reisner
chapel type
g2150 !
Kanefer
g2155 !
KaninisutI
g2160 (?)
3.15 x 1.05
4a
ext. mud brick: lg
3.70 x 1.50
4 a;
ext. c.b chapel i f
1? destroyed
g2170
(?)
1? destroyed
g2220
(?) 6.0 x 1.6
4a
SUBSTRUCTURES. Reisner designated shafts with alphabetical

letters, beginning with a for the principal shaft, and continuing in
order (b, c, d). This system accounted for shafts that were part of the
original construction of the tomb in question. For shafts that were
later, intrusive or both, Reisner began from the end of the alphabet
and worked backwards (z, y, x, etc.).86
Burial shafts are composed of one or more of three principal
elements: 1) the shaft itself, descending through the mastaba
superstructure down into the bedrock; 2) a short connecting
passage, usually leading off to the south from the shaft; and 3) the
burial chamber itself. Some of the burial shafts in Cemetery g2100
contain all three of these elements, and are finished with great care
and precision. Generally speaking, the more sophisticated the shaft,
the older its date, i.e. the greater the likelihood that construction
occurred during Khufus reign. Others are little more than unfinished
shallow pits of irregular shape. Since the present volume considers
primarily the original nucleus mastabas of Cemetery g2100, we
will focus on the principal shafts for these tombs, which are, not
surprisingly and with few exceptions, the deepest and most carefully
prepared. For the twelve core mastabas there are fourteen shafts
to summarize.87 The discrepancy between numbers of tombs and
numbers of shafts lies in the fact that the tomb of Kanefer (g2150)
contains two burial shafts (a and b), while that of g2220 apparently
lacks a principal shafta but has two, later intrusive ones (b and c).
Were we to consider solely the principal shafts, we would find a total
of eleven shafts for twelve mastabas.
The burial shafts of most of the nucleus mastabas of Cemetery
g2100 are approximately 2m square. This is also true of most shafts
in mastaba cores of Reisners typesII, III, and IV throughout the Giza
Necropolis. Where the shafts pass through the mastaba core, they are
cased in a manner similar to that of the mastabas exterior retaining
wall casing. Burial chambers opened off a small passageway leading
from the south wall of the shaft. In the earlier, Khufu-era mastabas,
the chambers were lined with fine white limestone blocks. Square
canopic pits were often cut in the southeast corner of the burial
chamber, and sarcophagi were placed along the west wall, oriented
northsouth. Unfortunately, all the nucleus mastaba burial shafts in
Cemetery g2100, and indeed most primary burial shafts throughout
the Western Cemetery, were plundered long before the arrival of any
of the modern archaeological expeditions.88 What usually remained
for the excavators was either a bare floor or scattered bones, the latter
accompanied by an empty or fragmentary stone sarcophagus or
wood coffin, and miscellaneous funerary implements.
Reisner discerned nine different types of burial shafts for the
Giza Necropolis, but only a few of them need concern us here for
the tombs of Cemetery g2100. These are described, in Reisners own
terms,89 as follows, with my addition of the tombs under discussion
added in parentheses:
86
87
88
84
85
hese statue fragments include 32123, 3311 = MFA 33.1021 (both from debris
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of shaftb), 3312 (=MFA 33.1022, from debris on top of the mastaba), and
3314 (=MFA 33.1024, from debris of shafta). For more information see below,
Chapter12 (g2150).
Among the later subsidiary mastabas added to Cemetery g2100, those with
serdabs include g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai), g2136 (Kahif ), g2173, and g2175
(Khnumnefer and Nedju); see below, Part2, and Lehmann, Der Serdab in den
Privatgrbern des Alten Reiches, catalogue nos.G110a, G111, G114, and G115.
89
Reisner, GN1, p. 85ff.

his tally omits g2100-1, the tomb of Merib, which has two shafts a, and b, in
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its southern annex tomb abutting g2100.
Reisner, GN1, p.175. One exception, albeit in a later, intrusive shaft, was the
mummified female placed in a large cedar coffin from shaftb of g2220; see
Chapter16.
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eisner describes his shaft typology in GN1, pp.86101. Note that he treats
g2220 separately, under large outlying mastabas in the Western Field (GN1,
p.145, section 5). G2220b is listed as type4b(2) and g2220c as type4a(2)
(unfinished). Reisner assumed the owner was related to the tomb owners of
g2210 and g2130, based on little more than geographical proximity. Jnosi also
tends to consider this mastaba separately from the original core mastabas of
Cemetery g2100: Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.22425.
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Reisner shaft types attested in Cemetery g 2100

type 1: large lined chambers, always south of the shaft, entered by
a long connecting passage at or near the east end of the north
wall of the chamber; chamber lined and paved with fine white
limestone dressed smooth, but not roofed (g2100a, g2120a,
g2130a, g2210a, g2135a)
type 3: like type 1, but unlined; high chambers (g2140a)
type 4: like type 3, but with low chamber, roof-level of chamber at
roof-level of passage; height of chamber as height of passage
on inside, or with low step from floor of passage to floor of
chamber, connecting passage not less than 0.5m in length
(g2110a, g2150a, g2155a, g2160a, g2220b, g2220c).
type 6: without connecting passage or doorjambs; chambers open
directly into shaft (g 2150 b, g 2170a)
Shafts of type1 were used in 14 of the first 15 tombs of the three

nucleus Cemeteries g1200, g2100, and g4000 of the Western Field
(the exception being g2110 a). Type1 also appears in one tomb from
the later group of six mastabas in Cemetery g2100 (g2135 a).
Portcullis stones originally served to block the passage opening
from the burial shafts south wall on all five of the earlier, westernhalf mastabas: g2100, g2110, g2120, g2130, and g2210. By adding
portcullis grooves for the stones to slide into, lending a T-shaped
appearance to the mouth of the shaft, the Khufu-era architects used
an archaizing construction technique, attested prior to Khufus reign
(see remarks above). They also prevented the easy prying-back of
the portcullis stones by thieves; however, merely smashing a corner
of the stone provided access to the passage and burial chamber, as
can be seen in tombs g2100 (figs.3.25, 3.29) and g2120 (fig.7.15).
Portcullis stones were broken into fragments in g2130 and g2110.
Some irregularities in the groove construction are also in evidence.
The eastern groove was not cut into the bedrock in g2110. The shaft
of g2120 terminates its portcullis grooves at ground level, and the
portcullis stone blocking the passage at the bottom of the shaft is
not part of the groove system.90 In g2210, which contained two
chambers, both portcullis grooves stop .8m below the passage to
(the smaller and higher) chamber1. This provides further evidence
that the enormous, lower chamberII is a later, post-Khufu era
addition to the tomb.
In terms of methods of descent prepared by the Egyptians,
several nucleus mastaba burial shafts show semicircular toeholds cut
on the north and east walls (for g2130a: figs.3.213.23; for g2130a:
8.17; and for g2210a: 9.2391). This choice of north and east walls
quite logically avoided the south wall, since the latter eventually
opened onto the passageway to the burial chamber. However, one
anomalous exception, g2170, shows toeholds cut on the west wall,
the same wall bearing the entrance to its unusually oriented burial
chamber (fig.15.7).92 The chart below summarizes the presence or
absence and location of the toeholds, at least as far as was visible in
recent years:
90
91
92
hile the termination of the portcullis grooves at bedrock level might suggest
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that the subterranean portion of the shaftis of a later date, note that the burial
chamber contained lined walls and a canopic niche, both features contemporary
with original Khufu-era mastaba construction.
See also image pdm_1993.086.05 for g2210a on www.gizapyramids.org..
Junker, Gza1, p.41, discusses these toeholds, noting that his older workmen
were content to use them to ascend and descend the shafts without mishap, and
preferred them to ropes or ladders.
Tomb
Shaft
Shaft status
(2007)
visible down
about 710m
g2100
Sedit
g2100
Sedit
g2100
Sedit
g2100
Sedit
g2100-1
Merib
filled
Visibility of
Toeholds
on N and
E; in stone
courses
unknown
Visibility of
Bedrock
not visible
filled
unknown
not visible
filled
unknown
not visible
g2100-1 !
Merib
g2100-11 [
Nensedjerkai
g2100-11 [
Nensedjerkai
g2110
!
Nefer
b
a
visible down
none
about 1.5m (N
and W sides)
visible down
none
about 1.5m
unfilled
none
filled
unfilled
g2120 !
Seshatsekhentiu
g2130 !
Khentka
filled; visible
down about
1m
visible about
25m down
g2210
(?)
g2135
(?)
visible about
25m down
g2140
(?)
filled
g2150 !
Kanefer
visible about
25m down
g2150 !
Kanefer
filled
not visible
not visible
not visible
not visible
on E: begin
at top;
continue
down
through
bedrock;
on N begin
about 10m
down,
continue
through
bedrock
unknown
not visible
on N and
E; continue
down
through
bedrock
on N and
E; continue
down
through
bedrock
on N and E;
begin about
15m down,
beyond stone
courses in
bedrock
unknown
not visible
1 toehold
on N, about
4m below
beginning of
bedrock
unknown
visible
to burial
chamber
not visible
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Tomb
Shaft
g2155 !
KaninisutI
g2160 (?)
g2170
(?)
g2220
(?)
g2220
(?)
Shaft status
(2007)
visible about
30m down
filled
Visibility of Visibility of
Toeholds
Bedrock
none
visible about
20m down
1 toehold
on W (in
bedrock);
beginning
about 10m
down
none visible
visible about
15m down
unknown
not visible
on N (in
bedrock);
beginning
about 20m
down
Shaft Shaft (m)

type
1
g2100 [
Sedit
4
g2110 !
Nefer
1
g2120 !
Seshatsekhentiu
g2130 !
Khentka
g2210
(?)
g2135
(?)
g2140
(?)
g2150 !
Kanefer
g2150 !
Kanefer
g2155 !
KaninisutI
Burial
chamber
(lined)
2.05 x 2.1 x 7.8 3.55 x 3.45
x 3.0
2.1 x 2.05 x
11.05
3.1 x 3.6 x
2.5 x 2.5 (at
top), 2.15 x 2.15 2.55
(at bottom)
x 7.3
3.1 x 3.1 x
2.6 x 2.5 (at
top), 2.4 x 2.35 2.85
(at bottom)
x 7.0
1.95 x 2.15 x
4.25 x 3.8
7.85 (21.7)
x 3.3
3.01 x 3.06
2.1 x 2.1 (at
top), 1.8 x 1.8 x 3.05
(at bottom)
x 7.0
1.85 x 1.85 (at

top), 1.6 x 1.6
(at bottom)
x 2.9
shafta: 2.1 x
2.07 x. 8.5
shaftb: 1.6 x
1.6 (at top),
1.5 x 1.5 (at
bottom) x 8.4
2.12 x 2.12 x
12.0
g2160
(?)
g2170
(?)
g2220
(?)
g2220
(?)
Burial
chamber
(unlined)
4.25 x 4.15 x 3.25
3.45 x 3.8 x 2.5
4.15 x 4.65 x 2.88
4.25 x 4.25 x 2.9
4.95 x 4.5 x 3.3
2.3 x 2.1 x 1.45
4.0 x 3.5 x 1.65

1.15 x 2.25 x 0.95
4.0 x 4.3 x 2.2
ompare Reisners chart in GN1, pp.11112 (The Distribution of the Shaft

C
Types in Cem. G 2100).
Burial
chamber
(lined)
1.9 x 2.05 (at

top), 1.7 x 1.55
(at bottom)
x 8.0
2.07 x 2.05 (at
top), 1.25 x 1.5
(at bottom)
x 5.1
shaftb: 2.05
x 1.8 (at top),
1.8 x 1.5 (at
bottom) x 4.4
shaftc: 2.25
x 2.2 (at top),
1.8 x 1.85 (at
bottom) x 22.4
Burial
chamber
(unlined)
2.7 x 2.65 x 1.5
2.5 x 1.35 x 1.2
6.3 x 2.4 x 1.4
2.5 x 2.95 x 1.4
A certain symmetry would be in evidence if the number of

chapel false doors corresponded to the number of burial shafts, but
this is seldom the case. G2150 (Kanefer) shows two interior chapel
false doors and two burial shafts, as does the annex mastaba of Merib
(g2100-1). But g2155 (KaninisutI) contains merely a single shaftin
contrast to its two (interior) chapel false doors. G2220 is perhaps the
most confusing case of all, with an unfinished interior chapel with
two false doors, two later intrusive shafts located in unusual positions
in the south half of the mastaba, and apparently no primary burial
shaft whatsoever on the north side.94
Almost all the burial shafts in Cemetery g2100 show passages
of varying lengths on the south that serve to connect the shaft to the
burial chamber. The only exceptions are g2150 b and g2170a.95
In four cases (g2210a, g2150b, and g2220b and c), the burial
chamber is not located at the bottom of the shaft; evidently, a second
burial chamber was planned but was only realized in a single case
(g2210a). Three of these shafts represent later or intrusive additions,
while g2210a is a special case that dates to the original Khufu-era
construction, resulting in chamberI, followed by a second, later
phase resulting in chamberII. Evidence for the lag time between the
two phases, and in particular for the post-Khufu dating of the second
construction phase, lies in the previously mentioned abandonment
of the portcullis grooves in the shaftbelow chamberI (at 13m), the
unusual depth of the continuing shaft (for another 26.80m), and
the unusually large size of the burial chamber (16.5sq.m.; 54.45
cubicm). Its passage is also the only one to contain a window
above the actual corridor, possibly a primary cutting to the chamber
that was subsequently abandoned (fig.9.24).96 Masons marks are
occasionally present on blocking stones (g2210a, chamberII), on
94
95
93
Shaft Shaft (m)

type
not visible
The chart below shows the Reisner shaft typology and shaftand
burial chamber dimensions for the nucleus mastabas of Cemetery
g2100:93
Tomb
Tomb
96
or a discussion of the correlation between false doors and burial shafts, see
F
P. Jnosi, Aspects of Mastaba Development: The Position of Shafts and the
Identification of Tomb Owners, in Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2001.
Proceedings of the Symposium (Prague, September25th27th, 2001), Archiv
Orientln 70, No. 3 (2002), pp.33750.
With its uneven floor, shafta of g2160 also extends below the passage leading to
the burial chamber, but the depth of the cutting is minimal.
See Reisner, GN1, pp.16364, with fig.72.
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the walls or ceiling of the passage (g2130 a, g2210a, chamberII), or

on the walls of the burial chamber (g2130a, g2210a, chamberII).
While standard practice put the burial chamber to the south
of the shaft, some unusual chamber orientations are attested in
Cemetery g2100. In all cases, these provide evidence for postKhufu-era construction. In g2150b, the small chamber leads off to
the north of the shaft. The burial chamber of g2160a leads off to the
south, but then extends to the east, rather than the west as was the
norm. G2170as chamber leads off to the west. And g2220b, the
chamber containing the great cedar coffin with a mummified female,
extends not to the south but to the north. We should also note in
passing that the post-nucleus cemetery mastaba of Nensedjerkai
(g2100-11), also includes a shafta that extends northwards off the
burial shaftand under the mastaba of her father Merib (g2100-1;
see figs.2.7, 3.1).97
Tomb
g2100 [
Sedit
g2120 !
Seshatsekhentiu
g2135 (?)
g2150 !
Kanefer
g2155 !
KaninisutI
Canopic niche in SE
corner (m)
.57 x .53 x .55 depth
Niche lid remarks

rebate for lid on north
and east sides
.65 x .5 x .68 depth

(.35 in rock)
.52 x .5 x .43 depth
.95 x .6 x. .65 depth
slab lid: 1.15 x .65 x .15m

thick
.8 x .6 x .6 depth
The earliest burial chambers conform to the specifications found

in the other Khufu-era nucleus cemeteries98 with a few exceptions.
Canopic pits are present in five of the mastabas presently under
discussion: g2100, g2120, g2135, g2150, and g2155.99 Interestingly,
the final occupation of at least two of these tombs, those of Kanefer
(g2150) and KaninisutI (g2155), are clearly post-Khufu and
probably date to early Dynasty5. A slab-like cover was found by the
canopic niche in Kanefers burial chamber, and the sarcophagus lid
lay against a recess cut in the west wall (fig.12.52).100 In addition to
the recess in g2150, the burial chamber of g2140 similarly shows an
unfinished coffin bench along the western wall (fig.11.22).
There are also canopic niches in some of the later, non-nucleus
cemetery mastabas. G2100-11 (Nensedjerkai) has a canopic niche
in shafta: .5 x .5 x .5m depth. and limestone coffin with rst lid.101
Note that it is located along the south wall, but not in the southeast
corner, as the burial chamber opens to the north of the shaft, and
the usual placement of the canopic niche would put it right at the
97
98
99
See also Junker, Gza2, fig.1 before p. 97.

S ee Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.45152, tablesH1H3.
What looks like a canopic niche in the southeast corner of g2130 a is apparently
just the absence of a floor paving stone; see HUMFA Expedition Photograph
a7029. Reisners general discussion on canopic pits is in GN1, pp.15562; see
also Junker, Gza1, pp.4954; and K. Martin, KanopenII, in L3, cols.316
19, who lists the tomb of MeresankhIII (g7530-sub) as the earliest to preserve
canopic jars. Reisner notes that twelve of his initial fifteen core mastabas of the
Western Cemetery contained canopic pits in their burial chambers, averaging
dimensions of 5060 x 5060cm, with a depth of about 5055cm.
100 For a clear view of a canopic niche slab cover, see g4250 (= IIs): Junker, Gza2,
pl. 9d. See also Reisner, GN1, pp.16263.
101 Reisner, GN1, p.422; Junker, Gza2, p.110.
chambers entrance. Moreover, g2100-1 (Merib) preserves a canopic

niche in shaftc; .5 x .5 x .45 depth.102
Only one wooden coffin and three stone sarcophagitwo of
limestone and one of red granitewere found in the shafts of the
major mastabas. None of these objects was inscribed. The remaining
primary burial shafts preserved either fragments or no trace of a
sarcophagus at all. The wooden coffin comes from the intrusive shaftb
of g2220 (MFA33.1016). One limestone sarcophagus, from g2135a,
is in Hildesheim (Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 3051,), and the
other presumably remains in shafta of g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai). The
red granite sarcophagus, showing a plaster coating intended to protect
it during its descent into the burial chamber, belonged to Kanefer
(g2150; MFA33420). The presence of sarcophagus fragments was
mentioned for mastabas g2100a, g2100f (=Lythgoes g2500),
g2110a (Nefer), g2120a (Seshatsekhentiu), and g2130a (Khentka).
The chart below shows the relative sizes of the burial chambers
listed in order from largest to smallest, while noting lined and
unlined chamber walls and the presence or absence of canopic niches
in the southeast corner:
Canopic Reserve
Burial
Shaft Square Cubic Lined
niche
head
Chamber of
m
m
(+)
Tomb
Unlined
()
21.56
39.88 +
+
g2210 (?) a
g2155 !
KaninisutI
g2220 (?)
17.2
37.84
15.12
21.16
g2150 !
Kanefer
g2110 !
Nefer
g2100 [
Sedit
g2120 !
Seshatsekhentiu
g2130 !
Khentka
g2135 (?)
14.0
23.1
13.11
26.87
12.24
36.74
11.16
28.45
9.61
27.38
9.21
28.09
g2220
(?)
7.37
10.32
g2160
(?)
7.15
10.73
g2140
(?)
4.83
7.0
g2170
(?)
2.76
3.32
g2150 !
Kanefer
2.58
2.46
From the data summarized above, it is clear that Cemetery g2100

represents one of the earliest Khufu-era nucleus clusters. Most of the
major mastaba cores were laid out by royal decree, and then assigned to
individuals who decorated, altered, and extended the tombs according
to their means and tastes, both above and below ground. The actual
tomb owners, and the dates of their burials, however, often followed
several reigns after Khufu himself, even into Dynasty 5. The earlier
mastabas lay further west, and there is unique evidence to link certain
102 Reisner, GN1, p.421.
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construction techniques firmly to those, not just of Khufu, but even to

his father Snefru, based on parallels at Meidum and Dahshur.
One of several mastabas (g2100? g2220?) could qualify as the
primary or leader tomb of the cluster, in much the same fashion
that g4000 and g1201 bore primary significance for their respective
nucleus cemeteries. Part2 of this Giza Mastabas volume will explore
the hundreds of subsidiary tombs and burials from Cemetery g2100,
and their chronological relationship to the twelve surrounding
major mastabas presented in the following pages. The chart below
summarizes the dates suggested for the major mastabas covered in
the chapters that follow.
Tomb
g2100
[
Sedit
g2100-1
!
Merib
g2100-11
[
Nensedjerkai
g2110
!
Nefer
g2120
!
Seshatsekhentiu
g2130
!
Khentka
g2210
(?)
g2135
(?)
g2140
(?)
Suggested date
Khufu
Remarks
Very early Dynasty5
Son of Sedit
Early Dynasty5
Daughter of
Merib
Core: Khufu
Khafre
Khufu
Khufu
Khafre
Core: Khufu
Khufu
Khafre
g2150
!
Kanefer
g2155
!
KaninisutI
g2160
(?)
Userkaf
Dynasty 5
Core: Khufu
g2170
(?)
Dynasty 5
Core: Khufu
g2220
(?)
Menkaure(?)
Core: Khufu
Early Dynasty 5
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Section 2
Catalogue of the Major Mastabas
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Chapter 3. The tomb of Sedit: Mastaba g2100
Chapter 3
THE TOMB OF SEDIT:
Mastaba g2100
Summary of Reisners Description
Mastaba:1 typeIIa, core mastaba, uncased

21.6 x 12.0m
area 259sq.m; proportion 1/1.8
empty emplacement for slab-stela towards south end of east face,

h.0.38m; l.0.58m
h. of mastaba 3.0m; on nearly level rock
average height of stepped courses 31.1cm
average width of steps, 8.0cm

general angle of batter of stepped wall, 77degrees, 19minutes
southern end later enclosed in the heavy retaining wall of

w-masonry of the mastaba (typeVIIa) of Merib
Chapel: traces of an exterior crude brick chapel, apparently of type(ia)
only NE corner preserved with whitened mud floor and
small bench inside the corner

slab-stela exposed in crude brick west wall of offering-room,

destroyed by denudation and by the construction of

intruded small mastaba of crude brick
Shafta: original shaft, north of middle; 2.05 x 2.1m; -7.8m in rock
lined above with drab masonry, 2.9m; ten courses in south end

portcullis slab in grooves in south ends of east

and west walls; w.0.55m (NS) x d.0.25m (EW)

portcullis slab h.1.9m; w.2.3m; th.0.4m; upper left-hand

corner broken off by plunderers to gain access to

chamber
chamber: type 1cl,2 with lining and pavement complete

on south. 3.55 x 3.45m; h.3.0m

area, 12.24sq.m; capacity, 36.74cu.m

(measurements of the rock-cut chamber could only be

estimated): 4.25 x 4.15m; h.3.25m

area 17.63sq.m; capacity 57.29cu.m
passage: horizontal opening in chamber flush with east face

of lining, low down in north wall; rock-cut 1.23m

h.1.23m; continued through the lining with total l.2.35m

step down from passage floor to pavement of chamber 0.53m
blocking: interior blocking of white masonry set in plaster,

penetrated by plunderers in upper part; outside, portcullis

slab in portcullis grooves (for size see under shaft above)

with upper left hand corner broken off by thieves;

blocks of interior blocking found in shaft and chamber
S ee Reisner, GN1, pp.41819, Map5 and figs.34 (shaft), 75 (blocking), 174 (II
ann. Chapel), 238 (section through northern chapel), 239 (objects); pls. 27ae,
28ad, 40a.
A minor contradiction has crept into Reisners publication here. In his GN1,
p.92, fig.32, and p. 106, he calls the chamber type1cm (opening at or near
middle of chamber wall, with rise to roof and a drop to floor of chamber), versus
the perhaps less accurate type1cl cited on p.418 (opening low down in north
wall with a small step down from floor of passage to floor of chamber and a high
rise to roof of chamber).
coffin: fragments of white limestone coffin with flat lid (typed)

found in debris in lower part of shaft: in the chamber,

scattered on the floor, fragments of decayed wood

(probably from inner coffin of wood), scattered bones and

model vessels
canopic pit: in the SE corner; 0.57 x 0.53m and 0.55m deep
rebate for lid on north and east sides
Shaftb: chief shaftin g2100-1 (Merib); see below
Shaftc: secondary shaftin 2100-1 (Merib); see below
Shaftd: north ofa and intrusive; 1.0 x 1.0m; -9.12m, ends at rock3

lined with small masonry, 3.5m
no chamber; type7x; filled with drift sand in which were found

fragments of white limestone coffin and seven other objects

obviously thrown out from shafta (see shafta, finds)
Shafte: askew east of a; intrusive, 1.3 x 1.3m; -2.9m in rock
lined above with gray masonry, 4.8m, fourteen courses
no chamber; type7x, completely plundered
Shaftf: in south end of mastaba, just north of north end of g2100-1

1.6 x 1.2m; -4.0m, ends at rock4
lined with small masonry; no chamber; type 7x; empty
Excavation
The family complex of three mastabas, g2100, g2100-1, and g210011 (fig.3.13.4) has a convoluted archaeological history, ranging from
the year 1845 to 19051906, 1912, and beyond. The northernmost
mastaba under discussion, g2100, was first investigated by the
HarvardMFA Expedition during its initial season in Cemetery
g2100, under A.M. Lythgoe, in 19051906 (fig.3.4). Unfortunately,
no excavation diary is available for this season; only a few tomb cards
detailing the clearance of shaftf survive (see below). Lythgoe also
cleared the extension of this mastaba immediately south, the tomb of
Merib (g2100-1= Lepsius24), whose decorated chapel had already
been removed to Berlin by the Lepsius expedition in 1845. Finally,
the southernmost extension of the complex, the tomb of Meribs
daughter, Nensedjerkai (g2100-11), fell to the Junker concession,
and was cleared in 1912. The street area immediately in front (i.e.,
east) of the complex was examined during the 19051906 season
under Lythgoe (fig. 3.5), and diary entries record additional work
decades later, from February917 and on March2, 1933.
Shafta, the principal shaft, was excavated in 1906, as recorded
by excavation photographs (figs.3.203.25). However, the shaft must
have been subsequently refilled, since a re-excavation was conducted
between December29, 1935 and January8, 1936, according to entries
in the reiss diary (figs.3.26, 3.32, 3.343.36). Curiously, these entries
mention the daily progress in clearing the shaft, and then describe
the burial chamber and its contents, as if it were being cleared for the
first time. The objects were removed on January8, 1936, and final
photography of the chamber was completed on January12.
For shaftd we likewise have excavation photographs dating
to 19051906 (figs. 3.373.39). Additional clearance was done on
April2829, 1932, as noted in the expedition diary of N.F. Wheeler.
Wheelers diary records that shafte was cleared on April27, 1932
(containing only the phrase: depth 7.35m; no chamber), and the
reiss diary mentions a return to the shaft for purposes of drawing,
he figure of 9.12m comes from N.F. Wheelers diary entry for April29, 1932
T
(p.1178); the published description on AppendixC of GN1, p.419 merely states:
ends at rock. Furthermore, notes for AppendixC stored in the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, call the shaft type8X rather than 7X.
The figure of 4.0m comes from Wheelers diary entry for April27, 1932
(p.1177).
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on June2425, 1937. It was recorded as filled with sand, pebbles, and

limestone debris.
Shaftf was first cleared by Lythgoe, and the notation of
February1906 on HUMFA Expedition photograph b1556 (fig.3.41)
most likely dates his excavation. Five tomb cards (eg014935014938),
written in pencil in Lythgoes hand, discuss his clearance of Lepsiuss
debris dumped from the latters 1845 clearance of shaftb of Meribs
tomb immediately to the south. Lythgoes cards are transcribed in
full below with my own edits supplied in brackets:
g2500 [g2100]5
Tomb of Mer-ib (Lepsius 24)
Hamid Ahmed & Abul Hasan Osman.
South shaft: [= F]
In southern end of original tomb (previous to Kephren
extention [sic]). Surface deposit over mouth of shaft proved to be
undisturbed (in modern times) and on it was small dump-heap
of rock and gravel from 30 cm to about 75 cm high evidently put
there by Lepsius in clearing the northernmost [= g2100-1 shaftb]
of the two shafts in the Kephren extention [sic]. This dump
blanketed the mouth of this shaft or original Mer-ib construction
& it had not been noticed by Lepsius.6
On trenching from northern end of Mer-ib to locate original
shaft the trench finally struck through Lepsius dump, through
surface-crust over shaft, and into the filling of sand.
At depth of about 40c.m. in this filling of shaft was worked
flint-flake 9 c.m. long (g2500/1). At depth of 1 metre began
to turn up fragments of lid of limestone sarcophagus, with traces
of dark7 red color. From this point down to depth of 3.50m. the
shaft was filled with this drift sand, in which these fragments
of sarcophagus-cover continued to turn up. Also fragments of
characteristic 4th dynasty pottery & pieces of an alabaster dish:2 red-pol.; 3 red-pol.; 4 smooth brown ware; 5 large pol. brown
ware covered with white slip; 6 fragments of alab. dish; size &
shape undeterminable.
At depth of 3m. in n.e. corner of shaft began to find fragments8
of alabaster vases of good size, and at 3.50m. the drift sand ended
and the filling became solid ground. On top of this ground in n.e.
corner was mass of fragments of sarcophagus-cover & fragments
of alabaster vase or vases altogether (see photo).9 These alabaster
fragments numbered g2500/7.
Shaftf was cleared again on April27, 1932 by Wheeler, who

noted only a depth of 4.0m, no chamber.
Finds
Found scattered on floor of chamber of shafta:

3612 (shipped to Boston after April26, 1937) alabaster model basin of
typeSXb; broken in two pieces and fragment of a second;
h.3.4cm; d.rim 4.2cm; d. base, 1.9cm (fig. 3.6)10
3613 (shipped to Boston after April26, 1937): 41 or more alabaster model
basins, type SXa, with slightly convex sides; 18 complete, 4
broken but complete, 7 broken and incomplete, and fragments of
12 or more11 (figs.3.73.8); (a) h.1.4cm; d.max. 4.8cm; d.base,
1.6cm; (b) h.1.6cm; d.max. 6.8cm; d.base, 2.6cm (figs.3.73.8)
3614: Broken and scattered human bones, including skull; stored in Giza
magazine as of January2006 (figs.3.93.10, 3.33)12
Found in shaftb, in debris of pit:
32460: 51 fragments of pottery bowl (twelve rim, only two fitting),
typeXXVIII; RW, fine red slip; d.28cm
32461: 14 fragments of pottery bowl (five rim, only two fitting),
typeXXVIII; RBrW, red slip; d.18cm
Found in shaftd, perhaps thrown out from shafta:
MFA 06.1892: fragmentary large travertine (alabaster) shoulder jar with
neck and ledge rim; typeSXVa (1); h. 29.4cm; d.rim 15.6cm;
d.neck, 13.8cm; d. max., below shoulder 29.2cm; d.base,
14.4cm; th. of walls in some places 4cm; one place patched out
with plaster (fig.3.11)13
(1)flint flake with rounded butt and pointed end; l., 9.5cm
(2)RP: fragmentary deep bowl with plain rim and contracted mouth;
type uncertain
(3)RP fragments of bowl with recurved rim; typeXXXII or XXXVI
(4)BrW smooth; bowl with recurved rim; fragments
(5)WSRW: large jar of type AIIb; fragments14
(6)alabaster fragment of shallow dish with plain rim
Found in shaftf:15
2500/1:16 worked flint flake from a depth of about 40 cm in shaft filling;
l.9.5cm (fig.3.13)
No number: fragments of limestone sarcophagus lid, from a depth of
13.5m, with traces of dark red color
No number: fragments of Dynasty4 ceramics, and of an alabaster dish
No number: red-polished ware; details not recorded
No number: red-polished ware; details not recorded
No number: smooth brown ware; details not recorded
No number: large polished brown ware covered with white slip
No number: fragments of alabaster dish; details not recorded
No number: fragments of alabaster vase or vases, from northeast corner of
shaft filling, at a depth of 3.5m; details not recorded
2500/7: flints (called alabaster fragments by Lythgoe), from northeast corner
of shaft filling, at a depth of 3.5m (fig.3.13)
East of g2100:
332183 (shipped to Boston May 1933): fragment (one-half ) of alabaster
dish, typeXb; h.2.5cm; diam.9.6cm (fig. 3.14)17
332184 (shipped to Boston after May1, 1947): steatite amulet of lion(?);
no hole; portion of face broken off; traces of black paint on
haunches; h.1.6cm; w.1cm; l.2.8cm (fig.3.15)
332189 (shipped to Boston after May1, 1947(?)): limestone stela or tablet
fragment from debris east of mastaba, near g2102, on February17,
1933 (N.F. Wheeler diary, p.1224), with two figures in raised relief
and inscriptions in sunk relief; h.30cm; w.54.5cm. Seated male
figure at right before table piled with offerings. At left standing
male figure inclines toward the seated figure, extending the cut
haunch of an ox (fig.3.16).
12
5
6
7
8
9
his text begins on Lythgoe tomb card eg014935.

T
The text continues here on Lythgoe tomb card eg014934.
N
o photographs of the interior of shaftf have yet been identified in the HU
MFA Expedition photographic archives.
10 Reisner, GN1, pp.41819, fig.239; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.100.
11 Reisner GN1, p.419, fig.239; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.99 (misidentified as
3631).
13
14
15
16
17
his skull, identified as a female, is primarily responsible for the assignation of

T
g2100 to Sedit.
Reisner, GN1, p.419, fig.239, pl.43e; listed by Aston, Ancient Egyptian Stone
Vessels, p.139.
Reisner, GN1, p.419 (5), Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.69.
This information is preserved solely on handwritten tomb cards by Lythgoe, most
likely dating to February2, 1906: eg014935, eg014934, eg014936, eg014937, and
eg014938 (fig.3.12).
I n early 1906, Lythgoe originally numbered the Merib complex as g2500, hence
the numbering system for these objects: 2500/1, 2500/7, etc.
Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.100.
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g
HG
u C
C5
?
Text: (1)mw m(?) (2)r Wsr kr(t) nswt Nfr (3)[trs.]18 t nt nb

(4)[]n
Translation: (1)The revered one (2)before Osiris, the royal ornament
Nefri. (3)[trs.] all (kinds of ) bread and beer. (4)[]ni
Architecture
This uncased mastaba contains no north niche, but preserves a slab

stela emplacement at the southern end of the east wall (fig.3.7). This
area shows traces of an exterior mud-brick chapel.19 Along with
g5230 (Babaef ), this is the only roofed mastaba at Giza, according
to Reisner.20 But roofing blocks have since been noticed on g2130,
and g2155, as well as the mastabas of the g6000 cemetery. While
the massive nummulitic blocks on the roof of g5230 seem to cover
the shafts as well, it is not clear if the shafts of g2100 were covered.21
It is difficult to determine the exact distance of the slab stela
emplacement from the southern end of the mastaba core, since the
latter is enclosed by the surrounding casing of g2100-1, the tomb
of Merib. However, the emplacement size indicates that the missing
slab stela was of the short form variety,22 and a survey of shortform slab stelae at Giza indicates that they are usually located within
about 35m from the the southern end of their respective mastabas.
Long-form stelae, on the other hand, appear at a greater distance,
between 57.5m from their southern ends. The emplacement in
g2100-1 occurs at about 4.8m from the point at which Meribs large
casing blocks begin. Thus it is a logical assumption that Meribs
casing blocks do indeed mark the southernmost extent of mastaba
g2100, and do not extend further north beyond Meribs annex
building proper.
The core mastaba shows small finished blocks in vertical
stepped casing (typeIIa). The thinnest of corridors, less than
a meter wide, remains between its northern side and the later,
subsidiary mastabas built immediately south of g2110 (i.e., g2111).23
To determine whether Meribs large casing blocks were intended to
wrap completely around g2100 as well as g2100-1, an examination
of the perimeter of g2100 was conducted in November1993. Casing
block emplacement lines were discovered on casing stones on the
northwest corner of the mastaba (fig.3.18). Since these lines align
with the massive casing stones that cover g2100-1 (Merib) along
18
19
20
21
22
23
he pencil sketch for this fragment in the Object Register, p.1189, hints at a hand
T
followed by a horizontal sign here.
An attempt at reconstructing the exterior chapel walls is provided by Jnosi, Giza
in der 4. Dynastie, Plans23.
R
eisner, GN1, p.176.
On short- and long-form stelae, see Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.1, 11718;
figs.17576.
The northern niche of g2041 is visible fairly near the middle of the eastwest
avenue obscured between g2100 and g2110 as one looks west, but it would have
been obscurred by the height of mastabas g2111, g2113, and surrounding tombs.
its west side, this seems to prove at least the intention of covering
the entire double mastaba, g2100 as well as g2100-1, with massive
casing blocks. But clear proof that the massive casing intended for
g2100 was never completed lies in the southern exterior wall of
g2111, which is located further south than the exterior of the casing
indicated by the eastwest corner markings of the large foundation
block (fig. 3.4, lower right). G2111s southern face could not have
extended so far to the south if massive casing stones had previously
been added to the northern edge of mastaba g2100.
At this writing, several of the later shafts on top of g2100 are
filled in, and perhaps some of the fill from shafta forms the hill
in the street at the north end of the tombs east side, forming a
considerable rise between g2100 and g2130. This area appears to
have been completely excavated in 19056 by the Expedition. The
shafts in the street east of g2100 (figs.3.43.5) show a present-day
exposure of varied material, from the remains of mud-brick walls to
stratigraphy of limestone chips, gravel, mud, and even a fine browncolored dirt. Several massive, rectangular limestone blocks cross the
street east to west at the join of g2100 and g2100-1 but it remains
unclear whether these stones were shaft walls, part of the leveling
and paving of the street itself, or both.
The core of g2100 has suffered more on the west side of the
tomb (fig.3.20), and several areas at the mastabas northern end
expose crumbling, friable, yellow limestone blocks.
Shafts and Burials
G2100 was originally a one-shaft mastaba, represented by shafta

with a lined burial chamber north of the mastabas center axis, and
doubtless holding the burial of the individual once shown on the
now missing slab stela (figs. 3.233.26). Three small shafts were
subsequently added (figs. 3.28). The furthest north of these was
shaftd (figs.3.373.39), to the north of a, with e (fig.3.40) askew to
the east of a, and f (figs.3.4142) close to the southern end of the
mastaba, near the addition of Meribs annex. Shaftf was probably
subsidiary to the Merib addition; shaftsb and c were sunk into the
Merib addition, further to the south.
g2100a (figs.3.910, 3.293.30, 3.333.34)
View of disarrayed skeletal elements near square hole in floor: Visible
elements include posterior view of left tibia and fibula, apparently
held in articulation by soft tissue; posterior view of right tibia; right
fibula appears half in the hole, also on floor are a few hand and/or
foot bones, a large mammal scapula (something as big as a cow or a
horse). Visible inside the hole are two vertebrae and a right os coxa.
Other bones present but unidentifiable. Human individual is adult,
sex uncertain. No tomb card sketches.
Some confusion in the skeletal remains has occurred, casting
doubt on a definitive attribution of gender. Most of the bones
identifed in November 1993 (in a Giza magazine on the site of the
old Harvard Camp, after undoubtedly several relocations over the
years) as coming from g2100a were determined to belong to a
female, while a mandible was certainly from a male.
Elements in favor of a female attribution (in which case, most
likely the mother of Merib):
The bones of the pelvis and pubis where there is a ventral
arc; the sacrum is wide and not curved. In addition, the sacroiliac
joint reaches the second sacral segment only. The long bones are
smooth and light, the diameter of the head of the femur is 36mm
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and the head of the humerus is 35mm. Both of these features are
characteristic of a female. Estimated age and sex: female, aged 45 to
49 years old.24
Elements in favor of a male attribution (in which case, most
likely the father of Merib):
The mandible identified as g2100a is that of a young adult, aged
about 24 to 30 years (based on the degree of molar tooth wear) and,
from what can be seen of the jaw morphology, it is that of a male, not
that of a woman aged 45 to 49 years. There is no way of ascertaining
that the bones located in the Giza magazine in November, 1993 are
the same bones in the original Reisner expedition photograph, since
the same bones are not shown in both images.25
A chance to reexamine these bones arose on January1, 2006. By
this time, they had been moved to the large storage facility far west
of the Western Cemetery.
Date
Reisner, List of Finished Mastabas in the Nucleus Cemeteries, p.1:

early reign of Khufu (core); Khufu (mastaba).
Features supporting an early date for the tomb include the
portcullis grooves on the T-shaped shafta, one of only five tombs at
Giza (all in Cemetery g2100) to display this archaic feature; the
lined burial chamber with canopic niche, the presence of a slab stela,
coupled with the absence of extensions or alterations to the chapel
area, and of course the location of the mastaba in the westernmost
row of tombs in this nucleus cemetery. A date in the reign of Khufu
is therefore certain.26
Decoration
lower torso of the seated tomb owner.27 Although the fragment

emerged in the street east of g2100 and west of g2120, it clearly
belongs to the slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu, owner of g2120 (see
below). The rest of the fragments forming this slab stelae were found
on the east side of g2120, hence W.S. Smiths mistaken assumption
that the fragment derived from the otherwise missing slab stela from
g2100.
Tomb Owner and Dependents
Name: not preserved, but owing to the identification of the skeletal

remains from shafta as a female, the tomb may be ascribed to Sedit,
the mother of Merib.
Reisner originally believed Sedit to be one of Khufus queens,
and even the owner of one of that kings subsidiary pyramids in the
Eastern Cemetery: the ladies of the small pyramids, GI-a, GI-b,
Henutsen, Nefertkauw, Sedyt(?).28 Later he modified his views:
Queen Sedyt the mother of Prince Merib (of Mastaba g2100) who
was a kings daughter but whether married to Cheops or to one of his
two sons is uncertain.29 Neither Merib nor his mother Sedit were
of the blood royal, despite their titles.30 Neither is ever listed with
a title higher than s or st nswt nt tf. For Sedit, one would expect
mwtf mt r St or similar titles. Except for her appearances on the
south and east walls of the chapel of her son,31 we have no further
information about her.
Titles of Sedit
mwtf, his mother (in g 2100-1)

m(t)-nr Nt mtt nbw, priestess of Neith, north of the wall (in g 2100-1)
st nswt n tf, kings daughter of his body (in g 2100-1)
The original excavation records introduced some confusion into

the interpretation of the decoration of g2100. This is due to the
discovery of a slab stela fragment showing the lion-legged stool and
27
24
25
26
I am indebted to Azza Mohamed Sarry el-Din for this analysis; personal

communication, February17, 1994.
For analysis of skeletal photographs, I thank Nancy C. Lovell; personal
communication, January, 1994.
Compare Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir2, p.579 [222]: Khufu; Schmitz,
Untersuchungen zum Titel S-Njwt, pp.7071, 11819.
28
29
30
31
FA fragment 332187 (now part of MFA 06.1894); HUMFA Expedition

M
photograph C13410, March 22, 1933; see Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.7778,
fig.102, and below, Chapter7, figs.7.667.68.
Reisner, The Tomb of Meresankh, a Great-Granddaughter of Queen HetepHeres I and Sneferuw, BMFA25, no.151 (October, 1927), p.74.
R
eisner, Mycerinus, p.240.
Junker, Gza2, pp. 13233, and in general on titles, p.31ff.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pls.2021, and see below, Chapter4.
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Fig. 3.1. Plan and section of the Merib family complex including (in chronological order) the mastabas of Sedit (g2100), Merib
(g2100-1), and Nensedjerkai (g2100-11). Adapted from Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib, inside back cover.
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Fig.3.2. Computer reconstruction of mastaba g2100 (Sedit), looking southwest, with the contiguous mastabas g2100-1 (Merib) and g2100-11
(Nensedjerkai) in the background. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Z
Y
G 2113
D
C
A
G 2100
G 2110
C D
G 2111
A D
G 2103
C
B
J
G
I
Y
Fig.3.3. G2100, plan.
B
E
G 2104
C D
F
G
G 2105
H
F
Z
A
B
G 2114
C
G
H
E
G 2112
G 2112b A
B
A G 2112a
X
A
A
X
G 2112c
A B
G 21
G 2130
10 m
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Fig. 3.4. G 2100, east face, cleared southwards to the north niche of g2100-1 (=Lepsius 24, Merib); shafts associated with g2114 and g2105 in the street,
looking southwest. 1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, a511 [=a5965] (rephotographed as c5280).
Figs. 3.6. 3612,

alabaster model basin
(also visible in fig. 3.6,
bottom row, third from
left). May31, 2002.
Museum of Fine Arts,
sc32813.
10
cm
36-1-2
Fig. 3.5. Shafts along the east face of g2100, looking northwest. 19051906.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1345 [=c12424].
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Fig. 3.7. 3613, alabaster model dishes from g2100a; rows 2, 3, and 4, nos.19 in each row; 27 model dishes. February 14, 1936. HU-MFA Expedition
Figs. 3.8. 3613, two alabaster model dishes from g2100a.
May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00520 and
pdm_img00525.
a
0
10
cm
36-1-3
Fig. 3.9. 3614, bones of human skeleton from g2100 a, profile of teeth in
the lower jaw. November 22, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.110.25.
Fig. 3.10. 3614, bones from g2100 a. January16, 2006. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_06287.
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10
20
cm
Fig. 3.11. MFA 06.1892, restored alabaster jar from g2100d and drawing, 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, B656
[=g7473] and drawing.
06.1892
Fig. 3.12. Ceramic profiles sketches adapted from A.M.

Lythgoes tomb card sketch (eg014396).
Fig. 3.13. Two views of flints from g2100f (originally labeled by A.M. Lythgoe as g2500). Date not listed. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
photographer not listed, c13020 (left) and c13021 (right).
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10
cm
Fig. 3.14. 332183, fragmentary alabaster

dish east of g2100. Top: March 22, 1933.
Dahi Ahmed, c13413 (detail). Middle:
June25, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
cm
Fig. 3.15. 332184, steatite amulet from east of g2100. May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, composite from
images pdm_img00573, 00574, 00575, 00577, 00578. Line drawing sketch from HUMFA Expedition Object
Register.
Fig. 3.16. 332189, fragment of a tablet of Nefri from east of g2100. Left: February17, 1933.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8280 (detail). Right: line drawing sketch from
HUMFA Expedition Object Register.
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Fig. 3.17. G2100, east face, slab stela emplacement, looking west. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
mastaba
filling
Fig. 3.18. Northwest corner of g2100, lined casing block, and west side of mastaba, looking south.
base line
0
Fig. 3.19. Section of the street east of g2100, looking north.

G 2100 Section WE
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Fig. 3.20. West side of g2100, looking northeast. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b955 [=b7421].
Fig. 3.21. Filling and toeholds in the shaft of g2100a, looking northeast.
[=c12442].
Fig. 3.22. Excavating shafta of g2100, with pit d in the background, left,
looking northeast. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, c1475 [=c1244].
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Fig. 3.23. G2100a, looking south down the emptied shaft. 19051906.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b718 [=b7428].
Fig. 3.25. Entrance to chamber of g2100a, with door blocking at the

bottom of the shaft, looking south. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
Fig. 3.24. G2100a, corridor from the shaft on the north wall, with
entrance to the burial chamber showing blocking in the passage, looking
north out the door of the burial chamber. 19051906. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b893 [=b7327]. For a computer
reconstruction of this image, compare also fig.1.12.
Fig. 3.26. G2100a, northeast corner of the burial chamber after clearance,
looking northeast. January 12, 1936. HU-MFA Expedition photograph,
Mohammedani Ibrahim, A 7380.
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7.80 m
2.90 m
10 courses
Section
Plan
0
Fig. 3.27. Plan and section of g2100a.
G 2100 A
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Fig. 3.28. Computer reconstruction of g2100a, looking southeast, with shafts g2100-1b and g2100-1c in the background. Courtesy Dassault
Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 3.29. Computer reconstruction of g2100a, looking southeast, showing portcullis stone in shaft, corridor blocking, and burial chamber.
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3 blocks
5 blocks
wood
wood
pot
wood
wood
bits of limestone with

some alabaster
bone
wood
wood
plaster
cast
pot
wood
plaster
G 2100 A
0
2
m
G 2100 A
Ceiling
Fig. 3.30. Plan of the floor and red paint lines on

the ceiling of the burial chamber of g2100a.
0
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Fig. 3.31. G2100a, southeast corner of the burial chamber, wih tumbled
limestone blocks, scattered bones (3614), and model vessels (3613),
looking southeast. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b934 [=b7323].
Fig. 3.32. G 2100a, burial chamber, after clearance, with the canopic pit
in the southeast corner, looking southeast. January 12, 1936. HUMFA
Fig. 3.33. G 2100a, deposit in the canopic pit in the floor of the southeast
corner of the burial chamber, with tumbled limestone blocks, scattered
bones (3614), and model vessels (3613), looking southeast. 19051906.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b883 [=b7320].
Fig. 3.34. G 2100a, burial chamber as found in 1936, looking southwest.

January 5, 1936. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, a7364.
Fig. 3.35. G 2100a, northwest corner of burial chamber after clearance,

looking northwest. January 12, 1936. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Fig. 3.36. G 2100a, southwest corner of burial chamber after clearance.

January 12, 1936. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, a7382.
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Fig. 3.37. G 2100d, mouth of pit, looking southeast. 19051906. HU

Fig. 3.38. G 2100d, looking down shaft. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition

photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, C 844 [=c11956].
Fig. 3.40. Plan and section of g2100e.

G 2100 E
Fig. 3.39. G 2100d, fragments of alabaster jar in situ, MFA06.1892. 1905

1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1598 [=c12655].
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Fig. 3.41. G 2100f in foreground with shaft b of g2100-1 (= Lepsius 24) in background, looking southeast. February 1906. HUMFA Expedition
Fig. 3.42. G 2100f looking south towards g2100-1. November 4, 1993.

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Chapter 4. The tomb of Merib: Mastaba g 2100-1
Chapter 4
THE TOMB OF MERIB:
Mastaba g 2100i (annex)
lined above with masonry, 4.1m; eleven courses

chamber: type3br;4 on south. 3.05 x 2.95m; h.1.95m

area 8.99sq.m; capacity 17.52cu.m5
passage: 1.45 x 1.0m; h.1.15m; entrance at roof-level with step

down of 0.8m
blocking: destroyed, but at top the passage on the shaft side is a

rebate, h.0.15 m; d.0.25 m; this indicates a blocking of

vertical slab or slabs backed on inside by interior

blocking

h.1.55m6
coffin pit: along west side; 2.2 x 0.95m and 0.3m deep

Lepsius found fragments of wooden coffin and bones of a female

skeleton
canopic pit: in SE corner; 0.5 x 0.5m. d.0.45m, with slab cover
Excavation
Mastaba:1 typeVIIa(2); heavy retaining wall of w-masonry (gray

nummulitic limestone) covering the top of the mastaba

(cf. g52302); enclosed south end of the core g2100

22.0 x 14.0m; area, 308.0sq.m

proportion 1/1.57; h.about 5.0m
Chapel: type(4 a) interior two-niched chapel of nummulitic limestone,

carved with sized technique; 3.85 x 1.56m; area, 6.0sq.m

proportion 1/2.46; relation 1/51.33; fully decorated
Subsidiary north niche: towards north end of east face of mastaba, cut

in gray retaining wall of mastaba topped by an architrave of

separate block: framed false door; h. to top of architrave,

4.2m; w. of architrave, 1.84m; w. of false door, 1.34m
tablet, cross-bar, and drum; inner niche, 0.18 x 0.16m

outer niche, 0.62 x 0.1m; outer panels, very shallow, d.2cm
Exterior crude brick chapel nearly destroyed: on south, a magazine,

room(b), and north of it the end of a long NS room

which apparently surrounded the doorway to the interior

chapel, room(a)
(b) NS magazine(?): 2.27 x 1.8m; area, 4.08sq.m

entered from north from (c), by doorway in north wall
(c) hall around doorway to (a); 9.75 x 2.25m; area, 21.93sq.m;

whitened walls; entered from east by doorway in north end

of east wall; northern end destroyed by small intruded

mastabas and shafts

entrance: drum over doorway; titles and name in relief

architrave over doorway: offering formula in two horizontal

lines; combined formula in name of Merib; no serdab
Shafts in g2100-1: two shafts in mastaba; b on north and c on south; for
shafts a, df, see g2100
Shaftb: secondary shaft; 1.8 x 1.8m; 10.9m in rock

lined above with masonry, 4.9m; eight courses

chamber: type3bf, at 0.9m above bottom of shaft

on south. 4.15x 3.15m; h.1.45m; area, 13.07sq.m3

capacity 18.95cu.m
passage: 1.55 x 1.0m; h.1.2m

blocking: probably typeIb(1); blocked with portcullis slab

h.1.55m; th.0.3m
burial: Lepsius found the remains of an adult male skeleton but

no traces of coffin or of objects
Shaftc: chief shaft; 1.8 x 1.95m; -16.4m in rock
1
2
See Reisner, GN1, pp.41921; Junker, Gza 2, pp.12135; Lepsius, Denkmaeler2,

pls.1822, ibid3, pl.288, nos. 4, 5; ibid1, Text, pp.4649.
Reisner is referring to the roofing stones on the mastaba of Babaef, g5230; PMIII,
pp.15556; Reisner, GN1, pl.8b. For Giza Archives Project online images (at this
writing: www.gizapyramids.org), see b2612, and PDM_1993.126.16.
Note the minor discrepancies in Reisner, GN1, p.111, where the area is given at
12.91sq.m, with capacity 18.62cu.m, while in AppendixC, p.421 it is listed as
13.07sq.m with capacity 18.95cu.m.
By 19051906, when the HarvardMFA Expedition began the

excavation of this central tomb in the family complex of g2100,
g2100-1, and g2100-11, the decorated chapel had long since been
taken by Lepsius to Berlin in 1845 (fig.4.1).7 Lepsius removed all but
the lowest courses and foundation blocks of the chapel, and cleared
both shaftsb and c, but left the rest of the area largely undisturbed.
Max and Ernst Weidenbach wrote the Merib text for Lepsiuss
Denkmaeler (quoted below).8 J. Bonomi produced the pencil
drawings of the wall reliefs, and J.J. Frey the final color illustrations.9
After more methodical excavation and clearance by Lythgoe in 1905
1906, the area was re-examined by the HarvardMFA Expedition in
the early 1930s.
Since Lepsiuss activity at the tomb is so integral to its history,
the entire entry on Meribs tomb from his Denkmaeler aus gypten
und thiopien1, Text, pp.4649, is quoted here:10
Im Dezember 1842 fand ich an dem groen Gebude No.24, das
fast ganz im Sande vergraben lag, eine Vertiefung in der Mauer des
oberen Gesimses, welche verriet, da eine Thre darunter verborgen
sei [fig. 4.8]. Ich grub selbst ein tiefes Loch, kam aber nicht bis
zum Architrav; den andern Tag schickte ich Leute zum Ausgraben
hin und diese gelangten bald bis zum oberen Architrav, aus dessen
Inschrift ich sogleich sah, da der Verstorbene ein kniglicher Prinz
war. Die Inschriften dieses Architravs, der Seiten darunter, des
Thrbalkens, der Laibungen usw. waren vortrefflich erhalten, und
so auch das Innere, das in gemaltem Relief ausgefhrt ist. Auch hier,
wie in allen Grbern, war man vor Zeiten eingebrochen und hatte
mehreres beschdigt, doch ist es immer noch eins der besterhaltenen,
die wir gefunden haben (vgl. die Aufnahme LD1, 22).
Das ganze Gebude ist noch ziemlich gut erhalten, die Kammer
mit dem Eingang ist jetzt in Berlin No.1107.
Der Eingang, der sich an der Ostseite des Gebudes nahe der
sdlichen Ecke befand, trgt auen Inschriften und Darstellungen
eisner gives two different types for shaftc: 3cr in GN1, p.111 but 3br in
R
AppendixC on p.421. The b refers to the long axis of the chamber being at
right angles to the adjoining side of the shaft, while c denotes that the chamber
is square or roughly square; cf. Reisner, GN1, p.91. The r is correct (indicating
the entrance of chamber at roof level; ibid., pp.9293).
5 Minor discrepancies in Reisner, GN1, p.111 (area: 9.0sq.m and capacity 17.1cu.m)
versus ibid., AppendixC, p.421: area 8.99sq.m and capacity 17.52cu.m.
6 This measurement comes from Junker, Gza2, p.124.
7 The chapel in Berlin bears the accession number 1107.
8 Lepsius, Denkmaeler1Text, pp.4649.
9 L
epsius, Denkmaeler2, pls.1822.
10 For a slightly different description of portions of the following, taken from
Lepsiuss Notizbuch, see Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib, p.16.
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des Verstorbenen, der runde Thrbalken nennt seine Titel und

Namen. LD 2, 18. (Portrt des Verstorbenen LD3, 288, 4.5).
An der rechten Thrlaibung die Darstellung LD2, 22b, an
der linken LD2, 22a (links). Die Thre selbst war, wie meistens,
keine Doppelthre, sondern einflglig. Am nrdlichen Ende des
Thrbalkens ist unten noch ein rundes Loch (Dm.9cm.) zu
sehen, in dem sich einst der Zapfen drehte.
Auf der schmalen Wanda links vom Eintretenden sind 3
Opfertiere dargestellt: LD2 22a (rechts). Der dieser Wand
gegenberliegende Teil b der Nordwand, an welche die Thr
anschlug, war als Holz gemalt. [Die Farben sind hier wie in der
ganzen Kammer jetzt verschwunden. Auch der Thranschlag bei
c und d ist ohne Darstellungen und war also vermutlich ebenso
als Holz gemalt.]
Im Innern der Kammer sind an der dem Eingang gegenber
stehenden Westwand zwei Blendthren, deren Mauergrund
als Granit angemalt ist, wie auch die Decke. Ringsum sind
Darstellungen, die alle auf einem roten, von 2 schwarzen Linien
eingefaten Bande stehen; darunter ist fast 1 Fu breit Holztfelei
nachgeahmt, darunter sind die Wnde noch mehrere Fu tief
schwarz gemalt.
Nordwand, Teil e: LD2, 22c (wo die schwarze Bemalung unten
aus Raummangel verkrzt ist).
An der Westwand steht in der Mitte zwischen den beiden
Blendthren der Verstorbene in groer Figur, umgeben von
seinen Kindern, wie es scheint, deren Namen aber nur gemalt
waren oder [noch zugefgt] werden sollten. Das Tier links mit
) ist grtenteils grn gemalt, wodurch man
der berschrift (:
wie die heutigen Araber grau ausdrcken wollte. LD2, 19.20a
(sdliches Ende der Wand).11
An den Laibungen der nrdlichen Blendthre (LD2, 19) sind
Opferstnder dargestellt: LD2, 20 b. c., an denen der sdlichen
(LD2, 1920a) desgl.: LD2, 20d. e.
Sdwand: LD2, 20f (der Kopf der Mutter des Verstorbenen
Sdt ; LD3, 288, 6).
Ostwand: sdlicher Teil (rechts neben der Thre) LD2, 21,

nrdlicher Teil (ber der Thre) LD2, 22d.
In dem hinteren Teile des Gebudes sind 2 Brunnen, links ein
kleinerer c.60 Fu tief, rechts ein grerer nicht ganz so tief. In
jedem ffnet sich auf dem Boden eine Grabkammer nach Sden.
In dem kleineren Brunnen, in dem die Frau oder Mutter des
Verstorbenen begraben gewesen zu sein scheint, fanden sich bei
der Ausgrabung viele Steine unter dem Sande, dann ein ganz
groer Stein, welcher die Kammer ganz verschlossen hatte.12
Hinter diesem Steine war noch eine Mauer von mchtigen
Steinen aufgebaut; der Stein war [von den Grabrubern] nach
Norden abgebeugt und die eine obere Ecke abgebrochen; so
war auch die linke obere Ecke der Mauer durchbrochen. Im
Innern der Grabkammer lagen noch mehrere Steine dieser
Mauer, hereingefallener Sand, Knochen und Scherben. Auf
der rechten Seite der Kammer (s. den Grundri LD1, 22)
war von N. nach S. eine Vertiefung im Felsen, von der Lnge
und Breite eines Sarkophags. Hier lag ein Menschengerippe
zerstreut nebst den Knochen von einem Vorderfue und zwei
Hinterfen eines Rindes; ferner eine unzhlige Menge Gerippe
von Fledermusen und von einigen Vgeln; endlich auch eine
Anzahl lnglicher Holzstcke von c. 6 x 4 Zoll Gre. Links
war hinten in der Kammer, dem Eingange gerade gegenber,
eine andere viereckige Vertiefung im Felsen (c. 1 1/2 Fu tief ),
neben welcher eine viereckige Platte lag, die als Deckel gedient
hatte (vgl. den Durchschnitt nach e f LD1 22). In diesem Loche
lagen die Scherben von etwa 3 greren etwas ber 1 Fu hohen
Vasen aus roter gebrannter Erde von dieser form: [drawing; see
11
12
I n der Publikation scheinen die Blendthren auf dem roten Streifen zu stehen.
Dieser Fehler der Zeichnung ist nach dem Durchschnitte nach c d (LD122) zu
verbessern.
L
epsius is referring here to the smaller shaft located directly behind (west of ) the
decorated chapel; this shaft was designated shaftc by Reisners expedition.
fig.4.9]; ferner von mehreren kleineren; nur die kleinsten (zwei

von der Forma (eine in Berlin No.1235) und 9 von der Formb,
gleich kleinen Schsselchen (Berlin No.13191322. 1345. 1347.
1352. 8634) waren erhalten. Auch mehrere Stcken Nilthon, wie
es scheint vom Verschlu der Vasen fanden sich; ferner eine kleine
verzierte Kugel (jetzt in Berlin No.8651).
Ein steinerer Sarkophag kann nie in dieser Grabkammer gewesen
sein, denn die Oeffnung der Mauer und des Thrsteines war viel
zu klein, als da er, wenn dies auch nicht sonst unwahrscheinlich
wre, htte herausgeschafft werden knnen. Vielleicht deuten
aber die Stcke Holz, die bei der leisesten Berhrung in Staub
zerfielen, auf einen hlzernen Sarkophag; doch ist auch das nicht
sehr wahrscheinlich, weil sonst wohl lngere Stcke Holz zu sehen
gewesen wren. Der Krper scheint nach dem sehr dnnen
Hirnschdel zu schlieen, einer Frau angehrt zu haben.
In dem greren nrdlichen Brunnen fand sich die Kammer nach
derselben Seite in den Fels gehauen (s. den Durchschnitt nach
g h LD1, 22).13 Hinter dem Thrsteine, der sie verschlo, fand
sich eine Mauer von ungebrannten Nilerdziegeln (von 0,37 x 0,19
x 0,13 Gre), zwei Stcke davon sind jetzt in Berlin No.1607.
Die Kammer enthielt wieder, ganz wie die erste, rechts die
Reste eines menschlichen Krpers, aber keine Rinderknochen
und keine Vasen; ein einziges kleines Schsselchen fand sich beim
Ausgraben des Schachtes, es war vielleicht aus dem anderen dahin
geworfen. Der Hirnschdel war dicker als der andere und aus
dem Beckenknochen lie sich ersehen, da das Gerippe einem
Manne angehrte. Schdel- und Knochenstcke dieser Leiche
sind jetzt in Berlin (Inv. VI1173).
Die Kammer enthielt keine Vertiefungen, keinen Sarkophag,
aber kleine Holzstcke, die aber wiederum kaum zur Annahme
eines hlzernen Sarkophags berechtigen.
Lepsius mentions two skulls found, one from shaftc and one
from shaftb. Based on nothing more than the thickness of the
cranium, he designated the shaftc skull as female, and the second
as male. Rather than ascribe this skull to Meribs mother, Sedit,
however, we have more compelling evidence to place her in shafta
of g2100 proper (see above). If the shaftc skull really did belong to
a female, then perhaps Meribs daughter Sednet was the occupant of
shaftc. His other daughter, Nensedjerkai, possessed her own tomb
immediately to the south (see below, g2100-11); she clearly takes the
more favored position, holding onto her fathers staff on the south
entrance thickness to his chapel. There no mention of Meribs wife
on the walls of his chapel.14
Moving beyond Lepsiuss work and into the twentieth century,
we find that no preserved diary entries exist for the Lythgoe season of
19051906. But later entries are recorded by both Noel Wheeler and
the HUMFA Expedition reis. The earliest entries here, concerning
primarily the clearance of shaftsb and c, run from April18 to May3,
1932, and January15 to February17, 1933. The fill of shaftb was
mostly sand, as was to be expected since Lepsius had already cleared
it in 1842; the chamber was reached on April29, 1932, at which
point work began on shaftc, directly west of the removed chapel.
The entry for May3 notes that the masonry on the south side was
unstable, and work stopped until additional safety measures could
be taken. January15, 1933 saw the first return to shaftc. Several
stones from the south wall of the pit had been undermined by sand
13
14
his came to be designated shaftb by Reisners expedition.

T
On the burials of spouses and females in general in the Old Kingdom, see
V.G. Callender, A Contribution to the Burial of Women in the Old Kingdom,
in Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2001, pp.337350; and P. Jnosi, Aspects of
Mastaba Development: The Position of Shafts and the Identification of Tomb
Owners, ibid., pp.33750.
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and had to be removed. Once again, sand and fallen stones alone
filled the shaft, since Lepsius had preceded the expedition with his
own clearance in 1842. On January28, 1933, work was expanded to
the street in front (east) of the mastaba, and the fragmentary stela
(332189) from a minor mastaba was discovered. The Expedition
reached the burial chamber of shaftc on February5, 1933, and the
chamber was cleared on February67. The Wheeler diary mentions
only the clearance of debris from the street in front of the mastaba
until February1617, when the mud-brick structure of g2102 came
to light. Wheelers diary entry for March2, 1933 contains a sketch
plan of the street area just in front (east) of the chapel of Merib. The
diary states: Clearing street. Uncovered part of original mud-brick
exterior chapel of g2100, and the opening of the interior chapel
(in Berlin).15 The sketch plan indicates the location and lettering
of the shafts, with some discrepancies from the published Map5 of
Reisners GN1.
Finds
Found by the HarvardMFA Expedition in the debris of the pit of shaftb:

no number: Parts of a shallow alabaster dish. Dyn.V. These fragments have
an extrinsic merit as coming from the mastaba tomb of Merib,
son of the great Kufu [sic].16
32460: fifty-one (twelve rim, only two fitting) fragments of pottery bowl,
typeXXVIII; RW (red ware), fine red slip; diam. rim 28cm.
32461: fourteen (five rim, only two fitting) fragments of pottery bowl, type
XXVIII; RBrW (red brown ware), red slip; diam. rim 18cm.
Found by Lepsius in December 1842:17
From the shaft of shaftb itself:
One small dish, possibly originally from shaftc18
From the burial chamber of shaftb:
Berlin 1607: Two fragments of unbaked mud seals 0.37 x 0.19 x 0.13
(fig.4.13)19
Berlin Inv. IV1173: male skull and skeletal remains20
Small fragments of wood, not necessarily from a coffin21
Found by Lepsius in December 1842 in shaftc:
From the sarcophagus-shaped depression on the west side of the burial
chamber:22
Scattered remains of human skeleton, assumed by Lepsius to be female
based on the thinness of the skull23
15
16
17
Expedition Diary, by N.F. Wheeler, March2, 1933, p.1234.

O. Bates, in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Thirty-first Annual Report 1906, p.76.
Some of the objects listed below could be confirmed in the gyptisches Museum,
Berlin. The rest are presumed to be lost during the Second World War.
18 Lepsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: ein einziges kleines Schsselchen fand sich
beim Ausgraben des Schachtes, es war vielleicht aus dem anderen dahin geworfen.
19 Lepsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: eine Mauer von ungebrannten
Nilerdziegeln (von 0,37 x 0,19 x 0,13 Gre), zwei Stcke davon sind jetzt in
Berlin No.1607. Note that Lepsiuss measurements are in German feet.
20 Lepsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: Der Hirnschdel war dicker als der andere
[from shaftc] und aus dem Beckenknochen lie sich ersehen, da das Gerippe
einem Manne angehrte. Schdel- und Knochenstcke dieser Leiche sind jetzt
in Berlin (Inv.VI1173). Cf. Junker, Gza2, p.123.
21 Lepsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: kleine Holzstcke, die aber wiederum
kaum zur Annahme eines hlzernen Sarkophags berechtigen.
22 Lepsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: Hier lag ein Menschengerippe zerstreut nebst
den Knochen von einem Vorderfue und zwei Hinterfen eines Rindes; ferner
eine unzhlige Menge Gerippe von Fledermusen und von einigen Vgeln;
endlich auch eine Anzahl lnglicher Holzstcke von c.6 x 4 Zoll Gre. Der
Krper scheint nach dem sehr dnnen Hirnschdel zu schlieen, einer Frau
angehrt zu haben.
23 Junker, Gza2, p.123.
Front leg and two hind legs of a cow

Numerous bat and bird skeletons
Wood fragments, ca. 10 x 15 cm
From the canopic depression in the southeast corner of the burial chamber:
Fragments of about 3 large RBrW neckless shoulder-jars; h.ca. 30cm24
Berlin 1235: 1 of 2 small RW model neckless shoulder-jars, h.4.6cm;
d.6cm25
Berlin M1319: small, footed ceramic model basin; 1.5cm; diam. 6.5cm26
Berlin M1320: small, footed ceramic model basin; 1.5cm; diam. 6.5cm
(fig.4.10)
Berlin M1352: small, footed ceramic model basin; 1.8cm; diam. 7cm
(fig.4.11)
Berlin 8634: 9 small RW model basins; h.1.5cm; d.7.0cm (fig.4.12)
Mud jar stoppers27
Berlin 8651: small decorated ball28
Architecture
Enveloping the southern end of the core mastaba g2100, this tomb is
often referred to as g2100-1Annex in the original excavation records.
It also bore the number g2500, assigned by Lythgoe. But this number
only survives on a few handwritten tomb cards, and was abandoned
thereafter.29 Foundation blocks showing both of the chapels
false doors are still in place post-Lepsius, as shown by Expedition
photography from 1933 (fig.4.3) and 1938 (fig.4.4). At this writing,
Lepsiuss removal of the chapel allows one of the most informative
sectional views of the interior of a mastaba. The massive exterior
casing blocks are clearly visible (figs.4.1214), with rubble fill in the
mastaba core, topped by large roofing slabs (fig.4.14). Massive casing
blocks continue around the back (west) side of the mastaba. The roof
even preserves an impressive fossil between shaftsb and c (fig.4.15).
The street in front of the mastaba is choked with later shafts
and subsidiary burials, many of which are no longer visible at this
writing. It is difficult to imagine unimpeded access to Meribs chapel,
supporting the probability that these subsidiary burials had nothing
to do with Merib or his family.
Viewed clockwise, from the east, to the south, to the west faces
of the mastaba, the casing stones terminate at the same location on
the west face relative to the east face (fig.4.16). The roofing slabs
on top of the mastaba terminate here too, forming a distinct east
west line (fig.4.18). However, at the northwest corner of the earlier
mastaba, g2100, to the north, one may see four foundation stones
marked for the placement of courses of casing stones upon them
(above, figs.3.18, 4.19). These layout guides align precisely with the
massive casing stones of Merib further to the south. One might thus
24
25
26
27
28
29
epsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: die Scherben von etwa 3 greren etwas
L
ber 1 Fu hohen Vasen aus roter gebrannter Erde
L
epsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: von mehreren kleineren; nur die kleinsten
(zwei von der Form a (eine in Berlin Nr. 1235) waren erhalten.
L
epsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: 9 von der Formb, gleich kleinen Schsselchen
(Berlin No.13191322, 1345, 1347, 1352, 8634). For confirming object information
on these basins and for supplying photography, I am grateful to Klaus Finneiser,
gyptisches Museum, Berlin.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: mehrere Stcken Nilthon, wie es scheint
vom Verschlu der Vasen.
L
epsius, Denkmaeler1, Text, p.48: eine kleine verzierte Kugel.
These tomb cards, eg014935014938, are quoted above in the chapter on mastaba
g2100.
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conclude that at the time of Meribs tomb construction, the earlier

mastaba g2100 was also meant to receive massive exterior casing
(further strengthening the family relationship between the two
tombs.30 Perhaps g2100 may have even received some of its new
exterior casing, only to lose it to quarrying in later times. Clear proof
that the massive casing intended for g2100 was never completed lies
in the southern exterior wall of g2111, which is located further south
than the exterior of the casing indicated by the eastwest corner
markings of the large foundation block.
At the north end of the east face, a fairly elaborate but slightly
irregular north niche is set into the facade (figs.4.204.21). If the
door was once painted, no traces now remain.
Shafts and Burials
No detailed descriptions are preserved, beyond Lepsiuss original

report quoted above, and Junkers remarks in Gza2, pp.12425. No
photography is available for the burial chambers. For photographs,
plans, and sections of shaftsb andc, see figs.4.224.26.
Date
Although he did not excavate the tomb, Junker includes a lengthy

discussion of Meribs mastaba, arguing that it cannot date to
Dynasty4.31 Among the Dynasty5 features of the tomb are the
massive casing stones in local nummulitic limestone; the extensive
interior chapel decoration, and above all the exterior facade scenes;
the atypically small shaftc; the unlined, unpaved burial chambers
of both shaftsb and c; and the presence of ceramic canopic jar
fragments found in the canopic depression of shaftc. The tomb is
not without archaisms, such as the canopic depression itself, and
the slab stelalike tablet on the chapels northern false door, but
these are not enough to allow a Dynasty4 date. Meribs completed
mastaba fits best in early Dynasty5, along with the parallel mastabas
of Seshathetep (g5150), Nisutnefer (g4970), KaninisutI (g2155),
and Kanefer (g2150).32
Decoration
Smith relates the chapel to a general group including g2100-11

(Nensedjerkai), g2155 (Kaninisut I), g5150 (Seshathetep), g4970
(Nisutnefer), g5170 (SeshemneferIII), g4710 (Setju), g4920
30
31
32
It is unlikely that Merib would have bothered to encase the mastaba of an
individual unknown to him.
Junker, Gza2, pp.12135.
Compare PMIII, p.71: Menkaure or Shepseskaf (Reisner) or early Dynasty5
(Junker); Baer, Rank and Title, p.79 [182]: early Dynasty5; Barta, Opferliste,
p.156: Dynasty4, Pre-Menkaure; Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir1, pp.3540,
2, p.458 [73]: DjedefreKhafre; Cherpion, Mastabas et hypoges, p.224: Khufu;
Harpur, Decoration in Egyptian Tombs, p.267 [93]: Shepseskaf to Userkaf; JacquetGordon Domaines funraires, p.229 (13G45): late Dynasty4early Dynasty5;
Junker, Gza2, pp.39, 135: early Dynasty5; Kanawati, Egyptian Administration,
pp.18, 9596, 153 [122]: early Dynasty 5; Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib,
p.28: end of Dynasty 4 to begin Dyn. 5; Reisner, List of Finished Mastabas in
the Nucleus Cemeteries, p.1: Dynasty45 (mastaba; no core); Reisner, GN1,
pp. 216, 311: late Menkaurelate Neferirkare or slightly later; Reisner, List of
Finished Mastabas, p.22: Dynasty45; Reisner, Mycerinus, p.99: (the later
stone chapel, built round the southern end of the mastaba and more nearly of
the type of Medum mastabas, was actually built in the reign of Chephren);
Schmitz, Untersuchungen zum Titel S-Njwt, p.26: early Dynasty5; Strudwick,
Administration, p.94 [59]: Menkaure to end of Dynasty4 (Strudwick notes that
Meribs chapel shows one of the earliest examples of the deceased standing and
facing left between two false doors on the west wall).
(Tjenti), g5010, g5030 (=Lepsius46), g5210 (Khemten), and

g5340 (Kasewedja). These chapels are characterized by reliefs of
medium height and mediocre execution, and some of them show
evidence of a use of plaster washes to give a smoother finish to the
relief for the laying on of the color.33 In particular he compares
the chapel of Merib with those of g5150 (Seshathetep) and g4970
(Nisutnefer) in the distribution of scenes, style, and imitation wood
graining around the bases of the walls, suggesting that g2100-1
and g5150 are the product of the same workshop.34 Meribs chapel
inscriptions are reproduced by Roeder.35
Although the wall decoration is quite well known from the
plates in Lepsiuss Denkmaeler, and from Prieses 1984 booklet,36
nevertheless the absence of published photography of the original
reliefs in Berlin has hindered the study of this chapel. For example,
few have commented on the major recarving of Meribs seated figure
on the north wall (see fig. 4.44). At the time the present volume
went to press, the chapel was being reconstructed in Berlins Neues
Museum in preparation for the first public exhibition since World
WarII. New photographs of the chapel walls were specially prepared
and digitally montaged together for this volume prior to the chapels
physical reconstruction, but it was not possible to prepare new
epigraphic drawings in time for publication. For full epigraphic
coverage of Meribs chapel, the reader is therefore referred to Part2
of Giza Mastabas8.
Entrance (figs. 4.274.30).37 Along with the tomb of Kanefer

(g2150), Meribs chapel is one of only two in Cemetery g 2100
to contain decoration on its exterior facade. All the carving is in
raised relief. A two-line architrave, with a standing figure of Merib
at the left (south) edge, surmounts two large-scale standing figures
of him on either side of the chapel entrance. Each figure holds a staff
and scepter, and is accompanied by a single son, Khufumernetjeru
on the south facade panel, and Merib Junior on the north. While
both figures appear to march into the tomb, Junker has explained
that each figure in fact faces rightward, out of the tomb, mirroring
the customary arrangement for the deceased found on entrance
thicknesses and other locations.38 The right (north) entrance facade
figure is thus reversed, Curiously, however, one expects the scepter
in Meribs hand to pass behind his body in this leftward-facing figure,
as it does inside the chapel on the east and west walls. But it does not.
Wigs and costume differ, but the sekhem scepter in each case passes
in front of Meribs legs. The south facade figure wears a short, valanced
wig and short kilt. On the north facade, Merib wears a longer, tressed
wig and a leopard skin and shoulder knot over his short kilt.
33
34
35
36
37
38
S mith, HESPOK, p.166.

Smith, HESPOK, pp.165, 362.
G. Roeder, Aegyptische Inschriften aus den kniglichen Museen zu BerlinI,
pp.88100.
Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.18; Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib, pp.19, 3642, 43.
J unker, Gza2, pp.12627. Harpur, Decoration in Egyptian Tombs, p.456, fig.20,
reproduces Lepsiuss line drawing.
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Architrave over Chapel Entrance (figs.4.284.30).

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`
Translation: (1)Seal-bearer of the god of of (the ship) Ba-netjeru,

(2)seal-bearer of the god of (the ship) Neb-rekhyt, (3)seal-bearer of
the god of (the ship) Duwa-tawy, (4)Merib.
Above the figure of the son:
Text: (1)tp nswt npw nty s nr rs (m) smyt mntt nb m r nr

w nfr wrt tmty39 nr bw nrw s nswt Mrb (2)prt rw t nt psn
wtt wg s w prt Mnw bd smdt40 b wr b nb r nb tmty nr dw
twy nb m mrr nbf Mrb
Translation: (1)A gift which the king gives and Anubis, foremost of
the divine booth, (of ) a burial in the western desert (as) a possessor
of veneration before the great god, having achieved a very great old
age, the seal-bearer of the god of (the ship) Ba-netjeru,41 kings son
Merib, (2)(and for) invocation offerings of bread, beer, and cakes (on
the) festival of Thoth,42 the wag-festival, the sadj-festival, the brazier
festival,43 the festival of going forth of Min, the festival of the month
and half-month, the great festival, and every festival of every day;
the seal-bearer of the god of (the ship) Duwa-tawy,44 possessor of
veneration, beloved of his lord, Merib.

M
Text: (5)sf n tf (6)r nswt (7)wfw-mr-nrw
Translation: (5)His bodily son, (6)royal acquaintance, (7)Khufumer
netjeru.
North Facade Panel (figs.4.284.30).

Above the figure of Merib:
BM
M .
C t
1
B
m
m
m

Text: (1)tmty nr b nrw (2)tmty nr nb ryt (3)tmty nr dw twy
(4)Mrb
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
n the preference for reading tmty, instead of swty, for seal-bearer, see
O
Fischer, Varia Nova, pp.5052.
A better reading for this festival than smdt may be mnt, consisting of the
number 15 (m + + element nt, cf. Edel, Altgyptische Grammatik, 408); see
Luft, Die chronologische Fixierung, p.163 (3.1.17).
For this title, see Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles2, p.770, no.2799; idem,
Glossary of Ancient Egyptian Nautical Titles, p.106, no.243.
Spalinger labels this feast list under his oddities category, The Private Feast Lists
of Ancient Egypt, p.158: This very mixed up arrangement still reveals that when
w occurs feasts8 [prt Mn] and 9 [(bd n) s] tend to move around it to a
small degreee. However, the opening of wtyt+ wgy cannot be left unnoticed.
For comments on this ceremony, see Junker, Gza2, p.117, and Hannig,
gyptisches WrterbuchI, p.305 {6620}.
For this title, see Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles2, pp.77172, no.2802;
idem, Glossary of Ancient Egyptian Nautical Titles, p.106, no.243; and more
recently K.O. Kuraszkiewicz, The title tmtj nrgods sealerin the
Old Kingdom, in The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology, pp.193202, with
important bibliography on p.196, n.14.
For this title, see Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles2, p.771, no.2801; idem,
Glossary of Ancient Egyptian Nautical Titles, p.106, no.243.
C
@
B|
Above the figure of Merib:

2
Above the figure of the son:
South Facade Panel (figs.4.284.30).

3
Text: (1)tmty nr b nrw (2)Mrb

Translation: (1)Seal-bearer of the god of (the ship) Ba-netjeru,
(2)Merib.
Text: (1)s nswt n tf tmty nr b nrw dw twy nb ryt Mrb

Translation: (1)Kings son of his body, the seal-bearer of the god of (the
ships) Ba-netjeru, Duwa-tawy and Neb-rekhyt,45 Merib.
Drum over Chapel Entrance (figs.4.284.30).
1
C
1.t @
M
~

C
m
m
B m

+
L U
wp
M I1
M
a
a
.
% { - r
B
Text: (3)sf n tf (4)r nswt Mrb-ns

Translation: (3)His son of his body, (4)royal acquaintance, Merib
Junior.46
South Entrance Thickness (figs. 4.314.33).47 Bearded and

dressed in a short kilt, leopard skin, shoulder knot, and long striated
wig, Merib leans on a staff, facing out of the chapel to his left. His
leg musculature is carefully modeled. Before him are three of his
children. Nensedjerkai, the owner of g2100-11, stands clutching
Meribs staff, while his eldest son Khufumernetjeru, and a daughter
named Sednet, kneel before him. Nensedjerkai holds a lotus blossom
in her right hand as she turns her head back to gaze at her father. Her
hair is close-cropped, and she wears a choker and a long, tight-fitting
garment with shoulder straps. Her hips and slightly protruding
stomach are clearly defined underneath the dress. The kneeling
Khufumernetjeru presumably grasps a papyrus scroll or fold of cloth
in his left hand. Like his father, he too is bearded, but he wears a
46
47
The ns bird | (Sign List G37) is written in front of Mrb, at the bottom of
column3.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl. 22a; Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib, pp.21,
43; Junker, Gza2, p.128, fig.11; Harpur, Decoration in Egyptian Tombs, p.472,
fig.62; and B. Schmitz, in Schmitz and Steffgen,Waren sie nur schn? Frauen
im Spiegel der Jahrtausende, p.77, where the author notes that Meribs daughter
Nensedjerkai grasps her fathers staff, a motif otherwise reserved primarily for
sons, and p.79, fig.21 (partial line drawing); El-Metwally, Entwicklung der
Grabdekoration, p.212 fig.31.
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short, curled wig and simple, short kilt. His sister Sednet is emptyhanded. Wearing bracelets, a long garment, and striated wig, she rests
one hand on her lap while the other is bent back across the breast.
The inscriptions above the children consist of four columns
plus Meribs name, followed by three horizontal lines, all divided
by register lines. An interesting solution to the sloping batter of
the exterior wall is used here to retain the sense of symmetry in
the inscription. In the first vertical column (s nswt n tf smr), the
hieroglyphs inch further left with each successive word, towards the
exterior sloping wall, in order to fill up the increasingly empty space.
Thus the reversed s of smr is far to the left of the nswt sign at the top
of the column. Yet the hieroglyphs remain vertical. This should be
compared to the north entrance thickness of Nefer (g2110; figs.6.50,
6.53), where the hieroglyphs actually lean to align with the sloping
exterior wall. Both solutions make for a successful composition.
Behind Merib, whose standing figure appears directly beneath the
entrance drum, three registers of livestock proceed unaccompanied
into the chapel.
1

g
tm
m
m
~

C
@
)

.
M
1
_ C B
C
H
L UUu
$
g w
[

U
T
T
T
T
u A T TT TTTTTT
u
~

C
~

5
5
the chapel to the right (west). These probably belong to the scene
that continues on the east wall.
C
#
3
s w C
C
C
L
2
Text: (1)rn ng(w) (2)w n mt ry-b (3)rn

Translation: (1)Young bull, (2)ox of the stall; suckled calf51 (3)young
oryx.52
North entrance thickness (figs.4.344.35).53 Merib stands facing

out of the tomb, to the right. He sports a beard, valanced wig, and
holds a staff and scepter. He wears a lector priests sash and back
flap. His naked son, Merib Junior, clings to his fathers staff from his
own raised register line. With his right hand, Merib Junior reaches
back towards his fathers scepter. Before Merib stand two evidently
unrelated individuals. One unnamed keeper of the festival perfume
acts in the role of a document presenter. The papyrus he reads from
is inscribed with numbers in raised relief. The chief of the bag Ishi
follows behind him carrying a bolt of cloth and a rack containing
three ointment jars. As with the south entrance thickness, the first
of four columns of vertical inscription above splays outward to
fill the wide, triangular space formed by the sloping batter of the
exterior wall. Beneath this text, two lines of horizontal hieroglyphs,
followed by the identifying inscriptions above the officials complete
the scene.54
Text: (1)s nswt n tf smr (2)tmty nr b nrw dw twy (3)tmty nr

nb ryt b nrw (4)my-r kt nbt nswt (5)Mrb (6)m tmt nt pr-nswt
(7)dm mn? 6, 4, 2, 1 p snr w msdmt tt mr(w)t nb (8)stf
Nn-sr-k() sf smsw wfw-mr-nrw, stf Sdnt
Translation: (1)Kings son of his body, companion, (2)the seal-bearer
of the god of (the ships) Ba-netjeru, and Duwa-tawy, (3)sealbearer of the god of (the ships) Neb-rekhyt, and Ba/ab-netjeru,48
(4)overseer of all construction projects of the king, (5)Merib.
(6)Viewing the sealed valuables49 which are brought (from) the
Palace:50 (7)idemi linen: men(?), a thousand of 6, 4, 2, 1; a thousand
pellets of incense; a thousand quantities of green eye-paint, black eyepaint; all kinds of best ointments. (8)His daughter, Nensedjerkai, his
eldest son Khufumernetjeru, his daughter, Sednet.
In the rebate on the south side of the doorway (door embrasure)

are three small registers, each containing a single animal facing into
51
52
53
48
49
50
ould b be a reversal for b, horn of the gods, or similar? Cf. Jones, Index of
C
Ancient Egyptian Titles2, p.771, no.2800; idem, Glossary of Ancient Egyptian
Nautical Titles, p.106, no.243.
For the translation valuables or treasure, see Fischer, A Group of Sixth
Dynasty Titles Relating to Ptah and Sokar, JARCE3 (1964), p.26, n.9.
Lines67 are translated by Strudwick, Texts from the Pyramid Age, p.407
(text307).
54
Only one animal appears in this register; should suckled calf be taken as the
type of stalled ox? Since the pr sign precedes the mt hobble (V19), perhaps the
word should be read pr-mt.
H
annig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptischDeutsch, p.574 (omitted from
Hannig, gyptisches WrterbuchI).
L
epsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.22b; Junker, Gza2, p.128, fig.11; Priese, Opferkammer
des Merib, pp.21, 4649; Schmitz, in Schmitz and Steffgen, Waren sie nur
schn? Frauen im Spiegel der Jahrtausende, p.80, fig.22 (partial line drawing);
El-Metwally, Entwicklung der Grabdekoration, p.210 fig.27. For the fatherson
pose as an example of filial emphasis, see H.G. Fischer, Some Iconographic
and Literary Comparisons, in Fragen an die altgyptische Literatur, p.159 with
n.15, and p.168, fig.4.
Illustrated and translated by H. Altenmller, Presenting the nt-r-offerings to
the tomb owner, in The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology, p.30, fig.4.
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mm
m
t ~
C
@
)
.
1
B M C _
5
L
H
L
uUU C
C
CC
C
!
C a
s
~

|BM
A F

7
8
10
East Wall, Over the Doorway (figs. 4.364.39).59 Only three

major mastabas in Cemetery g2100 preserve decoration inside the
chapel on the east wall above the entrance door: Merib (g2100-1),
Kanefer (g2150), and KaninisutI (g2155). Only Kanefer chose a
scene other than boating for this area. Meribs scene contains two
superimposed river boats proceeding to the right (southwards), each
with a crew of fourteen. The crew on the hedgehog-prowed ship
above is sailing, with tall mast and sail unfurled, while the crew of the
plain-prowed ship below is rowing.60 In each case, Merib is shown at
a scale larger than that of the crew. He leans on a staff, supervising;
this is the same pose shown on the south entrance thickness. He is
named twice on the lower ship.
The upper register reads:
U
=
11
Below the sailboat, and above the rowboat, is inscribed:

2
57
58
ote the reversal of the s sign.

N
(text307).
S ee Junker, Gza 2, pp.128, fig.11, and 129. Similar document presentation scenes
may be found in a large number of tombs, but very few of the actual papyrus
scrolls are inscribed. For inscribed documents, see the tombs of KhafkhufuI,
Simpson, Kawab, KhafkhufuI andII, pl.17b, fig.29 (north inner jamb of
chapel entrance), and of Fetekta at Saqqara (Lepsius1), Lepsius, Denkmaeler2,
pl.96, bottom right, PMIII, p.351. It possible that many such papyrus
documents were inscribed in paint only, which has long since faded from the
wall relief; in this regard see possibly the tomb of MeresankhIII, Dunham
and Simpson, Mersyankh, pl.2c, fig.3b (south thickness of chapel entrance).
An actual legal document concerning the provisions of the mortuary cult of
Penmeru was inscribed on his serdab niche (g2197); cf. Simpson, Mastabas of
the Western Cemetery, p.24, pls.4647. On document presentation in general
see Manuelian, Presenting the Scroll: Papyrus documents in tombs scenes of
the Old Kingdom, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson2, pp.56188.
This is called selten in Wb.4, 414.9=Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.44b
(=Lepsius95), eine Speise. For additional references, see Hannig, gyptisches
WrterbuchI, p.1282 [32222].
_ B M ~
BM
Text: (1)s nswt tmty nr w Mrb (2)smr Mrb

Translation: (1)Kings son, seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, Merib.
(2)The companion, Merib.
East wall, Presentation Scenes (figs.4.364.39). The rest of the

east wall contains a double presentation scene, with three large-scale
standing figures.62 On the left (north), by the boating scenes and
the chapel entrance, Merib and his mother Sedit face to the right.63
Merib holds a staff and a scepter, which passes in front of his figure;
Sedit extends her left arm around his shoulder.64 He wears a broad
collar and a half-coffered kilt. She wears the same type of closefitting dress with shoulder straps that appears on her figure on the
south wall. She also has a broad collar, a choker, and a bracelet but
59
55
56
Text: (1)tmty nr w Mrb (2)ft w r st tp

Translation: (1)The seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, Merib. (2)Sailing
to the field of offerings.61
Text: (1)s nswt n tf smr (2)tmty nr b nrw dw twy (3)tmty nr

nb ryt b nrw (4)my-r kt nb(t) nt nswt (5)Mrb (6)m prt-rw nt
pr-nswt (7) rn w rn m- rn nw rn gs t rp mst (8)
s n tmty s-b (9)200,000 t 40,000 nt 3,300 psn 500 t 500 w 400
m- 200 sr 400 rp (10)ry-tp s-b (11)sf Mrb-ns
Translation: (1)Kings son of his body, companion,55 (2)the seal-bearer
of the god of (the ships) Ba-netjeru, and Dua-tawy, (3)sealbearer of the god of (the ships) Neb-rekhyt and Ba/ab-Netjeru,
(4)overseer of all construction projects of the king, (5)Merib.
(6)Viewing56 the invocation offerings which are brought (from)
the Palace: (7)a thousand young oxen, a thousand young oryxes, a
thousand young ibexes, a thousand young gazelles, a thousand cranes,
a thousand white-fronted geese and meset-geese. (8)Presenting the
valuables by the keeper of the festival perfume.57 (9)200,000 loaves
of bread, 40,000 jars of beer, 3,300 cakes, 500 shatjet-food,58 500 oxen,
400 oryxes, 200 greylag geese, 400 white-fronted geese. (10)Chief of
the bag, Ishi. (11)His son, Merib Junior.
60
61
62
63
64
I llustrated in Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.22d; Priese, Opferkammer des Merib,

pp.2324, 33; Landstrm, Ships of the Pharaohs, pp.3536, figs.9596; Borchardt,
aure, pp.16263, figs.2223; Demel, Die Reliefs der Kultkammer des Kaninisut,
p.24, fig.19. The gestures are discussed by Dominicus, Gesten und Gebrden,
pp.107111 (with this scene illustrated in fig.28).
On the significance of the hedgehog-headed night-boats (Henet) versus the
papyrus-prowed day-boats (Shabet), see H. Altenmller, Funerary Boats and
Boat Pits of the Old Kingdom, in Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2001, pp.269
90. On the hedgehog-headed prow itself, see von Droste zu Hlshoff, Der Igel
im alten gypten, pp.9798 (cat. no.48, fig.39), with extensive bibliography,
and on hedgehogs in general, idem, Igel, in L 3, col. 124.
The boating texts are discussed by Junker, Gza2, pp.6669, idem, Gza3,
pp.18485, idem, Gza5, p.69(1). Cf. in general, Jones, Boats, pp.3645.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.21; Priese, Opferkammer des Merib, pp.2223, 3031,
5154.
This is one of two representations of Meribs mother and the presumed owner
of g2100 to the north. The other scene is on the south wall. For more on Sedit,
including doubts that she could ever have married Khufu, see Junker, Gza1,
p.152; idem, Gza2, pp.122, 13132; Reisner, Mycerinus, p.240.
S mith, HESPOK, p.298, fig.149, reproduces a line drawing of the embracing
couple, our figs.4.364.39 (=Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.21).
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C |
U
C
F
|| | F ||
2 =
|
|
|
2
2
2 = K

|
| ||
|
no anklets, to judge from the Lepsius color illustration. At the right

Facing
m/f Text
Translation
Remarks
end of the wall Merib stands again, this time facing to the left. He
left 1
2
3
10
9
8
wears a leopard skin, half-coffered kilt, broad collar, and valanced
wwy
wfw
The
two
islands
of
!
(1)
wig, and his scepter, in contrast to his rightward-facing figure on

Khufu
the same wall, passes behind his body. Between these three figures,
five registers of offering bearers fill the remaining space, oriented to
both the left and right. The staves held by both figures of Merib act
as vertical register lines containing the central portion of the scene.

2
3
10
9
8
Registers 13 (from the top) contain personified estates bearing 1
bt wfw
the
[
13 fountain
12 of
(2)
4 5
11
offerings in baskets upon their heads. Register4 shows, from left
Khufu
to right, a scribe, a man with a bird, another with a calf and gazelle,

and two men with linen. In register5, a slaughter scene takes place;
in the center, two men sever a bulls haunches. Two more present
10 9
1
2
3
8
the haunches, and a scribe with a writing kit appears at either end,
10
closest to the large-scale figures.

1
2
3
9
8
! 7
are thesandals
mn bwt wfw
firm
(3)
Above the standing couple at left (north) is inscribed:
14
6
13 16 12 15 11
4
5
2 <
2
22
K1 =
Khufu
of
C
= 2
C
7
6
5
4
3
2
1

C10 |
M { g
9
2
2
|
Hd
= || 6
C
~
C |
F
U
1
{
g
C |
3|
10
G
1 | 2|
9F
|12 |8|11 |
@
13
|
~
t
| C ||
4 | 5

C
CM F

2
2
of
w
mt
the
island
the
(4)
16
15
14 Wb.3, 80.14;
6
7
13
12
11
[
=
4
5
@ _?1
Gza3,
C
2
|
Junker,
.
2
C
hemet-animal
K
2
=
C
1
2
3
10
9
8
@
p.79;
|
2K =
JacquetU
<|
| |
2
BM , n
Gordon,
||U 2
Les noms des
|
U
Text: (1)s nswt n tf snwt(y) npw (2)tmty nr b nrw dw twy
13
12|
11
|
46
5
F
domaines
|
1
|
C
{
(3)my-r m (4)wr mw mw r nswt smr ry b (5)mry nbf mrr

|
|
2
funraires
F
|
24 |= 65
7 2| 13
1612
1511
14 p.230.
nbf Mrb (6)mwtf st nswt n tf (7)nb m r nr Sdt
|
K
2
! wwy
|two=islands
C ||CU
Translation: (1)Kings son of his body, who belongs to the snwt-utensil
the 14
16 nm 15
| ofC
62
7
(5)
<
65
|
F
of Anubis (2)seal-bearer of the god of (the ships) Ba-netjeru (and)|
Khnum
2
2
| | =2
Duwa-tawy, (3)overseer of the army, (4)great one of the Tens

F
<of K |
U
|12 11 U|
13
6 2
C
F
| |

{| |1
2
U
FSabu|the
|
sbw wr| |
6
2
2
{ |1
great
!
=
|
K
C
|
C
| U
|
(6) <
F U
2
=2
East Wall, Center (Funerary Estates) (figs.4.364.39). Jacquet-

C
|
<
F
6 | | | |
Gordon has studied the series of sixteen figures, nine men and seven |
{ |1
C
67
2 | U
women, that occupy the central portion of the wall. She notes the
|

6
likelihood that estates 17 were located in Lower Egypt, and 816 in{ |
1
(7)C [ st ntr wpy
CRa-wepy
|=the field|of2
Upper Egypt, and cites the similarity of arrangement with the tombs| <
|

of Seshathetep (g5150=LG36) and Khufukhaf (g71307140).68
2
U|
6
|
{ 1
|
C
|
|
|
65 Translation uncertain; for the suggestion of snwt(y) npw, he of the snt-utensil,

|
see E. Brovarski, The Priestly Title of Anubis:
, in Hommages Fayza Haikal,
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<
6
1
C
13
12
11
16
15
14
15
15
14
14
14
m/f
Text
Translation
nw wfw
the lives of Khufu
Remarks
|
|
15
16
2 =
|
|
|
2
K 2
|
|
76
68
67
16
pp.6778. See also Fischer, The Orientation of Hieroglyphs, p.142(g); the tomb
of Djau, Urk.1, 118.13; Priese, Opferkammer des Merib, p.27: Versorger(?) des
(Gottes) Anubis(?), and Speiser(?) des (Gottes) Anubis(?). See also Fischer,
The Orientation of Hieroglyphs, p.142(g).
The presence of the n above the nb sign is taken as part of the word lord,
rather than an indirect genitive; cf. Simpson, Kayemnofret, p.10. Phonetic
Facing
complementation is present in both cases here: C + .
right8
2 funraires,
3 pp.22931 (no. 13G45);
10
Jacquet-Gordon, Les noms 1des domaines
see 9
also, in general, Junker, Gza12,
pp.11418.
(8)
Kawab,
KhafkhufuI
and II, pp.1517,
pls.20,
For KhafkhufuI see Simpson,

22b, figs.3233; Jacquet-Gordon,
funraires, pp.207208
Lesnoms des domaines
(2G4). For Seshathetep (g5150=LG 36), see Junker, Gza2, pp.16, 182, fig.28;
idem, Gza3, pp.1516, and Kanawati, Tombs at Giza2, pls.7b, 45; Lepsius,
Denkmaeler2, pl.23; Jacquet-Gordon, Les noms des domaines funraires, pp.251
52 (23G5).
66
16
Upper Egypt, royal acquaintance, companion, lector priest (5)beloved

of his lord, whom his lord loves,66 Merib. (6)His mother, kings
daughter of his body, (7)possessor of veneration before the god, Sedit.
|
F
|
= 2
C
U
| |
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10
nt wfw
(9)

=
C |
|
|
|nfr tpt wfw perfect of offerings
(10) !
is Khufu
2 2
C |
|
|
|
C
|
K 2

U
|
[ grgt
wfw
the foundation of
(11)
|
|
2
Khufu
=
2 2 | C
C |
|
U |
|
F
|
2
K
=
C
U|
F
<
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South Wall (figs.4.404.43).71 An abbreviated offering scene fills

most of the available space. Merib stands facing left with his mother
Sedit behind him. She places her right arm around his shoulder.
His scepter passes behind his body. His costume consists of a halfcoffered kilt with belt tie, broad collar, and valanced wig. Sedit wears
the same close-fitting dress with shoulder straps that appears on the
east wall. She also has a broad collar, a choker, a bracelet, and anklets,
to judge from Freys color illustration.
Between Meribs figure and his staff stands an unnamed
naked figure on his own register line. Further left of the staff are
four vertical registers, each containing a single male proffering
items for the funerary ritual: from top to bottom a libation, fowl,
incense, and linen. Above the scene, three columns of rightwardfacing hieroglyphs make up a short tp nswt formula, while seven
columns identify the names and titles of Merib and Sedit.
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royal acquaintance, controller of the palace,69 (4)overseer of the army,

(5)beloved of his lord, whom his lord loves,70 Merib.
the valley of Khufu
Text: (1)tp nswt prt-rw r nb bd (2)smdt wtt wg72 (3)m b nb

t (4)s nswt n tf smr ry-b (5)snwt(y) npw wr mw mw r nswt
rp (6)tmty nr b nrw dw twy (7)my-r m (8)mry nbf mrr nbf
Mrb (9)mwtf st nswt n tf (10)m(t)-nr Nt mtt nb Sdt
Translation: (1)A gift which the king gives, (consisting of ) invocation
offerings every day, on the month (2)and half-month festival, the
festival of Thoth, the wag-festival, (3)(and) on every festival73 forever.
(4)The kings son of his body, companion, lector priest, (5)who belongs
to the snwt-utensil of Anubis, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt,
royal acquaintance, controller of the palace, (6)seal-bearer of (the ships)
Ba-netjeru, and Duwa-tawy, (7)overseer of the army, (8)beloved of
his lord, whom his lord loves,74 Merib. (8)His mother, kings daughter
of his body, (10)priestess of Neith, north of the wall, Sedit.
North Wall (figs.4.444.47).75 Merib sits upon a bull-legged stool

with visible cushion. He holds a staff in his left hand, while his right
hand is outstretched, palm down. He wears a short, curled wig that
Text: (1)s nswt n tf smr ry-b (2)tmty nr b nrw dw twy (3)wt npw
wr mw mw r nswt rp (4)my-r m (5)mry nbf mrr nbf Mrb
Translation: (1)Kings son of his body, companion, lector priest
(2)seal-bearer of the god of (the ships) Ba-netjeru (and) Duwatawy, (3)embalmer of Anubis, great one of the Tens of Upper Egypt,
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
or this title see M. Brta. The Title Inspector of the Palace during the Egyptian
F
Old Kingdom, Archv Orientln67, no.1 (1999), pp.120, citing this tomb
on p.5.
Phonetic complementation is present in both cases here: C + .
L
epsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.20f; a detail of Meribs head is discussed and illustrated
in Smith, HESPOK, p.302 and pl.46c, in Cherpion, in Egyptian Art in the Age
of the Pyramids, p.105, fig.63, and in Capart, Documents2, pp.2425, pl.24. See
also Priese, Opferkammer des Merib, pp.2021.
O
n this festival, occasionally written wg, see Luft, Die chronologische Fixierung,
p.150 (3.1.7), and E. Winter, Das gyptische Wag-Fest, esp. pp.37, 71. On feast
lists in general, see Spalinger, The Private Feast Lists of Ancient Egypt.
L
epsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.20f incorrectly places a @
sign here as if the title
ry-b were intended.
P
honetic complementation is present in both cases here: C + .
Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.22c; Priese, Opferkammer des Merib, pp.23, 32, 59.
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leaves a large area around the top of the crown free,76 and a simple
kilt with belt tie but no pleating indicated. There is clear evidence
of major recarving on the upper half of the torso, particularly visible
on the arms and around the shoulders and neck area. The result is
a rather awkward appearance to the transition from head to torso.
Above Merib are six columns of identifying text, along with
a scene caption beneath his arm. The right-hand portion of the
wall shows seven registers of highly repetitive offerings; from top
to bottom they include: hanging meats, bread (or beer jars with
tall, dome-shaped stoppers), bread, cakes, bread loaves and four
vessels,77 bread, and six tables of dates, grapes, and other fruits and
vegetables. Beneath the offerings are two registers facing Merib, each
with two males. The upper register shows a seated scribe offering
a papyrus document to Merib, with an empty-handed assistant
behind. Below are two standing figures, the first with a bolt of cloth
in his outstretched hands,78 and tied bundles before, the second
with a papyrus document in his right hand, and a tied bag behind
him that is often used for sticks and staves.79 The lowest register
beneath Meribs seated figure shows six males. Four march to the
left, preparing a libation, bearing tables of breads and cakes, and a
haunch. The final two at right are engaged in cutting a foreleg from
a sacrificial ox.
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Text: (1)m s wdnw nt t pt k
Translation: (1)Viewing the document of the offerings (of ) beer, bread,
cakes, and oxen.
West Wall (figs. 4.484.61).81 With two false doors of unequal

height and decoration on their respective thicknesses, a major scene
between them, and additional offering scene at the south end, this
wall is by far the most complex of the entire chapel. South of the
south false door sits a medium-sized figure of Merib upon a bulllegged stool. He wears a short, curled wig and a half-coffered kilt.
With outstretched, empty hands he faces right and is attended by
three registers of single male figures. From top to bottom, the first
has a fist on his chest in a gesture of respect.82 The second offers a
rolled and sealed papyrus document, and the third proffers a bolt
of linen. Below Meribs figure, three male offering bearers march
rightward, the first bearing a foreleg and a fowl, the second carrying
a skewered goose and a table of loaves and a cake, and the third a
sealed beer jar in each hand. Above Meribs figure are three columns
of text: In the register below, two men remove the leg of a bound ox
in a slaughter scene.
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Text: (1)s nswt n tf smr tmty nr w (2)my-r m rp (3)wr mw

mw r nswt snwt(y) npw mr w (4)my-r kt nb(t) nt nswt r P nb
(5)wr m(w) wnw m-nr wfw (6)mry nbf mrr nbf wt npw Mrb
Translation: Kings son of his body, seal-bearer of the god of the fleet,
(2)overseer of the army, controller of the palace, (3)great one of the
Tens of Upper Egypt, royal acquaintance, who belongs to the snwtutensil of Anubis, administrator of the fleet, (4)overseer of all royal
construction projects, mouth of all the Pe, (5)greatest of seers of
Heliopolis, priest of Khufu, (6)beloved of his lord, whom his lord
loves,80 embalmer of Anubis, Merib.
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Text: (1)s nswt n tf (2)snwt(y) npw smr (3)tmty nr b nrw dw
twy Mrb
Translation: Kings son of his body, (2)who belongs to the snwt-utensil
of Anubis, companion, (3)seal-bearer of the god of the (ships) Banetjeru, and Duwa-tawy, Merib.
In front of Merib is the caption:
u
UH
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78
79
80
This feature is taken by Fischer and Cherpion as a sign of early Old Kingdom
date: Cherpion, Mastabas et hypoges, pp. 5556, critre 28; Fischer, A Scribe
of the Army in a Saqqara Mastaba of the Early Fifth Dynasty, JNES18 (1959),
pp.23839.
N
ote that Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.22c simply repeats the bread loaves across
the entire second register from the top. However, the bread loaves terminate
towards the right in favor of four ceramic vessels.
To judge from Freys color reconstruction (Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.22c), the
fact that this item is painted white suggests it is linen, contra Priese, Opferkammer
des Merib, p.23. But a papyrus document could also be colored white.
S ee Fischer, Varia, pp.22930, with fig.35 from the tomb of Ti at Saqqara.
76
81
82
Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pls.19, 20ae; Priese, Opferkammer des Merib, cover, and
pp.22, 5558.
Cf. Dominicus, Gesten und Gebrden, pp.58.
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Text: (1)tmty nr w smr Mrb (2)snr w msdmt tt mrt rp (3)st

prw psn(?) (4)b wy (t) t (5) r (6)t nt pt 2,000 (7)s
(8)mnt (9)w ry-b t m-
Translation: (1)Seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, Merib. (2)Incense,
green eye-paint, black eye-paint, best ointment, wine, (3)setjet-cakes,
peru-drink, pesen-bread(?),88 (4)container of cool water, hedjet-milk,
shat-bread, (5)hetja-bread, greylag goose, (6)bread, beer, and cakes,
2,00089 (7)a thousand alabaster vessels, (8)a thousand (pieces of )
cloth, (9)ox, suckled calf, crane, oryx.
Text: m (wy) pr ts(w)t

Translation: Viewing the production83 of the house of weavers.84
West Wall, South False Door (figs.4.484.49, 4.514.56). This

false door bears a wide architrave with a combined offering formula,
which extends to the top of the decoration. Beneath is a tablet with
a table scene (omitting the linen list that is present on the north false
door tablet). Merib sits on a bull-legged stool with a wide cushion;
he wears a leopard skin. The tablet flanges are painted in imitation
of granite, as is the central niche of the false door below. The lintel,
drum, and niches are all inscribed, terminating at the bottom with a
standing figure of Merib. The thicknesses of the outer niche show a
vertical row of vessels on stands.
West Wall, South False Door, Lintel (figs.4.51, 4.54, 4.56).

M
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B 9
nC

Text: tmty nr w my-r kt nb(t) nt nswt snwt(y) npw smr wty Mrb
Translation: Seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, overseer of all royal
construction projects, who belongs to the snwt-utensil of Anubis, sole
companion, Merib.
West Wall, South False Door, Architrave (figs.4.484.51, 4.54,

4.56).
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Text: tp nswt tp r85 npw nty s nr rs m smyt mntt m nb m

smr snwt(y) npw s nswt n tf tmty nr dw twy b nrw Mrb
Translation: A gift which the king and a gift which Anubis,86 foremost
of the divine booth, give, (namely) a burial in the western desert as a
possessor of veneration, (for the) companion,87 who belongs to the
snwt-utensil of Anubis, kings son of his body, seal-bearer of the god of
the (ships) Duwa-tawy, and Ba-netjeru, Merib.
West Wall, South False Door, Tablet (figs.4.51, 4.544.56).
B M_
West Wall, South False Door, Drum (figs.4.51, 4.54, 4.56).
BE
M
Text: Mrb
Translation: Merib.
West Wall, South False Door, Left (South) Jamb (figs.4.51,

4.54, 4.56). Merib stands at the bottom of each jamb, facing inward.
In each case he wears a short, curled wig and a half-coffered kilt; no
interior detail is carved on either item. He holds a staff in one hand
and a scepter in the other. The staff passes in front of the body on the
left (south) figure, and behind it on the right (north) figure.
2
2
g w
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2
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y #
6
84
85
86
87
n the reading of this sign, cf. Fischer, Varia Nova, pp.18082; Scheele,
O
Die Stofflisten, pp.7273; Edel, Beitrge zum gyptischen LexikonVI. Die
Stoffbezeichnungen in den Kleiderlisten des Alten Reiches, ZS102 (1975),
p.102; Junker, Gza5, p.44.
For this transliteration, preferring tst over nt or ryt, see Fischer, Notes on
Some Texts of the Old Kingdom and Later, in Studies in Honor of William
Kelly Simpson1, pp.27374; idem, Varia Nova, pp.180, 23839 with figs.12;
idem, Egyptian Women, pp.2021. For nt, see Ziegler, Le mastaba dAkhethetep,
pp.11620, with n.b; Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch, p.76. An older solution,
m sp pr rywt, may be found in Junker, Gza3, pp.21013; Junker, Gza5, p.47
(my-r pr rywt), with long discussion pp.5056. The tomb of Seneb at Giza
shows a phrase almost identical to that of Merib, cf. Junker, Gza5, pp.41, 43
fig.7 (false door, north outer jamb, east side, middle section): Viewing the
production of the house of weavers and the northern house.
Note the full writing of r with the r.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.19 omits the mt feather off the back of the Anubis
jackal.
Note the reversal with the mr sign preceding the s.
.
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m
A
83

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Text: (1)tmty nr b nrw dw twy smr (2)s nswt n tf snwt(y) npw

Mrb
Translation: (1)Seal-bearer of the god of the (ships) Ba-netjeru, and
Duwa-tawy, companion, (2)kings son of his body, who belongs to
the snwt-utensil of Anubis, Merib.
88
his area is damaged; Lepsiuss watercolor seems to show pr with a round

T
determinative; Denkmaeler2, pl.19. In Prieses modern plaster reproduction of
m (unpublished; see image AAW383 and AAW421
the chapel, he opted for O
on www.gizapyramids.org). Both the bolt s and the determinative seem certain.
F
or variant spellings of prt-rw with the quantity 1,000, see Lapp, Opferformel,
pp.11213. There are two 1,000-signs but three items listed here, if psn is not to
be taken as a determinative.
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West Wall, South False Door, Right (North) Jamb (figs.4.51,
Register 6, above the men leading oryxes:
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4.54, 4.56). For a description of the figure, see above.

1
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MC
@
Text: rn
Translation: Young oryx94
Register 7, above the men leading cattle:
:C
Text: rn nww
Translation: Young addax antelope.
MB
Text: (1)wr mw mw r nswt ry-b wt npw (2)mry nbf mrr nbf

Mrb
Translation: (1)Great one of the tens of Upper Egypt, royal acquaintance,
lector priest, embalmer of Anubis, (2)beloved of his lord, whom his
lord loves,90 Merib.
Above the standing figure of Merib wearing a leopard skin,

facing left (south):
West Wall, Between the Two False Doors (figs.4.484.51, 4.56).

One large-scale standing figure of Merib, facing left (south) forms
the focus between the two false doors. Adorned with a leopard
skin, half-coffered kilt, broad collar, valanced wig, and at least one
bracelet, Merib holds a staff and a scepter. As is the case on the east
wall, the left-facing figure shows the staff passing behind the body;
the only exception to this rule in the tomb occurs on the chapels
north exterior facade.91
Merib is confronted by seven registers of male scribes and
offering bearers.The largest figures kneel in (topmost) registers 1 and
2. The one preserved figure in register2 is clearly a scribe; with pens
behind his ear, he inscribes his document. Lepsius restores the figure
in front of him as holding an outstretched papyrus roll.92 Offerings
make up the following registers below. Register3 shows four males,
but the first three are damaged. The first pours a libation; the second
preserves legs only. A portion of the third figure indicates that he
carries a haunch across his shoulder, while the complete figure
behind him stands with a sealed beer jar in each hand, and a vessel
on an offering stand before him. Five figures appear in register4
bearing, from right to left: nothing, linen and a leather sack, a bed,
more linen and a tray heaped with foodstuffs, and finally a staff and
a fan. Register5 below shows five more figures, the first two with
cranes, the third leading a gazelle, and the fourth a calf. The fifth
and final male carries a spotted hyena in his arms.93 Two men and
two oryxes fill register6, while register7 shows two more men and
long- and short-horned cattle.
In front of Merib stands an unidentified naked son(?) facing
left, who touches the staff with right hand while standing on his own
elevated register line. Behind the deceased are four superimposed
registers, each containing a single individual. From top to bottom are
shown: a naked standing male with accompanying text (see below); a
kneeling female in a close-fitting dress and with close-cropped hair;
an empty-handed, standing male in a kilt; and a standing male in a
kilt and carrying a staff.
90
91
92
93
honetic complementation is present in both cases here: C + .

P
Cf. the examples in Fischer,The Orientation of Hieroglyphs, pp.22, fig.21, 53,
fig,54.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.19.
For a recent study of two possible hyena cages in the far Western Cemetery
(south of Lepsius19, the tomb of Ipi), originally excavated by A.M. Abu-Bakr,
see S.R. Phillips, Two enigmatic circular mud brick structures in the Western
Field at Giza, in The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology, pp.23958.
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n
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.
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Text: (1)s nswt n tf tmty nr [dw twy]95 (2)wt npw tmty nr b
nrw smr (3)my-r kt nb(t) nt nswt (4)wr mw mw ry t nswt snwt(y)
npw ry-b (5)my-r m (6)mry nbf mrr nbf Mrb
Translation: (1)Kings son of his body, seal-bearer of the god of the
(ship) [Duwa-tawy], (2)embalmer of Anubis, seal-bearer of the
god of the (ship) Ba-netjeru, companion, (3)overseer of all royal
construction projects, (4)great one of the tens of Upper Egypt, who
belongs to the snwt-utensil of Anubis, lector priest, (5)overseer of the
army, (6)beloved of his lord, whom his lord loves,96 Merib.
A short text once accompanied the standing naked male figure:
Text: [rp m]trt(?)

Translation: [The controller of ] (text illegible?)97
West Wall, Above North False Door (figs.4.504.51, 4.56, 4.59,

4.61). The north false door does not extend as high as the south
false door. Instead a small table scene occupies this space, with three
funerary priests performing initial rites before Merib seated at table
94
95
96
97
Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptischDeutsch, p.574 (omitted from

Hannig, gyptisches WrterbuchI).
The relief is damaged here; the restoration comes from Lepsius, Denkmaeler 2,
pl.19; Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib, cover. More often in the tomb the
ship title b nrw precedes the ship dw twy.
This text is indicated in Lepsiuss color illustration: Denkmaeler2, pl.19. Roeder,
Aegyptische Inschriften aus den kniglichen Museen zu BerlinI, p.97, records the
same signs with the note jetzt verschwunden. The signs are indeed invisible on
the wall today. Perhaps the most likely reconstruction is the female title mtrt.
However, since the text accompanies a standing (naked) male figure, the male
title rp mtrt has been suggested above. For remarks on the title mtrt and
some male examples, see H.G. Fischer, A Scribe of the Army in a Saqqara
Mastaba of the Early Fifth Dynasty, JNES18 (1959), pp.26263, fig.24; Jones,
Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles2, 715, no.2611; Wb.2, p.45.6; Hannig, Groes
Handwrterbuch gyptischDeutsch, p.326; Hannig, gyptisches WrterbuchI,
pp.51516 [12513].
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and facing left with staff in hand.98

Before Merib is inscribed:
g . % M B
-
2
Text: (1)tmty nr w Mrb (2)tp nswt prt-rw r nb bd smdtm

b nb
Translation: (1)Seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, Merib. (2)A gift
which the king gives, (consisting of ) invocation offerings every day,
on the festival, the month, the festival of the half-month, and on every
festival.
one beer vessel.104 Both hands are balled into fists. The inscriptions
that are normally apportioned to individual figures in this ritual are
somewhat jumbled together in Meribs version. The standing figure
has merely the identifying caption instead of the longer text wd
t n ry-wb. The central figure is identified similarly simply, but
his caption may actually be part of the phrase found in front of the
wdpw figure presenting the actual offerings. The standard caption
for the embalming priest is snmt n wt, Supplying the akh by the
embalming priest.
12
West Wall, North False Door (figs.4.48, 4.504.51, 4.564.61).

This door bears decoration similar to that on the south false door,
but the tablet includes a linen list normally found on slab stelae.
Text: (3)nt pt (4)t k (5)t-wr t-rt (6)t r (rp) mst sr (7)m w ry-b (8)nt t
Translation: (3)a thousand jars of beer, and cakes, (4)a thousand loaves
of bread, and oxen, (5)great loaf, baked bread, (6)cranes, greylag
geese, white-fronted geese, mesit-geese,99 greylag geese,100 (7)oryx, ox,
suckled calf,101 (8)beer, bread.
West Wall, North False Door, Architrave (figs.4.51, 4.54, 4.56,

4.59). This lintel seems less carefully executed than its counterpart
on the south false door. The nr of nty s nr has been omitted, and
there is a dittography with nb m written twice:
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G
@
H
B
G
Three priests perform a ritual offering

procedure
for this ritual involved the naming of certain offering items by the
standing
ry-wb priest (chief of reversion offerings), the
uttering of spells by the wt (embalming) priest, and finally the
extension of the actual offerings (milk, wine, loaves, cakes, etc.) to
the deceased by the kneeling wdpw figure holding nw jars or other
items. The first priest in Meribs scene (proceeding from left to right)
stands in the pose of addressing, with his left arm extended in front,
hand open upward. The second figure kneels in the hnw pose, in this
example with the left arm in front, extended to the head, and the right
arm upraised behind.103 The third priest kneels with both hands
extended, holding either two nw jars with wine, or one wine jar and
Text: tp nswt tp r npw nty s (nr) rs m mntt nb m nb m

r nr tmty nr w st nswt n tf Mrb
Translation: A gift which the king gives, and a gift which, Anubis,
foremost of the (divine) booth gives, (consisting of ) a burial in the west
(as) a possessor of veneration, a possessor of venerationsic before the
god, the seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, kings son of his body, Merib.
98
99
100
101
102
103
J unker notes that this scene would normally be expected on the south wall;
Gza2, p.130.
On the reading mst instead of st, see Lapp, Opferformel, p.123, 215.1113.
For the sequence of fowl names, cf. Lapp, Opferformel, pp.12024; Edel,
Hieroglyphische Inschriften des Alten Reiches, pp.7071.
See Lapp, Opferformel, pp.12426, for the reading of the cattle names in the
Old Kingdom.
The ritual offering scenes and their accompanying texts have been studied by
Lapp, Opferformel, pp.15364. Meribs scene is illustrated on p.153, fig.28. See
also Junkers discussions, Giza 2, pp.6266, 13031 (Merib) and pp.148, 169
(g2155, Kaninisut). Figures in identical poses may be found in the tombs of
Seshathetep (g5150) and Nisutnefer (g4970); see Junker, Gza2, p.187, fig.33,
and idem, Giza 3, pp.7475, figs.9ab; Smith, HESPOK, pp.165, 358.
This is the earlier form of the ritual; the later form shows the arm at the breast;
cf. Lapp, Opferformel, p.159, fig.32; see also Dominicus, Gesten und Gebrden,
pp.6165.
g 8 `
scene.102 The
6s
Text: (9)snmt (10)wdpw (11)wt (12)ry wb

Translation: (9)Supplying the akh. (10)Butler. (11)Embalming priest.105
(12)Chief of reversion offerings.106
{ A ! A
Ag
10
6 s G
o
Offerings intended for Merib are listed around and below the
offering table:
5
11
104
105
106
J unker notes that Lepsiuss watercolor has one object black and the other white,
but a collation of the original stone in Berlin indicated merely a pointed object
in the priests left hand, and a rounded one in the right. The painted plaster
reproduction of the scene today shows both objects painted black; cf. Giza2,
p.65, and compare the figures on the north and south entrance thicknesses
to the tomb of KaninisutI (g2155), our figs.13.2713.37 below, and Junker,
Gza2, pp.14647, figs.1516.
Note that the t that belongs with snmt, and is most often found above the
back of the bird, has been shifted to belong to the bird due to the extended
left hand of the kneeling priest, giving the incorrect reading snm t; see Lapp,
Opferformel, pp.155, 184, where he notes this early form of the ritual spell
evolved into the later version st n wt.
Note that Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.19, and hence Junker, Giza2, p.63, no.3,
(above) omitted the ry-wb text. This omission has found its way into the
literature; see, for example, Lapp, Opferformel, p.153, fig.28.
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Text: (10)dmy t ,110 fdw111 , snw w , szf (11)sr t , fdw ,

snw w , szf , mt-nfrt snw w , szf (12) t , fdw , snw w
, szf (13)(see below)
Translation: (10)idemy-linen: a thousand of 100112 (cubits wide), a
thousand of of 4 x 10 (cubits), a thousand of 3 x 10 (cubits), a thousand
of width sezef; (11)sesher-linen: a thousand of width 100 (cubits wide), a
thousand of 4 x 10 (cubits wide); fine linen: a thousand of 2 x 10 (cubits
wide) and 1 x 10 (cubits wide), a thousand of width sezef; (12)aa-linen:
a thousand of 100 (cubits wide), a thousand of 4 x 10 (cubits wide), a
thousand of 2 x 10 (cubits wide) and 1 x 10 (cubits wide), a thousand of
width sezef; (13) (see below)
West Wall, North False Door, Tablet (figs. 4.51, 4.56, 4.59
4.60).107
M_
B
g w
$
AuAA
A
1
2
7 6
y
8
9
Text: (1)tmty nr w smr Mrb (2)snr w msdmt tt mrt rp

(3)b(?) (4)s (5)mnt (6)nt (7)t (8)w m- (9)r rp
mst
Translation: (1)Seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, companion, Merib.
(2)Incense, green eye-paint, black eye-paint, best ointment, wine.
(3)container of cool water(?) (4)a thousand alabaster vessels, (5)a
thousand (pieces of ) cloth, (6)a thousand jars of beer, (7)a thousand
loaves of bread, (8)oxen, oryx, (9)greylag geese, white-fronted geese,
mesit-geese.
The offerings above the table face uncharacteristically rightward,

award from Merib. Similarly, the linen list at right contains falcons
on standards that likewise face away from the deceased, whereas most
such lists show them facing towards him or her.108 The qualities of
cloth included are dmy, represented by the four Horus standards
above, sr and mt-nfrt, and in the next category, -linen below that.
Only one Giza slab stela (from g4860) similarly doubles up sr and
mt-nfrt linen in the same section.109 Each quality division contains
two rows of four columns containing a cloth type designation above
and a quantity below. At the bottom of the list, where one often
finds the names of individual granaries, several groups of vessel, jar
and headrest signs appear.
[m
[ [T[
2
T
C
I
2
m
/
I
ZZ
The final (bottom) row (13) of compartments in the linen list

contains a headrest (wrs), a bed (t), an offering table (wt), an ewer,
a basin ( wy), a bowl with lug handles, and three vessels.113
West Wall, North False Door, Lintel (figs.4.51, 4.56, 4.59).

1
C
M 1. @
~
B t
Text: s nswt n tf tmty nr b nrw dw twy smr Mrb

Translation: Kings son of his body, seal-bearer of the god of (the ships)
Ba-netjeru, and Duwa-tawy, companion, Merib.
West Wall, North False Door, Drum (figs.4.51, 4.56, 4.59).

BM
Text: tmty nr w Mrb

Translation: Seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, Merib.
West Wall, North False Door, Left (South) Jamb (figs.4.51,

4.56, 4.59). The two jamb figures differ somewhat on the north false
door. Both figures display the short curled wig, short kilt, staff, and
scepter (passing in front of the body on the left, behind it on the
right). However, the left (south) figure is the only one of all four
jamb figures to show the individual curls of the wig. This figure
shows the carved broad collar, while the right (north) jamb figure
shows a bare neck; the broad collar may once have been indicated
in paint only. Moreover, the right jamb figure shows a leopard skin
instead over the short kilt, which appears to lack the half-coffer.
10
?
11
110
12
111
112
13
113
107
108
109
Reproduced in Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.111, fig.169, and p.235, figs.30809.

Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.15355, 235 figs.30809 and, for a parallel example
of a rightward-facing linen list from g4860, ibid., pp.10810, figs.16465,
169; Scheele, Die Stofflisten, esp. p.97 n.22; Smith, The Old Kingdom Linen
List, ZS 71 (1935), pp.13449.
Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.108111, pls.2930.
hile the Priese plaster cast leaves this box blank, the Lepsius watercolor has
W
four t signs in linen; these are clearly visible on the wall today (figs.4.51, 4.56).
While the Priese plaster cast leaves this box blank, the Lepsius watercolor has
four mnt signs; these are clearly visible on the wall today (figs.4.51, 4.56).
While the modern plaster reproduction of the chapel wall in Berlin leaves the first
two boxes blank, Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.19, shows the t sign, most likely
within a bolt of cloth that resembles the mn biliteral . This figure appears
on several other Giza slab stelae: Wepemnefret (g2101), Kanefer (g1203), Iunu
(g4150; no longer visible today), and the anonymous g4860; cf. Manuelian,
Slab Stelae, pp.3233, esp. pp.38, 42, 98, 108, pls.14, 2526, 2930,
L
epsius, Denkmaeler2, pls. 1920 (our fig.4.56) has
, but both the
photograph and Prieses reconstruction, (our fig.4.60), show the vessels listed
above. For discussions of furniture and other such list items see E. Brovarski,
An Inventory List from Covingtons Tomb and Nomenclature for Furniture
in the Old Kingdom, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson1, pp.117
55, and idem, Inventory Offering Lists and the Nomenclature for Boxes and
Chests in the Old Kingdom, in Gold of Praise. Studies on Ancient Egypt in
Honor of Edward F. Wente, pp.2754.
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@
BM
Text: (1)wr mw mw r nswt ry-b (2)smr wty Mrb
Translation: (1)Great of the tens of Upper Egypt, royal acquaintance,
lector priest, (2)sole companion, Merib.
West Wall, North False Door, Right (North) Jamb (figs.4.51,

4.56, 4.59).
C
@

MB
Text: (1)s nswt n tf (2)tmty nr w Mrb
Translation: (1)Kings son of his body, (2)seal-bearer of the god of the
fleet, Merib.
The final portion of the west wall to be described is north of the

north false door. Four registers are squeezed between the false door
and the chapels northwest corner, each showing a standing man
facing left and bringing in the funerary meal. The first, labeled mk, grasps an ewer and basin on a ceramic stand. The second man,
also labeled m-k, carries a bird in each hand. The third man holds
a haunch, while the fourth bears a table with bread loaves and bowls.
Junker and Schmitz have convincingly demonstrated, contra

Reisner,114 that neither Merib nor his mother Sedit were of the blood
royal, despite their titles.115 Neither is ever listed with a title higher than
s or st nswt nt tf. For Sedit, one would expect mwtf mt r St
or similar titles. Strudwick has noted, in agreement with Junker, that
the titles of s nswt and s b nrw equate Merib with the Kapunisut
shown in the tomb of his daughter, Nensedjerkai.116
Titles of Merib
(also in g2100-11; called Kp(w)-nswt, Kapunisut)

my-r m, overseer of the army
my-r kt nb(t) nt nswt, overseer of all royal construction projects117
mr w, administrator of the fleet
wr m wnw greatest of seers of Heliopolis
wr mw mw, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt
wt npw, embalmer of Anubis
mry nbf, beloved of his lord
mrr nbf, whom his lord loves
nb m, possessor of veneration
114
115
116
117
Reisner, Mycerinus, p.240.

J unker, Gza2, pp.13232; Schmitz, Untersuchungen zum Titel S-Njwt, pp.70
71, 73.
Strudwick, Administration, p.94 n.3; Junker, Gza2, fig.8.
For bearers of this title at Giza, see Smiths remarks in HESPOK, pp.35758.
r P nb, mouth of all the people of Pe

r nswt, royal acquaintance (originally ry-t nswt, keeper of the kings
property)
m-nr wfw, priest of Khufu
rp , controller of the palace
ry-b, lector priest
s nswt, kings son
s nswt n tf, kings son of his body
smr, companion
smr wty, sole companion
s b nrw, inspector of the (ships) Might of the gods,
tmty nr w, seal-bearer of the god of the barque
tmty nr b nrw, seal-bearer of the god of the (ship) Ba-netjeru
tmty nr b nrw, seal-bearer of the god of (the ships) Ba/ab-netjeru
tmty nr nb ryt, seal-bearer of the god of the (ship) Neb-rekhyt
tmty nr w, seal-bearer of the god of the fleet
tmty nr dw twy, seal-bearer of the god of the (ship) Duwa-tawy
snwt(y) npw, who belongs to the snwt-utensil of Anubis
Family:
Mother: Sdt (owner of g 2100; in g 2100-1), Sedit

mwtf, his mother
m(t)-nr Nt mtt nbw, priestess of Neith, north of the wall
st nswt n tf, kings daughter of his body
Sons:
Mrb-ns, Merib Junior
r nswt, royal acquaintance
sf, his son
sf n tf, his bodily son
wfw-mr-nrw, Khufumernetjeru
sf n tf, his bodily son
sf smsw, his eldest son
Daughters:
Nn-sr-k(), (also owner of g 2100-11), Nensedjerkai
mrytf, beloved of him
nbt m r nr , revered under the great god
m-nr wt-r, priest(ess) of Hathor
m-nr wfw, priest(ess) of Khufu
krt nswt, royal ornamented
stf, his daughter
st nswt, kings daughter
Sdnt, Sednet
stf, his daughter
Other People118
, Ishi
ry-tp s-b, chief of the bag
118
For comments on individuals holding scribal positions, see Piacentini, Les

scribes, pp.11719.
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Fig. 4.1. G2100-1, general view showing the area around the chapel removed by Lepsius, looking northwest. January 9, 1938.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a7896.
N
G 2100I
G 2100
G 2100II
B
E
A
K
Z
A
G 2102
E
C
B
J
G
I
Y
X
Fig. 4.2. G2100-1, plan.
B
E
G 2104
C D
F
G
G 2105
H
10 m
G 2120
G 2103
A D
B
X
G 2130
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Fig. 4.3. G2100-1, showing the area around the chapel removed by Lepsius, looking west. March 10, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8289.
Fig. 4.4. G2100-1, street east of the area around the chapel removed by Lepsius, looking southwest towards the tomb of
Nensedjerkai (g2100-11). January 3, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a7891.
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Fig.4.5. Computer reconstruction of mastaba g2100-1 (Merib), looking northwest, with the contiguous mastaba g2100
(Sedit) and mastaba g2110 (Nefer), with protruding exterior chapel, in the background. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.4.6. Computer reconstruction of the decorated chapel entrance facade of mastaba g2100-1 (Merib), looking southwest,
with the contiguous mastaba g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai), in the background. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig. 4.7. Lepsius plan and sections of g2100-1, from Lepsius, Denkmaeler1, pl.22.
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Fig. 4.8. Lepsiuss

sketch plan of g21001, from Lepsius,
Denkmaeler1, p.46.
Fig. 4.9. Lepsiuss sketches of ceramics from

g2100-1, after Lepsius, Denkmaeler1, p.48.
Fig. 4.13. Berlin M 1607, unbaked mud seals from g2100-1b. 2008.
Fig. 4.10. Berlin M 1320, ceramic model

dish from g2100-1c. 2008. Courtesy
Fig. 4.14. G 2100-1 (=Lepsius 24), chapel entrance, looking northwest.

Fig. 4.11. Berlin M 1352, ceramic model

dish from g2100-1c. 2008. Courtesy
Fig. 4.12. Berlin M 8634, ceramic model dish

from g2100-1c. 2008. Courtesy gyptisches
Museum, Berlin.
Fig. 4.15. G 2100-1, fossil located on top of the mastaba, looking west.
August 11, 2005. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_03564.
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Fig. 4.16. Joint between g2100-1 to the left (south) and g2100 to the
right (north), looking southwest. February 1906. HUMFA Expedition
Fig. 4.17. Area of the joint on the west side of g2100-1 (behind
meter stick) and g2100 (left foreground), looking south.
Fig. 4.18. Joint between g2100-1 to the left (north) and g2100 to the right
(south), looking east across the top of mastaba. November18, 1993. Peter
Fig. 4.19. Lined casing block, in northwest corner of g2100. November15,

1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.077.02
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N
0
E
1
m
Fig. 4.20. G2100-1, north niche, looking west. November 21, 1993. Peter
1/2 0 niche.
Fig. 21. G2100-1, plan and section of north
Fig. 4.22. G2100-1b, mouth of shaft, looking north. November 4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.064.11.
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4.9 m
10.9 m
Section
Plan
Fig. 4.23. G2100-1b, plan and section.

G 2100 B
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16.4 m
4.1 m
11 courses
Fig. 4.24. G2100-1c, view into the partially dismantled shaft, looking west. November 4, 1993.
Section
Plan
Fig. 4.25. G2100-1c, plan and section.
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Fig.4.26. Computer reconstruction of the burial chamber of g2100-1c, looking northeast. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.4.27. Computer reconstruction of the chapel entrance facade of g2100-1, looking west. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig.4.28. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, chapel entrance facade from g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs and digital montage by Rolf Kriesten,
Restaurierung am Oberbaum, Berlin. For the epigraphy of this wall, see Part2 of the present work.
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Fig. 4.29. G2100-1, entrance facade and chapel as originally exhibited in the gyptisches Museum, Berlin. Date not listed.
Fig. 4.30. G2100-1, chapel, entrance facade; after Lepsius,

Denkmaeler2, pl.18.
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Fig.4.31. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, south entrance thickness and east (blank) and south (livestock; next page) rebates from chapel of g2100-1. September2, 2008.
Photographs and96digital montages by Rolf Kriesten, Restaurierung am Oberbaum, Berlin. For the epigraphy of this wall, see Part2 of the present work.
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Fig. 4.32. G2100-1, chapel, south entrance thickness and rebate with livestock; after Lepsius,
Denkmaeler2, pl.22a.
Fig. 4.33. G2100-1, chapel,

south entrance facade and
south entrance thickness as
originally exhibited in the
Date not listed. Courtesy
Kunsthistorisches Museum,
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Fig.4.34. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, north entrance thickness from chapel of g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs and digital
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montage
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Fig. 4.35. G2100-1, chapel, north entrance thickness; after Lepsius,

Denkmaeler2, pl.22b.
Fig.4.36. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2100-1, looking east towards the east wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig.4.37. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, east wall from chapel of g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs and digital montage by Rolf Kriesten,
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Fig. 4.38. G2100-1, chapel, east wall; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pls.2122d.
102
Fig. 4.39. G2100-1, chapel, east wall; modern painted plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian, digital montage of pdm_1993.030.01 and
pdm_1993.030.06.
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Fig.4.40. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, south wall from chapel of g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs and digital
montage by Rolf Kriesten, Restaurierung am Oberbaum, Berlin. For the epigraphy of this wall, see Part2 of the present work.
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Fig.4.41. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2100-1, looking south towards the south wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 4.42. G2100-1, chapel, south wall; modern painted plaster

reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.030.02.
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Fig. 4.43. G2100-1, chapel, south wall; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.20ef.
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Fig.4.44. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, north wall from chapel of g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs
106
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Part2 of the present work.
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Fig.4.45. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2100-1, looking north towards the north wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 4.46. G2100-1, chapel, north wall; modern painted plaster

reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.030.04.
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Fig. 4.47. G2100-1, chapel, north wall; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pl.22c.
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Fig.4.48. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2100-1, looking west towards the west wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 4.49. G2100-1, chapel, south wall and south half of west wall; modern
painted plaster reproduction in Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.030.12.
Fig. 4.50. G2100-1, chapel, north wall and north half of west wall; modern
pdm_1993.030.08.
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Fig.4.51. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, west wall from chapel of g2100-1. September2, 2008. Photographs and digital montage by Rolf Kriesten,
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Fig. 4.53. G2100-1, chapel,

west wall, south false door
thicknesses; after Lepsius,
Denkmaeler2, pls.20ef and
20d.
Fig.4.52. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, thicknesses

from chapel of g2100-1, west wall, south false door.
September2, 2008. Photographs and digital montage by
Rolf Kriesten, Restaurierung am Oberbaum, Berlin.
Fig. 4.54. G2100-1, chapel, west wall, south false door; modern
pdm_1993.030.09.
Fig. 4.55. G2100-1, chapel, west wall, south false door tablet; modern
pdm_1993.030.05.
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Fig. 4.56. G2100-1, chapel, west wall; after Lepsius, Denkmaeler2, pls.1920.
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Fig. 4.58. G2100-1, chapel,

west wall, north false door
thicknesses; after Lepsius,
Denkmaeler2, pls.20c and
20b.
Fig. 4.59. G2100-1, chapel, west wall, north false door; modern
pdm_1993.030.11.
Fig.4.57. gyptisches Museum, Berlin 1107, thicknesses

from chapel of g2100-1, west wall, north false door.
September2, 2008. Photographs and digital montage by
Rolf Kriesten, Restaurierung am Oberbaum, Berlin.
Fig. 4.60. G2100-1, chapel, west wall, north false door tablet; modern
pdm_1993.030.03.
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Fig. 4.61. G2100-1, chapel, west wall, offering scene above north false door; modern painted plaster reproduction in
Berlin. 1989. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.030.23.
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Chapter 5. The tomb of Nensedjerkai: Mastaba g2100-11
Chapter 5
THE TOMB OF NENSEDJERKAI:
Mastaba g 2100-ii (annex) = g 2101


passage: 1.0 x 1.3m and 1.7m high; step down from floor of
passage to floor of chamber 0.29m

blocking: probably with masonry, type IIb(1)

coffin: limestone coffin with rs(w)-lid; outside 2.2x 0.9m

h.0.8m; inside 1.8 x 0.5m; d. 0.63

canopic pit: 0.5 x 0.5m and 0.5m deep

burial: skeleton dismembered and scattered by thieves; also

animal bones from meat offerings
Shaftb; 1.6 x 1.6m; no chamber; type7x
Excavation
Mastaba: type1 IXa(2); rubble-faced core cased with w-masonry of gray

nummulitic limestone
measurements: 8.85 x 8.0m

area 70.8sq.m; proportion 1/1.11
h.3.40m
Mastaba increased in size by addition against the east face containing a

chapel of type(8 e)
measurements: outside 9.5 x 3.6m

area 34.2sq.m
portico and open court to east 6.0 x 5.45m

area 32.7sq.m
total area of chapel addition 66.9sq.m
total area of mastaba and additions 70.8 + 66.9 = 137.7sq.m
h. of mastaba 5.0m; h. of chapel 2.83 m; h. of court wall 2.5m
Chapel: type(8e) exterior stone chapel with offering-room (a), pillared

portico (b), and open court (c)2
(a) NS offering-room with two niches in west wall

6.6 x 1.35m

area 8.91sq.m; proportion 1/4.88; entered from east

by doorway in middle of east wall
(b) portico with two side walls (north and south), and roof

supported on two pillars

floor area including pillars 4.65 x 2.1m

area 9.76sq.m; approached by a crude brick ramp

ascending from floor of court to floor of portico

(h.0.4m) doorway to room (a) in west wall, not in axis
(c) open court enclosed by walls with batter on outside and

rounded coping on top; 3.8 x 2.55m;

area including ramp 8.89sq.m; entered from east by

doorway at north end of east wall; the ramp is not in

the EW axis of either portico or court; the doorway

from portico to room (a) is in EW axis of room (a),

but not of the portico

total floor area of rooms (a) and (b), 18.67sq.m
total floor area of (a), (b), (c) 27.56sq.m
Shafta: 1.6 x 1.6m; -4.48m in rock

lined above with rubble plus masonry, 5.12m
chamber type4b(1)on north. 3.4 x 3.0m and 2.0m high
1
2
S ee Reisner, GN1, pp.42122;and Junker, Gza2, pp.97121; idem, Vorbericht

1912, pp.9094, pls.23 (=pp.611, pls.23 of separately printed version).
Smith, HESPOK, p.166, relates the chapel particularly to that of tomb
g5210 (Khemten), and to the general group including g2100-1 (Merib),
g2155 (KaninisutI), g5150 (Seshathetep), g4970 (Nisutnefer), g5170
(SeshemneferIII), g4710 (Setju), g4920 (Tjenti), g5010, g5030 (=Lepsius 46),
and g5340 (Kasewedja). These chapels are characterized by reliefs of medium
height and mediocre execution, and some of them show evidence of a use of
plaster washes to give a smoother finish to the relief for the laying on of the
color.
This tomb is the smallest and latest of the family complex of three
mastabas (g2100, belonging to Meribs mother Sedit; g2100-i
belonging to Merib; and g2100-ii Nensedjerkai4). The Harvard
MFA Expedition conducted no work in this area. Lepsius was
unaware of its existence when he discovered and removed the chapel
of Merib just to the north. In 19051906, Lythgoe began excavating
portions of the family complex, but the dividing line between the
American and German (later Austrian) concessions ran eastwest,
separating the south face of Meribs tomb from the north face of
Nensedjerkais. The latters tomb therefore lay outside (i.e., south of )
the American concession, and was not discovered until February10,
1912, when Hermann Junker cleared the area (fig.5.1). Subsequent
excavation of the shafts resulted in the discovery of Nensedjerkais
sarcophagus on March9, 1913.
Finds
Alabaster arm of a female statue, found bei der Mastaba zweifellos zum
Grabe der N-sr-kj gehrend5
Rectangular limestone sarcophagus from shafta: uninscribed, with rs(w) lid
bearing wide, rounded lug handles on short ends intact; h.80cm;
w.90cm; l.2.20m; th.20cm; depth 50cm; presumably still in
situ (figs.5.205.23)6
Junker notes a late Old Kingdom limestone sunk relief architrave,

with some unusual textual anomalies, belonging to a my-r m(w)
s pr nswt N-pt, overseer of carpenters of the s-chamber of the
royal estate, Niptah7 and his wife Peseshet. This architrave was
found nicht weit von der Mastaba der Nsrkj. Die Anlage, zu
der er gehrte konnte, auch spter nicht ermittelt werden, da sich
der Name des Eigentmers nicht wiederfand, auch nicht auf der
angrenzenden amerikanischen Konzession.8 Niptah seems to
have a second name of w()-pt; this confusion is just one of several
inscriptional anomalies present in this text. It is interesting to note
that a m-k funerary priest N-pt (apparently spelled without the
3
4
5
6
7
8
J unker, Gza2, p.106, gives 50 cm instead of Reisners 60 cm for the depth of the
sarcophagus; see below under finds.
For the most likely more correct reading of the name, n-sr-k, my ka does
not sleep, instead of nn-sr-k, see Edel, Altgyptische Grammatik, pp.55859,
1076; Junker, Gza2, p.111.
Ibid., p.104; no measurements or illustrations provided .
Junker, Gza2, pp.106, fig.6, 110; Donadoni-Roveri, Sarcofagi egizi, p.126,
(B42); Junker, Vorbericht 1912, pp.611; idem, Vorbericht 1913, p.182
(=p.32 of separately printed version); Reisner, GN1, p.422.
J ones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles1, pp. 14647, no. 572.
K
unsthistorisches Museum Vienna S8550; Junker, Gza8, pp.17476, fig.91,
pl.28a; Hlzl, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches3, CAA22 (in
preparation). Images of this architrave are available on the Giza Archives Project
Web site (www.gizapyramids.org): aeos_8550_50458 (color), aeos_1_5315 and
o_neg_nr_0039.
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reed leaf ) appears on the lower portion of the right (north) jamb of
the northern false door in Nensedjerkais interior chapel (see below).
Architecture
This tomb is architecturally unlike any other in the entire Giza

Necropolis. It is one of several that fall south of the Harvard
MFA Expedition concession line, and thus was excavated and fully
published by Junker.9 For this reason, merely a brief summary
description will suffice here. Third and last in the Merib family tomb
complex, Nensedjerkais superstructure is built against the south end
of Meribs mastaba (g2100-i), with an exterior stone chapel, portico,
and enclosed courtyard that is surrounded by round-topped walls,
projecting eastwards (figs. 5.25.3, 5.65.7). As Junker determined,
the tomb originally consisted of a small mastaba whose eastern face
aligned with that of Meribs mastaba.10 Two asymmetrically placed
false doors formed the tombs original front,11 but these were later
walled up by the eastern extension containing the chapel, portico,
and courtyard.
Visible from outside the tomb is the exterior raised relief
architrave beneath a cantilevered roof, and the decorated square
pillars at the back (west end) of the portico. The architrave reaches
to the edge of the north wall of the portico exterior on the north,
but not to the edge of the wall at the south; here it meets two
blocks (above and below each other) which then form the exterior
southern wall. The cantilevered roof slabs are eight in number and
run from east to west over the architrave.12 The upper surfaces of
the cantilevered slabs are carved to slope downwards to the east,
probably for water runoff and to protect decorated surfaces below
(figs.5.3, 5.65.7, 5.10). The cantilever is similar to that found over
the portico of Qedfy (g2135a) and the courtyard of Shepseskafankh
(g6040).13 Topping the edge of the cantilever is a mantle or shelf of
small blocks running around the north, east, and south sides of the
portico, joining the mastaba proper and enclosing the roof (fig.5.7).
Junker suggested this trough was filled with debris, for the worked
faces of the adjoining blocks of the mastabas west facade cease below
this level.14 Small drainage holes, about 10cm high, are apparent at
the north and south sides of the enclosing mantle wall.
Outside the vaulted wall of the courtyard, on the northern
side, a thin corridor approximately 1.60m wide runs between
g2120 and g2100-11. It is lined with paving stones, one of which
appeared to display the remains of a rectangular offering basin
depression (fig.5.9) seen (in a smaller version) on the paving stones
9
10
11
12
13
14
J unker, Gza2, pp.97121. The other major mastabas excavated by Junker

included g2135 and g2155 (KaninisutI).
Junker, Gza2, pp.9798, fig.1.
The southern false door lay 2m from the southern edge of the wall, while
the northern false door was only about 1m from the northern edge. Only the
northern false door was completely shaped, measuring 90cm wide (versus 1m
wide for the southern false door), with a base 25cm high and 40cm deep, a
1.5m-high block with two pairs of jambs, and an architrave measuring 60cm in
height; cf. Junker, Gza2, p.98.
F
or purposes of photography, the architrave inscription was observed during the
1990s to catch direct sunlight, unblocked by the cantilevered overhang above, for
only one to two hours in the early morning.
For g6040 (Shepseskafankh), which even includes similar round-topped walls, see
Weeks, Giza Mastabas5, pl.53a (and HUMFA Expedition Photograph a7966 on
the Giza Archives Project Web site, www.gizapyramids.org (March28, 1938). For
g2135a (Qedfy), see there aeos_1_5292 and pdm_1993.022.21.
Junker, Gza2, p.103.
of the chapel of g2120 (see below, Chapter 7).15 In terms of the

construction chronology of this area, g2120 (Seshatsekhentiu) was
built first during Khufus reign. Then in early Dynasty5, Merib
created (extended?) and cased g2100-1, immediately south of his
mothers tomb, and inserted his interior chapel (now Berlin1107).
Next, Meribs daughter Nensedjerkai constructed at first a modest
mastaba aligned along the eastern face of her fathers tomb. She16
then extended the mastaba eastwards with its unique imitation of
domestic architecture. This created the narrow corridor westwards
towards the street in front (east) of Meribs tomb. Although this
corridor allows passage today, the large casing stones of g2120,
now quarried away, would have prevented access to Meribs
chapel in the Old Kingdom, forcing visitors around to the north
of g2120.17 A rather grand boulevard, running east to west, once
led to Nensedjerkais impressive courtyard and facade, up until the
Dynasty6 additions of Kahif s (g2136) and others mastabas filled
much of the space between g2135 (to the south) and g2140 (to the
north).18 Subsequent to the final form of the Merib family mastabas
and most likely also in Dynasty6, the northsouth street north of
Nensedjerkais and east of Meribs tombs became choked with the
addition of minor mastabas g2102, g 2103, g2104, and g2105.19 It
is difficult to imagine that Meribs cult was still functioning due to
the later occupation of the street in front of his chapel. As mentioned
above, access to Meribs cult chapel was probably only possible from
the north, not from the small passageway left between the tombs of
Nensedjerkai and Seshatsekhentiu (g2120).20
The entrance to the courtyard, which measures 3.8 x 2.6m, lies
at the north end of its eastern enclosure wall. The wall itself forms
an impressive enclosure, with smoothed nummulitic limestone
blocks, slightly battered on both sides, and rounded at the top in
imitation of mud-brick house walls.21 Corners appear mitred, and
joins between blocks have been filled throughout with mortar that
has turned pink with exposure over time (fig.5.11). Just inside the
doorway, on the north side, a socket stone for the door to pivot on
is preserved, containing a socket hole of 10cm diameter and 3cm
depth (fig.5.12). On November27, 1993, the courtyard floor inside
the entrance, beneath the overhead door socket hole (on the north
side of entrance) was cleared in search of the corresponding socket
15
omparative rectangular basins cut in the floor may also be found in front
C
of the northern niche of g2150 (Kanefer) (figs.12.4812.50), and in the floor
of the north chapel of g2000 (Lepsius 23) (HUMFA Expedition Photograph
c1028 on www.gizapyramids.org). For another view of Nensedjerkais basin see
pdm_1993.115.20.
16 J unker suggested that Nensedjerkai predeceased her father Merib, and that he
was responsible for her tomb and its eastern extension, but it is not clear what
evidence led him to this conclusion; cf. Junker, Gza2, p.108.
17 A good view of this area may be seen on the Giza Archives Project Web site (www
.gizapyramids.org) in image pdm_1993.026.24.
18 On the Giza Archives Project Web site, see Vienna image aeos_1_5432 (=o_neg_
nr_0681), and Junker, Gza2, pl.2. Some of these tombs are discussed in Part2
of the present work.
19 In his discussion of the Merib family complex, Reisner states in GN1, p.422:
the groups of shafts were numbered from south to north, g2102, g2103,
g2104, and g2105, and g2106 (at NE corner of g2100). Note, however, that
there is no tomb numbered g2106; most likely this is g2114, which occupies the
space at the northeast corner of g2100.
20 See the reconstruction plans, with chapels added, of Cemetery g2100 in Jnosi,
Giza in der 4. Dynastie, plans23.
21 Junker, Gza2, p.109, comments on the intentional decision by the tombs
architects to smooth and dress certain walls and surfaces but leave others rough
for reasons of maximum aesthetic contrast.
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hole in the floor. The hole was located, confirming that the door
once swung open to the north (fig.5.103).22
A small mud-brick staircase, placed symmetrically relative
to the two square pillars but asymmetrically (50cm to the north)
within the courtyard itself, leads into the portico.23 No decoration is
present on the courtyard walls other than the front (east) and back
(west) sides of the two square pillars of the portico (see below). But
the entrance to the chapel corridor, placed asymmetrically to the
south, bears a raised relief architrave and drum.
The portico is smaller than the courtyard, measuring 3.25m
wide x 2.10m deep. It, too, is asymmetrically located, closer to the
north wall than to the south. One explanation for this positioning
lies in the presence of a serdab (90 x 80cm) set immediately south
of the portico, although no serdab squint can be identified, due to
damage to the porticos south wall.24 Junker associates an alabaster
arm fragment from a female statue, found in the vicinity, with this
serdab (see finds above). The south wall does, however, preserve
some architects guidelines in red paint, accompanied by m 2 (2
cubits). These lines are barely visible today.25 The pillars measure
50x 50cm and 2.5m tall, and bear decoration solely on their east
and west sides (see below).
At the end of the passage corridor entrance to the chapel, the
door socket posthole is visible in the floor on the southern side of
the door. Up above the door, however, the block is hollowed on
both south and north sides, indicating double doors were originally
intended, according to Junker, to take some stress off of the friable
nature of limestone.26
The northsouth corridor chapel contains two false doors with
wide architraves, but no additional decoration.27 In contrast to the
tombs two exterior architraves, the drum over the chapel entrance,
and the porticos square pillars, which are all carved in raised relief,
the decoration inside the chapel is carved exclusively in sunk relief.
This scenario is reversed compared to many mastabas, where sunk
relief is preferred for exterior inscriptions, such as architraves. Junker
rightly points out that in this case, the interior chapels false doors
appear to be in imitation of granite. On the thicknesses of the jambs
one can see the speckled pink color intended to represent this more
valuable stone, which is, of course, most often carved in sunk relief.28
In fact, the entire chapel displays a reddish color, probably gained as
a result of the discoloration of a wash or coating covering the walls.
A window has been cut high on the south side of the chapel;
its aperture widens as it reaches the chapel interior (fig. 5.18).29
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
J unker, Gza2, pp.104105, claims the doorway was painted with a white wash,
but doubts that the courtyard walls were similarly colored.
No evidence of this stair was visible in recent years; it is either buried or completely
deteriorated (see image pdm_1993.084.06 on the Giza Archives Project Web site,
www.gizapyramids.org). It lay originally 1.25m from the north wall, and 1.75m
from the south wall.
For a similarly placed serdab, see the tomb of Qedfy (g2135a): Junker, Gza6,
p.81, fig.21.
Junker, Gza2, p.103, fig.5. For a more recent view, barely showing the red
guidelines, see pdm_1993.084.10 on www.gizapyramids.org.
Junkers measurements differ slightly from those of Reisner listed above: ibid.,
p.98: 6.10x 1.30 + 2.90m. Somewhat similar northsouth corridor chapels in
Cemetery g2100, with two false doors but no other chapel decoration, include
the tombs of Qedfy (g2135a) and KaninisutII (g2156); see below.
Ibid., pp.100101.
Measurements: 1.25m long x 55cm wide. For a recent view of a similar window
in the tomb of Nefer, see Jnosi, Die Grberwelt der Pyramidenzeit, p.66, fig.54.
Flooring in the chapel consists of large slabs oriented eastwest, and

50cm-thick slabs make up the roof, with the same orientation. A
serdab squint between the two false doors once led to a (now mostly
destroyed) serdab measuring about 1x .75m.
The two false doors still preserve details of color as well as the
use of plaster sizing. Additional pigment survives on the south false
door, particularly on the tablet scene (see below, figs.5.375.38, 5.43
5.63). The various faces of Nensedjerkai are full of interior detail. The
only exception is on the north false door, where the lower figures on
the two jambs bear merely sunk relief outlines and no interior detail.
Perhaps this area was once painted only. Junker details some of the
surviving colors he saw at the time of tombs excavation in 1912.30
Junker emphasizes several important points in his discussion
of Nensejderkais unique combination of mortuary and domestic
architecture.31 While individual private villas are seldom preserved
for purposes of comparison, Junker cites Petries collection of Middle
Kingdom soul house models from his Gizeh and Rifeh.32 Moreover,
Junker notes, as another parallel to domestic architecture, the rising
floor levels in g2100-1 as one proceeds further westwards into the
tomb. One must climb 40cm higher in moving from the courtyard
to the portico, and then another 26cm higher in stepping from the
portico to the interior chapel (figs.5.17, 5,26).
A final point regarding the superstructure concerns the many
asymmetries in the positioning of various elements. As Junker notes,
these are partially due to the constraints imposed by the alreadyexisting structures in the area (g2100-1, g2120, etc.). A second
explanation involves pure miscalculation and human error. But that
leaves several otherwise avoidable asymmetries that are most likely
intentional. Most of these may be ascribed to the desire to avoid
direct, unimpeded access from entrances to important elements such
as cult foci. This would explain the arrangement of the entrance to
the couryard (northern corner), the ramp to the portico (north of
center), and the entrance to the chapel (south of center). Similar
protective measures were usually taken to separate chapel entrances
(towards the north) from primary false doors (towards the south) in
Giza L-shaped chapels.33
Two shafts were sunk in the core of the original mastaba, b to
the west of the chapels southern false door, and a, northeast of b,
to the west of the northern false door. Shaftb is unfinished, while
a contained the burial chamber and sarcophagus of Nensedjerkai
(figs.5.205.23). Junkers suggestion thatb was the originally planned
primary shaft may be correct.34 The normal arrangement was for
a northern shaft, with a burial chamber leading off to the south,
relating the burial to the chapels offering place.35 In Nensedjerkais
chapel, neither false door seems to take priority over the other, and
in fact a stronger orientation incentive was apparently in play here:
Nensedjerkais desire to relate her burial with that of her father Merib.
30
31
32
33
34
35

Ibid., pp.105107.
Petrie, Gizeh and Rifeh, pl.16, no.116, and cf. P. Lacovara, in Mummies & Magic,
p.108, cat.41 (MFA07.550).
See Jnosi, Die Grberwelt der Pyramidenzeit, p. 57. A curious reversal of the
typical Giza chapel arrangement occurs in Cemetery g2100, where Nefers
chapel (g2110) displays an entrance towards the south, but a false door towards
the north (see below).
See P. Jnosi, Aspects of Mastaba Development: The Position of Shafts and
the Identification of Tomb Owners, in Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2001,
pp.33750.
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of her father. A date in the first two or three reigns of that dynasty is
therefore suggested.39
Decoration
Exterior Architrave (figs.5.245.25). The architrave40 at the west

end of the courtyard consists of two blocks, the longer one at the
south, with the join occurring over the northern pillar, cutting
through the m of m smyt mntt in the upper line and the rk of the
bottom line. The blocks show several areas of plaster repairs with
carving over the plaster, e.g., the first t of the wtt festival, and the
shoulder and face of the seated figure of Nensedjerkai herself at the
far left (south). She faces right, seated on a bull-legged stool before
a table of eight half-loaves of bread. She wears a tripartite wig and a
close-fitting dress held up with shoulder straps. Under the table is an
ideographic list, and to the right are two lines of inscription in raised
relief, reading right to left.41
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Text: (1)tp nswt tp () npw nb t-sr nty s nr rs.t()s (m)

rt-nr m smyt mntt w(.t) nfr wrt ps r wwt nfr(w)t pp.t m(w)
t ms nfrt (2)pr ns rw wp rnpt42 wtt tpy rnpt wg b Skr43b wr
rk w prt Mnw bd s tpy bd tpy smdt44 b nb r nb n st nswt krt
nswt Nn-sr-k (3)s mnt (4)t nt psn(?)
Translation: (1)A gift which the king, and a gift which Anubis, lord
of the necropolis, foremost of the divine booth, give, that she may
be buried (in) the necropolis in the western desert, having achieved
a very great old age, that she might travel upon the beautiful ways
upon which a revered one travels well. (2)May invocation offerings
be made for her (on) the new years festival,45 the festival of Thoth,
the first of the year festival, the wag-festival, the festival of Sokar, the
great flame festival, the festival of the brazier,46 the procession of Min
festival, the monthly sadj-festival, the beginning of the month festival,
the beginning of the half-month festival, and every festival every day,
for the kings daughter, the royal ornamented, Nensedjerkai. (3)A
thousand alabaster vessels, a thousand pieces of cloth, (4) a thousand
quantities of bread, beer, and cakes.
Shafts in g2100-1i: two shafts, a on north and b on south, but a

little farther to the west. There are a number of later, subsidiary
shafts associated with the mastaba, particularly on the north side.
While GermanAustrian photographs exist, there is apparently little
supplemental information about them preserved.38
g2100-11 a (figs.5.225.23)
This is a mass of disarticulated human and other mammal bones.
Identifiable bones include a large mammal scapula, two human
femurs, human os coxa, human tibia, and some ribs. Sex and age
indeterminate. No tomb card sketches.
Date
39
40
41
42
36
37
38
J unker, Gza2, p.109.

Ibid., p.110: Am Schdel beobachteten wir noch Strhnen gewellten Haares.
Neben den Skeletteilen lagen verstreut Tierknochen von den als Beigaben
niedergelegten Opferstcken, wie Schenkel und Schulterblatt.
For shaft photographs possibly localized to g 2100-11, see the following
Vienna images on the Giza Archives Project Web site (www.gizapyramids.org):
aeos_i_5182 (shaft S28), aeos_i_5189 (shaft S29), aeos_i_5191 (shaft7, between
mastabas S4/13 and S5/18), aeos_i_5214 (S14 in mastabas 4/13), aeos_i_5245
(shaft S3), aeos_i_5321 (shaft S27), and aeos_i_5365 (possibly in the vicinity
of g2100-11).
Shafts and Burials

mid-Dynasty5. Reisner, List of Finished Mastabas, p.22: Dynasty5.
Since Meribs mastaba has been dated to early Dynasty5, it is
clear that the tomb of his daughter, Nensedjerkai, must postdate that
The solution was to lead the burial chamber uncharacteristically

off to the north of the burial chamber. Shafta was chosen for this
purpose. Measuring, like shaftb, 1.60 x 1.60m, shafta leads to a
1m-long passage, 1.30m wide and 1.70m high, that ends in the
burial chamber located under the precinct occupied by g21001. Junker notes that the northwest corner of Nensedjerkais burial
chamber lies only 2m from the southeast corner of Meribs shaftc
(figs.2.7, 3.1).36 However, if depth played a role in the Egyptians
concept of proximity, then we should note that Meribs shaftc burial
chamber lies a good 9 meters deeper than that of Nensedjerkai.
The burial chamber of shafta is a roughly hewn room with
no attempt to dress the walls or even flatten out the floor area.
The chamber contained scattered skeletal remains,37 and a thick,
uninscribed, limestone sarcophagus with lugs (15 x 15cm) on both
small ends (figs.5.225.23). The lid, slightly vaulted on both top and
underside, was found removed and propped up against the west wall.
This sarcophagus contrasts with the Khufu-era sarcophagi that tend
to show fine Tura limestone, thin walls, and a flat lid. These features
point to a date posterior to Dynasty4. A canopic depression (50 x
50cm), partially hewn and partially built up with rougly cut blocks,
appears in the southeast corner, near the entrance to the chamber
from the passage.
If Shaftb was not an abandoned first attempt at a burial
place for Nensedjerkai, but intended for another family member,
individuals attested in Meribs chapel include Sednet, Merib Junior,
and Khufumernetjeru.
43
44
45
46
ompare PMIII, p.72: Dynasty 5; Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir1, pp.4041; 2,

C
pp.47374 [93]: second half of Dynasty4; Harpur, Decoration in Egytian Tombs,
p.268 [147]: Sahure to Neferirkare; Junker Gza2, p.39: Early Dynasty5.
See Junker, Gza2, p.115, fig.7.
This text is translated by Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature1,
pp.1516, and more recently by Strudwick, Texts from the Pyramid Age, pp.389
90 (text287). See also Junker, Gza2, p.115, fig.7.
O
n the reading of wp rnpt instead of wpt rnpt for this festival, see Luft, Die
chronologische Fixierung, pp.15253 (3.1.8).
Wb.1, p.263. The deitys name is misspelled Srk. See in general ibid., pp.17981
(3.1.34); G.A. Gaballa and K.A. Kitchen, The Festival of Sokar, Orientalia38
(1969), pp.176; E. Wohlgemuth, Das Sokarfest (Gttingen: Ph.D. dissertation,
1957).
A better reading for this festival than smdt may be mnt, see above, Chapter4,
n.40.
Spalinger, The Private Feast Lists of Ancient Egypt, p.112, ascribes this feast list
to his basic arrangement category (The core comprises the first eight events;
nine [bd n s] is infrequently added).
For comments on this ceremony, see Junker, Gza2, p.117, and Hannig,
gyptisches WrterbuchI, p.305 {6620}.
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Text: (1)s nswt tmty nr w Mrb48 (2)stf mrtf krt nswt (3)Nnsr-k
Translation: (1)Kings son, seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, Merib.
(2)His daughter, whom he loves, the royal ornamented, (3)Nensedjerkai.
Exterior (East) Face of Southern and Northern Columns of

Portico (figs.5.275.28). Nensedjerkai stands facing right (southern
column) and left (northern column) in a tripartite wig and a long,
close-fitting garment, with anklets and bracelets. One hand is bent
back across her breast while the other hangs by her side.47 In front
of her is a vertical column containing her titles and name, with the
name repeated horizontally over her head as well. The hieroglyphs
are densely composed, particularly in the phrase nbt m r.
Since both northern and southern columns bear identical scene
text, except for the reversed orientation, they are translated once
only below:
C

~
HG
5.30). Southern column: Merib is shown again, this time named

more formally(?) Kapunisut,49 in raised relief facing left with a staff
and handkerchief. He wears a long wig and a short kilt. Above him
are two titles followed by his name, again squeezed into the available
space. Nensedjerkai, this time with close-cropped hair and no lotus
blossom, stands in front of him, holding onto his staff.
_ #
9

U
~
M
Text: (1)st nswt krt nswt nbt m r nr (2)Nn-sr-k

Translation: (1)Kings daughter, royal ornamented, possessor of
veneration under the great god, (2)Nensedjerkai
Text: (1)smr wty s b nrw50 Kp(w)-nswt (2)stf mrtf krt nswt

(3)Nn-sr-k
Translation: (1)Sole companion, inspector of (the ship) Might of
the gods, Kapunisut. (2)His daughter, whom he loves, the royal
ornamented, (3)Nensedjerkai.
Interior (West) Face of Northern Column of Portico (figs.5.29
BM
Inner Architrave Over Chapel Entrance (figs.5.315.35).51 Carved

in raised relief, Nensedjerkai is seated on a bull-legged stool at the
left end of the architrave before a second table of eight half-loaves.
The major difference between this interior architrave and the porticos
exterior architrave is the representation of solely the back leg(s) of the
stool. Nensedjerkais legs obscure the stools front leg(s) here. Both
architraves show a wide cushion visible beneath her seated figure. In
front of her, the architrave is composed of two horizontal lines:52
{
m = 1
@
8`C
C 9
g

C
C
C

w
a
)
} 2
~
j
p-
5.30). Nensedjerkais father, Merib, stands (in raised relief ) facing

right, wearing a short wig, lector priests sash, back flap, and kilt. He
carries a staff in one hand and a handkerchief in the other. Above
him is written one title plus his name, squeezed in the space before
his face and above his bent elbow. Beneath his bent elbow stands
a small figure of Nensedjerkai facing right and holding on to his
staff while grasping a lotus blossom. She wears a tripartite wig and is
similarly attired as on the exterior (eastern) faces of the pillars.
M~
Text: (1)tp nswt tp () npw nty s nr rs.t()s rt-nr m smyt

mntt w(.t) nfr wrt r nr (2)pr ns rw wp rnpt wtt tpy rnpt wg
b nb n st nswt krt nswt Nn-sr-k (3)s mnt (4)t nt pt
Translation: (1)A gift53 which the king, and a gift which Anubis,
foremost of the divine booth, give, that she might be buried (in) the
necropolis in the western desert, having achieved a very great old age,
48
49
50
47
ote the similar scene, albeit showing Khamerernebty sniffing a lotus blossom,
N
on the north face of the square pillar of Kapi in g2091, dated to Niuserre to
Izezi by Roth, A Cemetery of Palace Attendants, pp.101102, pls.43b, 4647,
fig.161b.
C

~
Interior (West) Face of Southern Column of Portico (figs.5.29
51
52
53
Note the spelling with the foot sign b, which never appears in Meribs own tomb
(g2100-1); cf. Junker, Gza2, p.118.
Doubtless the same individual as Merib; see Junker, Gza2, p.11314.
This title differs from that found in the tomb of Merib himself (g2100-1); one
expects tmty nr b nrw.
See Junker, Gza2, p.115, fig.7, and Gza12, p.76, fig.6.18.
This text is also translated by M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature1, p.16.
(text287).
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m
=
1

9
g
@
8 ` C
C
{C 2
4 3
~ G
(see fig.5.51).
H
Expedition, her jewelry was colored blue
before the great god. (2)May invocation offerings be made for her (on)
the new years festival, the festival of Thoth, the first of the year festival,
the wag-festival, and every festival, for the kings daughter, the royal
ornamented, Nensedjerkai. (3)A thousand quantities of alabaster, and
cloth, (4)a thousand quantities of bread, beer, and cakes.
C

~

$
g
w
fl
C fl a

$
C
Drum Over Chapel Entrance (figs. 5.335.35). Two horizontal
C
lines in raised relief, reading right to left, present the titles and name
=y
m
of Nensedjerkai, adding m-nr wfw and m-nr wt-r to the
g
C
@
Text: (1)stCnswt
titles of st nswt and rt nswt, which we have already encountered on
(2)snr s-b knw sf nnm twt
Nn-sr-k
y krt nswt
G
{
tt
the exterior architrave and eastern pillar faces.
C
(3)(tt)
nw
w
2 (4)wnw
srC (rp) ry-b s mnt
~
=
Y
n C
(5)t
the royal ornamented, Nensedjerkai.

(1)Kings

9
g
@
`C
8 nt
Y ~
Translation:
daughter,
n C
festival
G
~
y C
{Chekenu-oil,

(2)Incense,
perfume,
sefetj-oil, nekhnum-oil, tuat
oil, green eye-paint, 2, (4)roll of
Libyan
oil,
best
cedar
oil,
(3)best
$
g
a thousand white-fronted geese, a
fl
awthousand
C
fl geese,
a
Text: (1)st nswt krt nswt m(t)-nr wt-r (2)m(t)-nr wfw Nn cloth,
~
greylag
~ alabaster vessels, a thousand

C
calves,
a thousand
suckled
sr-k
C
thousand
$
(pieces
of ) cloth,
(5)a

of bread, a thousand jars of beer.
thousand
Translation: (1)Kings daughter, the royal ornamented, priestess of
C
Cloaves
y
$
g
w
fl
fl
Hathor, (2)priestess of Khufu, Nensedjerkai

C
a
Wall,
Lintel
South
Door,
West
(figs.5.43, 5.475.48, 5.51
False
i
C
$
West Wall, South False Door Architrave (figs. 5.435.47).54 5.52). m

n C
n y
n n
=C
Both false doors in the chapel are carved in sunk relief. Of the four

g
C
Y ~
seated representations of Nensedjerkai inside the chapel, this is the
nC
i
C
{CNn-sr-k
Y
Text:
G
only one to show the front leg(s) of her bull-legged stool. In the
st
nswtkrt
nswt
m(t)-nr
wt-r
~
Translation:
kings daughter, royal ornamented, priestess of
three other instances, Nensedjerkais legs obscure the front of the C

The
C
stool. In both false door architraves, it is interesting that the seated Hathor,

n YNensedjerkai.
~
C
~
figure does not extend to the top of the available space. Perhaps the
Drum
West
Wall,
South
False
Door
(fig.5.47).
standing female hieroglyphic determinative for w.t() invades this

F
$
g
w
C
C
a
fl

fl
C
C
area too much for a pleasing juxtaposition. But the space left free is

C
$
somewhat striking, given the densely packed compositions on most ~
Text: krt nswt Nn-sr-k

of the other decorated surfaces with the tomb. The offering tables
royal yornamented
Translation: The
Nensedjerkai.

C n n
C
n
nC
in both architraves show seven half-loaves, all of them facing to the

right, instead of facing each other and meeting in the center of the West
Wall,
South
False
Door,
Left
(South) Jamb (figs.5.47,
C
table.55
Y
5.52).
Wearing
the
same
costume
as
described
above for her architrave
C

Nensedjerkai
tablet,
and
stands
facing
right,
with
her front arm bent
Y
=
n n
n n~
n

at
the
elbow
across
her
breast,
and
her
rear
arm
hanging
by her side.

9
g
@
8 ` C
C

C
G {
~ H
Text: (1)tp nswt tp () npw nty s nr rs.t()s (m) rt-nr m

~
~
smyt mntt w.t()

(2)nfr wrt nbt m r nr st nswt krt nswt Nn
sr-k (3)s mnt

(4)t
nt
psn
C
C
king,
Translation:
(1)A
gift
which
the
and
a
gift
which
Anubis,
$
g
w
fl
C fl a
divine
ofthe
give,
booth,
foremost
that she might be buried (in) the
C
necropolis in the western
desert,
having
$ achieved a (2)very great old
age, a possessor of veneration

before
the great god, the kings daughter,
n n
n n
thousand alabaster vessels, a

y (3)A
Nensedjerkai.
the royal ornamented,
C
(4)a
thousand
iquantities of bread and beer,
thousand pieces of cloth,

and a thousand cakes

Text: (1)st nswt krt nswt Nn-sr-k (2)m-k []-n (3)m-k R-tp
False
n YDoor
(figs.5.47, 5.49, 5.5152).56
West Wall,
South
Tablet
~
1
2
3
4
57
1 1
2
1
2
3
4
Translation: (1)The kings daughter, the royal ornamented Nensedjerkai,

(2)The funerary priest []-ankh.58 (3)The funerary priest Rahotep.
Nensedjerkai sits before a table of seven offering loaves, facing right.

1
1
With her righthand she reaches
the bread loaves, while
towards
her left hand is bent back

across
the
breast.
She wears a tripartite

wig, a close-fitting
garment,
and
anklets
and
bracelets. According
to a watercolor reconstruction made by the GermanAustrian
C
~ ~
C
C
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56
3 Gza2,
2
2
3
Cf. Junker,
p.120 fig.10.
or a three-dimensional suggested reconstruction of the table scene, see
F
n n
n n
Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.152, fig.224.
Cf. Junker, Gza2, p.120 fig.10, and Gza 12, p.71, fig.3.5.
54
55
57
58
ote the unusual spelling with the initial m, which also occurs on the north
N
false door tablet.
On the difficulty of reading this cartouche, see Junker, Gza2, p.121, who
eliminates Khufu, Djedkare, Khafre, Menkaure, and Sahure as candidates.
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m
=
1

9
g
@
8 ` C
C
{C 2
4 3
~ H
C

~

$
g
w
fl
C fl a

$
C
1
2
m

= ` C
9

g@ 8

i
G
{
y C
C
~
Text:
(1)[st
nswt
krt
nswt]Nn-sr-k
s-b knw] sf nnm
West
Wall,
South
False
Door,
Right
(North)
Jamb
(figs.5.47,
(2)[snr
H
C
m
=
twt
tt
(3)[tt
nw]
w
2
(4)[wnw]
sr (rp) ry-b
5.52).
Nensedjerkais
costume
and
pose
here,
facing
left,
are
identical
C
n Y to those
~onthe left jamb, described above.
9
g@ (5)s
`C
8mnt
(6)t
nt
(1)[Kings
G
Translation:
daughter,
royal ornamented], Nensedjerkai.
y C
~
{
Cthehekenu-oil],
festival
(2)[Incense,
perfume,
sefetj-oil, nekhnum-oil,
$ wC
g
fl
fl oil,(3)[best

a Libyan oil], green eye-paint, 2, (4) a
cedar
~ ~
tuat-oil,
best
of cloth,
Cpieces
a thousand
geese, a thousand whiteC
thousand
$calves,greylag
fronted
geese,
a
thousand
suckled
(5)a
thousand
alabaster vessels,
C
C
a
thousand
pieces
of
cloth,
(6)a
thousand
quantities
of
bread and beer.
$
g
w
fl
C a
fl
i
False
C
West Wall,
North
$ Door, Lintel.
m
=
y
n n
n n
9
g
Y
8
i~
C
`C
Text:
st
nswt
krt
nswt
m(t)-nr
wt-r
{ Nn-sr-k
~
Y
daughter,
Translation:
The
kings
C ornamented, priestess of
H
royal
C
C

Hathor,
Nensedjerkai.
Text: (1)st nswt krt nswt Nn-sr-k (2)m-k Df (3)m-k N-n-nm
Y

n~
~C

Translation: (1)The kings daughter, the royal ornamented Nensedjerkai,
~Drum
(figs.5.615.62).
~
West Wall, North
False
Door
(2)The funerary priest Defi. (3)The funerary priest Niankhkhnum.
C
C
C
$
g
w
fl
C fl a
West Wall, North False Door59 Architrave (figs. 5.52, 5.56

~
$
5.57). Except for the absence of the front leg of her bull-legged stool, ~
Text: krt nswt Nn-sr-k
C
Translation:
The
royal
ornamented
Nensedjerkai.
Nensedjerkais costume and appearance are identical to those on the C
y n C
n n
south false door architrave described above.

i
West
FMNorthFalse
Wall,

Door,
(South) Jamb (figs.5.525.55,
m
C Left
and
=
9
5.58,
5.615.62).
The
pose,
costume,
orientation of the standing
C
{the right
g@ 8 `
Nensedjerkai
C
this, and
figures
of
on
jamb translated below,
C
y
n
n
n
n
n Y
~ G {
false door.
~
south
u
C
mirror
the
representations
on
the

M
C
Text: (1)tp nswt tp () npw nty s nr rs.t()s rt-nr m smyt
{
mntt w.t()
(2)nfr
wrt nbt m r nr st nswt krt nswt Nn-sr-k
psn
(3)s mnt (4)t
~
nt
~
~
F
and a gift which Anubis,
Translation:
(1)Aw
gift

gwhich
the king,
fl $
fl give,
a
the
divine
C
booth,

foremost of
that
she might be buried (in) the
C
C
having$achieved a (2)very great old
C
necropolis in the western desert,
the
before
age, a possessor of veneration
great god, the kings daughter,
y
1

5 y C
4
60
61
62
63
13
1
2
(3)A
the royal ornamented, Nensedjerkai.
alabaster vessels,
4
C
5
thousand
i quantities of bread, beer,
a thousand pieces of cloth, (4)a thousand

and cakes.
n n
FM
Y
West Wall, North
Tablet
n Door
False
~(figs.5.54, 5.58, 5.605.63).
Nensedjerkai sits before a table of seven offering loaves, facing right.

1
With her right hand
she reachestowards1 the bread loaves, while her
She wears a tripartite wig,

the breast.
left hand is bent back across
=bracelets,
a close-fitting garment,
and
anklets as well,
presumably
C
though
they@are
to confirm.
difficult
The upper-right third of the
G
lost;
is based on the tablet
y
C the reconstruction
C
{
4
tablet
has3 been
below
C2
door.
from the southfalse
n
C
{
Text: (1)st nswt krt nswt Nn-sr-k (2)m-k Mry (3)m-k Wr-k()
Translation: (1)The kings daughter, the royal ornamented Nensedjerkai.
(2)The funerary priest Mery. (3)The funerary priest Werka
m ~ ~
9
g C 8 `

C
nn
~ n n

F
$
g
w
M
fl
C fl a C

$ {
C
y
2
1
2
4
5 C
n Y ~
1
62
63
123
n n
FM
ote the unusual spelling with the initial m, which also occurs on the south
N
false door tablet.
The north false door shows one additional sign (six, versus five for the south
false door), perhaps intended to apply to wnw.
The r in the personal name is written after the k arms.
Note the unusual determinative of w, with the meat sign S (F51).
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61
Cf. ~
Junker, Gza2, p.119 fig.9. ~
C
C
59
60
n
C
{
u
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9
g@ 8
` C
C
{ 2
4 y 3 ~ G
C
H
C

~
$
g
w
fl
C fl a

Mastabas
$of Nucleus Cemetery g2100
C

1
2
3

5 y C
4
Wall, North False Door, Right (North) Jamb (figs.5.52

C
n Y West
~
5.55,
5.58,
5.615.62).
C
~ ~
C
C
n n
FM
n
C
{
Text: (1)st nswt krt nswt Nn-sr-k (2)m-k N-pt (3)m-k Wrbw-pt
Translation: (1)The kings daughter, the royal ornamented Nensedjerkai.
(2)The funerary priest Niptah. (3)The funerary priest Werbauptah.
st nswt, kings daughter
Family
father: Mrb (also owner of g2100-1; also called Kp(w)-nswt, Kapunisut),

Merib
s nswt, kings son
s b nrw, inspector of the (ships) Might of the gods,
tmty nr w, divine seal-bearer of the fleet
(For additional titles of Merib, see Chapter4.)
Other People
Wr-bw-pt, Werbauptah
m-k, funerary priest
Wr-k(), Werka
Mry, Mery
N-n-nm, Niankhkhnum
Despite their titles, it is clear that neither Nensedjerkai, nor her

father Merib, were true members of the royal family.64
N-pt, Niptah
Titles of Nensedjerkai
R-tp, Rahotep
(also in g 2100-1)
mrytf, beloved of him
nbt m r nr , revered under the great god
m-nr wt-r, priest(ess) of Hathor
m-nr wfw, priest(ess) of Khufu
stf, his daughter
64
Df, Defi
n (limestone slab stela(?) from debris of g2102; 332189)
[]-n (in g2100-11)
J unker, Gza2, pp.13233; Schmitz, Untersuchungen zum Titel S-Njwt, pp.28,

11415.
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Fig. 5.1. G 2100-11, portico emerging during excavation. Circa February 10, 1912. GermanAustrian
Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5261.
Fig. 5.2. G2100-11, general view, looking west. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
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Fig. 5.3. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, looking northwest, with the contiguous mastabas g2100-1 (Merib) and g2100 (Sedit) in the
background. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
G 2100I
G 2100
10 m
G 2100II
B
E
A
K
Z
A
G 2102
E
C
B
G 2103
A D
J
G
B
E
G 2104
I
Y
C D
F
G
G 2105
H
B
X
G 2130
G 2120
Fig. 5.4. G 2100-11, plan.
126
slab stela
B
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A
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Fig. 5.5. G 2100-11, plan; after Junker, Gza 2, fig.1.
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Fig. 5.6. G 2100-11, general view, looking northwest. March 12, 1993. Peter
Fig. 5.7. G 2100-11, chapel, courtyard, and pillared portico, looking south.
Fig. 5.8. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, chapel courtyard, looking

west. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 5.9. Detail of reused(?) stone with rectangular offering basin

depression in the space between g2120, to the left (north), and
g2100-11 to the right (south), looking east. November 21, 1993.
Fig. 5.10. G 2100-11, north face, with west face of g2120 in foreground left,
looking south. November 20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.105.23.
Fig. 5.11. G 2100-11, chapel courtyard, east wall, looking east. November 17,
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Fig. 5.12. G 2100-11, entrance to chapel courtyard, in northeast corner,

looking down to the east at the block with the door socket above the door.
Fig. 5.13. G 2100-11, north side of entrance to chapel courtyard, lower

door socket hole, looking east. November 27, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.119.03.
Fig. 5.14. G2100-11, general view, including excavations to the south, looking west. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
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Fig. 5.15. G2100-11, eastern half, general view, with excavations to the south, looking north. Circa February 1912.
GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5260.
Fig. 5.16. G2100-11, western half, general view, with excavations to the south, looking north. Circa February 1912.
GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5259.
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Fig. 5.17. G2100-11, westeast section, looking north; after Junker, Gza 2, p.106, fig.6.
Fig. 5.18. G 2100-11, south exterior face and window, looking north.
Fig. 5.19. G 2100-11a, mouth of shaft, looking north. November 4, 1993.

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Fig. 5.20. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11a, burial chamber with canopic niche and sarcophagus of Nensedjerkai,
looking northwest from passage. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 5.21. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11a, burial chamber with canopic niche and sarcophagus of Nensedjerkai,
looking south. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig. 5.22. G2100-11a, burial chamber with sarcophagus, looking northwest. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian
Fig. 5.23. G2100-11a, burial chamber with sarcophagus, looking west. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition
photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5376.
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Fig. 5.24. G 2100-11, chapel, exterior architrave, illuminated by sunlight exclusively during the early morning hours. November 26, 1993.
Peter Der Manuelian, digital montage of pdm_1993.117.02, pdm_1993.117.04, pdm_1993.117.05, pdm_1993.117.026, and pdm_1993.117.07.
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Fig. 5.25. G 2100-11, chapel portico, drawing of exterior architrave; after Junker, Gza 2, p.115, fig.7.
Fig. 5.26. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, chapel portico with decorated west faces of pillars and serdab squint on south wall, looking south.
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Fig. 5.28. G 2100-11, chapel, drawing of pillars, east faces; after Junker,
Gza 2, p.117, fig.8.
Fig. 5.27. G 2100-11, chapel pillars, east faces, looking west. November 18, 1993.
Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.087.05, and pdm_1993.087.09.
Fig. 5.30. G 2100-11, chapel, drawing of pillars, west faces; after Junker,
Gza 2, p.117, fig.8.
Fig. 5.29. G 2100-11, chapel pillars, west faces, looking east. Circa February 1912.
GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna,
aeos_11_2516, and aeos_11_2515.
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Fig. 5.31. G 2100-11, chapel, pillared portico, interior, looking southwest.

Fig. 5.32. G 2100-11, chapel, pillared portico, interior, looking northwest.

Fig. 5.33. G 2100-11, chapel, interior architrave and drum, looking west. November 17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.084.18.
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Fig. 5.34. G 2100-11, chapel, interior drum,

looking west. November 17, 1993. Peter Der
Fig. 5.35. G 2100-11, chapel, drawing of interior

architrave and drum; after Junker, Gza 2, p.115,
fig.7.
Fig. 5.36. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, view

of double doors from inside interior chapel, looking
east towards west face of decorated south pillar of the
portico. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig. 5.37. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, interior chapel, looking southwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 5.38. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, interior chapel, looking northwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig. 5.39. G 2100-11, interior chapel, looking north. November 17, 1993.
Fig. 5.40. G 2100-11, interior chapel, looking south. November 17, 1993.
Fig. 5.41. G 2100-11, interior chapel, door sockets in floor. November 17,
Fig. 5.42. G 2100-11, interior chapel, door sockets in ceiling above door.
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Fig. 5.43. G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, upper half. Circa
February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0128.
Fig. 5.44. G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, plan and section.
50 cm
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Fig. 5.45. G 2100-11, interior

chapel, south false door, detail of
seated figure on upper architrave.
November 17, 1993. Peter Der

chapel, south false door,
detail of standing figure
on left (south) jamb. Circa
February 1912. German
Austrian Expedition
photograph. Courtesy
Fig. 5.47. G 2100-11, interior chapel, drawing of south
false door; after Junker, Gza2, p.119, fig.9.
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Fig. 5.49. G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, tablet.

pdm_1993.085.03.
Fig. 5.48. G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, upper half. Circa
February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
Fig. 5.51. G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door, painting of tablet
and lintel by GermanAustrian Expedition staff. Courtesy Institut fr
gyptologie, Universitt Wien.
Fig. 5.50. G 2100-11, interior chapel, south false door,

looking southwest. November 17, 1993. Peter Der
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Fig. 5.52. Computer reconstruction of g2100-11, interior chapel, south and north false doors, looking west. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig. 5.53. G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, central portion.
Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
Fig. 5.54. G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, looking

pdm_1993.085.09.
Fig. 5.55. G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, lower portion.
Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
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Fig. 5.56. G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, upper half, looking northwest. Circa February 1912. GermanAustrian Expedition
photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5878.
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Fig. 5.57. G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, architrave. Most likely later than 1912, due to disappearance of sizing and paint.
GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, digital montage of aeos_1_5870+5877.
Fig. 5.58. G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door, looking southwest.
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chapel, north false door, detail
of seated figure on architrave.
November 17, 1993. Peter Der

chapel, north false door, detail of
seated figure on tablet. November
17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.085.22.
Fig. 5.61. G 2100-11, interior chapel, drawing of north

false door; after Junker, Gza2, p.120, fig.10.
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Fig. 5.63. G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door; tablet. November 17,
Fig. 5.62. G 2100-11, interior chapel, north false door. Circa February 1912.
GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna, digital montage of aeos_1_5876 and aeos_1_5875.
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Chapter 6. The tomb of Nefer: Mastaba g 2110
Chapter 6
THE TOMB OF NEFER:
Mastaba g2110
Mastaba:1 core of type IIa; 21.6 x 12.0m

area 259.0sq.m; proportion 1/1.8; h.4.25m

average height of stepped courses 0.33m

average width of steps 8.2cm

casing: fine white x-masonry, dressed to smooth sloping surface

24.8 x 14.4m

Cased mastaba: typeIX with two niches in east face; southern niche

enclosed in exterior chapel
Chapel: type2b (exterior) of white limestone, built against the casing
around the south niche2

7.0 x 2.8m (outside)

area 19.6sq.m; contains one room (a)

(a) NS offering-room 3.7 x 1.15m


face of cased mastaba in west wall exposed, with the south

niche showing; entered from east by doorway in south end

of east wall
Exterior crude brick chapel north of stone chapel; remains of

crude brick walls but rooms not to be traced
Shafta: sole shaft, north of middle; 2.1 x 2.05m; -11.05m in rock (figs.6.3,
6.336.39)

lined with drab masonry above, 4.25m; thirteen courses

portcullis groove on each side at south end of east

and west wall: 0.5 x 0.35m

groove on east not cut in the rock chamber

type4 a (2)on south. 3.45 x 3.8m; h.2.05m


passage: 0.9 x 1.85m; h.2.05m

blocking: typeIb(1); interior blocking of white blocks set in

plaster partly preserved to height of 0.5m

portcullis slab, broken, original size: h.2.25m; w.2.3m

th. 0.4m

coffin: fragmentary white limestone coffin with flat lid (typed)

partly in shaftand partly in chamber3
Descriptions below are modified from the reiss diary pages; no Reisner
summaries were located:
Shaftm: north of shaftn, near the northwest corner of the mastaba
(fig.6.103)

lined above with crude brick on three sides and with stones only

on east; cut in bad rock below

total depth 2.25m; red debris, pebble and limestone debris

chamber on east, cut in bad rock; no blocking
Shaftn: south of m and north of o (fig.6.104)
1
2
3

R
Note that Reisners plan of the decorated blocks and specifically how they overlap
in this chapel (GN1, p.201, fig.109) is inaccurate.
Reisner, GN1, pls. 34ab.



total depth 2.1m; red debris and pebble

chamber on east, cut in bad rock; no blocking
Shafto: south of n and north of p (fig.6.105)

lined above with crude brick on three sides and with stone only


total depth 2.55m; red debris and pebble

chamber on east; cut in bad rock; no blocking
Shaftp: south of d and north of q (fig.6.106)

lined above with crude brick on three sides, and with stones only


total depth 2.95m; red debris, dirty debris, and pebble, and

limestone debris

Shaftq: south of p and north of r (fig.6.107)

lined above with crude brick on three sides, only with stones on

east; cut in bad rock below

total depth 2.7m; red debris, dirty debris, and limestone debris

Shaftr: south of q and north of s (fig.6.108)

lined with crude brick above on three sides, and with stone only


total depth 2.65m; red debris, dirty debris, pebble, and broken

mud-brick; in the chamber fragments of bones

chamber on west; cut in bad rock; no blocking

found in shaft debris: inscribed offering basin (3822; fig.6.18)
Shafts: south of r and north of t (fig.6.109)

lined above with crude brick on three sides, and with stones only


total depth 2.45m; red debris, pebble and bones in the chamber

chamber on east; cut in bad rock, underneath mastaba casing

no blocking
Shaftt: south of s and north of v (fig.6.110)

lined above with crude brick on three sides and with stones on

east; cut in bad rock below

total depth 1.8m; limestone debris, rubble, and red debris


no blocking
Shaftu: south of v and north of w (figs.6.416.42, 6.111)



total depth 1.5m; limestone debris, pebble, rubble, and red

debris


blocked with rubble and crude brick with traces of mud

body: head on north
Shaftv: south of t and north of u (fig.6.112)

lined above with crude brick on three sides only and with stones


total depth 2.2m; red debris, pebble, and limestone debris

Shaftw: south of u and north of x (figs.6.113, 6.117)



total depth 2.15m; limestone debris, rubble, red debris, and

broken mud-brick

traces of bones in the chamber

Shaftx: north of y, west of the casing of g2110 and west of w (figs.6.114,
6.117)

lined with masonry

total depth 2.4m; red debris, pebble, stones, and sand

Shafty: south of x and north of z (figs.6.115, 6.117)

lined above with crude brick topped with one course of masonry

and cut in bad rock below

total depth 2.05m; red debris, pebble, sand, and limestone debris

Shaftz: south of y, near the southwest corner of the mastaba (figs.6.1166.117)
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lined with crude brick above on three sides, and with masonry

only on east; cut in bad rock below
total depth 1.15m; sand and pebble
Excavation
Principal excavation of this mastaba took place under A.M. Lythgoe

in 19051906. Unfortunately, no Expedition diaries are preserved
from this season. The tomb was re-examined intermittently between
1932 and 1938. Diary entries kept by N.F. Wheeler and later by the
reis are preserved for the following days:
April1017, 1932: clearance of the top of mastaba, under Wheeler,
in a search for additional burial shafts. Shafta was originally cleared,
and the famous reserve head of Nefer (MFA06.1886; see discussion
below, and figs. 6.39, 6.906.100) had already been discovered
during Lythgoes 19051906 season. However, the reiss diary entries
for December1223, 1935 describe the reclearance of shafta. No
burial chamber photographs seem to have ever been taken.
January89, 1937: examination of the thin passage street area
east of the chapel and west of the west side of g2130. No additional
inscribed stones were found. The reiss entry for January9, however,
notes that on the lower course underneath the lining of the room
(=chapel) of the mastaba appear masons marks in red.
January24, and 2627, 1938 saw the excavation of the street
west of g2110 and east of mastaba g2051 (fig.6.5). Additional shafts
were located along the west face of Nefers mastaba, and an offering
basin inscribed for a kings acquaintance (r nswt), juridicial scribe
(z zb), and overseer of document scribes of Akhet-Khufu (my-r z
mt t-wfw) Tjenti was unearthed (see g2051, south niche).4 An
important sketch of the area appears in the reiss Arabic diary for
January28, 1938 (vol.33, p. 2856= English translation p.605), showing
walls and shafts omitted from both published and unpublished plans
of the area (fig.6.4).5The row of subsidiary shaftsm through z was
excavated between February6 and 9, 1938.6 February16 and 19 saw
the excavation of the burial chamber of g2110u, and the removal
of its skeleton (figs.6.416.42). Finally, additional excavation back
on the east side of the mastaba took place from March2428, 1938.
Subsidiary mastaba g2115, with shafts a, b, and c, was exposed
(along with shafts x and y of g2210) and excavated on April30. This
activity marked the end of work done by the expedition on g2110,
at least as far as described in the Expedition diaries.
On November27, 1993, limited excavation was undertaken in
an effort to confirm which way the chapel door originally swung
open. A small portion of the chapel floor inside the entrance was
cleared, revealing a door socket hole on the southern side of the
entrance (figs.6.66.7, 6.62, 6.70). Reisners excavation plans and
records make no mention of this hole. Relief decoration on the
chapels south wall is set back from the entrance some 98cm, and
it was conjectured that the door might swing southwards, covering
only the undecorated part of the south wall when fully open. The
door socket hole on the south side of the entrance confirmed the
conjecture; the open door would not have obscured any of the
decoration, covering only undecorated wall surface when open in
the chapel. At the bottom of the socket hole was a dark (basalt?)
stone still in situ, most likely placed to support the weight of the
post, since limestone would have been too soft (fig. 6.7).7 In the
center of this basalt stone, an oval depression measures 8.5cm in
eastwest diameter, and 7.5cm in northsouth diameter.
Finds
MFA 07.1002 (shipped to Boston 1906 or 1907): block of smooth-grained

limestone raised relief, originally from the north door thickness;
standing figure of Nefer with left foot advanced and holding staff
and scepter, three columns of skewed vertical inscription in front
of figure, register of four scribes below; h.95cm; w.109.5cm
(figs.6.506.55)8
36122 (part of MFA 31.780; shipped to Boston after April26, 1937):
fragment of white limestone raised relief with back of head of
Wenankhes and part of title mtrt-r, originally from south wall
of chapel; h.55.5cm; w.50cm; th.16cm (figs.6.63, 6.656.66,
6.706.71) 9
36123 (MFA; shipped to Boston after April26, 1937): limestone raised
relief fragment with two hieroglyphs
, (r s); h.19cm;
w.24cm; th.8.5cm (fig.6.10)10
3821: limestone fragment from top of g2110, with raised(?) relief
hieroglyphs; l. 21cm; w.=h. 9cm; th. 8cm; traces of four signs
(fig.6.11)
3823: limestone fragment of right edge of slab stela(?) linen list, bearing ,
, and (1,000) signs; h.6.5cm; w.5cm; th.1.2cm; originally
ascribed to g5236 but now newly assigned to g2110 (fig.6.12; see
below, Architecture)
No numbers: Six fragments of raised relief; no further information
provided; large relief with
n and s signs completing name
of Wenankhes, from the West wall; head of standing male offering
bearer connecting to torso fragment with three signs (first sign
uncertain), , and
or
; two fragments with portions of
pr signs; one fragment with part of s and one other sign
(figs.6.136.17)
From g2110r:
3822: limestone offering basin of royal acquaintance Muti, h.27cm;
w.39cm; th.13.5cm; d.2.3 + 2.7cm (fig.6.18)
7
4
5
S ee Manuelian, Unfinished Business: The Giza Tablet of Tjenti (JE72135), in

Egyptian Museum Collections around the World, pp.77790.
Arabic diary, vol.33, p.2856= English translation, p.605, retraced by Nicholas
Melnikoff. I am grateful to Ramadan Hussein for his translations of the reiss
Arabic diaries.
February6, 1938 also marked the evening of the first international radio broadcast
from the Giza plateau. The reiss diary records that at 11:00pm, Reisner, his
daughter Mary, Selim Hassan, William Stevenson Smith, and Walter B. Emery
all spoke to America from the base of the Great Pyramid.
n door construction, see Koenigsberger, Die Konstruktion der altgyptischen

O
Tr, esp. pp.2440. The distance from the top of the surviving south entrance
thickness platform block (upon which the relief fragment LouvreB51 once
stood) to the bottom of the basalt door-post stone is 103cm. For a parallel with
stones intact on either side, indicating double doors, and a support stone set in
the base of the socket hole, see Hassan, Gza3, pl.15 (12), mastaba of Kay. For
door terminology, see P. Posener-Kriger, Noms des parties de portes dans les
documents dAbousir, in Fs. Ricke, pp.7585.
8 Reisner, GN1, p.423, pl.30b.
9 Ibid., p.423, pl.33a.
10 Ibid., fig.241 after p.424.
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Right side:
% `
[d
Text: (1)r11 nswt Mwt (2)tp nswt tp () npw nty s nr prt

rw <n>s r() nb(?)
Translation: (1)Royal acquaintance, Muti. (2)A gift which the king
gives, and a gift which Anubis, foremost of the divine booth, (gives),
(consisting of ) invocation offerings <for> her, every day(?)
*
[d
Top:
?
Text: (3)r12 nswt Mwt ns prt-rw r nb tpy rnpt [tr.]

Translation: (3)Royal acquaintance, Muti. Invocation offerings for
her(?) every day, on the first of the year festival, [tr.].
w p g
Bottom:
niche into an interior chapel false door, and the available space in
the street between g2110 and g2130. The extremely constricted
passage between the front of Nefers chapel and the back (west) wall
of mastaba g2130 (Khentka)about 130cmcould not have been
intended in the original layout of mastaba cores; it is thus additional
evidence for Nefers exterior chapel being a secondary development
(figs.6.226.24).
With its decorated false door tablet and exterior stone chapel,
Nefers mastaba is of particular significance for the evolution of slab
stelae, false doors, and table scenes. Many scholars have argued that
the funerary repast scene of the slab stelae and the accompanying
offerings eventually evolved into the false door panel, and then
beyond the false door itself onto decorated chapel walls. Haeny,
however, preferred the reverse development, namely that false
doors were the originally intended cult focus for the earliest Giza
mastabas.17 His primary argument rests on the mastaba presently
under discussion:
Es gibt jedoch, was Junker anscheinend bersehen hat,
im Friedhofgelnde von Giseh eine Mastaba, g2110, deren
Kalksteinverdkleidung am ursprnglichen Kernbau fertiggestellt
und auch auen geglttet worden ist, bevor die Anlage um einen
geschlossenen Kultraum erweitert wurde; dessen Anschluwnde
sind ohne jeden Verband gegen die Auenche der Mastaba
gesetzt. Hier aber ist die Opferstelle nichtwie wir nach
Junker erwarten mtendurch die in Giseh bliche Grabtafel
gekennzeichnet, sondern in traditioneller Weise durch zwei
abgetreppte Scheintrnischen, die man im voraus beim Anlegen
der Verkleidung einberechnet hatte.18
Text: (4)prt rw m wp rnpt wtt wg

Translation: (4)Invocation offerings on the new years festival, the
festival of Thoth, the wag-festival.13
From g2110u:
3629: Bones of human skeleton, from burial chamber (figs.6.42, 6.111)
From shaft a:
MFA 06.1886: white limestone reserve head, found in debris at bottom
of shaft; h.27.2cm; neck at base 11.5 x 10.5cm (figs.6.39,
6.906.100)14
351239: bones of human skeleton, from burial chamber of shaft
Architecture
Nefers mastaba represents one of the few in the Western Cemetery

to receive its final exterior casing. Strudwick calls it perhaps the first
chapel after that of m-wnw to have been fully decorated.15
The portcullis grooves on the burial shaft (figs. 6.33, 6.356.38)
place the tomb in the elite company of five original mastabasall
in Cemetery g2100to exhibit this archaic burial shaft feature.16
Even more interesting is the unusual layout, whereby the chapel
entrance occurs at the southern end of the east wall, with the false
door at the northern end of the west wall (figs.6.16.3, 6.19). Most
often this situation is reversed; if the priority was to prevent direct
access/exposure or alignment between chapel entrance and false
door, then either arrangement would fulfull the purpose. But Nefers
unusual arrangement must be related somehow to the addition of
the mastaba cores exterior casing, the conversion of its exterior
11
12
13
14
15
16
isspelled r nswt. For an example of the reverse misspelling, r in place of r in

M
the phrase m(w) r nr Pn-mrw, see the triad of Penmeru (MFA 12.1504) from
g2197; Simpson, Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, p.25 with n.6 and pl.50
(not discussed by Simpson; a line drawing of this text, inadvertently omitted
from Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, may be found in Manuelian, Fs. Edward
Brovarski, forthcoming).
M
isspelled r nswt.
On the subject of feast lists, see Spalinger, The Private Feast Lists of Ancient
Egypt.
Reisner, GN1, p.425, pl.34bf. Correct Reisners inaccurate height measurement
from 17.2cm to 27.2cm.
Strudwick, Administration, p.110. Note that the chapels north wall, however, was
apparently never decorated; it remains the one blank chapel wall.
The other mastabas are g2100, g2120, g2130, and g2210. Note that the groove
on the east side is not cut into the bedrock.
It is true, as Haeny notes, that no joins are apparent between the

exterior stone casing and the exterior stone chapel, so the chapel did
not break into the casing. However, this merely signies that g2110,
unlike most of the tombs in the three nucleus cemeteries, actually
did receive its nal casing complete.
In an earlier study of the Giza slab stelae, I suggested that
Nefers mastaba could once have been uncased and contained a slab
stela, only to be subsequently cased and provided with an exterior
chapel with a false door (and another niche at the northern end of
the east wall). Excavation photographs taken by the HarvardMFA
Expedition show the gap between the original core stones and the
casing blocks (figs.6.266.27). It would therefore not differ from
other nucleus cemetery mastabas except by virtue of the completion
of its casing.19
A clue to the early history of the mastaba may now be provided
by the small fragment numbered 3823.20 This tiny relief shows
only two hieroglyphs, but clearly derives from the linen list of an
as yet unrecorded slab stela (fig.6.12). It was identified in 2007.
Some confusion exists as to its provenance: the Expedition diary
cites mastaba g5236, but that tomb number has been crossed
out in the Object Register entry for the fragment (fig.6.28). No
replacement tomb number has been added to the Object Register,
17
18
19
20
G. Haeny, Zu den Platten mit Opfertischszene in Helwan und Giseh, in

Fs. Ricke, especially pp.15859. See the useful summaries by Wiebach, Die
gyptische Scheintr, pp.2951; Strudwick, Administration, pp.952; Hassan,
Gza5, pp.65180; and Piacentini, Les scribes, pp.9699.
Haeny, Fs. Ricke, p.158.
Reisner, GN1, p.417, posits the order of completion of the cores of Cemetery
g2100 as follows: g2100, g2130, g2120, g2110, g2210.
Manuelian, A New Slab Stela for Nefer from g2110? (Giza Archives Project
Gleanings: I), in Egypt and Beyond. Fs. Lesko, pp. 22736.
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but in a separate list of inscribed fragments written in Expedition

staff member Mahmoud Saids hand, and housed in the Museum of
Fine Artss Expedition archives, the provenance is listed as g2110
(fig.6.29). Even the diary entry listing g5236 comes after several
descriptions of shafts in and around g2110. I am thus convinced that
the origin of this fragment is not g5236, a post-Dynasty4, multishafted mastaba in the Cemetery en Echelon, but in fact Nefers
mastaba, g2110.21 This reinforces the possibility of a preliminary
decorative layout for the tomb consisting of a slab stela with exterior
mud-brick chapel. The slab stela was then later walled up, removed,
or destroyed by the addition of the exterior casing and exterior stone
chapel. Whether the tombs ownership changed hands at this time
as well cannot be determined, but other tomb owners seem to have
preferred preserving their slab stelae in their emplacements, hidden
behind their newly added exterior chapels.22
In short, Haenys argumentthat the current appearance of
g2110 proves that the false door (and not a slab stela) was intended as
the cult focus from the beginningis not supported by the evidence.
The smooth-sloping casing blocks are well preserved on the
mastabas exterior north and east walls, but somewhat pitted on the
west side. All that remains to be seen on the mastabas north side are
three, large, weathered blocks. The northern edge is buried, as part
of the gradual rise in the terrain leading to the unexcavated areas
west of g2210. In front of Nefers north niche (figs.6.306.31), just
west of the southwest corner of g2210, a wall can be seen that runs
west, then turns south, most likely belonging to the next subsidiary
mastaba in the street. The chapel remains open to the air as of this
writing, and suffers from numerous childrens and tourists graffiti.
One of the more impressive areas of the cemetery is the tight
corridor between the west wall of g2130 and the east exterior wall of
Nefers chapel (figs.6.226.24). The quality of the cut and polished
blocks is on a par with the casing stones of Hemiunu (g4000).
The steep rise just south of the chapel appears to date posterior to
the excavations of 19051906, but may come from shaft fill, either
of g2100a or perhaps g2130a (fig. 6.31). Nefers chapel rests on
massive stone foundation blocks, several of which in recent years
were exposed and visible, although they remain buried in many of
the 19051906 Expedition photographs (figs.6.226.23).
As far as the late nineteenthcentury plundering of the tombs
decorated chapel is concerned, the same removal procedure is
apparent on both the east wall (standing couple, heads now lost) and
west wall (Copenhagen block IN819, above the slaughter scene;
see below). Both blocks show a thick segment removed towards the
top of the block, and then a shearing off and thinning out of the
removed portion towards the bottom, nearer to the relief decoration
still preserved in situ (figs.6.67, 6.69, 6.79, 6.70, 6.78). In the case
of the east wall, the robbers were clearly most interested in removing
the heads of Nefer and his wife, Wenankhes (figs.6.58, 6.606.61).
We have noted above that the decoration on the south wall
(standing headless couple; see below) does not begin until about 1 m
into the wall (westwards) from the entrance. Otherwise the chapels
entrance door, swinging open southwards, would have covered and
hidden the carved relief. In 1993 one could still see (from the chapels
south wall) a construction mark on the northsouth abutting block
21
22
I bid.
Cf. Manuelian, Slab Stelae, stelae 1, 6, 9, and 13, and cf. J. Sainte Fare Garnots
description of Nefers tomb in Etudes sur la ncropole de Gza sous la IVe
Dynastie, RdE 9 (1952), pp.7374, and 78, fig.7.
(south side of the entranceway), pointing, in perfect alignment, to

the inner edge of the east wall of the chapel on the north side of
the entranceway. Another mark, containing the name of Nefer, was
carved on a foundation block under the southwest corner of the
chapel.23
Two small mastabas were added in the avenue between the
south end of g2110 and the north end of g2100: g2113 on the
west and g2111 on the east. Further east of g2111 stand three small
mastabas, g2112a (abutting the southern exterior wall of Nefers
chapel), g2112b, and g2112c. To the west of g2110 stood the
mastabas of Senenuka (g2041) and of Tjenti (g2051), along with a
row of numerous subsidiary burial shafts all along the west face of
Nefers mastaba. Reisner numbered these shafts g2110m through z,
running from north to south (figs.6.4, 6.21, 6.117). In the street to
the east of g2110, only a single subsidiary tomb, g2115 with three
shafts, was recorded (figs.2.5, 6.20, 6.31).
Shafts and Burials
The tombs principal shaft, g2110a contained no skeletal remains

among the broken sarcophagus fragments. But the shaft remains
of critical importance, not only for the presence of the T-shaped
portcullis grooves mentioned above, but for the discovery of the
famous reserve head of Nefer at the entrance to the burial chamber
(MFA 06.1886; see discussion below). Unfortunately, no photography
of the actual interior of the burial chamber has yet been identified.
g2110, bones on floor of chapel, in northwest corner (fig.6.40)
Incomplete; cranium is in a corner against the wall; fragmentary left
humerus, other unidentifiable bones. Age and sex uncertain. No
tomb card sketch. This chapel burial is most likely intrusive.
g2110u (fig.6.42)
Articulated and largely undisturbed skeleton, lying on back, knees
moderately bent and tilted to the left side. Visible elements include
cranium and mandible, spine, both clavicles, right humerus, right
ulna and radius, some right hand bones visible in the dirt, right
femur with left visible under it, left and right tibiae lying parallel,
foot bones, left ulna and radius and hand bones, right and left os
coxae, ribs. Adult, possibly female. No tomb card sketch.
Date

early reign of Khufu (core); Khafre (mastaba).24
Many of the elements of Nefers false door tablet, housed in the
Museo Barracco in Rome (see below), seem to place the chapel in the
reign of Khafre.25 These elements (form of the offering loaves, the
23
24
25
his inscription was published by Smith, Inscriptional Evidence for the History
T
of the Fourth Dynasty, JNES11 (1952), fig.5, mentioned on p.126 (B4).
Compare PMIII, p.72: Khafre; Baer, Rank and Title, pp.8990 [250]: end
of Dynasty4early Dynasty5; Cherpion, Mastabas et hypoges, pp.11920:
not later than Djedefre; Harpur, Decoration in Egyptian Tombs, p.267 [124]:
Khafre; Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.124 and table 12: Djedefre or
Khafre; Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.82: Khufu; El-Metwally, Entwicklung der
Grabdekoration, p.154: end of Dynasty4; Reisner, GN1, pp.306307: Khafre;
Smith, HESPOK, p.163: Khafre; Strudwick, Administration, pp.109110 [84]:
Khafre or a little later;
J nosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.12324; Reisner, GN1, p.306f.; Smith,
HESPOK, p.163.
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expanded form of the offering lists, and the tp nswt formula) have
misled some scholars to date the piece as late as the Sixth Dynasty.26
The original core mastaba certainly dates to the reign of Khufu,
with its T-shaped burial shaft, portcullis grooves (although they
terminate on the east side at bedrock level), reserve head, and twostage chapel development, namely the original cult focus (possibly
for a slab stela; see fragment 3823) replaced by an exterior stone
chapel. The appearance of a linen list on the false door tablet harks
back to Khufu-era slab stelae, but the unusual pose of the deceased
and the tp nswt formula there look forward in time. The high,
occasionally coarse style of the raised relief postdates the fine, low
style preferred under Khufu.27 A date for the final occupation of the
mastaba in the reign of Khafre best fits the evidence.
that the only Dynasty4 example of pr- with this arrangement at

Giza occurs in our Nefers tomb, g2110.30
C. Fisher discovered a second, larger drum, reused in g3015a,
again further to the west than g2110. This drum is in the University
of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia (E13531, figs. 6.466.49).31
It probably did derive from the chapel entrance to g2110. Smith
rejected this identification with the Nefer of g2110, contra Capart.32
As far as the measurements are concerned, the drum (w.86cm) fits
the entrance to Nefers exterior stone chapel (ca.75cm). The text
reads:
2 C g
C
C Mg
Decoration
chapel entrance were already missing when Lythgoe first cleared

the area in 19051906. But two drums are known from elsewhere in
the Western Cemetery that show the name Nefer and several of the
same titles found in the reliefs described below. One of these drums,
now Museum of Fine Arts 21.3080, was found much further west in
mastaba g1461 (fig.6.45):29
Text: my-r s ry st t-wfw nb m r nbf my-r pr- Nfr
Translation: Overseer of scribes, master of secrets of Akhet-Khufu,
possessor of veneration before his lord, overseer of the treasury, Nefer.
This relief most likely belonged to a different Nefer from the

owner of g2110. While the width of the drum (83.8cm) would fit the
g2110 chapel entrance, there are palaeographical differences between
the inscriptions, and the Nefer of g2110 does not bear the title ry
st t-wfw. Strudwick has used the layout of the pr- group,
with the mace completely enclosed by the pr sign, as evidence for
a Dynasty5 date for the drum from g1461. However, he also notes
26
27
28
29
andier, Manuel1, p.764; for others who date it to Dynasty6, see Cherpion,
V
Mastabas et hypoges, p.120, n.243; she herself prefers a date for Nefer no later
than Djedefre.
Smith, HESPOK, p.163, has compared these reliefs unfavorably with other
Chephren period tombs: Ankh-haf (g7510), and Akhethetep and Meretites
(g7650). I would argue, however, following Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie,
pp.71, 9293, 108111, and Strudwick, Administration, pp.4243, 7778, that
the carving in these chapels is lower and finer precisely because they may well
date to the reign of Khufu, rather than Khafre.
Additional fragments were identified after Smiths time; see his remarks on
scattered fragments in HESPOK, p.163 n.1; idem, The Origin of some
unidentified Old Kingdom Reliefs, AJA46 (1942), pp.50910. The chapel
decoration is also discussed by El-Metwally, Entwicklung der Grabdekoration,
pp.15462 (6.3.2).
Smith, HESPOK, p.163 n.1; Markowitz, in Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids,
p.78, cat.23 (illustrated in color). The drum is also mentioned without
illustration by Ashton Sanborn in BMFA20, no.118 (April, 1922), p.27; and
cf. N. Strudwick, Three Monuments of Old Kingdom Treasury Officials,
JEA71 (1985), pp.4344, pl.III.1, with discussion of two variant forms of pr-
treasury, based on whether the sign is completely enclosed within the pr
sign or not (add r nbf after nb m to his translation); h.20.3 x w.83.8 x
th./diam.20.3cm. See also Piacentini, Les scribes, pp.17273 (E.Gi.17). In situ
discovery images available on www.gizapyramids.org in g1461 are HUMFA
Expedition photographs C12965_OS and C12965_OS.
Text: (1)my-r s prw rp pr nfr(w) (2)s nswt my-r pr- Nfr

Translation: (1)Overseer of regiment scribes, controller of regiments
of recruits, (2)royal document scribe, overseer of the treasury, Nefer.
Most, but not all, of the chapels many decorated relief fragments
were first reconstructed by W.S. Smith.28
Entrance (figs. 6.446.49). The architrave and drum over the
In this case, the titles and palaeography match in perfect

correspondence. One particular feature common to both monuments
consists of the series of horizontal bands of feathers on the wings of
the m owls.
North Entrance Thickness (Boston, MFA07.1002, figs. 6.50
6.55).33 At least two blocks originally made up the decorated surface,

but only the lower block has survived, found by Lythgoe and Reisner
in 1906. The top portion of the inscription is therefore missing. The
right-hand edge of the relief reflects the batter of the exterior face of
the chapel, and the inscription slopes accordingly, with all signs not
vertical, but rotated slightly counterclockwise. A sloping inscription
was not necessary on the counterpart northern jamb (now in the
Louvre) since standing figures rather than text occur at the left (i.e.,
chapel exterior) edge of that block.
The large standing figure of Nefer is well modeled in fairly bold
relief that is higher than the fine carving typical on the slab stelae of
the reign of Khufu. The overfold of the plaited kilt is held in place by
a long tab. Attention to detail is apparent in the fingernails, plastic
eyebrow, and other facial features. Knee musculature is indicated, but
the rest of Nefers figure, with the exception of a concave depression
above the navel, is devoid of modeling. The wig shows the long
strands towards the crown that are common in Dynasty4.34 But
perhaps the most prominent feature of the relief is the unusually sharp
nose given to Nefer. This has often been compared to the flattened,
planed-down nose on his reserve head (MFA06.1886; see below) as
30
31
32
33
34
Strudwick, Administration, pp.109 (83), 27980; idem, JEA85, p.49, n.17.

he drum was published by Fisher, The Minor Cemetery, pp.96, 147 (inscription),
T
pl.50.5 (no.23); h.17cm; w.86cm. The height of the carved text rectangle is
10.7cm. See also Piacentini, Les scribes, pp.99100 (C.Gi.9).
Smith, HESPOK, p.163, n.1; Capart, Documents2, p.23.
Reisner, GN1, p.423, pl.30b; Capart, Documents2, pl.23; Roehrig, in Egyptian
Art in the Age of the Pyramids, pp.28586, cat.79; Dunham, Egyptian Department,
p.148, fig.121.
Cherpion critre28; Mastabas et hypoges, p.55; Fischer, A Scribe of the Army in
a Saqqara Mastaba of the Early Fifth Dynasty, JNES18 (1959), pp.23839.
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Text: (1)[ my-r s ry-] nswt my-r krt-nswt nb rp pr(w) nfr(w)

(2)[]f nb, my-r st f(w) my-r pr- (3)[ mw] r nbf r nb
wr mw mw r nswt Nfr (4)my-r prwy- Nfr
Translation: (1)[overseer of scribes of port]folios of the king,37
overseer of every royal ornamented, controller of regiments of recruits,
(2)all his [], overseer of the double storehouse of provisions, overseer
of the weapons house (armory?), (3)[revered] under his lord every
day, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt, royal acquaintance, Nefer;
(4)overseer of the double treasury, Nefer.
torso. Another interesting feature in the procession of scribes consists

of the bivalve shells used as scribal equipment.38
C
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C s
C
5
36
37
Text: (5)s Nfrw (6)s pr ry-wb Wn (7)s nty-kwf (8)s Snnw-k

Translation: (5)The scribe Nefru,39 (6)the scribe of the house of
reversion offerings,40 Weni, (7)the scribe Khentykauef, (8)the scribe
Senenuka.41
South Entrance Thickness (Paris B51; figs.6.566.57).42 Like its

northern counterpart, this entrance thickness was composed of at
least two decorated blocks, but only the lowest one has survived.
Here the scene contains a seated figure of Nefer at right, gazing
beyond his offering table towards three registers of mortuary priests
and officiants, and eastwards out of the chapel. The bull-legged
stool with beaded drum contains a wide cushion visible beneath
and behind Nefers frame. He wears a long, striated wig, a closefitting garment that ends above the knee, and a shoulder knot. His
fisted right hand is held back across the breast, while his left hand
rests upon his lap; both wrists display elaborate bracelets. The small
offering table and ceramic jar stand, stacked with six half-loaves to
either side, does not extend above the height of the lowest register.
Offerings, including duck and meat cuts on low tables, are listed
above it, while the individuals present their own items (lower two
registers), or perform the mortuary ritual or reversion offerings (top
register).
1
g
3
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38
or a detail view of the standing figure, along with a comparison to the reserve
F
head of Nefer, see Spanel, Through Ancient Eyes, pp.3537, with figs.4041. See
also Smith, Ancient Egypt, pp.3637, figs.1415; idem, HESPOK, pp.23, 303,
pl. 48e; idem, Old Kingdom Sculpture, AJA 45 (1941), p.528 and figs.67;
idem, Art and Architecture, p.258, n.41; W. Davis, Canonical representation in
Egyptian art, Res4 (1982), p.27, figs.11 and 19; Junge, Hem-iunu, Anch-ha-ef
und die sog. Ersatzkpfe, in Kunst des Alten Reiches, p.104, pl.36ab; Assmann,
Preservation and Presentation of Self in Ancient Egyptian Portraiture, in
Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson1, pp.5581, with fig.7.
See, for example, the images of Nefer seated on the south entrance thickness
(figs.6.566.57), the west wall (figs.6.72, 6.83) and false door tablet (figs.6.76,
6.78, 6.84), and standing on the south wall (figs.6.63, 6.656.66). For
additional discussion, see O. Bates, Sculptures from the Excavations at Giza,
19051906, BMFA5, no.26 (June 1907) p.20; See also B.V. Bothmer, On
Realism in Egyptian Funerary Sculpture of the Old Kingdom, Expedition24
(1982), pp.3435, fig.20 = Bothmer, Egyptian Art, pp.384, 387, fig.25.21.
For this title, see Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles1, p.217, no.808,
following Fischer, Varia, p.32, fig.8 and p.120.
In the lower register at right, separate inscriptions identify each

of four scribes. The first scribe, Neferu, is shown writing, while the
others march behind him, the tools of their trades in their hands.
In order to indicate Neferus right-handed orientation, the artist has
twisted the shoulders and extended the right arm behind Neferus
35
an example of portaiture in both two and three dimensions.35 Yet

it must be noted that the other large-scale representations of Nefer
display no such idiosyncratic nose.36 One could conceivably argue
for the presence of multiple sculptors hands on these various reliefs,
instead of a conscious attempt to represent Nefers actual likeness on
both his entrance jamb and reserve head.
Three columns of text, plus one title and the name of Nefer
in a fourth, horizontal line, are oriented in Nefers direction,
facing right, out of the tomb, eastwards. The hieroglyphs show an
abundance of interior detail, and the sculptor has found a pleasing
and undistracting balance in his alignment of the textual columns
with the exterior batter of the outer chapel wall at right, and also
with the straight verticality expected beside the tall standing human
figure at left.
39
40
41
42
f. Roehrig, in Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, p.286 with n.5; W.
C
Wreszinski, Atlas zur altgyptischen Kulturgeschichte3, pl.66. S.A. Goudsmit
notes the occasional occurrence of the rear view of the first figure in a procession,
possibly indicating that he has already passed by the viewer; cf. The Backview
of Human Figures in Ancient Egyptian Art, JNES40 (1981), pp.4346, fig.3.
For a parallel to the bivalve shell with inkwells, see the north wall of the chapel
of KaninisutI below (g2155), and the seated scribal statue of Amenhotep from
Karnak, CG590 (ty ry-pt ty- my-r kwt nbt nswt, etc.).
This figure is illustrated in Simpson, The Literature of Ancient Egypt, p.xvii,
fig.4. Nefru appears again on the east wall fragment (Copenhagen IN937);
see below.
For this title, see Junker, Gza2, pp.6566, 161.
Doubtless the owner of mastaba g2041, located immediately southwest of
Nefers tomb, and west of g2100 (Sedit). The decorated west wall of Senenuka
is MFA07.100007.1001, 07.100307.1005: see PMIII, pp.2425, 242; Capart,
Lart gyptien. p.20, pl.438; Williams, Per-Neb, pp.5, 1617, pl.5; Smith,
HESPOK, p.164, pl.45b.
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ouvre B51; h.95.5cm; w.115cm; th.2324cm (as displayed in Paris). The
relief passed from the collection of Prince Napolon (originally acquired by
Mariette during the winter of 185758) to that of Rousset Bey. It entered the
Louvre collection by purchase in 1868, and bears the alternate numbers E5599
and D59; cf. Ziegler, Catalogue des stles, cat.26, pp.16771; Reisner, GN1,
p.423, pl.30a; Capart, Documents2, pl.23; El-Metwally, Entwicklung der
Grabdekoration, figs.24, 96, 122, 137, 141; Capart, Documents2, pl.23.
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are preserved in all, each displaying his own close-cropped hair and a
kilt with elaborate belt tab. There were likely two additional registers
and more figures (now lost) above. Inscriptions include the names
and titles of some of the individuals:
C
M n n C
| n
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Above the offering table:

9
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:
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n Cn

11
10
Text: (5)wt (6)m-k n (7)m-k y-mry (8)m-k Pr-sn (9)mk Ms (10) wy snr tt mrt msdmt wt (11)rp t nb(t) bnrt
t-rt t-wrt Translation: (5)Embalmer, (6)funerary priest Ankh,
(7)funerary priest Iymery, (8)funerary priest Persen, (9)funerary
priest Mesi, (10)implements for washing hands, incense, best
ointment, black eye-paint, green eye-paint, (11)wine, every (kind
of ) sweet thing, baked bread, great loaf.
16
15
14
13
South Wall (Giza, Boston, figs. 6.646.66). Nefer and his wife
Wenankhes stand facing into the tomb, to the right (westwards).
The lower halves of their bodies are still in situ, while the heads
and upper torsos are preserved in Boston (MFA31.780, figs. 6.63,
6.66).47 Behind the figures, to the left (east), the rest of the wall has
been left undecorated to avoid being obscured behind the chapels
swinging wooden door.
1
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Beneath the offering table:

17
Text: (1)[m-k y-mr]y(?) (2)m-k Pr-sn (3)m-k w()-n-pt (4)s

Nfrw-ns (5) s <> (6)m-k
Translation: (1)The funerary priest Iymery(?), (2)the funerary priest
Persen, (3)the funerary priest Khuenptah, (4)the scribe Nefru
Junior,46 (5) the scribe <> (6)funerary priest.

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Text: (1)[] my-r pr- (2)[] rp pr(w) nfr(w) (3)[]my-r

st f(w)43 (4)[] r nswt Nfr
Translation: (1)[] overseer of the treasury, (2)[] controller
of regiments of recruits, (3)overseer of the double storehouse of
provisions, (4)[] the royal acquaintance, Nefer.
12
Text: (1)sb nt rw, wt (2)mtrt [Wn-n]s48

Translation: (1)Tally man of the judiciary,49 chief of the estate. (2)The
miteret [Wenankh]es.
Text: (12)t (13)nt (14)s (15)mnt (16)t r (17) m-

w ry-b
Translation: (12)A thousand loaves of bread, (13)a thousand jars
of beer, (14)a thousand alabaster vessels, (15)a thousand pieces of
cloth, (16)crane, greylag goose, (17)oryx, ox, suckled calf.
North Wall (figs.6.80, 6.82). This wall bears no carved decoration.
East Wall (Giza, Copenhagen, figs.6.606.63). At the leftmost

(northernmost) edge of the wall stand large, headless figures
of Nefer and Wenankhes, faced by more than two registers
of scribes and provisions from the estate of the deceased. The
lowest two registers are preserved on fragments of relief now
in Copenhagen.44 A few additional fragments, showing a
procession of estates facing right, may come from the top of
the wall,45 but a perhaps more likely alternative would place
them on the upper west wall, adjoining the false door. Although
Nefers scepter passes in front of his kilt on his right-facing,
standing figure from the north entrance thickness, in this case,
it passes behind his kilt. Wenankhes stands with her feet close
together, and her right arm bent back across her breast. The
lower registers facing the couple contain kneeling scribes in
front, followed by male offering bearers with various types of
livestock (fowl, calf, gazelle, crane, bull and oryx). Twelve men
West Wall (Giza, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Rome, figs. 6.67

6.79, 6.81, 6.836.84, 6.886.89).50
The largest expanse of decoration is found on the west wall, and may
be divided into three sections. At the southernmost end, still intact
on the wall, Nefer and Wenankhes share a wide, bull-legged stool
with a cushion. He holds a staff, while she embraces him with her
left arm. Smith notes the correct representation of her right hand,
43
44
45
J ones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles1, p.242, no.884.

IN 937; h.73cm; w.158cm. Jrgensen, Catalogue. EgyptI, cat.10,
pp.4647 (with bibliography); acquired in 1900 in Cairo; Mogenson, La
Glyptothque Ny Carlsberg, pl.94, 673; Reisner, GN1, fig.242, pl.31ab;
El-Metwally, Entwicklung der Grabdekoration, pp.15761, figs.59, 73, 79,
82, 103, 110.
As drawn in Reisner, GN1, fig.242.
It is possible that it once contained painted scenes that have since

faded, but in light of the carved decoration scheme for the other
three chapel walls, this is unlikely.
46
47
48
49
50
he bird hieroglyph taken here as ns might instead be the s bird; see in general
T
on the subject H.G. Fischer, Epithets of Seniority, in Varia, pp.8195. At any
rate, the phrase seems to omit something towards the end, since the scribal title
occurs twice.
I llustrated in Reisner, GN1, pl.33a, p.423; N. Cherpion, Sentiment Conjugal
et Figuration lAncien Empire, in Kunst des Alten Reiches, p.33 and pl.3a.
The restoration of Nefers wifes name as Wenankhes is confirmed by the
Birmingham fragment of the west wall. For remarks on the title mtrt and male
examples of the title, see Fischer, A Scribe of the Army in a Saqqara Mastaba
of the Early Fifth Dynasty, JNES18 (1959), pp.26263, fig.24. The upper
torsos are also discussed by N. Cherpion, Sentiment Conjugal et Figuration
lAncien Empire, in Kunst des Alten Reiches, p.33 and pl.3a.
Cf. Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles2, p.807, no.2951.
Cf. Reisner, GN1, fig.241, pl. 32b. For additional discussion of the scene
preserved on the Copenhagen relief, see Fischer, Varia, pp3132, fig.8; ElMetwally, Entwicklung der Grabdekoration, pp.15962, figs.97, 123, 138, 147, 151,
158, 163.
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outstretched with the thumb above.51 The inscription above them,

including the adjoining Birmingham block discovered by H.G.
Fischer, is the only example of Wenankhess complete name.52 To the
right (north) are several columns of names and titles of Nefer, now
in Copenhagen. And further still to the right appears the simple false
door, undecorated save for the raised relief tablet and lintel below,
housed in the Museo Barracco in Rome.
Translation: (11)The funerary priest Wenkaef, (12)the funerary priest

Kairer, (13)the funerary priest Nenteni, (14)the funerary priest Wenu,
(15)the funerary priest Iperi, (16)the funerary priest Nefermeket.
Lower register procession:
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(3)my-r s ry- nswt (4)ry-st nswt m swt nb (5)my-r krt nswt nb
my-r pr (6)m r nbf mry nbf (7)[rr?] mrr nbf wr mw mw
(8)54 my-r prwy s pr- (9)r nswt Nfr (10)rt nswt Wn-ns
Translation: (1)55 [] (good?) his lord (2)[] controller of regiments
of recruits, overseer of the double storehouse of provisions, (3)overseer
of scribes of port]folios of the king, (4)master of secrets of the king
in every place, (5)overseer of every royal ornamented, overseer of the
weapons house, (6)revered under his lord, beloved of his lord, [who
does what] his lord loves, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt, (8)56
overseer of the double treasury, scribe of the palace, (9)the royal
acquaintance, Nefer; (10)the royal acquaintance Wenankhes.
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55
56
S mith, HESPOK, p.280, fig.120.

Correct Meresankh to read Wenankhes in the following publications: Reisner,
GN1, p.422; Baer, Rank and Title, p.146 [536]; Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie,
p.123; PMIII.1, p.72; Harpur, Decoration, p.286 (table2.3); Piacentini, Les
scribes, pp.9798. The correct reconstruction of Wenankhess name was first
noticed by Fischer, Varia, pp.3132.
H.142cm; w.127cm. See Jrgensen, Catalogue EgyptI, cat.9, pp.4445 (with
bibliography); acquired in 1894 in Cairo; M. Mogenson, La Glyptothque Ny
Carlsberg, pl.93, no.a667; Klebs, Die Reliefs des Alten Reiches, p.127 (detail).
Correspondence between W.S. Smith and O. Koefoed-Petersen concerning these
reliefs in the archives of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, dates to May, 1938.
From here to the end of the text, we rely upon the Birmingham relief fragment
and the surviving west wall decoration.
Lines 17 are contained on the fragment Copenhagen IN819.
Lines 810 are split between Birmingham24157 and the west wall of the chapel
at Giza. The Birmingham block measures: h.34cm; w.62.5cm. According
to Fischer, Varia, p.31, n.16, the fragment was acquired by the Birmingham
Museum of Art in 1957 from Mrs. M. Sawdon of Croydon, whose father, Dr. R.
Kingston Fox, obtained it in Egypt in 1892.
(1)my-r s nswt my-r pr- r nswt Nfr

(1)Overseer of royal document scribes, overseer of the treasury, the
royal acquaintance, Nefer.
(2)tp nswt b wy bd snw

(2)A gift which the king gives: one container of cold water, hand
washing utensils, two pellets of natron,
Text: (11)m-k Wn-kf (12)m-k K()-rr (13)m-k Nn-tn

(14)m-k Wnw (15)m-k pr (16)m-k Nfr-mkt
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Text and Translation:
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The false door bears decoration on the tablet and lintel beneath,
the jambs below it remaining either unfinished or intentionally left
blank. The decorated tablet was removed from the tomb before
the arrival of the HarvardMFA Expedition, and has been in the
collections of the Museo Barracco in Rome (C.M.B.1), since it was
acquired from the collection Bonaparte.58
n
n C
n n n n
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(17)[rp?] s n (18)m-k Nfr-mm (19)m-k r (20)sm Smw

(21)sm Rr
Translation: (17)[controller] of the dining hall(?),57 Ankh, (18)the
funerary priest Nefershemem, (19)the funerary priest Ari, (20)the
butcher Seshemu, (21)the butcher Reri.
Upper register procession (Copenhagen):

11
18
17
57
58
J ones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles1, p.499, no.1869 (by/zy(?)). Alternatively,

the sign could simply be an error for m-k funerary priest.
The tablet C.M.B. 1 measures h.83 cm by w.87cm. My thanks are due Dr.
Maresita Nota Santi, curator of the collections at the Museo Barracco, for
permission to publish the relief, and for her hospitality during a collation
visit to Rome in December, 1993. A second collation visit was made in 1998.
For bibliography, see Reisner, GN1, fig.241, pl.31c; L. Sist, Museo Barracco,
pp.2025; Nota, and Cimino. Museo Barracco Roma, p.46 and p.47 fig.29;
Il Nuovo Museo Barracco, pp.8889 (with important bibliography), fig.68
(color illustration). See also Haeny, Zu den Platten mit Opfertischszene aus
Heluan und Giseh, Fs. Ricke, esp. p.158; Scheele, Die Stofflisten, fig.9; Demel,
Die Reliefs der Kultkammer des Kaninisut, p.17, fig.10; Weill, Des monuments et
de lhistoire des IIe et IIIe dynasties, pp.23642, pl.4; Vandier, Manuel1, p.764,
fig.507; Junker, Gza2, pp.7980, 84 (text of offerings); and Manuelian, Slab
Stelae, p.234, fig.303. A color illustration was recently published in L. GordanRastelli, Egypt on the Tiber, KMT19, no.3 (Fall, 2008), p.60.
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(3)snr tt mrt ww msdmt [?] []59 tp-[nswt?] ns-ww-bw-r

t-wt [t-]rt
(3)incense, best ointment, green eye-paint, black eye-paint,60 [?],61
h[etja]-bread(?), [royal] offering(?),62 repast: a ns-loaf and a jug,63
barley bread, baked bread,
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(10)rn w rn m- t r [rp] s
(10)a thousand young oxen, a thousand young oryxes, a thousand
cranes, a thousand greylag geese, a thousand white-[fronted] geese, a
thousand teal ducks,
(5)(Two rows of items, each on its own table: haunch w, ribs, swt,
and trussed fowl: d db nbs t-nbs w
(5)persea fruit, figs, zizyphus,67 loaf of zizyphus,68 carob bean,69
11
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(6)rp tt
(6)wine, milk,
The Linen List
12
13
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61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
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14
(13)sr/mt-nfrt/72
(14)t psw mnw sfw

(13)sesher-linen/fine linen/aa-linen: (14)(sesher-linen): a thousand of
100 (cubits wide), a thousand of 90 (cubits wide), a thousand of 80
(cubits wide), a thousand of 70 (cubits wide),
15
TTTT TTT
he traces of the determinative suggest that perhaps bread is wanted here.

T
Other alternatives include knw, oil, or nkt offerings. Weill, Des monuments
et de lhistoire des IIe et IIIe dynasties, p.240, suggests either nt beer (but
this word occurs further below in the list), or wt, following the linen list of
Khabausokar, Egyptian Museum, Cairo, CG1385; Murray, Saqqara Mastabas,
pl.1; Borchardt, Denkmler des Alten Reiches1, pp. 4447, pl. 10; Smith,
HESPOK, pl.36a (detail); Kahl, Kloth, and Zimmermann, Die Inschriften der
3. Dynastie, pp.18893.
The s
sign of msdmt is extremely damaged, and resembles an .
Weill, Des monuments et de lhistoire des IIe et IIIe dynasties, p.240, suggests
T ?; while Junker, Gza2, p.84 has O Y. The word is left as uncertain by
L. Sist, Museo Barracco, p.21 with n.2.
This item occurs elsewhere in Cemeteryg2100 in the reused tablet of Tjenti,
Cairo JE72135, line 5; see Manuelian, Giza Mastabas8, Part2, mastaba g2113,
and idem, Unfinished Business: The Giza Tablet of Tjenti (JE 72135), in
Egyptian Museum Collections around the World, p.784 (5).
F
or the reading bw-r (instead of w-r), see De Meulenaere, Supplement to
BIFAO81 (1981), pp.8789; Dorman, A Note on the Royal Repast at the
Jubilee of Amenhotep III, in Hommages Jean Leclant1, pp.45570; Fischer,
Varia Nova, pp.33(h), 182 and n.62. For the translation a loaf and jug, see
Fischer, Varia, pp.1617. For a more abbreviated spelling of this item, see
Simpson, Kayemnofret, p.13 (no.19), oversize line drawingD.
N
ote the reversal of the . For friendly beer see Hannig, gyptisches
WrterbuchI, p.845 [20998].
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ompare ft n ns (g2370, Senedjemib Inti); Brovarski, The Senedjemib
Complex, p.80, no.(24.)
S impson, Kayemnofret, p.13 (no.25), oversize line drawingD.
A
lternatively, nabq-fruit; see Emery, Hemaka, p.52.
A
lternatively, cake of nabq-fruit; see note above.
A
lternatively, earth almonds; see Edel, Qubbet el HawaII/1/2, p.22; Germer,
Flora, pp.24546.
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(12)dm fdw snw , w szf

(12)idemy-linen, a thousand of 4 (cubits wide), a thousand of 2 (cubits
wide), a thousand of 1 (cubit wide), a thousand of width sezef, 71
(7)spt p[]
(7)sekhepet-drink, p[ekha]-drink,
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(11)nt t mnt s
(11)a thousand jars of beer, a thousand loaves of bread, a thousand
pieces of cloth, a thousand alabaster vessels.
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(9)tw st t (st) wt t nb(t) bnrt rnpw(t) nbt

(9)shatu-bread, white 6-row barley,70 green 6-row barley, everything
sweet, all kinds of vegetables,
(4)srt nt-nms64 n[s]--ft ns-ww-bw swt b bd nr(w) 2

(4)ale, friendly beer, serving of bread,65 food: a ns-loaf and a jug,66
sut-meat, container of cold water, natron, neheru-bread, 2 loaves,
F @
(8)prepared grain, khenfu-bread, 2, hebnenut-bread, 2, setjet-bread,
(15)ssw , dw , fdw , mtw

(15)(fine linen): a thousand of 60 (cubits wide), a thousand of 50
(cubits wide), a thousand of 4 (cubits wide), a thousand of 3 (cubits
wide),
16
O T
TTT 2
(16)snw , w , szf , r73
70
71
72
73
Edel, Qubbet el HawaII/1/2, p.25 [16].

For an alternative reading, arguing for a redundant s at the the beginning
of the word, cf. J. Kahl, Das System der gyptischen Hieroglyphenschrift in der
0.3. Dynastie, pp. 6670 (zf, Stoff mit bekannten Abmessungen). See also
P. Posener-Kriger, Les Mesure des toffes lancien empire, RdE29 (1977),
p.94; and Junker, Gza1, p.31.
The heading for these three different types of linen are grouped together in
one register, but I have interpreted the following three registers of quantities as
referring to a single linen type sr, mt-nfrt and respectively.
This broken word is omitted from Scheele, Die Stofflisten, but is mentioned briefly
by W.S. Smith, The Old Kingdom Linen List, ZS71 (1935), pp.142, 147.
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(16)(aa-linen): a thousand of 2 (cubits wide), a thousand of 1 (cubit

wide), a thousand of width sezef, a thousand of width her,
17
T?
(17)t mw t M bdt swt

(17)Upper Egyptian barley, grain of Lower Egypt, emmer, wheat,
18
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(18)b d(w)w bnrwt w

(18)malt, meal,74 dates, carob beans.75
Lower Lintel
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(19)my-[r] s prw my-r pr- Nfr

(19)Over[seer] of scribes of the regiments, overseer of the treasury,
Nefer.
The Reserve Head (figs.6.906.100). Nefers reserve head, one of

the earliest to be found, was excavated at the bottom of shafta during
Lythgoes 19051906 season. It appears in the excavation photographs
to be surrounded by fragments of limestone sarcophagus lid lugs
(fig.6.39). One of the earliest descriptions of the head, written by
Oric Bates, appears in the published Annual Report of the Museum of
Fine Arts for 1906. While its hyperbole provides a somewhat quaint
period piece, it nevertheless indicates how significant an acquisition
the reserve head was for the Museum of Fine Arts in this nascent
phase of building its Giza collection:
7. Portrait head of an unknown man, in limestone. DynastyIV.
Life size. This is pobably the most important piece of Egyptian
sculpture in America. It represents a vigorous man in the prime
of life. The face is rather thin, with a strong nose and chin,
high cheek-bones, large eyes, and a fine forehead. There is an
aristocratic poise to the whole head, which is thrown a trifle back,
not in self-conscious pride, but with an unthinking dominance.
The mouth is good and clean-lipped. The whole work is a forceful
and energetic piece of realism.
The examples of these heads can be numbered on the fingers
of one hand. There are one or two in Egypt, and the Deutsche
Gesellschaft excavated one in (or about) 1903.76 The example in
the Museum is in almost perfect condition: the Egyptian artist
himself filled out part of the upper lip in plaster, either because
of a flaw in the stone, or because he broke it in the cutting. It is
probable that the nose was finished in the same way, as it has now
the appearance of having been shaved down, possibly to prepare
a surface for the plaster. The ears are somewhat battered,in a
74
75
76
f. Hannig, gyptisches WrterbuchI, p.1483 {39350}; D. Faltings, b und

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zwtzwei ungeklrte Begriffe der Getreidewirtschaft im AR, GM148 (1995),
pp.3544. For a Giza parallel, see the Western Cemetery tomb of Nefri, AbuBakr, Excavations at Giza 19491950, p.52, fig.38, pl.31.
Alternatively, earth almonds; see Edel, Qubbet el HawaII/1/2, p.22; Germer,
Flora, pp.24546.
This is the reserve head of Kahetep, found by Borchardt at Abusir; gyptisches
Museum Berlin16455; cf. Tefnin, Art et Magie, pp.9899, pls.2ad; Wildung,
Technologische Bemerkungen zur Kunst des Alten Reiches. Neue Fakten zu
den Ersatzkpfen, in Les critres de datation, pp.399406. Note that Batess
report predates the discovery of the majority of reserve heads at Giza, hence his
reference to counting them on the fingers of one hand.
way, however, that suggests that they too may have been treated
like the upper lip. Height, 27.4cms.77
The head tilts back slightly, and the angle between the neck (in
profile) and the underlying jaw bone is about 110 degrees. The
surface is relatively flat at the top of the head, while the skull widens
laterally toward the back. The back of the skull curves symmetrically
downwards towards the back of the neck. A scratched, uneven
incision divides the skull, beginning roughly at the top of the crown
and continuing, with some interruptions, all the way to the base.
Viewed from the front, the face is compact, long but not particularly
wide; it forms a U as it fans out upwards towards the top of the head.
Both ears appear rather neatly cut off, as if sliced with a knife;
viewed from the front, one can just make out the jagged protrusions
of the remains. Whether they were carved or modeled in plaster is
not clear. On the proper left ear, two holes survive to penetrate just
into the head where the normal ear cavity would appear. These holes
are less evident on the proper right ear.
An incised hairline separates the face below from the scalp,
but appears jagged and unfinished in places. It is much thicker
and rougher on Nefers right side, above the proper right eye. It
is possible that a thin coat of plaster was added to the scalp just
above the hairline, more pronounced on the proper left side. On
the proper right side, a slightly raised area suggests that the hairline
might originally have been intended to start at a lower level. The
hairline curves down on either side towards the ears to form raised
relief (sharply edged; not rounded) sideburns. However, a change
of design is visible here, as the original cut protruded closer to the
cheeks and further down the face. This first cut is more advanced on
the proper right side, but both sides show the abandonment of the
cut in favor of shorter, smaller, and rounder sideburns set closer to
the ears. This feature is unique to this reserve head, but the closest
parallels to such rough sideburn alterations occur on the heads from
g4940b (MFA 21.329; Tefnin, Art et Magie, pls. 9d and 10b), from
g4640a (Cairo JE46216; ibid., pl.16cd), and from west of g4160
(Hildesheim 2158; ibid., pl.24bc). On the proper right side the
hairline continues up around and down beyond the ear before fading
out altogether. The cut here never progresses up and around the ear.
Other reserve heads show this cut proceeding down around the back
of the head and delineating the base of the hairline at the nape of
the neck (see, for example, the head from g1203a, Berkeley, Hearst
Museum 619767, ibid., pl.1a, d), but in Nefers case no hairline
traces at all are visible from a rear view.
The forehead continues in the same sloping plane as the hair
above it. The change of plane begins at the level of the eyebrows,
which are little more than incised lines around a raised surface, but
do show some plasticity. They are fairly symmetrical in composition.
Each brow shows a combination of rounded curves and sharpened
corners at the bulbous inner ends, towards the bridge of the nose,
and at the tapering, pointed outer ends, which extend farther
outward towards the ears than do the eyes below. A small chip is
missing at the tip of the left eyebrow. A change of plane below the
eyebrows begins the descent into the eye sockets, but a solid space
remains between the eyebrows and the tops of the eyelids.
There is no attempt to show the ocular portion of the eyelids.
The orbital part is an incised line on top of the eye that forms a ridge
77
ates, Report of the Department of Egyptian Art, in Museum of Fine Arts,

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Boston Thirty-first Annual Report for the Year 1906, pp.7576, no.7.
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with the rest of the lid. The lids occupy a much higher plane than
the actual eyeballs. The eyes are slightly large, horizontal, straight,
and widely spaced to make room for the bridge of the nose. The
orbital over the right eye is mostly invisible; it was either never
finished or covered over with plaster. The eyes appear set high, quite
deeply depressed at the sides of the nose. The left eye is slightly
higher than the right. Both eyes show long inner canthi pointing
downwards towards the nose. The outer canthi are more squeezed
and pointed than their inner counterparts. No trace of cornea or
pupil is preserved. The eyes fail to bulge as they do on some other
reserve heads (such as the head from g4440a, MFA 14.719, ibid.,
pl.8bc) because the area beneath the sockets is not as recessed as
on other examples.
The flat and very long cheekbones protrude to their highest
point about 3cm beneath the eyes and are very widely spaced. They
continue without transition down the long chin.
Nefers nose is the dominant feature of his face. At the top,
above the bridge, the area between the eyebrows forms a triangular
space in a different, more vertical plan from that of the forehead. The
front of the nose has been planed down in differentiated levels with
no attempt to soften or round the resulting flatness.78 The drilled
nostrils are very large and oval-shaped, forming curved hollows up
and back into the face. Their large size and diagonal placement give
a flared effect. The outer tops of the nostrils are differentiated from
the rest of the nose by a cut and by sanding down of the area above
the cut line. If not planed down, the nose would have protruded out
of all proportion to the rest of the face.
The area between the nose and upper lip has been covered with
plaster, some of which has likewise been applied to the upper lip.
As a result, there is no distinct change of plane or ridge line to the
upper lip itself. The plaster forms a rising surface on either side of
the well-delineated philtrum. The corners of the mouth are drilled
and rounded; the sharpest ridge belongs to the lower lip line, which
protrudes far out in front of the recessed area beneath it, leading
down to the chin. The lips form a sort of neutral frown, but are
asymmetrical; the center of the lower lip is placed further to Nefers
proper left side. Both lips are of ample size, and somewhat fleshy,
with the upper lip the larger of the two.
The area beneath the lips bears no particular detail. The chin
appears prematurely blunted in comparison to the mouth and nose.
It is broad, soft, and rounded with no visible central point. The
absence of a prominent chin lends a slightly flabby look to the jaw
and neck below. Viewed in profile, only a gradual change of plane
indicates the transition from jaw bone to neck proper. The head
preserves no traces of polychromy.
Tefnins volume eliminates the reserve heads in general from the
realm of veristic, realistic portrait sculpture, citing them as ritualistic
objects.79 He notes the supposedly intentional mutilation of

the heads as part of the funerary ritual. The frequently cited
resemblance of Nefers nose on the reserve head is not similar in
style, according to Tefnin, to the south jamb relief of Nefer, but is
rather an afterthought, since the reserve head nose was planed down.
But we might ask why we should not regard the reserve head as
unifinished, and the planed-down nose as an attempt to match more
closely the special nose of the south jamb relief? And if mutilation
was so important, why are there scratches only? Why is the nose
not completely broken off, or the eyes gouged out, to definitively
kill the figure (if that was the intention)? As for damaged ears,
being modeled in plaster, could they not simply have fallen off
in most cases? In the last analysis, one cannot deny the extremely
individualistic features of the reserve heads. There is of course no
way to prove if Nefers face actually resembled his reserve head,
but there is definitely an attempt at uniqueness, different from any
standardized imitation of the prevalent royal style, or generic face,
as is so often seen in the wall reliefs. By way of comparison between
Nefers three-dimensional reserve head (figs.6.906.100) and his five
two-dimensional relief portraits in the chapel, figs.6.85 through 6.89
provide detail views of the latter (along with two portraits of his wife
Wenankhes, figs.6.1016.102). As noted above in the description of
the standing relief figure of Nefer from the north entrance jamb,
for all the comparisons made in the literature between that face and
Nefers reserve head, there are four other two-dimensional images of
this man carved in a much more generic style.
Recent publications have suggested the discovery of an
additional reserve head from Giza,80 and discussed the art historical
intentions inherent in the sculptures. For example, F. Junge prefers
to see the heads as sculptors experiments in physiognomy
intentionally resembling individual likenessesculminating perhaps
in the famous bust of Ankh-haf,81 while Assmann emphasizes their
role in functional self-preservation.82 Bolshakov has attempted to
build on Tefnins emphasis on the intentional damage to the heads.83
He takes the objects as substitutes for statues and superstructure
79
80
81
82
78
S ee discussion above on the comparison of the nose of Nefers reserve head

(figs. 6.93, 6.97) with the relief nose carved on the north entrance thickness
(fig.6.50 and frontispiece).
83
efnin, Art et Magie, pl.3 for Nefer, MFA 06.1886, with a shorter summary
T
by the same author in Reserve Heads, in D.B. Redford, ed., The Oxford
Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt3, pp.14547. Tefnins monograph has been
reviewed by P. Jnosi in OLZ88 (1993), cols.49296. On reserve heads in
general from the Western Cemetery, see also H. Schmidt, Zur Determination
und Ikonographie der sogenannten Ersatzkpfe. SAK18 (1991), pp.33148.
H. Junker, Vorbericht 1914, pp.3336; N.B. Millet, The Reserve heads of
the Old Kingdom, in Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean and the Sudan (Fs
Dunham), pp.12931. More recent comments are provided by P. Lacovara, The
Riddle of the Reserve Heads, KMT 8, no. 4 (Winter 199798), pp.2836; and
D. Wildung, Technologische Bemerkungen zur Kunst des Alten Reiches. Neue
Fakten zu den Ersatzkpfen, in Les critres de datation, pp.399406; and M.
Nuzzolo, The Reserve Heads: some remarks on their function and meaning,
paper presented at the Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology conference,
Cambridge, England, 2023 May 2009 (forthcoming).
Z
. Hawass, A Group of Unique Statues Discovered at Giza II. An Unfinished
Reserve Head and a Statuette of an Overseer, in Kunst des Alten Reiches,
pp.97101. It is more likely that this head comes from a typical Egyptian statue.
F. Junge, Hem-iunu, Anch-ha-ef und die sog. Ersatzkfpe, in Kunst des Alten
Reiches, pp.103109, esp. p.104, pl. 36ab.
J. Assmann, Preservation and Presentation of Self in Ancient Egyptian
Portraiture, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson1, pp.5581. Cf. also
W. Kaiser, Zur Bste als einer Darstellungsform gyptischer Rundplastik,
MDAIK 46 (1990), pp.26985.
A. Bolshakov, New Observations on the Function of the so-called Reserve
Heads, in Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, pp.2123. I am
grateful to the author for sharing his then-unpublished manuscript with me.
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wall decoration that had disappeared during the evolution of private

tomb construction from Meidum and Dahshur to Giza. The heads
were placed in the burial shafts, but sealed off from the actual burial,
so as not to inflict any damage on the mummy. Bolshakov draws
analogies between the severed heads of horned vipers in inscriptions,
and the severed reserve heads. As for the damage, he ascribes broken
ears (causing deafness) and occipital scratches (causing blindness)
to ritually rendering the figures even less harmful to the deceased.
His weakest point rests with the occipital scratches, a rather indirect
method of causing blindness, for he feels the Egyptians had too
much respect for the eyes proper to simply gauge them out. Most
recently, N. Picardo discusses reserve heads in association with the
Egyptian fear of decapitation, and Old Kingdom early conceptions
of the non-royal ba.84

Titles of Nefer
m(w) r nbf (r nb), revered under his lord (every day)

my-r pr-, overseer of the weapons house
my-r pr-, overseer of the treasury
my-r prwy-, overseer of the double treasury
my-r krt-nswt nb, overseer of every royal ornamented
my-r s nswt, overseer of royal document scribes
my-r s prw, overseer of scribes of the regiments
my-r s ry- nswt, overseer of scribes of the portfolios of the king
my-r st f(w), overseer of the double storehouse of provisions
[rr?] mrr nbf, [who does what] his lord loves
wr mw mw, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt
mry nbf, beloved of his lord
r nswt, royal acquaintance (originally ry-t nswt, keeper of the kings
property)
ry-st nswt m swt nb, keeper of the secrets of the king in every place
wt, chief of the estate
rp pr(w) nfr(w), controller of regiments of recruits
sb nt rw, tally man of the judiciary
s pr-, scribe of the palace
Family
wife: Wn-ns, Wenankhes85

mtrt, miteret
rt nswt, royal acquaintance
Other People86
r, Ari
84
85
86
. Picardo, Semantic Homicide and the So-called Reserve Heads: The Theme
N
of Decapitation in Egyptian Funerary Religion and Some Implications for the
Old Kingdom, JARCE 43 (2007), pp. 22152. For additional recent studies,
see also N. Tacke, Die Entwicklung der Mumienmaske im Alten Reich,
MDAIK52 (1996), pp.30736; and D. Bisping Die sogenannten ,Ersatz- bzw.
Portrtkpfe des gyptischen Alten Reiches: Gegenstand, Terminologie, Stand der
Forschung, Ausblick, unpublished Masters thesis, Humboldt-Universitt zu
Berlin (Berlin 2001).
Note that Reisner, GN1, p.422, originally misreconstructed this name to read
Meresankh, associating Nefers wife with the Meresankh in the nearby tomb of
Kanefer (g2150). There is therefore no reason to associate the family of Nefer
(g2110) with that of Kanefer (g2150), as has been done in the literature (see
references above).
For the scribes listed in the tomb, see Piacentini, Les scribes, pp.9699.
y-mry, Iymery
pr, Iperi
n, Ankh
[rp?] s, [controller] of the dining hall(?)
Wn, Weni
s pr ry-wb, scribe of the house of reversion offerings
Wnw, Wenu
Wn-kf, Wenkaef
Prsn, Persen
Mwt, (offering basin from g2110r, 3822), Muti
Ms, Mesi
Nfrw, Nefru
s, scribe
Nfrw-ns, Nefru Junior
s, scribe
Nfrmkt, Nefermeket
Nfrmm, Nefershemem
Nntn, Nenteni
Rr, Reri
sm, butcher
w-n-pt, Khuenptah
nty-kwf, Khentykauef
s, scribe
Snnwk Kk, (owner of g 2041), Senenuka Keki
my-r t-wfw, overseer of the pyramid town Akhet-Khufu (g 2041)
my-r kt, overseer of construction projects (g 2041)
-mr, district administrator (g 2041)
mr grgt, district administrator of the foundation (g 2041)
r nswt, royal acquaintance (g 2041)
rp wb nswt, controller of royal wab-priests (g 2041)
s, scribe (g 2110)
s nswt, royal document scribe (g 2041)
Smw, Seshemu
sm, butcher
K()-rr, Kairer
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Fig. 6.1. G2110, chapel, looking northwest. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c883 [=c12497].
Fig. 6.2. G 2110, chapel, looking northwest. November 21, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.107.37.
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G 2113
D
C
Z
Y
C D
G 2112
G 2112b A
B
A G 2112a
X
A
A
X
G 2112c
G
H
G 2114
B
X
F
G
G 2105
10 m
N M
G 2110
C D
G 2111
Unex
A B
C
G 2115
X
Fig. 6.3. G2110, plan.
G 2210
G 2130
X G 2051
W
U
Z
X
141 A
G 2142
B A
E
C
G 2150
XA
D B C
C
D
G 2134
G 2137
A
O
G 2220
N
C G 2136
2138 Melnikoff;
Fig. 6.4. Plan of the subsidiary shafts lining the west face of g2110, along with g20512054 further to the west. Drawing byG
Nicholas
164
B
A
redrawn by Ruth Traced
Bigio. by Nicholas Melnikoff; compare Arabic Diary vol. 33, p. 2856 = English translation p. 605
D
b
B
G 2144
G 2151
A
G 2139
A
C G 2152
B
A G 2153
B G 2161
E G 2162
G
F GM8.1.indb
Unex
G 2053
G 2133
Y Z
A C
G 2054
GC2132
G 2134a X
G 2052
A B
G 2143
X
C
G 2131
C
B
X
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G 2156
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Fig. 6.5. G2110, west and south faces, looking northeast. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b775 [=b7431].
Fig. 6.6. G2110, recleared door socket zones inside chapel entrance,
looking east. November 27, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.119.05.
Fig. 6.7. G2110, south side of chapel entrance, north door socket hole with
basalt stone at the bottom, looking south. November 27, 1993.
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Fig.6.8. Computer reconstruction of g2110, looking southwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.6.9. Computer reconstruction of g2110, looking southeast. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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unnumbered
0
10 cm

unnumbered
0
10 cm
unnumbered
0
10 cm
10 cm
1:5 or 20% scale

Fig. 6.10. 36123, photograph (May18, 2006) and line drawing of
fragment of limestone relief from g2110. Museum of Fine Arts, sc172649.
r 20% scale
10 cm
Fig. 6.11. 3821, fragment of limestone relief

from g2110, redrawn from sketch in HUMFA
Expedition Object Register, vol.29, p.1,482.
10 cm
Fig. 6.12. 3823, relief fragment, redrawn from

sketch in HUMFA Expedition Object Register,
vol.29, p. 1,482.
10 cm
Fig. 6.13. Photograph and line drawing of unnumbered fragment of limestone relief from g2110, west wall. July8, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, b8335 (detail).
167
unnumbered
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0
0
10 cm
unnumbered
10 cm
unnumbered
0
10 cm
10 cm
Fig. 6.14. Photograph and drawing of two

unnumbered fragments of limestone relief from
g2110. July8, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
0
10 cm
unnumbered
0
10 cm
10 cm
unnumbered
0
unnumbered
unnumbered
10 cm
10 cm
10 cm
unnumbered
unnumbered
0
unnumbered
0
10 cm
unnumbered
0
0
5 drawing
10 cm
Fig.unnumbered
6.15. Photograph
and
of unnumbered fragment of
limestone
relief
from
g2110.
July8,
1933. HUMFA Expedition
10 cm
unnumbered
10 cm
10 cm
Fig. 6.16. Photograph and drawing of unnumbered

fragment of limestone relief from g2110. July8, 1933.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, b8335 (detail).
unnumbered
10 cm
10 cm
unnumbered
0
unnumbered
10 cm
10 cm
unnumbered
0
10
10 cm
0
5
cm
Fig. 6.17. Photograph
and 10
drawing
of unnumbered fragment of
limestone relief from g2110. July8, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
cm
0
0
10 cm
10 cm
1:5 or 20% scale
168
1:5 or 20% scale

0
10 cm
10 cm
1:5 or 20% scale

0
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10 cm
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PDM
10 cm
Fig. 6.18. 3822, photograph and line drawing of offering basin of Muti from g2110r. April 3, 1938.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammdani Ibrahim, b8948 (detail).
30% scale
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Fig. 6.19. G2110, view of street and chapel, from the top of the mastaba core, looking east. November 20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.095.19.
Fig. 6.20. View of street between g2110 (right, west) and g2130 (left,
east), looking south towards the Khafre pyramid. 19051906. HUMFA
Fig. 6.21. G2110, northwest corner and west facade, looking southeast.
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Fig. 6.22. Constricted passage between g2110 (left, west) and g2130 (right,
east), looking north. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, c862 [=c12475].
Fig.6.23. Foundation blocks supporting the chapel of g2110, looking

south through the constricted passage between g2110 (right, west),
and g2130 (left, east). November 15, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.076.04.
Fig. 6.24. G2110, section, looking

south, showing the constricted passage
between g2110 and g2130. Drawing by
Alexander Floroff, April 13, 1938; redrawn
by Ruth Bigio.
shaft
A
G 2110
G 2130
Chapel of Nefer
shaft
A
10
A. Floroff, April 13, 1938
Fill
Fill
10 m
Base Line
Fig. 6.25. G2110, section,

looking north; after Reisner, GN1,
fig.
240; North
redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
Section p.423,
W-E
Looking
G 2110
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Fig. 6.26. G 2110, space between the core and casing along the east face,
looking north. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b887 [=b7439].
Fig. 6.27. G 2110, space between the core and casing along the east face,
looking south. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b953 [=b7438]
Fig. 6.28. HUMFA Expedition Object Register, vol. 29, detail of p.1,482, with entries for relief fragments 3821, 3823, and offering basin of Muti,
3822 (housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
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Fig. 6.29. Detail of HUMFA Expedition note card, written by Mahmoud

Said Diraz, listing inscribed objects from g2110, including the relief
fragment 3823.
Fig. 6.30. G 2110, north niche, looking west. November 20, 1993. Peter Der
Fig. 6.31. G 2110, east face, north half with north niche, looking northwest.
[=c12512].
205 Gredrawn
2110
Fig. 6.32. G 2110, plan of northFig.
niche;
by Ruth Bigio.
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m
11.05 m
Fig. 6.35. G 2110a, mouth of the shaft, looking east. March12, 1993. Peter
Section AB
N
Plan
G 2110 A
Fig. 6.33. G 2110 a, planFig.
and22
section.
Fig.6.36. Computer reconstruction of g2110 a, looking northwest down
into the shaft, with reserve head of Nefer (MFA 06.1886) at the bottom.
Fig.6.34. Computer reconstruction of g2110, looking west and showing

the relationship of the burial shaft to the superstructure. Courtesy Dassault
Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 6.37. G 2110a, view down the stone-lined shaft, with miscellaneous
unidentified limestone blocks in view, looking south. 19051906. HU
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Fig. 6.38. G 2110a, bottom of shaft, with sawn-off sarcophagus lid lug
handles just visible in the upper right (southwest) corner (see image
below); reserve head not yet revealed; looking south. 19051906. HUMFA
Fig. 6.41. G 2110u, plastered door blocking, looking east. February5, 1938.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, b8932.
Fig. 6.39. G 2110a, shaft bottom with view of sawn-off sarcophagus lid lug
handles and reserve head (MFA06.1886), looking south (based on c1533).
[=c12524].
Fig. 6.42. G 2110u, burial (skeleton, 3829) in chamber, looking east.

February17, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, c14121.
Fig. 6.40. G 2110, intrusive burial inside the chapel, by the north wall,
looking north. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, c1646 [=c12506].
Fig. 6.43. G 2110, unidentified shaft. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition

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Fig.6.44. Computer reconstruction of the exterior stone chapel of g2110, looking northwest towards the north entrance thickness (MFA 07.1002).
Fig. 6.45. MFA 21.3080, limestone entrance drum of a man named Nefer (not the owner of g2110), found in g1461. February6, 2002.
Museum of Fine Arts, CR6572-d1.
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Fig. 6.46. University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, E13531, limestone entrance drum of Nefer, found in g3015a but most likely originally from
g2110a. Courtesy University of Pennsylvania Museum, 31293.
Fig. 6.47. University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, E13531, limestone entrance drum of Nefer. May27, 2009. Jennifer Houser Wegner. Courtesy
University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Fig. 6.48. University of Pennsylvania Museum,

Philadelphia, E13531, limestone entrance drum
of Nefer, detail of inscription. May27, 2009.
Jennifer Houser Wegner. Courtesy University of
Pennsylvania Museum.
PDM
10
cm
1:2 or 50% scale
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Fig. 6.49. Uncollated drawing of limestone

entrance drum of Nefer, University of
Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, E13531.
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Fig. 6.50. MFA 07.1002, from g2110, north entrance thickness. Museum of Fine Arts, E14211CR_d1.
Fig. 6.51. MFA 07.1002, from
g2110, north entrance thickness,
face of Neferu. 1999. Peter Der
Manuelian, PDM_1999.210.01.
Fig. 6.52. MFA 07.1002, from

face of Weni. 1999. Peter Der
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Fig. 6.53. Drawing of MFA 07.1002, from g2110, north entrance thickness.
Fig. 6.54. MFA 07.1002,

from g2110, north entrance
thickness, face of Khentykauef.
1999. Peter Der Manuelian,
PDM_1999.210.03.
10
10
cm
cm
Fig. 6.55. MFA 07.1002, from

face of Senenuka. 1999. Peter Der
PDM
PDM
(1:5)
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Fig. 6.56. Muse du Louvre, Paris B151, from g2110, south entrance thickness. January12,2008. Christian Dcamps. Courtesy Runion de Muses
Nationaux, cd020738 (02 dae 1099 nuca).
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Fig. 6.57. Drawing of Muse du Louvre, Paris B151, from g2110, south entrance thickness.
0
0
5
5
10
10
cm
cm
PDM
PDM
G 2110 Nefer, south jamb, Louvre B 51. Ziegler: h. 95.5 cm; w.

cm (without cement backing; est. total
thickness: 27 cm)
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Fig. 6.58. G 2110, chapel, east wall, north half, standing figures of Nefer and Wenankhes, looking east. August8, 1930.
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Fig. 6.59. G 2110, chapel, east wall, south half, scribes and offering bearers. Copenhagen IN937. May 2009. Ole Haupt/Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek.
Fig. 6.60. G 2110, chapel, east wall, digital montage of preserved relief on wall, aaw554 (Brian Snyder, April25, 1999), and relief fragment, Copenhagen IN937,
pdm_1993.138.15 (Peter Der Manuelian, July14, 1991).
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Fig. 6.61. Drawing of g2110, chapel, east wall.
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Fig. 6.62. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2110, east and south walls.
10
cm
PDM
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Fig. 6.63. MFA 31.780, from g2110, chapel, south wall, upper half. May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00699.
Fig. 6.64. G 2110, south wall, lower half, looking south, August 29, 1937. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8862.
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Fig. 6.65. G 2110, chapel, south wall, looking south. Digital montage of HUMFA Expedition photographs. Mohammedani Ibrahim, a5751
(July23, 1930) and b8777 (detail) (January17, 1937).
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MFA 31.780
Giza, in situ
Fig. 6.66. Drawing of g2110, south wall.
188
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10
cm
PDM
7/22/09 10:53 PM
Fig. 6.67. G 2110, chapel, west wall, south half, looking west. November21, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.108.12.
Fig. 6.68. G2110, chapel, west wall, detail of slaughter scene still in situ
(adjoins Copenhagen relief IN819), looking west. January7, 2004. Peter
Der Manuelian, pdm_00179.
Fig. 6.69. G 2110, chapel, general view of west wall

from above, looking south. November20, 1993. Peter
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Fig. 6.70. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2110, looking south towards the south wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 6.71. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2110, looking southwest towards the south and west walls. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig. 6.72. G 2110, chapel, west wall, south half, looking west. July 23, 1930. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
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Fig. 6.73. Birmingham 241/57, from g2110, chapel, west wall, south half,
raised-relief fragment preserving part of the only attestation of the name of
Nefers wife, Wenankhes. Courtesy Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.
Fig. 6.74. G 2110, chapel, digital montage of the west wall, composed from pdm_1993.108.1112 (by Peter Der Manuelian, November 21, 1993), unnumbered
fragment (by Mohammedani Ibrahim, July28, 1933, HUMFA Expedition photograph, b8335), Birmingham 241/57 (courtesy Birmingham Museums and
Art Gallery), Copenhagen IN819 (pdm_1993.138.1718, July14, 1991), and Museo Barracco, Rome C.M.B. 1 (by Dahi Ahmed, June4, 1938, HUMFA
Expedition photograph, a8032).
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Fig. 6.75. G 2110, west wall, central portion, digital montage of Copenhagen IN819 (May, 2009) and lower right fragment still in situ (pdm_1999.011.03;
April25, 1999). Photographs by Ole Haupt/Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, and Peter Der Manuelian.
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Fig. 6.76. Museo Barracco, Rome C.M.B.1, from g2110, chapel, west wall, north half, false door tablet. Rephotograph of Alinari photograph. June 4, 1938.
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Museo Barracco C.M.B. 1
MFA, unnumbered
Birmingham 241/57
Copenhagen AEIN 819
61.5 cm to left
vertical edge of block
Copenhagen AEIN 819
35 cm to ground
27.6 cm to
G 2110, in situ
right vertical edge
of block
35.9 cm to bottom
edge of block
10 cm
PDM
G 2110, in situ
Fig. 6.77. G2110, chapel, reduced overview line drawing of entire west wall.
Fig. 6.78. Museo Barracco, Rome C.M.B.1, from g2110, chapel, west
wall, north half, false door tablet (detail). Photograph by G. Galazka,
courtesy Museo Barracco.
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Fig. 6.79. G 2110, chapel, west wall, north half, looking west. Museum Barracco C.M.B.1 derives from the top of the niche (location of meter stick).
Fig. 6.80. G 2110, chapel, undecorated north wall, looking north. March 3, 1993.
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Fig. 6.81. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2110, looking west towards the west wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig. 6.82. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2110, looking north towards the (undecorated) north wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
197
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MFA, unnumbered
Birmingham 241/57
198
Fig. 6.83. Drawing of g2110, chapel, west wall.
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Copenhagen AEIN 819
199
61.5 cm to left
vertical edge of block
Copenhagen AEIN 819
35 cm to ground
27.6 cm to
G 2110, in situ
right vertical edge
of block
35.9 cm to bottom
edge of block
10 cm
PDM
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10 cm
PDM
Fig. 6.84. Drawing of g2110, chapel, west wall, false door tablet.
1:5 or 20% scale
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Fig. 6.85. MFA 07.1002, from g2110, chapel, detail of north entrance
thickness. Museum of Fine Arts, CR7351_d1.
Fig. 6.86. Muse du Louvre, Paris B151, from g2110, chapel, detail of south
entrance thickness. Courtesy Runion des Muses Nationaux.
Fig. 6.87. MFA 31.780, from g2110, chapel, detail of south wall, upper
half. November1, 1937. Museum of Fine Arts, c8105.
Fig. 6.88. G 2110, west wall, south half, detail. November21, 1993. Peter
Fig. 6.89. G 2110, west wall, detail of Nefers face from false door tablet,
Museo Barracco, Rome C.M.B1. pdm_1993.133.01.
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Fig. 6.90. MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a. April7, 2003. Museum of Fine Arts, sc62136 [e7175cr-d1].
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Fig. 6.91. MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a, 3/4 view
Fig. 6.93. MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a, profile proper
right. 1991. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.138.09.
left. 1991. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.138.07.
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proper right. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b884 [=b7441].
proper left. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe,
b878 [=b7440].
right. February 1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe,
b1588 [=b7865].
right. February 1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe,
b1584 [=b7861].
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Fig. 6.99. MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a, back.
Museum of Fine Arts, c17895.
Fig. 6.100. MFA 06.1886, reserve head of Nefer from g2110a, back. 1991.
pdm_1993.138.08.
Fig. 6.101. G 2110, west wall, south half, detail of Wenankhes.

Fig. 6.102. MFA 31.780, from g2110, chapel, south wall, upper half, detail
of Wenankhes. November1, 1937. Museum of Fine Arts, c8105.
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Section
Section
N
Plan
Plan
0
Fig. 6.103. G 2110m, plan and section.

G 2110 M
Fig. 6.104. G 2110 n, plan and section.

G 2110 N
Section
Section
N
Plan
0
Fig. 6.105. G 2110 o, plan and section.

G 2110 O
Plan
Fig. 6.106. G 2110 p, plan

and section.
G 2110
P
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Section
Section
Section
N
Plan
0
Plan
Fig. 6.107. G 2110 q, plan and section.

G 2110 Q
Plan
Fig. 6.108. G 2110 r, plan and section.
Fig. 6.109. G 2110 s, plan and section.

G 2110 S
G 2110 R
Section
N
Section
N
Section
N
Plan
Plan
0
1
Fig. 6.110. G 2110 t, plan and section.

G 2110 T
Fig. 6.111. G 2110

2110u,Uplan and section.
0
Plan
Fig. 6.112. G 2110 v, plan and section.

G 2110 V
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Section
N
Section
Section
Plan
Fig. 6.115.
2110Yy, plan and section.
GG
2110
0
Plan
Fig. 6.113. G 2110Gw,

planW
and section.
2110
Plan
Fig. 6.114. G 2110 x, plan and section.

G 2110 X
Section
Plan
0
Fig. 6.116. G 2110 z, plan and section.

G 2110 Z
Fig. 6.117. General view of subsidiary shafts along the
west face of g2110, including shafts w, x, y, and z,
looking south towards the Khafre pyramid. January
1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b1549 (detail).
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Chapter 7. The tomb of Seshatsekhentiu: Mastaba g2120
Chapter 7
THE TOMB OF
SESHATSEKHENTIU:
Mastaba g 2120
Mastaba:1 core of typeIIa; 28.0 x 12.4m


average height of stepped courses of drab retaining wall 0.30m

height of mastaba as preserved 4.55m
Casing: white limestone (partly y-masonry) begun but left unfinished

size of unfinished mastaba of type IXy; 30.4 x 14.8m


lower courses of casing traced on south around southwest corner

and on east behind chapel and northwards; partly

preserved on north end and west

monolithic stela was in place in the west wall of the chapel
Chapel: emplacement for a slab stela at 6.45m from southeast corner of

east face of core-mastaba

stela emplacement: 81 x 53cm, depth 10.5cm; fits fragments

of slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu (79.8x 51.6cm; th.9.9cm)2

indicates that a crude brick exterior chapel of

type(1a) was designed, but sole evidence of possible

construction is lower floor in later exterior crude brick

chapel and wall fragment in floor of room (c)
Subsequent exterior stone chapel:3 type(2b), partly constructed

stone platform built about 7.6x 4.3m against east face of

southeast corner of core-mastaba (now partly destroyed on

north and east)

on west were set casing stones of enlarged mastaba meant to

form vertical west wall of offering-room (a) of exterior

stone chapel
Room (a): one-niched NS offering-room; floor marked by construction

lines on foundation platform, but not dressed and room

never completed

construction lines indicate a room, 3.55x 1.5m

area ca.5.32sq.m; proportion ca.1/2.36

monolithic southern stone in west wall; h.3.1m; w.1.65m

traditional false door cut in center: outer niche 0.85 x 0.3m
inner niche 0.3 x 0.2m

quarry mark in red paint on face of slab north of false door:
1
2
3
S ee Reisner, GN1, pp.42530.

MFA06.1894; see below.
Reisner, GN1, p.427 also notes: Around the walls of rooms (b), (c), and (d), both
on the plastered crude brick walls and the sloping stone casing of the mastaba is a
white stripe, 3.5mcm (sic) high on the vertical wall and 3.5cm wide on the floor;
the stripe follows the slope down from the floor of (c) through the doorway to (d)
and in (d) is on the lower level.

t sp 12, month 2 mw; year 23 of Cheops4

doorway presumably in north end of east wall

this room probably completed with crude brick walls as part of

later exterior crude brick chapel

upper floors in rooms (b) and (c) were level with top of platform

exterior crude brick chapel north of the stone chapel

crude brick walls preserved against sloping face of unfinished

casing north of the slab stela, indicating about five rooms

connection with stone chapel destroyed

rooms (b) and (c) along sloping face of casing with floor level high

rooms (d), (e), and (f ), east of (c) (b) with floor at lower level
Room (b): NS room with southern end destroyed

as preserved 3.4 x 2.05m; area 6.97sq.m

at south end of western side, stone offering slab rests on low

brick platform against sloping casing; 0.8 x 0.4m; h.0.2m

plain doorway to room (c), in west end of north wall; with

two mud floors laid on packed limestone debris

lower floor 0.32m above rock, upper floor 0.4m above lower
Room (c): small NS room north of (b)

2.4 x 2.1m; area 5.04sq.m

doorway to (b) in west end of south wall

doorway to room (d) in south end of east wall

north of this doorway is fragment of older crude brick wall from

older(?) construction; two floors like room (b) in doorway

to room (d) upper floor slopes to east to floor level,

matching lower floor in rooms (b) and (c)
Room (d): small NS room east of room (c) and north of room (e)

2.15 x 1.1m; area 2.36sq.m

doorway to room (c) in south end of west wall

doorway with jambs, to room (e), in south wall

floor on lower level as in (b) and (c), with slope up to higher

level through the doorway to (c)
Room (e): NS corridor south of (d)

1.9 x 1.07 m; area 2.03sq.m

doorway with jambs to room (d), in north end

on south side of doorway floor has step down of 5cm from

floor level of room (d)

floor on the lower level slopes gently downwards through

rooms(e) and (f )

thin crosswall with plain doorway at the southern end of

room (e) on the east side connecting rooms (e) and (f )
Room (f ): south of room (e)

1.6 x 1.07 m; area 1.71sq.m; apparently continuation of

corridor(e)

floor on lower level continues southwards slope of room(e)

doorway to (e), in separating wall at north end, on east

entrance doorway from south at south end with doorjamb

on east preserved
South of room (f ) is a doorway from east, whose southern side is formed

by NS wall 3.4m long with beginning of crosswall on

western side, but all walls in this area destroyed
Total area of (b)(f ): 18.11sq.m, to which is to be added the area of

additional destroyed rooms
Total area, (a)(f ): 23.43sq.m; to be increased as the area (b)(f )
Shafta: sole shaft, north of middle: 2.5 x 2.5m at top; 2.15 x 2.15m at

bottom; -7.13 m in rock

lined above with drab masonry, 4.3m, fourteen courses

portcullis grooves in masonry but not cut in rock

on east, 0.6 x 0.25m; on west, 0.5 x 0.2m

chamber: type1al, lined and paved; on south

lined chamber, 3.1 x 3.6m; h.2.55m

area, 11.16sq.m; capacity, 28.45cu.m5
his inscription was published by Smith, Inscriptional Evidence for the History
T
of the Fourth Dynasty, JNES11 (1952), fig.6, translated on p.127. Cf. A.
Spalinger, Dated Texts of the Old Kingdom, SAK21 (1994), p.285 (9).
The total of 28.45cubic meters, found in Reisner, GN1, p.428, and in Reisners
typed manuscript, conflicts with p.106 of the same publication, which lists
30.13cu.m.
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rock chamber, 4.15 x 4.65m and 2.88m high;

area, 19.29sq.m; capacity, 55.55cu.m

passage: in rock, 2.10 x 1.17m and 1.2m high; lengthened by

opening in lining to 2.55m; floor of passage on level

with pavement step down from floor of passage to

rock, 0.26m

blocking: remains of interior masonry set in plaster

portcullis slab (outside); h.1.65m; w.1.55m; th.0.3m

coffin: fragmentary white limestone coffin with flat lid (typed)

with rebate around lid on underside along the edge;

found partly in chamber and partly in shaft

canopic pit: in SE corner, 0.65 x 0.5m; d.0.68m (0.35m in rock)

lining preserved to about half its height except around SW

corner of chamber; pavement not preserved

red construction lines on walls and ceiling
Descriptions below are modified from the reiss diary pages (Book33, January3
and 5, 1938); no Reisner summaries were located:
Shafty: south of z, on west side of g2120
lined with mud brick on the casing of g2120, which forms its

eastern wall; limestone chips, rubble, reddish gravel, and flint

total depth 1m

chamber on east, cut in red rock (bad rock), sealed with rubble,

bound with mud mortar
Shaftz: north of y, lined with mud brick on top of one course of stone

blocks of g2120, which forms its eastern wall; lower sections

of the wall are cut into the gebel (fig.7.65)

total depth 2.55m; limestone chips, flint, and reddish gravel

chamber on east, cut in reddish gravel of the gebel; no blocking
Excavation
The tomb was originally excavated by A.M. Lythgoe during the

19051906 season, for which no expedition diaries have survived.
It was re-examined in 193237. Excavation photographs from 1905
1906 show the clearance of shafta (figs.7.117.13) but do not include
any images of the burial chamber. Most likely to rectify this situation,
the reclearance of the shaft was undertaken by N.F. Wheeler from
December29, 1932 to January8, 1933, and his description of the
burial chamber quoted below should probably be understood as the
first penetration by any modern expedition. On December30, 1932,
Wheeler noted in his diary that the portcullis grooves of shafta end
at rock level, and do not continue all the way to the bottom of the
shaft.6 The shaft is described as filled with rubble and stone blocks,
but this is probably intrusive fill since the initial clearance by Lythgoe
in 1905. On December31, 1933, the debris from the pit revealed an
alabaster model vessel and potsherds (figs. 7.14, 7.29). Additional
vessels turned up the following day. The bottom of the shaft was
reached on January1, 1993, when a large broken portcullis stone
was found to block the burial chamber on the south of the shaft
(fig. 7.15). The most detailed and informative entry in Wheelers
diary was made for January4, 1933:
Completed clearance of pit down to its rock floor,on which
were found: one alabaster handled jar complete, potsherds of
small pots, and a basketful of white cementthe basket having
completely vanished.7 The door blocking stone is in position,
one large stone,but has been broken through in the top eastern
corner by robbers. The break is small. The chamber appears to
6
7
similar situation occurs in the tomb of Nefer (g2110; see above) where the
A
portcullis groove on the east side was not cut in the rock chamber.
This object is 33130; see line drawing in Reisner, GN1, p.427, fig.245 (= our
redrawn fig.7.52).
be nearly full of debris and well-cut blocks of stone as used for

casing. The chamber seems to be cased.
The portcullis groove in the pit only descends in the masonry
to rock level, below which point there is no groove. The doorblocking stone does not belong to this portcullis system.8 The
fragments of sarcophagus and lid found in the pit debris, if they
come from the chamber, must have come out piece by piece
through the robbers hole. Depth 11.48 m. Found also in pit
debris:fragments of alabaster bowl.9
The basketful of white cement that Wheeler mentions is

noteworthy. The object was entered into the Expeditions Object
Register as 33130 (Eg.Inv. 13034; see below, figs. 7.14, 7.52). We
might reconstruct an ancient scenario with a workman holding
a basket filled with this mortar for purposes of sealing the casing
stones in the burial chamber. (On January7, 1933, Wheeler noted
that many more of the fine white limestone blocks lining the burial
chamber of shafta were once in place: The marks of cement on the
walls show that the casing has been stripped since erection.10) Upon
completion of his task, the workman simply dumped the remaining
plaster out of his basket onto the floor and climbed out of the shaft.
This would explain the absence of any basketry remains except for
the impressions of the basket coils11 left in the plaster, which of
course subsequently solidified. The object was deemed important
enough to ship to Boston; for a 2007 analysis of its composition, see
below, under Finds.
In recent years, examination of shafta revealed that it was not
only filled in again, but almost completely buried, leaving only the
eastern half, with merely one portcullis groove, visible.
On the west side of the mastaba, a subsidiary shafty was cleared
and the body removed during January3, 5, and 12, 1938 (figs.7.63
7.64). Then between March313, and on April7, 1938, the expedition
focused on the street east of g2120, that is, between g2120 and
g2140 (figs. 7.13). Two fragments inscribed in sunk relief were
unearthed on March7, 1938 (fig.7.19), mud-brick walls belonging
to the mastaba itself were exposed, and the subsidiary mastaba g2121
with its two shaftsa and b, was discovered on March12, 1938. The
entries describe sand, rubble, and limestone debris.
Finds
MFA 06.1894: 14 fragments of limestone slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu;

h.51.6cm; w.79.8cm; th.9.9cm; two found in 19056 in
debris east of foundation platform of stone chapel; others found
in 1933 and 1938, including: 3832, 3833, and 332187
(all 3 =MFA06.1894; shipped to Boston May 1933; see below
figs.7.667.68)12
38311: Two of many fragments of red granite drum (lintel); two with
incised hieroglyphs: one shows the @ sign; the other
r ry tp
[Nb?]13 and
, part of the name [St-sn]tyw; h. of inscribed
Xi sr
Xi s
ne wonders if this secondary portcullis stone system indicates a later, post-Khufu,

O
burialor reuseof the shaft than is generally assumed for Seshatsekhentiu.
9 Wheeler diary, p.1196, January4, 1933. The diary mentions that the next day
Reisner was forced to return to the hospital, most likely for problems with his
eyesight. He returned to Harvard Camp on May20, 1933.
10 Wheeler diary, p.1197, January7, 1933.
11 On basketry types and patterns, see Wendrich, Basketry, in Ancient Egyptian
Materials and Technology, pp.25467, esp. p.256, fig.10.1a.
12 Reisner, GN1, p.428 (also brief mentions on pp.65, 67, 111, 306); pl.39a;
Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.7682, pls.1718; PMIII, p.74; Leprohon, Stelae1,
pp.5962.
13 See Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, 2, p.648, no.2374.
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fragment 27cm; w. of longest uninscribed fragment 38 cm;

inscribed fragment: 24cm; th. inscribed fragment: 10+cm; other
fragments from drum and from the rectangular ends built in
the two sides of the emplacement of the drum; original location
uncertain, perhaps from doorway in the wall in front of the slab
stela emplacement(?) (fig.7.19)14
Filling of shaft: the debris at top was limestone rubbish and sand; under this
were packed fragments of limestone reaching upwards from the
top of the chamber for 4.3m, consisting of broken lining blocks
and pieces of sarcophagus; a hole in the southeast corner of the
packing descended to the top of the blocking portcullis stone;
beneath this packing, in the bottom of the shaft were found the
following objects:
321216 (shipped to Boston May 1933): alabaster model jar with pointed
base and rim around mouth (damaged); perhaps typeSVIII;
h.8.0cm; d. of rim, top, 2.2cm; d. rim, bottom, 2.7cm; body,
3.6cm (figs.7.20 4/2, 7.21)15
321219: RW: fragments of one or more tubs; type DLXXI a; h. c. 35cm;
d. rim c. 68cm; d. base c. 32cm (fig.7.22)16
3313 (MFA 33.1023; shipped to Boston May 1933): alabaster model basin,
typeSXa (1); h.1.5cm; d. rim, 5.1cm; d. base, 1.7cm (figs.7.20
4/3, 7.23)17
3315 (MFA33.1025; shipped to Boston May 1933): RP lower part of
cylinder jar; typeBLVII; h. 6.2 +cm; d. base, 5cm (figs. 7.20
2/1, 7.24)18
3316 (MFA33.1026; shipped to Boston May 1933): alabaster fragments of
two flat-bottomed bowls with contracted mouths; typeSXc; (a)
h.ca. 12cm; d. ca. 40cm; (b) h. 7+cm; d. ca. 40cm (figs.7.20
4/1, 4/5, 7.267.28)19
3317 (shipped to Cairo, September 29, 1933): one-handled alabaster
jug; typeSXIVa (with ring stand of same piece); with domed
lid; h.29.8cm; h.of ringstand 5.8cm; d. rim 11.4cm; d. neck,
9.0cm; d. body, 16.8cm; d. ring base, on flat bottom of jar,
14
15
16
17
18
19
eisner, GN1, p.428 suggests: in this place is a gap in the white casing, 2.5m
R
long (NS); the northern end of the stone on the south, the second vertical slab
forming the west wall of room (a), was never dressed; but the southern end of
the sloping casing stone on the north was smoothly dressed; the foundation
course of the white casing was in place in this gap and the gap was actually in the
second course of the casing; in the gap, on the top of the foundation course, is a
layer of crude brick, 15cm high but weathered; on the northern side of the gap
a single white stone was found in place resting on the crude brick platform, 27
x 65cm and 15cm high; it may be suggested that that stone was part of a wide
deep niche built of small blocks but reaching above the slab stela, where it was
crowned with the granite drum and perhaps with a cross-bar and tablet above
it [cf. niche of g7220, Hordjedef: HUMFA Expedition photographs a5278;
a8206; and pdm_1999.201.29 on www.gizapyramids.org]; in that case, the slab
stela would have been visible in the back of the wide deep niche like the seated
figure in g7220; the doubt of this reconstruction is raised by the layer of crude
brick below: but that fact is not decisive for in any case this construction would
have been in the last stage of the chapel. There is, however, no precedent for a
granite construction of this nature over a slab stela, one that was subsequently
replaced by a monolithic limestone false door as part of the alteration to the
tombs exterior chapel area. The exact reconstruction of this inscribed granite
drum remains unclear.
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429; pl.43d (4/2); Reisner and Smith, GN2,
p.95: The isolated example of a model with tapering body and roll rim around
the mouth, found in g2120a, is curious but not particularly significant. It may
be only the whim of some craftsman or even have resulted from the recarving of
the top of a broken jar of TypeXVb.
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429.
p.100.
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429; pl.43d (2/1).
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429; pl.43d (4/1, 4/5).
4.8cm; d. upper roll rim of ringstand, 8.2cm; d. lower roll of rim

of ringstand, 9.4cm (figs.7.14, 7.29)20
3319 (MFA 33.1027; shipped to Boston May 1933): RBrW jar of typeB
XVIIc; h. 12.6cm; d. rim, 7.6cm; d. neck, 6.6cm; d. body,
10.8cm; d. base, 4.8cm (figs.7.20 2/3, 7.30)21
33110 (MFA33.1028; shipped to Boston May 1933): RBrW model neckless
shoulder jar; type BLV am; h. 6.2cm; d. rim, 4.8cm; d.
shoulder, 7.4cm; d. base, 4.2cm (figs.7.20 1/2, 7.31)22
33111ab (MFA33.1155.1, 33.1155.2; shipped to Boston May 1933): Pottery
model bag-shaped drt offering jars23 and twelve fragments (ten
fitting and mended) of another, typeA LI a; RBrW; h.7cm;
diam.8.8cm (figs.7.20 1/35, 7.32)24
33112 (MFA33.1156; shipped to Boston May 1933): RBrW model basin;
typeDLXXIX a; 1 example and fragments of another; h.4.4cm;
d. rim, 10.4cm; d. base, 5.0cm (figs. 7.20 1/1, 7.33)25
33113: RP: neck and rim of large jar; type AIIc(?); d. rim, 10.4cm; h. as
preserved, 4+cm (fig.7.34)26
33114 (MFA33.1029; shipped to Boston May 1933): RW small jar of
typeAVIbm; h.11.6+cm (c. 13cm); d. of rim, 3.6cm; d. of
neck, 2.6cm; d. of body, 8.4cm (figs.7.20 2/2, 7.35)27
33115 (MFA33.1030; shipped to Boston May 1933): RBrW base of small
jar; h. 7.2cm; d. max. 10.8cm (figs.7.20 2/5, 7.36)28
33116 (MFA33.1031): RP base of small jar similar to typeAV or Vl;
h.10+cm; d. max. 10.6+cm (figs.7.39 1/3, 7.37)29
33117 (MFA33.1032): RP: fragment of rim of bowl with recurved rim; type
CXXXII or DXXXVI; d. ca. 25cm (fig.7.38)30
33118 (MFA33.1033; shipped to Boston May 1933): mud ware (tubware)
fragments of one or more tubs; typeDLXXIa; h. ca. 39cm; d.
of rim ca. 72cm; d. of base, 28cm (fig.7.39)31
33119 (MFA33.1034): RBrW base fragment of footed bowl; type EXXI a;
h. 4+cm; d. max. 14+cm (fig.7.40 1/5)32
33120 (MFA33.1035): RBrW fragment from bowl with tubular spout;
d.2025cm (figs.7.40 2/4, 7.42)33
33121 (MFA33.1036; shipped to Boston after April26, 1937): RW, red
wash: three fragments of basin with short tubular spout and roll
rim; typeXXXV; d. ca. 305cm (figs.7.40 2/2,7.43)34
33122 (MFA33.1037): WSR fragments of two or more large jars of type
AII b; d. of rim, 10cm (figs.7.40 2/5, 7.44)35
33123 to 26: large pottery jars of typeAII b:36

(33123):WSR: d. of rim, 11cm (fig.7.45)
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
eisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429; pl.43f; Reisner and Smith, GN2, pp.91
R
(number not provided; listed under OK XIVa), 96 (incorrectly listed as 33177
instead of 3317).
p.72. fig.89.
p.76.
E. Brovarski, Lexicographical Studies in Egyptian Pottery, in Ancient Egyptian
Ceramics, p.1.
p.71, fig.87.
Reisner, GN1, p. 426, fig.245; p.429; pl.43d (1/1); Reisner and Smith, GN2,
p.87, fig.127.
Reisner, GN1, p. 426, fig.245; p.429; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.69.
p.69, fig.81.
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429; pl.43d (2/5).
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.85, fig.123.
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429.
p.69.
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p. 429; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.87 (also
incorrectly listed among Type D LXXI a. p.85).
Reisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.83.
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(33124 =MFA33.1038): BrW: d. of rim, 11cm (figs.7.40 2/1,

7.46)

(33125=MFA33.1039): WSR: d. of rim, 10cm (figs.7.40 1/1,
7.47)

(33126):WSR: d. of rim, 10.5cm (fig.7.48)
33127 (MFA33.1040): RW fragment of a ringstand; typeEXXIVa;
h.4.5+cm; d. ca. 15cm (fig.7.49)37
33128 (MFA33.1041): rim of traditional RW coarse offering jar of typeA
IV; d. of rim, 10cm (fig.7.50)38
33129: WSR and RW: four or more jars of typeAII b; see above, 33123
to 2639
33130 (formerly MFA Eg.Inv.13034; shipped to Boston May 1933): plaster
from inside decayed or removed basket, presumably once used for
carrying plaster to seal the burial chamber; h.14cm d.42cm.40 In
July 2007, several portions of samples were analyzed by scanning
electron microscopy/energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometry (SEM/
EDS). The largest sample showed a fairly soft white layer
partially covering a harder, somewhat off-white material. The
softer material consists of calcium sulfate. SEM images show the
compound is present as fairly small, irregular, polygonal grains
that are usually a few microns in size. In the sample that was
examined, as well as in a few small pieces of the softer material
that were also analyzed, other elements were sometimes detected,
including aluminum and silicon, probably due to clay. Some
crystals of chloride-containing salts (sodium and/or calcium)
were observed. The harder substrate of the larger sample mainly
contains calcium, and is probably a piece of limestone. Analysis
of the softer material and one of the isolated softer bits by Raman
microscopy specifically identified gypsum (calcium sulfate
dihydrate), with a small amount of calcite (calcium carbonate).
The conclusion is that the sample consists of gypsum plaster
(figs.7.14, 7.52)41
From northwest corner of mastaba:
38316: fragment of limestone raised relief with t; h.11cm; w.33.5cm;
th.15cm (fig.7.51)
38317: fragment of limestone raised relief with a tall s sign; h.17cm;
w.6cm; th.6cm (fig.7.51)
Architecture
One of the earliest and largest major mastabas of Cemetery g2100,

the tomb of Seshatsekhentiu shows a number of interesting features.
Like some of its counterpart Khufu-era mastabas, g2120 shows a
slab stela, then alterations to the chapel area, including the addition
of a massive false door and multiple chambers in the street east of
the superstructures core (figs. 7.47.6, 7.87.10, 7.53). The mudbrick chapel area of g2120 was replaced by a more elaborate stone
chapel and partial completion of limestone casing blocks. Only scant
traces of the underlying chapel survive, but a secondary series of
mud-brick rooms was added slightly further to the north.42 The slab
stela emplacement would have been walled up behind a series of
large casing blocks, as the cult focus shifted to a monolithic false
door further to the south along the east wall (figs.7.53, 7.597.60).
Massive casing blocks surround portions of the mastaba, but
the tomb was expanded primarily to the east. On the south side,
the sloping casing blocks abut (and predate) the north side of the
vaulted courtyard of Nensedjerkai. The casing would have blocked
access to the chapel of Merib (g2100-1), forcing the visitor to walk
around Seshatsekhentius tomb and approach Meribs mastaba from
the north.
Reisners reconstructed dimensions of the chapel are based
on construction marks with slits in the limestone flooring stones,
perhaps 1020cm long, and separated by a meter or more, delineating
the chapel area. The significance of the rough rise in the floor level
in front of the false door, and extending northwards, is unclear.43
Within this area the limestone flooring shows an unsmoothed,
roughly rectangular area. Immediately south of the massive false door,
a rectangular small depression appears on one of the paving stones,
resembling a sunken offering basin, with a groove nearby (fig.7.56).
A similar basin or depression was described above for the tomb of
Nensedjerkai, in the corridor between g2120 and g2100-11.44
The false door, added secondarily to this exterior chapel addition,
is unfinished. Rough chisel marks are visible on the inner two jambs,
and an irregular boss protrudes below the niche at floor level. Reisner
fails to indicate on his elevation45 that the doors north outer jamb
(intentionally) stops partway up the door. Despite the unfinished state
of the false door there was, however, a thin layer of plaster applied at
least to the lower portions of the northern jambs (fig.7.57), as well as
to the monolithic block just to the north (the block containing the
red painted date graffito listed above, figs.7.617.62).
The single burial shaft conforms to the group of earliest mastabas
in Cemetery g2100 by virtue of its portcullis grooves at the east
and west ends of the south side of the shaft (figs.7.3, 7.117.13).46
Furthermore, the lined burial chamber and the canopic depression
in its southeast corner further serve to rank the mastaba core among
the earliest in the cemetery. However, g2120a is unique in the sheer
size of the shafts mouth and of the burial chamber. Its closest parallel
lies in g2130, also displaying a large shaft mouth but, by contrast, a
much smaller burial chamber.47
No intrusive structures appear in the space between g2120 and
g2130, most likely due to the lack of available space, for the casings
of g2120 and g2130 nearly touch at the level of their respective
lowest courses. Reisner numbered a small mastaba as g2121 that
was built against the east face of the casing of g2120 (fig.2.5). It is
separated from the avenue running eastwest between g2120 and
g2130 by a low mud-brick wall running from the northeast corner
of g2120 eastwards for 5.4m. In the middle of the avenue it turns
south for 4.4m until it joins the northwest corner of g2140, thereby
enclosing most of the space east of g2120 and north of its chapel.
The wall is 0.3m thick and 0.10.15m high.
43
37
38
39
40
41
42
eisner, GN1, p.426, fig.245; p.429; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.88, fig.131.
R
Reisner, GN1, p.429; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.69.
I am very grateful to Richard Newman, Head of Scientific Research, Conservation
and Collections Management, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for the analysis
(made in July, 2007) of samples described above.
For a reconstruction of the two construction phases of the chapel area, see Jnosi,
Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.178, fig.36.
44
45
46
47
his rise is omitted from the chapels section drawing in Reisner, GN1, p.424,
T
fig.243.
Comparative rectangular basins incised in the floor may also be found in front of
the northern niche of g2150 (Kanefer) (fig.12.50), and in the floor of the north
chapel of g2000 (Lepsius 23 HUMFA Expedition photograph c1028_ns on
www.gizapyramids.org).
R
eisner, GN1, p.424, fig.243.
The other tombs in this group consist of g2100 (Sedit), g2110 (Nefer), g2130
(Khentka), and g2210 (anonymous).
Cf. Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp. 151, 154.
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Shafts and Burials
Two later shafts, y and z, hug the west face of g2120 (fig.2.5). Shaftz
was unoccupied, (fig.7.65) but shafty contained a burial.
g2120y (figs.7.6364)
Apparently complete, articulated skeleton, lying on right side, legs
moderately flexed at the knee. Visible elements include cranium and
mandible, right scapula, right humerus, ulna and radius, ribs, right
and left os coxae, right and left femora, tibiae and fibulae, and foot
bones. Left humerus and forearm partially observable. Adult, sex
uncertain (pelvis appears female, mandible appears male). No tomb
card sketch.
slab stela, found east (and one fragment west) of the mastaba.53
Following the pattern layout scheme developed elsewhere,54 the slab
stela decoration maybe be separated into four sections, a through d.
This scheme is used for translations of all slab stelae in the present
work (stelae from g2120, g2135, and g2155[?]).
Text and translation:
Section a:
X
(1)[](2)[] St-sntyw
(1)[] (2)[] Seshatsekhentiu.
Section b:
Date

early reign of Khufu (core); Khufu (mastaba).48
Of critical importance to the dating of the mastaba was Lythgoes
discovery of the red-painted graffito with the date rnpt-sp 12, 2
mw, year of the twelfth occurrence, second month of shemu, on
the face of the large casing block just north of the monolithic false
door (figs.7.617.62). Assuming the biennial cattle count was still
in effect in the early Fourth Dynasty, this would indicate year23 of
Khufu.49 It is difficult to assess the interval between construction
of the mastaba core, the multiple alterations to the chapel, and the
actual installation of the slab stela. Some have chosen to date the slab
stela to the reign of Khafre.50 However, since the graffito appears
on a secondary element, namely the limestone block of the stone
chapel that replaced the original mud-brick building, we may be
fairly certain that the slab stela, walled up behind this block, predates
Khufus twenty-third year.51
A number of factors place the tomb squarely within the reign of
Khufu, among them the location of the core in the western (earlier)
half of Cemetery g2100; the T-shaped portcullis grooves on the burial
shaft, the lined burial chamber, and the canopic depression in the
southeast corner. We may posit the installation of Seshatsekhentius
slab stela somewhere between years15 and 22 of Khufu. The rest
of the mastabas alterations, including the possible addition of an
inscribed granite drum, followed either later in the reign of the same
king or perhaps during the reign of Djedefre.52
y
4
(3)t , (4)nt , (5)s , (6)mnt

a thousand loaves of bread, a thousand jars of beer, a thousand alabaster
vessels, a thousand pieces of cloth.
Section c:
7
A T
(7)b wy, bd []
(7)container of cool water, implements for washing hands, natron
[].
O
FC
@ O C
O
g$

T
T
T
u
s

g
{
T
s
C
T Am
A
Y
A u

(8)snr, w, msdmt, []t[t] mrt, sflt t [wt],[t-w]r, t-rt,

[n]r[w], d[pt], [t], t-nrw, bsn []
(8)incense, green eye paint, black eye paint, best [oi]nt[ment], white
6-row barley, green 6-row barley, great loaf, baked bread, [ne]her[u]bread, de[pet]-bread, shat-bread, ta-neheru-bread, natron, [].
F CC
Y O
U

+
I II
I
(9)sp[t], prw, []srt, [flnw]-wy, tt, rp, d, db, nbs, t-nbs, w,

bnnwt, g(w)t, t nbt bnr(t)
(9)sekhepet-drink, peru-drink, ale, [khenu]-awy-drink, milk, wine,
persea fruit, figs, zizyphus,55 loaf of zizyphus,56 carob bean,57 hebnenutbread, prepared grain, every sweet thing.
Decoration
(10)[]
(10)[]
The Slab Stela (MFA06.1894; figs.7.667.68). Aside from the granite

drum fragments, presumably bearing portions of Seshatsekhentius
name and titles, the only decoration from this tomb is the fragmentary
C d
K{s
OO
C
C
O
!!! #
Y
11
48
49
50
51
52
ompare PMIII, p.74: middle or late Dynasty4; Jnosi, Giza in der 4.

C
Dynastie, p.221: alterations begun under Khufu or perhaps Djedefre, frozen in
incomplete state perhaps under Djedefre; Kanawati, Egyptian Administration,
pp.11718 [305]: Khufu; Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.82: Khufu.
Reisner, GN1, p.427; W.S. Smith, Inscriptional Evidence for the History of
the Fourth Dynasty, JNES11 (1952), pp.118, fig.6, and 127[3]. For more recent
remarks, cf. A. Spalinger, Dated Texts of the Old Kingdom, SAK21 (1994),
p.285, no.9.
See, for example, Strudwick, Administration, pp.3738.
Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.218225.
This follows recent arguments by P. Jnosi against completion of Western
Cemetery mastabas as early as the first five years of Khufus reign; Giza in der 4.
Dynastie, pp.21825. For the Djedefre date possibility, see ibid., p.221.
(11)rn w , ngw , t wr[t] , ry-b , rn m , t , r ,

[r]p , s , [m]nwt
53
54
55
56
57
The discovery history is summarized in a letter from Reisner to E. Drioton,

Director General of the Service des Antiquits, on March14, 1938; see Manuelian,
Slab Stelae, p.78, fig.101 (stela9, pls.1718).
S ectionsad are described in Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.1.
A
Alternatively, cake of nabq-fruit; see note above.
A
lternatively, earth almonds; see Edel, Qubbet el HawaII/1/2, p.22; Germer,
Flora, pp.24546.
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(11)a thousand young oxen, a thousand bulls, a thousand large cows, a

thousand suckled calves, a thousand young oryxes, a thousand cranes,
a thousand greylag geese, a thousand white-fronted geese, a thousand
teal ducks, a thousand [turtle]doves.
II
I
[
[[[
II
I
m
I I I
O
C
Y Y Y Y
!
m
T
Y Y
C m
Y Y Y
m
Y Y Y Y
(12)[ b]-m , [] m[st] , [] , [ ], s(?) [st-(n)-t ], wr[s?]

[], sr [], -t [], hn []
(12)a thousand panther-skin mantles,58 a thousand mantles of wild
cow skin,59 a thousand [], [a thousand ], [a thousand beds60], [a
thousand head]rests,61 [a thousand] caskets,62 [a thousand] boxes,63 [a
thousand] chests.64
13
12
O
Y) HY T T O
Y O
I TT T T T T O
TT T T T
Section d:
H TTTTTT
i F
TTTTTT
T T T T T T T T
[dmy] szf [][ ] [] [] []

[idemy-linen ]67 a thousand of width sezef(?),68 a thousand [],
[], a thousand [], a thousand [], a thousand [], a thousand
[].
(13)tt [], nmtt , m [], [][][][][][]

(13)[a thousand] porphyry vessels,65 a thousand white quartzite
vessels,66 [a thousand] granite jars, [] [] [] [] [] [].
sr szf , dw , fdw , mtw , mtw , snw , w

sesher-linen, a thousand of width sezef, a thousand of 5 (cubits wide), a
thousand of 4 (cubits wide), a thousand of 4 (cubits wide), a thousand of 3
(cubits wide), a thousand of 2 (cubits wide), a thousand of 1 (cubit wide).
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
Or Upper Egyptian panther-skin mantles; see Simpson, Kawab, KhafkhufuI and
II, p.14 n.27 fig.30; b m; R. Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptisch
Deutsch, p.238; and also the mastaba of Nisutnefer (g4970) for an occurrence
of , Junker, Gza3, p.184, fig.28.
Cf. Junker, Gza1, p.258; Smith, The Coffin of Prince Min-khaf, JEA19
(1933), pp.15557; E. Brovarski, An Inventory List from Covingtons Tomb
and Nomenclature for Furniture in the Old Kingdom, in Studies in Honor of
William Kelly Simpson1, p.122.
If not the bolt s
, this is most likely the wood sign
in the group
. See E. Brovarski, An Inventory List from Covingtons Tomb
and Nomenclature for Furniture in the Old Kingdom, in Studies in Honor
of William Kelly Simpson 1, pp.14142; Petrie, Medum, pl. 13, where st-(n)-t
precedes wr. This represents a correction to my translation in Slab Stelae, p.77.
Compare wrs headrest listed on the slab stela possibly from g2155 (Vienna
S7447): Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.88, pls.2122.
Cf. E. Brovarski, Inventory Offering Lists and the Nomenclature for Boxes
and Chests of the Old Kingdom, in Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in
Honor of Edward F. Wente, pp. 4345.
Ibid., pp. 3839.
I bid., pp. 3238.
Cf. Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptischDeutsch, p.917. For vessels
of tiaat-stone, cf. Leprohon, Stelae1, p.60, with references to publications by
Hassan, Barta, Harris, and Meeks. On the stone in general, see R.S. Bianchi,
Porphyr, L4, cols.107173; and Aston, Harrell, and Shaw, Stone, in
Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, esp. pp.4849.
Wb.2, p.272.3; Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptischDeutsch, p.415
(Topf, Krug); Junker, Gza1, p.259 (roter Granit?); Leprohon, Stelae1, p.59
(pots of white quartzite); Harris, Lex. Stud., pp.8889 (white quartzite).
mt-nfrt szf , dw , fdw , fdw , mtw , snw , w

fine linen, a thousand of width sezef, a thousand of 5 (cubits wide), a
szf , dw [], fdw [], fdw , mtw , snw , w
aa-linen, a thousand of width sezef, a thousand of 5 (cubits wide), a
[] t-Mw bdt swt []
[]69 Lower Egyptian barley, emmer, barley [].70
67
68
69
70
n the choice of transliteration dmy instead of twy, see Manuelian, Slab Stelae,
O
pp.15360 (sectiond, linen lists).
For an alternative reading, arguing for a redundant s at the beginning of the
word, cf. Kahl, Das System der gyptischen Hieroglyphenschrift in der 0.3.
Dynastie, pp.6670 (zf, Stoff mit bekannten Abmessungen). See also P.
Posener-Kriger, Les mesures des toffes lancien empire, RdE29 (1977),
p.94; and Junker, Gza1, p.31. Note also that each of the four occurrences of szf
contains two signs beneath that seem otherwise unassigned.
Possibly once t-mw, Upper Egyptian barley; compare the stela granaries of
Setjihekenet (g1227), Meretites (g4140), Iunu (g4150), and the anonymous
g4860; Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pls.1314, 2324, 2526, and 2930.
The traces preserve a tall vertical sign; if this is the b-foot for b-fruit, the
sign should perhaps be further to the left; see D. Faltings, b und zwt zwei
ungeklrte Begriffe der Getreidewirtschaft im AR, GM148 (1995), pp.3544.
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Some confusion arose among the original Expedition members

as to the provenance of this stela, and one often finds the tomb
numbers g2120 and g2130 standing in for one another in various
unpublished manuscripts. On January5, 1932, Dows Dunham in
Boston wrote to William Stevenson Smith at Giza concerning the
stela, noting that he failed to find provenance information or mention
of the piece in the division lists, most likely due to its fragmentary
nature.71 Dunham tried to reconstruct the area just above the tombowners head. Smith has later written at the top of this letter, The
emplacement is 38x 58cm. WSS. But this cannot be accurate,
for the stela itself measures almost 80cm in width alone; my own
measurements of the emplacement produced a width of 81cm. In
fact, Smiths measurements are for the empty emplacement in g2100.
Smith was misled by the discovery of the lower-left fragment of the
Seshatsekhentiu stela, containing the lion-legged stool and legs of
the tomb-owner, on the west side of g2120, near g2100, hence his
concern with the measurements of that tombs empty emplacement.
In his article on the linen lists, published in 1935, he notes the
fragment as if it actually derived from the emplacement of g2100,
instead of from g2120.72 By the time of the publication of GN1 in
1942 (actual appearance year: 1946), the fragment had been correctly
reassigned to g2120, and Reisners publication noted that two large
fragments were found in debris east of the foundation platform of
the stone chapel.73 The photograph in fig.7.67 shows the lowerleft fragment restored in place with the rest of the stela. Most of the
fragments were set in a modern rectangular slab of cement or plaster,
but the two best-preserved fragments, which were discovered in 1938,
after this reconstruction, were added to MFA studio image C8402
in an early example of photographic compositing.74 They are clearly
distinguishable by their much darker color; they also show the most
intricate and minutely detailed carving of the entire object.75 (At this
writing, the stela remains in this condition, in three separate pieces,
in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).76 Reisner wrote to Drioton on
March14, 1938, with an Explanation of the subsequent discovery of
the two additional fragments, requesting permission to export them
to Boston via the expedition artist Joseph Lindon Smith.77
Like some of the slab stelae from other parts of the Western
Cemetery,78 Seshatsekhentius stela has suffered intentional damage.
On other stelae, inscriptions have been chiseled away in specific areas.
By contrast, Seshatsekhentius stela was smashed into at least fourteen
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
eproduced in Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.78, fig. 101.

R
W.S. Smith, The Linen Lists of the Old Kingdom, ZS71 (1935), p.135, no.35;
see also Manuelian, Slab Stelae, fig.102.
Reproduced in Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.77, fig.99.
Reisner, GN1, pl.39a, and commentary on p.428.
Note that minor discrepancies and misalignments of this now seven- or eightdecades-old reconstruction have been adjusted in my epigraphic drawing in
fig.7.68.
Letter from Reisner to the Director General, Service des Antiquits, dated
March14, 1938: Two fragments of a slab stela broken and scattered: in 190506,
large fragments were found and assigned to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts:
in 1933 another fragment was found in another place and assigned to the Boston
MFA; the two new fragments were found in re-examining the foundation of the
chapel of g2120, March6, 1938; (a) white limestone in relief, 21 x 18cm; (b) 23
x 10cm. These fragments fit on the photographs made in the Boston Museum
of the fragments found in 190506 and 1933. For fragments now in Boston
Museum see Division List of 1906; Division List of 1933, pl.6f.
F
or example, the stelae of Setjihekenet from g1227 and Meretites from g4140;
see Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.6468, pls.1415, and 9297, pls.2324.
fragments. These fragments were subsequently either strewn all

around the mastaba or became displaced in the course of later intrusive
shaft construction, followed by millennia of plundering, sanding
up, and reburial of the area. Among the areas permanently lost are
Seshatsekhentius face, and the number and layout of the dmy falcons
at the top of the linen list. The remainder of the list suggests, however,
that the falcons were placed at the very top of the decorated surface,
not underneath the horizontal band of identifying inscriptions.
Willful erasure has obliterated Seshatsekhentius administrative
titles in this band of text, and his barely discernible name survives only
because it was carved in a second line, just above Seshatsekhentius
head. In fact, if the point of the intentional damage was indeed to
obliterate Seshatsekhentius memory, then one has to question the
literacy of the agent involved. If illiterate, he must have been told
that the top line of each stela contained the name and titles, and
was unaware that in this case the personal name was inscribed in a
second line.79 Other motivations for the erasure could include postpharaonic vandalism, or the attempt to destroy the Horus falcons at
the top of the linen list, as was done to the slab stelae of Setjihekenet
(from g1227) and Meretites (from g4140). Unfortunately, the
fragment containing the falcons has not survived, and so it cannot
be determined if they were intentionally destroyed or not.
Seshatsekhentius stela is one of five preserved long-form slab
stelae, only two of which are preserved complete (Wepemnefret,
g1201, and Meretites, g4140).80 The greatest affinities are with the
stelae of KaninisutI(?) (g2155) and Meretites (g4140), primarily
in the addition of the furniture lists to the expanded area between
the offering table and the linen list.81 Reisner believed that no other
slab stela was as large as that of Seshatsekhentiu.82 He did not take
into account, however, some of the fragmentary stelae that, when
restored, would surpass Seshatsekhentiu in size. The largest stela
comes from g4860.83
Seshatsekhentiu sits on a lion-legged stool (the only one preserved
in the long-form group) with a large, elaborate papyrus umbel terminal
and a flaring seat cushion protruding behind. Enough of his figure
survives to show his hands in the traditional arrangement, right
hand extended towards the offering table, left hand grasping the
shoulder knot. However, his long, striated wig falling to his shoulder
is only one of two preserved examples for the male stela owners, the
other being on the Wepemnefret stela (g1201). Despite the damage
to the offering table, it is clear that the table stand extends all the way
up to the tables top, which must have held ten half-loaves, arranged
symmetrically five to a side. The linen list shows a complexity
not found in other slab stelae. Each linen section is separated by
compartments for type plus the word szf, then the mnt signs, and
finally the amounts (). Four out of five granaries are preserved at
the bottom, although the products listed on only three can be read
79
80
81
82
83
On the literacy of iconoclastic agents in Egypt, see Manuelian, Semi-literacy

in Ancient Egypt: Some examples from the Amarna Period, in Gold of Praise:
Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, pp.28598.
Cf. Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.118, fig.176.
On furniture lists, with specific reference to this stela, see Brovarski, Inventory
Offering Lists and the Nomenclature for Boxes and Chests of the Old Kingdom,
in Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, pp.2753,
and idem, An Inventory List from Covingtons Tomb and Nomenclature for
Furniture in the Old Kingdom, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson1,
pp. 11755.
Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.108111, pls.2930.
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with certainty.84 At the top of the list, I would reconstruct four dmy
falcons, but this number is based solely on proportional estimations.
Titles of Seshatsekhentiu85
ry tp, chief
ry-[b], lector priest
No individuals other than Seshatsekhentiu are named in the tomb.
84
ther slab stelae that contain granaries belong to Setjihekenet (g1227), Meretites
O
(g4140), Iunu (g4150), and the anonymous g4860; see Manuelian, Slab Stelae,
passim.
85
anke, PN1, p.320.45; vol.2, p.389. Could the better reading be Snty-(w)R
St, Seshat advances me? Cf. H.G. Fischer, Three Old Kingdom Palimpsests
in the Louvre, ZS86 (1961), pp.23, fig.2, 29 (Sntyw-pt).
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Fig. 7.1. G2120, excavations along the east face, chapel area, looking southwest towards the Khafre pyramid. 19051906.
Fig. 7.2. G2120, east face, looking south towards the Khafre pyramid. March19, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
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G 2100II
E
A
K
A
G 2102
B
E
G 2104
C D
G 2114
D
G 2120
B
X
G
H
F
G
G 2105
A D
G 2103
G 2130
10 m
0
slab stela
B
G 2121
G 2136b
Nimaatre
S
Fig. 7.3. G2120, plan.
G 2141 A
G 2142
B A
G 2140
266
267
75
278
d
278
b
G 2136
Kahif
G 2147
B A
G 2148
271
278
c
X
G 2145
C
B A
D C
D
B
G 2144
G 2146
D E G 2162
F G
C
G 2160
G 2170
B
Y
B G 2161
G 2136a
Djednefret
A B
G 2143
X
270
278
a
G 2150
B
A
G 2163
G 2156a
Fig. 7.4. G2120, chapel area, looking southwest. March19, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Mohammedani Ibrahim, a7992. A
B
C
218
2165
H
I
4984
A B C
A 2167 B C
B C
Z 2168 E
X 2166
E
F
C
A B
A
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4983
H
I
2171
E F G
A C
G
D
X
Y
A
2169
B
Z
Y
I
U
E
C
A
A 2173 C
S D B
G 2180 = G 4990
Z U
H
2172
Y
B
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slab stela
a
f
0
3m
Fig. 7.5. G2120, plan of chapel, drawn by Nicholas Melnikoff, July 16, 1938; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
G 2120
July 16, 1938 Nicholas Melnikoff (OK Alexander Floroff)
G2120
Fig. 7.6. G2120, section AB of chapel area; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
Fill
Surface of poor rock
5m
Base line
Fig. 7.7. G2120, section CD of chapel; drawing by Alexander Floroff; redrawn by Ruth Bigio.
Section CD
219
August 10, 1938 Alexander Floroff
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Fig. 7.8. G2120, chapel, looking northwest. March16, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a7953.
Fig. 7.9. G 2120, chapel, looking northwest. November 19, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, aaw1594.
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Fig. 7.10. G 2120, chapel and monolithic false door, looking west. March12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.026.23.
Fig. 7.11. G2120a, mouth of the shaft showing the T-shaped porcullis
grooves, looking south. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, c1341 [=C12560].
Fig. 7.12. G2120a, mouth of the shaft showing the T-shaped porcullis
grooves, looking west. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, c1667 [=C12561].
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Fig. 7.13. G2120a, excavated shaft and blocking stones at bottom, looking south. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b879
[=b7446].
Fig. 7.14. G2120a, alabaster jar (3317), pottery model vessels, and cast of
basket (33130) in situ in shaft, looking northwest. January4, 1933.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, b8264.
Fig. 7.15. G2120a, portcullis slab, looking south. January5, 1933.

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G 2120 A
G 2120 Sarcophagus reconstruction (not to scale)
11 cm
plan
10 cm
elevation
14 cm
11 cm
5.5 cm
lid elevation
4 cm
1 cm
lid plan
6.5 cm
8.5 cm
10.5 cm
Fig. 7.16. G2120a, reconstruction of sarcophagus from fragments found in shaft.
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7.13 m
4.30 m
14 courses
Section
224
Fig. 7.17. G2120a, plan and section.
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G 2120 A
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Fig. 7.18. G2120a, burial chamber, west wall, casing, looking west. January11, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
PDM
PDM
10 cm
Fig. 7.19. 38311, two red granite drum fragments from g2120a. Left:
May14, 1939. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim,
c14340a. Right: drawing. Compare Reisner,
GN1, p.427,
fig.246.
0
5
10 cm
PDM
225
1:5 or 20% scale

1:5 or 20% scale
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Fig. 7.20. Pottery and alabaster vessels from g2120a. Top row: 33112 (MFA33.1156, model bowl); 33110 (MFA33.1028, model jar); 33111 (one
of two bag-shaped jars); 33111 (one of two bag-shaped jars); (the final jar in the top row is 33133=MFA33.1043, from g2180=4990). Middle row:
[g2120a] 3315 (MFA33.1025, base fragment); 33114 (MFA33.1029, small jar); 3319 (MFA33.1027, small jar); 33116 (MFA33.1031, base fragment);
33115 (MFA33.1030, base fragment). Bottom row: [g2120a] 3316 (MFA33.1026, fragments of alabaster bowl); 321216 (alabaster model jar); 3313
(MFA33.1023, alabaster model dish); additional objects from g2160 and g2170. March16, 1933. Dahi Ahmed, HUMFA Expedition photograph, b8300.
Alabaster
10
cm
32-12-16
Fig.
7.21. 32
1216, alabaster
model jar with
pointed base
from g2120a,
drawing.
RW
0
10
20
cm
Fig. 7.22. 321219, ceramic tub or bowl from g2120a, drawing.

32-12-19
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Alabaster
Alabaster
10
cm
33-1-3
Fig. 7.23. 3313
(MFA33.1023),
alabaster model
basin from
g2120a, drawing.
10
cm
33-1-5
Fig.
7.24. 3315
(MFA33.1025),
lower part of
cylinder jar from
g2120a, drawing.
RBrW
10
cm
33-1-10
Fig. 7.25. 33110,
model neckless
shoulder jar from
g2120a, drawing.
0
Fig. 7.26. 3316 (=MFA33.1026), alabaster fragments of two flatbottomed bowls with contracted mouths from g2120a. February22,
0
0
10
20
cm
Alabaster
10
Alabaster
20
cm
Fig. 7.28.
3316b (MFA33.1026),
33-1-6b
alabaster flat-bottomed bowls with
contracted mouth from g2120a,
drawing.
33-1-6a
Fig. 7.27. 3316a (MFA33.1026), alabaster
flat-bottomed bowl with
Alabaster
RBrW
0
10
20
cm
Fig. 7.29. 3317, alabaster one-handled jug with ringstand from g2120a. Left:33-1-7
March16, 1933.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13405. Right: drawing.
10
20
cm
33-1-9
Fig. 7.30. 3319
(MFA33.1027), ceramic jar
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RBrW
10
cm
33-1-10
10
RBrW
20
cm
33-1-11
Fig. 7.32. 33111a and b (MFA33.1155.1, 33.1155.2), two bag-shaped drt offering jars from
g2120a. Left: drawing. Center: 33111a. May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_
img00609. Right: 33111b. May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00620.
Fig. 7.31. 33110 (MFA33.1028), model

neckless shoulder jar from g2120a. Top:
drawing. Bottom: May15, 2008. Peter Der
BrW
10
cm
33-1-12
Fig. 7.33.
33112
(MFA33.1156), model
basin from g2120a,
drawing.
10
RP
20
cm
RW
0
Fig. 7.34.33-1-13
33113, neck
and rim of large jar from
g2120a, drawing.
10
10
20
cm
33-1-14
Fig. 7.35.
33114
(MFA33.1029), small r0und
jar with pointed base from
g2120a, Left: May15, 2008.
Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_
img00612. Right: drawing.
RBrW
20
cm
33-1-15
Fig. 7.36.
33115
(MFA33.1030), base of
small jar from g2120a.
Left: May15, 2008. Peter
Der Manuelian,
pdm_img00597. Right:
drawing.
RP
0
10
20
cm
33-1-16
Fig. 7.37.
33116
(MFA33.1031), base of
small jar from g2120a.
Left: May15, 2008.
Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_img00600. Right:
drawing.
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10
cm
Fig.33-1-17
7.38. 33117 (MFA33.1032),
recurved rim fragment of a bowl from
g2120a. Left: May15, 2008. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_img00617. Above:
drawing.
10
20
RW
cm
Fig. 7.39. 33118 (MFA33.1033), fragments of large ceramic tub or bowl from g2120a. Top left: March22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, a7065 (detail). Top right: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
33-1-18
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Fig. 7.40. Fragments of ceramic jars and bowls with spouts from g2120a. Top row: 33125 (MFA33.1039, mended section of shoulder jar); number not
known (mended section of jar), 33116 (MFA33.1031, base fragment of jar); number not known (two unidentified mended sections of jars); 33119
(MFA33.1034, base fragment of footed bowl). Bottom row: 33124 (mended, incomplete shoulder jar); 33121 (MFA33.1036, fragment of spouted bowl);
number not known (mended section of jar); 33120 (MFA33.1035, fragment of spouted bowl); 33122 (MFA33.1036, mended, incomplete shoulder jar
with pot mark). June15, 1936. Mohammedani Ibrahim, HUMFA Expedition photograph, b8707.
RW
0
20
cm
33-1-19
Fig. 7.41. 33119 (MFA33.1034),
fragments of round offering table(?)
10
RW
10
20
cm
33-1-23
Fig. 7.45.
33123,
fragment of large jar
RBrW
10
cm
Fig. 7.42.33-1-20
33120
(MFA33.1035), fragment
of bowl with tubular
spout from g2120a,
drawing.
BrW
10
20
cm
Fig. 7.46.
33124
33-1-24
(MFA33.1038), fragment
of large jar from
g2120a, drawing.
RW
0
10
cm
0
33-1-21
Fig. 7.43.
33121
(MFA33.1036), fragments
of basin with short tubular
spout and roll rim from
g2120a, drawing.
10
RW
20
cm
33-1-22
Fig. 7.44.
33122
(MFA33.1037, fragment
of large jar from
g2120a, drawing.
10
RW
20
cm
33-1-25
Fig. 7.47.
33125 (MFA33.1039),
fragment of large jar from g2120a.
Left: May15, 2008. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_img00605. Right:
drawing.
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10
RW
20
cm
RBrW
20
cm
33-1-28
Fig. 7.50. 33128, fragment
33-1-26
Fig. 7.48.
33126,
fragment of large jar
10
of coarse offering jar from

g2120a, drawing.
RW
0
10
20
cm
0
33-1-27
10 cm
PDM
Fig. 7.49. 33127 (MFA33.1040), fragment of ringstand from g2120a.

Left: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00626. Right: drawing.
Fig. 7.51. 38316 (left) and 38317 (right), raised relief fragments from
northwest corner of g2120. Top: April 3, 1938. HUMFA Expedition
1:5 Ibrahim,
or 20%
scale
photograph, Mohammedani
b8948.
Bottom: drawings.
10
20
cm
33130
Fig. 7.52. 33130, plaster basket cast from g2120a. Top left: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00664. Top right: May15, 2008. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_img00670. Bottom left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13412 (detail). Bottom right: section drawing.
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Fig. 7.53. G 2120, remains of exterior chapel, looking west. The arrow indicates the original location of the slab stela. November 20, 1993. Peter Der
Fig. 7.54. G 2120, chapel, section drawing of unfinished monolithic
false door.
Fig. 202
G 2120
Fig. 7.55. G2120, chapel, looking downward (east) from top of mastaba.
Fig. 7.56. G2120, construction square(?) and groove depression in the floor
stone just south of the false door in the remains of the exterior chapel,
looking south. November 24, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.115.20.
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Fig. 7.57. G2120, exterior chapel, different levels in roomsb, c, d, and e,

with a thin layer of plaster applied, looking southwest. April 7, 1938. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, c14148.
Fig. 7.58. G2120, remains of exterior chapel, floor of roomb on debris

section, and lower floor, looking north. April7, 1938. HUMFA
Fig. 7.59. G2120, chapel area, empty slab stela emplacement, looking
west. March19, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, b8956.
Fig. 7.60. G2120, chapel area, empty slab stela emplacement, looking west.
Fig. 7.61. G2120, graffito on monolithic block from chapel, looking west.
December23, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, b9007.
Fig. 7.62. G2120, graffito inscription (in reversed orientation

from previous figure), after Smith, JNES11 (1952), p.118, fig.6.
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Fig. 7.63. G2120y, chamber constructed in shaft, looking east. January 7,

1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, c14103.
based on sketch in
Reiss diary, p. 590
Fig. 7.64. G2120y, burial (skeleton) in chamber in shaft, looking

northeast. January 14, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Section
N
0
Plan
Fig. 7.65. G2120

z, plan
G 2120
Z and
section.
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7
8
10
11
11
12
12
13
PDM
0
10 cm
Fig. 7.66. MFA 06.1894 from g2120, slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu. Colorized drawing showing the four decorative sections.
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Fig. 7.67. MFA 06.1894, slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu from g2120. Photograph and digital reconstruction by John Woolf. August14, 2000. Museum of Fine Arts, based on sc167854.
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Fig. 7.68. Drawing of MFA 06.1894 from g2120, slab stela of Seshatsekhentiu.
Plate 18. Stela 9: g 2120 Seshat-sekhentiu. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 06.1894
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Chapter 8. The tomb of Khentka(?): Mastaba g2130
Chapter 8
THE TOMB OF KHENTKA:
Mastaba g 2130
Mastaba:1 core typeIIb, solid masonry filling and stepped retaining wall

30.8 x 12.1m




core lengthened by addition of masonry on north by 2.85m

before casing, 33.65 x 12.1m;


cased with white masonry (x-masonry), dressed to a smooth

sloping surface bonded with interior chapel
Final mastaba with subsidiary north niche 36.15 x 15.1m

Chapel: interior chapel type3a built-in hole broken in original stepped

core and bonded with the casing

one false door in south end of east wall 4.5 x 1.6m

Northern subsidiary false door, cut in casing; top partly destroyed

outer niche 0.95 x 0.3m; inner niche 0.3 x 0.3m

niche floored to height of 0.72m

large block set against it as an offering stone 1.5 x 0.85m,

widening upwards to fit the slope of the casing
Exterior crude brick chapel: nearly destroyed; apparently consisted of two

separate chapels with an open court between them

south chapel of type1f around doorway to interior chapel

north chapel around the subsidiary north niche

South chapel: south wall preserved, l.3.8m long (EW); th.0.5m

part of east wall, from SE corner northwards, 12.8m; th.0.5m EW

w. of interior floor walls 3.2m; interior probably divided into

three or more rooms entered from north from open court

North chapel: built around north subsidiary niche

north wall preserved 4.8m (EW); th.0.5m

east wall, partly destroyed, ran from NE corner of crude

brick chapel to NW corner of g2150 (l.12.0m; th.0.5m)

inside was NS dividing wall built later, l.1.2+m (NS);

th.0.3m

w. of western room 2.2m; w. of eastern room 1.8m

chapel entered from east by doorway, 6.0m from NE corner

of chapel; doorway in destroyed south wall to open court

and south chapel

open court contained an intrusive shaft, and the north chapel

four other intrusive shafts
Shafta:2 sole shaft, in medial axis, north of middle

2.6 x 2.55m at top and 2.4 x 2.35m at bottom; -7.0m in rock

lined with drab masonry, 2.95m, seven courses

portcullis groove in masonry and in rock at south ends of

east and west walls

groove on east, 0.47 x 0.22m at top, 0.4 x 0.25m at bottom

western groove, 0.5 x 0.25m at top, 0.4 x 0.3m at bottom

chamber: type1al3

lined and paved; on south

lined chamber 3.1 x 3.1m; h.2.85 m; area, 9.61sq.m

capacity 27.38cum4

rock chamber 4.25 x 4.25m; h.2.9m

area 18.06sq.m; capacity, 52.37cu.m

passage: 2.6 x 1.1m; h.1.25m; length through lining 3.2m

step from floor of passage to pavement, 0.35m and to rock,

0.6m

blocking: type1b, interior blocking of white masonry set in

plaster, preserved to height of 0.5m

portcullis stone broken up; fragments found in shaftdebris

coffin: broken white limestone coffin with flat lid (typed)

fragments found in chamber; outside, 2.03 x 0.8m (height

not preserved); inside, 1.84 x 0.5m

no canopic pit; lining and pavement: both partly removed
Excavation
The tomb was originally excavated by A.M. Lythgoe during the 1905
1906 season in Cemetery g2100, for which no Expedition diaries
have survived. One Expedition photograph (fig.8.17) confirms that
shafta was at least partially cleared under Lythgoe during the 1905
1906 season, but detailed investigation of the burial chamber did not
take place until 1912. Additional photography in the burial chamber
even dates as late as December31, 1932 (fig.8.21). Four Expedition
diaries document this later work on the tomb: those of Clarence
Fisher (1912), George Reisner (1912), Noel Wheeler (193233), and
reis Mohammed Said Ibrahim (193536).
January21, 23, 1912 (C.S. Fisher diary): only indirect mentions
March5, 1912 (Reisner diary): excavation of shafta; pit has been
plundered and is now filled with sand as was Nefer pit (g2110).
March10, 1912: (reached entrance to chamber. Small hole
broken in the masonry block. After passing through a layer of
boulders bedded in dirt we came on nearly clean sand with only a
few stones. It is clear that the pit was found by stone thieves and the
upper courses of stone removed. The pit was probably entered in
ancient timesas well as by the stone thieves).
March1213, 1912: The entry for March12 mentions the
completion of the excavation of shafta. Curiously, Reisner notes
that the walls are cased with black granite and limestone. Ordered
chamber cleared.5 The entry for March13 reads: Chamber cleared.
Stone coffin broken. A few scattered bones. Casing intact except one
stone in S.E. corner of pavement. Tombs of this date often had a
concealed hole in floor containing a magical head. The next step is to
look for this hole.6 However, no reserve head was ever discovered
here, and work shifted to the exterior of the mastaba.
On March16, 1912, Reisner directed the Expedition to investigate
the northern addition to the mastaba core in a search of additional
3
1
S ee Reisner, GN1, pp.43033, and figs.19 (shaft), 112 (chapel), 196 (north false door
niche), 247 (section of mastaba), 248 (chapel reliefs), 249ab (objects); pls.35ef,
36af, 39a.
Illustrated in Reisner, GN1, p. 88, fig.19, p. 430, fig.247; and A. Badawy, A
History of Egyptian Architecture1, p. 162, fig.106.
4
5
6
The contradiction here between chamber type1al (eastwest chamber on

south), and 1cl (nearly square chamber on south) occurs in Reisner, GN1,
p.443 versus Reisner, GN1, p.106 respectively.
The total of 27.38cu.m is based upon the chamber dimensions given; Reisner,
GN1, p.432, lists, apparently incorrectly, 26.42cu.m, while p.106 has 21.62 cu.m.
Fischer diary, March12, 1912, p. 58.
Fischer diary, March12, 1912, pp.5859.
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burial shafts. While none were found, masons marks on the northern
face of the original core were located.
On March19, 1912, Reisner noted the discovery of a large
monolithic platform in front of the mastabas northern niche
(figs.8.48.5, 8.8), along with an alabaster vessel in the debris and
traces of a mud-brick chapel with a limestone bowl set into the floor
(fig.8.6). This chapel was cleared on March20, 1912. The surface
of decay (Reisners term) had been exposed in 19051906 under
Lythgoes direction, but the chapel was never excavated. Reisner
wrote on March22, 1912:
The mud brick chapel of g2130 is interesting. The walls are
preserved to a height of 50100cm. At x [fig8.6] treasure hunters
have broken through the stone masonry and gone on down into
the rock. They have also broken a hole in the floor of the chapel
[fig8.11] which shows a double stone floor with a space ca. 30cm
between.7
The area was apparently left alone until 1932, when N.F.
Wheeler supervised the fieldwork. On December29, 1932, the focus
again turned to the burial chamber of shafta. Wheeler describes the
fine quality of the chamber thus:
Whole chamber and passage lined with very smooth casing of
fine white limestone, the only part missing being a small break
in the floor. The room and pit are very accurately cut. Fragments
of the sarcophagus and lid remain in the chamber, being of fine
white limestone and plain with flat recessed lid. Found in pit
debris: two flint knife fragments; part of a large mud sealing with
parts of several impressionsone of a Horus name; fragments of
alabaster.8
Sarcophagus fragments were removed on January1, 1933.

Work continued in December of 1935, when the reis described the
examination of the northern addition to the mastaba core. Only
drift sand, limestone debris, and pebbles were revealed, with the
exception of a large, irregular block with masons marks and nb,
discovered on December30, 1935.
In January, 1936, the Expedition examined the area immediately
north of the mastabas northern addition. No additional tombs or
shafts were discovered here, but on January11, 1936, the area by
the northeast corner of the mastaba revealed shaftsu, v, w, and z.
On January12, 1936, the subsidiary mastaba g2133 came to light,
along with a decayed architrave of Neferherenptah (see g2133;
sketch in reiss diary, January12, 1936, p.226). The diary entries for
January1213, 1936 describe the clearance of shaftsu, v, w, y, and z.
The final diary entry for this mastaba was on April9, 1936, when the
top of the mastaba, between shafta and the chapel, was examined
one final time.
In 1993, the chapel floor inside the entrance was cleared in an
effort to determine which way the chapel door originally swung
open. On the south side, the white limestone floor was reached.
On the north side was mostly loose debris, but some stone was
protruding on the west side of the hole. Perhaps this corresponds to
the original excavation photograph and diary entry quoted above,
which seems to reveal a large section of the flooring stone missing
here (figs.8.11, 8.13). One might logically expect the door to swing
open to the north; if this were the case, the floor stone showing the
7
8
Reisner diary, March22, 1912, p. 72.

heeler diary, December29, 1932, pp.119293.
W
door socket hole is indeed missing. No features suggesting a door

socket hole were located on the south side of the chapel entrance.
Finds
Objects: found in debris of shaft of g2130a:

32124 (shipped to Boston May 1933): flint razor with rounded ends;
l.7.9cm; w.2.4cm; th.0.5cm (figs.8.23, 8.25)9
32125 (shipped to Boston May 1933): flint rectangular razor; l.6.5cm;
w2.7cm; th.0.9cm (figs.8.248.25)10
32126 (shipped to Boston May 1933): fine mud fragments of jar stopper
with remains of four impressions of a cylinder seal containing a
Horus frame; the name ends with w, restored by Reisner as r
Mdw (Khufu) (fig.8.26)11
351250 (shipped to Boston after April26, 1937): large limestone block
with red masons marks; from g2130 annex, casing; h.65cm;
w.50cm; th.27cm (fig.8.27)
3615: fragment of architrave of Neferherenptah,12 from east of g2130;
h.29cm; w.94cm; found in front of stela of g2130 but belonging
to a small mastaba east of it, most likely either g2131 or g2133
(fig.8.28):
O O = O
5
Y
T T
T
Y
C 9 8 CT
I
w
T
C a
q
) g
TC
- O
s .

5
Text: (1)tp [ nswt] tp () npw [nb t] sr rs[t? m?] smyt [mntt]

w [] (2)[ prt?] nf [rw] m wp rnpt tpy rnpt wtt wg b (3)[nb
r nb?] n sbty nswt (4)[] Nfr-r-n-pt (5)[trs.]
Translation: (1)A gift which the [king gives], and a gift which Anubis,
[lord of the] necropolis, (gives) [consisting of ] a burial [in] the western
desert, having reached a [great?] old age []. (2)[] May [invocation
offerings be made] for him on the new years festival,13 the first of the
year festival, the festival of Thoth, the wag-festival and [every?] festival
(3)[every day?], for the royal instructor (4)[] Neferherenptah.
(5)[trs.]
Architecture
G2130 may have belonged to one of the most important occupants

in Cemetery g2100, for this mastaba shows a number of features
absent from other tombs. Most striking is the fact that the mastaba
core is the only one to show cut stone blocks (Reisners typeIIb),
instead of merely debris filling (typeIIa). There is even evidence for
roofing stones on g2130, towards the northern end.14 This represents
9 R
eisner, GN1, p.432, fig.249b.
10 Reisner, GN1, p.432, fig.249b.
11 Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.50 and fig.48: jar sealing with impression
of rim of jar. In Fig.48 [=fig.8.26 here] it is possible to give a somewhat better
facsimile than was first presented in [Giza Necropolis] Vol.I, fig.249a, but
without being able to suggest the meaning of the signs outside the Horus frame.
Only the w of the Horus name of Cheops, r-mdw is preserved. The tomb is
one of the early mastabas. All its features, including the very fine low reliefs in
the chapel, point to a DynastyIV date. The Horus name of Cheops is the only
one ending in w in DynastyIV. The rather complicated paneling of the base of
the Horus frame seems to be characteristic of the earlier seals, resembling the
Hetep-heres example rather than the later, more simple form.
12 Note that there is a Neferherenptah who appears on the south face of the mastaba
of Kanefer (g2150), just to the east of g2130; see fig. 12.71.
13 On the subject of feast lists, see Spalinger, The Private Feast Lists of Ancient Egypt.
14 The presence of roofing stones would put the tomb in the company of
Merib (g2100-1), KaninisutI (g2155), Kasewedja (g5340), and tombs in
Cemetery g6000. I am grateful to D. Faltings for this observation (personal
communication, 1993).
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Shafts and Burials
g2130 u (fig.8.35)
Articulated but somewhat disarrayed remains. Lying on left side,
knees flexed. Visible elements include cranium, vertebrae, ribs,
clavicles, right humerus, probably right ulna and radius, probable
left ulna and radius, in shadow are pelvis, femur, tibia, etc. Probable
adult, sex unknown. No tomb card sketch.
g2130v (fig.8.38)
Disarrayed incomplete skeleton. Original orientation unknown.
Visible elements include cranium and disarticulated mandible, ribs,
vertebrae, right and left femora (right femur is beside cranium),
pile of foot bones, articulated tibia and fibula, and os coxae slightly
exposed under fabric(?). Adult, sex unknown. No tomb card sketch.
Date

early reign of Khufu (core); late reign of Khufu (mastaba).18
A number of factors place this tomb squarely within the reign
of Khufu: the location of the core in the western (earlier) half of
Cemetery g2100; the seal impression with the possible occurrence
of Khufus Horus name, the casing stone graffito with the fourth
occasion of counting, the T-shaped portcullis grooves on the burial
shaft, the lined burial chamber, and the fine, low-relief style of the
(badly destroyed) chapel decoration. Jnosi notes that the relief
style bears comparison with that of Hemiunu (g4000), Ankh-haf
(g7510), and g7650,19 but these tombs themselves are arguably
datable to the reigns of Khufu or Khafre. It appears that the original
construction and alterations (and occupation) all could have
occurred within the reign of Khufu.
Decoration
Reisner first suggested the reconstruction of the tomb owners name

as Khentka based on two fragmentary inscriptions on the chapels
west wall. The false door drum preserves two signs forming
nt
(figs.8.488.50) and the curving horizontal above the standing figure
on the right (north) false doorjamb (figs.8.508.52) resembles part
of the upraised arms of the
k sign. Baud has noted some of the
possible spelling variations for nt-k.20
No decoration appears on the northern niche, at the north end
of the east wall. But the chapel proper takes a typical Dynasty4 form,
with the entrance door towards the northern end of the chapel, and
a single false door niche in the west wall at the southern end.21 The
18
15
16
17
See Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.154.

This inscription was published by Smith, Inscriptional Evidence for the History
of the Fourth Dynasty, JNES11 (1952), p. 118, fig.6, translated on p.127[4]; cf.
Spalinger, Dated Texts of the Old Kingdom, SAK21 (1994), pp.28384. See
Reisner, GN1, p.432, fig.249a, improved in Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.50,
fig.48, and Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.441, table C2, with n.l.
For more on this unusual stone, see Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.16869,
figs.25255 (note that it is marked on HUBMFA Expedition pencil sketch plan
eg010018 as if it were a slab stela (available on www.gizapyramids.org). Another
stone, this time on the north exterior face of the mastabas northern extension,
is clearly a patch stone (Flickstein; fig.8.3, and on www.gizapyramids.org see
images aaw256, pdm_1993.054.10, pdm_1993.055.09, and pdm_1993.055.10).
19
20
21
Compare PMIII, p.74: probably Khufu; Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir1,

p.41, 2, p.557 [192]: end of Khufubeginning of Khafre; Harpur, Decoration
in Egyptian Tombs, p. 269 [194]: Khufu; Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.221:
decoration of chapel not earlier than Khafre (or Djedefre); Kanawati, Egyptian
Administration, pp.11314 [257]: Khufu.
Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir2, p.557, illustration. In addition, a fragmentary
false
door tablet from east of g 2180 (= g 4990), MFA 12.1520, belongs to a
n m k nt-k; see image b1090 on www.gizapyramids.org.
Reisner, GN1, p.431, fig.248, and pl.36ad. Smith relates the low-relief style
of this chapel to both the slab stelae and several other tomb chapels: g4000
(Hemiunu, reign of Khufu), and g7510 (Ankh-haf ), and g7650 (Akhethetep
and Meretites), which he dates to the reign of Khafre: Smith, HESPOK, pp.160,
361, including several royal fragments. The chapels decoration is also discussed
by El-Metwally, Entwicklung der Grabdekoration, pp.11819 (5.3.2.2), and
a major expense in time and labor. Moreover, an interior stone chapel

was later broken into the mastaba core, and an extension appended
onto the northern end of the mastaba, presumably to provide for
an additional burial shaft (which was never cut). The mastaba was
cased with fine white Tura limestone blocks, and was fitted with an
interior stone chapel. Despite the extremely fragmentary nature of
the decoration, it is certainly carved in the finest low relief, typical
of Khufus reign.
The tomb is clearly one of the earliest of the cemetery, as it is
constructed in the older, western half, and contains one of the five
T-shaped burial shafts intended to house the portcullis stone at its
southern end. It also contains a lined burial chamber, although no
canopic depression is preserved in the southeast corner. The massive
size of the shafts mouth is paralleled by its counterpart in g2120, but
where that tomb contained an equally massive burial chamber, the
chamber in g2130 is one of the smallest, typical of smaller mastabas
in Cemeteries g1200 and g4000.15
The excellent quality of the limestone casing is best preserved on
the west side of the tomb, opposite the chapel of Nefer (g2110). Here
it extends several meters high. More importantly the back of a casing
stone on the west face preserves a graffito inscription rnpt-sp 4(?), bd,
year 4(?), month (fig. 8.32).16 While this graffito occurs on the
casing, rather than on the interior core of the mastaba, and thus could
relate more to its quarry of origin than to g2130, it is nevertheless most
often associated with the 7th/8th years of Khufus reign.
Viewed from the northwest corner, looking southeast, the
mastaba reveals clearly the exterior casing, then the core blocks of
the northern extension above it and set back (fig.8.3). Above these
and set further back are the core blocks of the mastabas original
northern edge. Very little of the fine white casing survives on the east
side of the tomb, one or two courses at best. Even the top half of the
northern niche is gone. The large blocks forming the interior chapel
walls show perhaps the whitest color in all of Cemetery g2100 in
their deteriorated areas. Robbers gouged through the chapels
false door in search of a serdab; this hole appears on the original
excavation photos (figs.8.298.30, 8.488.49).
Just north of the chapel is a reused or patch stone that shows a
wide, rectangular depression. The proportions appear all wrong for
a slab stela emplacement, and yet there is plaster/mortar in the joins.
Plaster sealing appeared all over the blocks of these courses as well, so
the presence of the plaster alone means little. The dimensions of the
emplacement stone are 19.5 high x 47.5cm wide.17
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only departures from this standard layout involve two false doors
on the west wall (g2100-1, g2150, g2155, g2220), or a door in the
southern end of the chapels east wall and a false door at the northern
end of the west wall (g2110).
Entrance (Architrave, Drum, etc.). All traces of an entrance

architrave, or any facade inscriptions are destroyed.
chapel of Hordjedef (g7220) as a possible reconstruction for the

missing decoration.22
The south jamb of the false door is destroyed. On the north
jamb stands a man with a staff and sekhem scepter, facing inwards to
the left (figs.8.508.52). The scepter passes behind his body. Above
the figure, Reisner suggested the following restoration,23 which
would probably fit the available space:
1
South Entrance Thickness (fig.8.43). Scant remains of low raised-
relief carving survive in situ above the base line. The tomb owner
was seated at a table, facing eastwards out of the chapel. All that is
preserved are the legs of his chair, his feet, and the head of a goose.
~T
T
C
O
@
T
N
I
E
North Entrance Thickness. No trace of the decorated surface is
Text: (1)[s nswt n tf] mr(y)f (2)[nt]-k(?)

Translation: (1)[Kings son of his body], whom he loves, (2)[Khent]ka
preserved.
East Wall (figs.8.448.47). All that survives is the bottom of the

lowest register, showing men escorting livestock to the right (south)
in a presentation scene with a large-scale figure of the tomb owner
(missing), presumably on the right, facing out to the left (north).
South Wall. No trace of the decorated surface is preserved.

North Wall. No trace of the decorated surface is preserved.
West Wall (figs. 8.488.54). The false door at south end of west
wall preserves low raised-relief carving on the drum, the right
(north) thickness, and the north jamb. The drum shows merely the
beginnings of three columns of inscription separated by vertical lines
in relief (figs.8.488.50).
3
_ ~
IT T
Text: (1)s nswt [n tf?] (2)smr [wty?] (3)nt-[k?]

Translation: (1)Kings son [of his body?], (2)[sole?] companion,
(3)Khent[ka?]
The central portion of the false door niche is punctured by a

hole made by thieves who were most likely searching for a serdab
(figs.8.488.50). Reisner suggests the parallel tablet scene from the
The thicknesses outside the jambs were also decorated. The

south side is destroyed, but on the north side is the lower part of
a standing female figure in a long garment, who faces inwards to
the left (south; figs.8.538.54). Her caption is destroyed, with only
two possible hieroglyphs in evidence: the bread loaf t (visible to
Reisner but gone today) and the city sign determinative . The
scene probably contained as many as three superimposed registers
of personified estates.

Titles of Khentka24
mr(y)f, whom he loves

s nswt [n tf?], kings son [of his body?]
smr [wty?], sole companion
Other People
Nfr-r-n-pt (architrave fragment east of g2130; 3615), Neferherenptah

sbty nswt, royal instructor
22
23
24
See HUMFA Expedition Photograph A5278_NS.

Reisner, GN1, p.432,
Ranke, PN1, p.273.6
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Fig.8.1. G 2130, southeast corner, with g2120 in foreground left, looking northwest. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
Fig.8.2. G2130, southwest corner, with the street between g2100, to the west (left), and g2130 and g2120 to the east
(right), looking northeast from the top of g2100. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b720
[=b7350].
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Fig.8.3. G 2130, north face, looking south (with loose patch stone midway between the meter stick and the northwest corner at right). November 20, 1993.
Peter Der Manuelian, digital montage of pdm_1993.104.23 and pdm_1993.104.24.
Fig.8.4. G 2130, north niche, looking west. November 21, 1993.

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Fig.8.5. G 2130, north niche, plan.

Fig. 196
G 2130
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B
G 2111
J
B
E
G 2104
G 2114
D
B
X
G
H
F
G
G 2105
C D
G 2112
G 2112b A
B
A G 2112a
X
A
A
X
G 2112c
A B
C
G 2115
X
10 m
G 2130
G 2210
N
x
B
G 2121
X
Y
G 2131
G 2141 A
G 2142
B A
X
G 2145
B A
B
G 2144
2168 E
A B
Y
X
Y
G 2137
A
H
I
2171
E F G
A
2169
B
Z
X
Y
I
U
E
Y
A 2173 C
S D B X
A
G 2139
E
D southwest.
Fig.8.8. G 2130, northeast corner and north niche, looking
March 12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.026.14.
C
D
2172
G 2157
W Z
B
c
b X
C
A
z
Y
2175
D
a
S
E
U
A
G 2156
A
B A
G 2154
B
G 2223
D 2174
B C
2225
C G 2154a
A B 2176 C
B
X
Z U
H
G 2220
G 2138
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A
C G 2152
A C
G
D
A G 2153
D B C
G 2134
C G 2136
B A
G 2151
B
A
G 2163
Z
B G 2161
D E G 2162
F GFig.8.7. G 2130, chapel area, looking west. November 21, 1993.
C
2170 pdm_1993.107.03.
Peter Der G
Manuelian,
A
B
G 2134a X
Y Z
A C
G 2133
G 2132
G 2150
A B
G 2143
X
Z
A
Fig.8.6. G 2130, plan (x = location described in Expedition Diary, vol. 3, p.72, March22, 1912.).
W
U
V
2224
B C
A
G 2223a
G 2222
C
A
2221
245
X
C
2177
X
E
A
F
B
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Filled solid
with masonry
10 m
Base Line
Fig.8.9. G 2130, section westeast, looking north.

G 2130 Fig. 247
Section WE
Looking North
Fig.8.10. G 2130, chapel area, looking southwest. 19051906. HUMFA

Fig.8.12. G 2130, chapel area, from on top of the mastaba, looking east.
Fig.8.11. G 2130, north half of chapel, looking north. 19051906. HU

Fig.8.13. G 2130, chapel, interior door socket area, with lower door
socket hole on the south side, looking east. November 27, 1993. Peter Der
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Fig.8.14. G 2130a, mouth of shaft, looking west. November 3, 1993. Peter

Fig.8.17. G 2130a, mouth of shaft, looking down, northeast. 19051906.

Fig.8.15. G 2130a, mouth of shaft, looking down, west. November 3, 1993.

Fig.8.18. G 2130a, hard stone (black granite and limestone) casing, east
wall, looking east. March 16, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Fig.8.16. G 2130a, mouth of the shaft, looking south. November 3, 1993.

Fig.8.19. G 2130a, burial chamber, hard stone (black granite and

limestone) casing, south wall, looking southwest. March 17, 1912.
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7.0 m
7 courses
red line
on east wall
Section
red vertical lines
on ceiling
Plan
248
Fig.8.20. G 2130a, plan and section.
G 2130 A
Reisner, GN I, p. 432:
no canopic pit!!
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Fig.8.24. 32125, flint razor from

g2130a. March 16, 1933. HUMFA
Fig.8.23. 32124, flint razor from
Expedition photographs, Dahi
g2130a. March 16, 1933. HUMFA Ahmed, a7063a7064.
Expedition photographs, Dahi
Ahmed, b8303b8304.
Fig.8.21. G 2130a, burial chamber, broken sarcophagus, looking
southwest. December 31, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Fig.8.25. 32124 and 32125,

drawing of flint razors from
g2130a.
32-12-4
32-12-6
cm
32-12-5
Fig. 249a G 2130
cm
Fig . 249b G 2130
Sarcophagus (Reconstruction)
G 2130 A
Plan
32-12-4
0
0
50
1m
cm
32-12-5
Section
Fig.8.22. G 2130a, burial chamber, reconstruction of broken sarcophagus.
Fig.8.26. 32126, mud seal from g2130a. Top left: HUMFA

Fig. 249a
G 2130
32-12-6
Expedition
photographs,
Dahi Ahmed,
b8311 (April 10, 1933), and
b8312 (March 29, 1933). Top right: May15, 2008.
Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img00643. Bottom: drawing.
Fig . 249b G 213
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Fig.8.27. 351250, fragment of limestone block with red masons mark from g2130, annex, casing. Left: February8,
1936. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, c13664. Right: May18, 2006. Museum of Fine Arts,
sc171092.
10 cm
PDM
Fig.8.28. 3615, limestone architrave of Neferherenptah with sunk-relief inscription, from east of g2130. Top: March 14, 1936. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a7532. Bottom: uncollated drawing.
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Fig.8.29. G 2130, general view of chapel, looking west. March 12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.026.16.
Fig.8.30. G 2130, chapel, false door, looking northwest. 19051906.

Fig.8.31. G 2130, chapel, south wall, looking south. 19051906. HUMFA

Fig. 8.32. G 2130, date graffito from

a casing stone; after Smith, JNES11
(1952), p.118, fig. 6.
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Fig.8.33. G 2130u, upper chamber, looking west. September16, 1913.

HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, c5220.
Fig.8.36. G 2130v, door blocking, looking northeast. March23, 1912.

HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, c4833p.
Fig.8.34. G 2130u, door blocking, looking south. September17, 1913.

Fig.8.37. G 2130v, entrance to burial chamber, looking northeast.

March23, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, c4834.
Fig.8.35. G 2130u, burial, looking south. September17, 1913. HUMFA

Fig.8.38. G 2130v, burial, looking east. September16, 1913. HUMFA

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Section
N
Plan
Fig.8.39.
G 2130u,
G 2130
U
plan and section.
Section
Plan
m
G 2130 V
Fig.8.40. G 2130v, plan and section.
Fig.8.41. G 2130, chapel, south entrance thickness, looking south.

PDM
PDM
at least ca. 123 cm to ground
10 cm
1:5
Fig.8.43. G 2130, drawing of south entrance thickness.

Fig.8.42. G 2130, chapel, south entrance thickness, looking south.
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Fig.8.44. G 2130, chapel, east wall, looking east. November 3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.056.20.
PDM
10 cm
1:5
10 cm
1:5
Fig.8.45. G 2130, chapel, overview drawing of east wall.
Fig.8.46. G 2130, chapel, east wall, looking east. November 3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, digital montage of pdm_1993.056.17, pdm_1993.056.18, and
pdm_1993.056.19.
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1:5
PDM
10 cm
0
Fig.8.48. G 2130, chapel, preserved decoration on false door lintel, looking

west. March 25, 1931. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, b7828.
Fig.8.47. G 2130, east wall, drawing of detail of preserved decoration.
Fig.8.49. G 2130, chapel, preserved decoration on false door lintel, looking

west. November 3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.053.10.
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PDM
10 cm
1:5
PDM
Fig.8.50. G 2130, chapel, drawing of false door.
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Fig.8.52. G 2130, chapel, false door, north jamb, looking west.

Fig.8.51. G 2130, chapel, false door, north jamb, looking

west. January14, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
PDM
10 cm
1:5
0
Fig.8.53. G 2130, chapel, thickness of outer niche of false
door, looking north. November 3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.053.05.
10 cm
PDM
1:5drawing of thickness of
Fig.8.54. G 2130, chapel,
outer niche of false door.
PDM
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PDM
257
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Surface plan
Section
Section
N
Section
N
Plan
0
0
Plan
Fig.8.55. G 2130w, plan and

section. G 2130 W
Section
Plan
Fig.8.58. G
G 2130z,
2130 Zplan and
section.
m
Fig.8.57. G 2130y,
G 2130plan
Y and
section.
N
plan
Fig.8.56. G 2130x,
G 2130plan
X and
section.
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Chapter 9. Anonymous tomb: Mastaba g2210
Chapter 9
ANONYMOUS TOMB:
Mastaba g 2210
Mastaba:1 core typeIIa with retaining walls of stepped drab masonry

26.35 x 11.75m; area 309.61sq.m; prop 1/2.24; h.5.15m


Enlarged by addition of massive corework of typeIViii on east and north

34.5 x 17.4m; area, 600.3sq.m; proportion 1/1.97
Chapel: either unfinished or destroyed; chapel recess in enlarged corework,
6.0 x 4.0m; intended for interior chapel, probably of type(3a)

but possibly of type(4a); probably intended to case enlarged

core with white limestone and the chapel of same material

bonded in construction

five small fragments in relief, of white limestone, found in debris

around the chapel recess [see figs.9.99.11, 3292 to

3296], but of doubtful origin2
Shaftg2210a: one shaftin old core north of middle, in position of shaft

in one-shaft mastaba; 1.95 x 2.15m; -21.65m in rock

lined above with masonry/drab masonry, 5.15m; sixteen courses

portcullis grooves in masonry and 9.6m in rock to just

below upper chamber; groove on east 0.43 x 0.35m

groove on west, 0.46 x 0.38m; two chambers

chamber (1): at 7.85m in rock; type 3ar;3 on south; unfinished

4.4 x 4.9m, h. 1.85m; area, 21.56sq.m

capacity, 39.88cu.m

passage: 1.75 x 0.8m; h.1.15m; portcullis grooves end 0.8m

below floor of passage; open and empty; perhaps unused

chamber (2): at bottom of shaft; type1bl,4 lined but not paved

lined chamber, 4.25 x 3.8m; h.3.3m; area, 16.5sq.m

capacity, 53.29cu.m5

passage: 2.0 x 1.15m; h.1.1m; length through lining to
1
2
3
S ee Reisner, GN1, pp.43335, Map 5, figs.72 (window), 250 (section of chapel),

251 (relief fragments), 252 (shaft), 253 (pot marks), pls.37ad,
Reproduced in Reisner, GN1, p.433, fig.251, and figs.9.99.11 here.
Reisners type 3ar: large, unlined chamber, always south of the shaft, entered by a
long connecting passage at or near the east end of the north wall of the chamber;
a stands for EW chamber on the south, and r stands for opening at roof
level with a deep drop from the floor of the passage to the floor of the chamber.
Reisners type1bl: large, lined chamber, always south of the shaft, entered by a
long connecting passage at or near the east end of the north wall of the chamber;
chamber lined and paved with fine white limestone dressed smooth, but not
roofed; b stands for NS chamber on the south, and l for opening low down
in the north wall with a small step down from the floor of the passage to the floor
of the chamber, and a high rise to the roof of the chamber. In GN1, p.106, Reisner
lists this burial chamber in two different charts, once correctly calling type1bl, and
once incorrectly tye1bf (f indicating a passage opening at floor level),
Curiously, Reisner, GN1, p.433, lists additional measurements for this chamber:
chamber in rock, 4.95 x 4.5m and 3.3m high; area, 22.27sq.m; capacity,
73.49cu.m. The typewritten manuscript for GN1 also contains both sets of
measurements.

inside lining, 2.4m; step down from floor of passage to

rock floor of chamber 0.35m

blocking: typeIIb(1); remains of masonry in passage penetrated

by thieves

lining and pavement: the walls were in course of lining with

white masonry but lining was left unfinished: lining

of 11 courses designed, but 9 were built on south, 10

on west, 7 courses and one block of eighth course in

north wall, and 9 courses (5 complete and 4 nearly

complete) in east wall

pavement was never constructed

window: construction window between south wall of shaft

and north wall of rock cut chamber; near roof

2.0 x 0.90.7m; h.0.850.65m; blocked with

masonry; blocking of both door and window had

been penetrated and the burial plundered but the

chamber had not been stripped of its lining

coffin: fragments of decayed wood probably from coffin were

scattered over the floor; mixed with scattered

human bones
Excavation
This tomb was not excavated by Lythgoe during the 19051906

season in Cemetery g2100. This accounts in part for the number
later assigned to the tomb in the 2200s, even though it clearly
belongs, as Reisner later noted (see below), with the initial group of
nucleus Cemetery g2100 mastabas. Complete excavations around
the perimeter of the mastaba core were never finished, and the
map of the cemetery published in GN1 (fig.2.5) marks the streets
both east and west of the mastaba as unexcavated.6 Preliminary
manuscripts for Appendixc in GN1 list the earliest work on g2210
as dating to January18April2, 1912. However, no diary entries
specfically mention the tomb until Reisners entry of March30, 1912:
Began work on face of 2210. Gang now at work here, sixty-four
men exclusive of guards and servants and photographic boys.7 But
no Expedition photography of the tomb predates 1932. On April2,
1912, Reisner noted, The chamber of 2210 has been completely
removedto judge by the hardness of the drift sandnot in recent
times.8 Reisner goes on to mention that north of the chamber is a
mastaba with a stela of wb nswt R-wr,9 but no further information
is at present available concerning this stela.
The next preserved diary entry to mention the tomb was
penned by N.F. Wheeler on April27, 1932, at which point the
Expedition began clearing the north face of the mastaba for survey
purposes. This clearance continued until May1, 1932, when work
focused on clearing shafta. Continuing each day, the Expedition
eventually reached a first burial chamber on the south side of the
shaft on May16.10 Clearance of this chamber continued each day
until June5; it was measured and drawn by Hansmartin Handrick
on June20, 1932, so that debris from the continuing excavation of
the shaft could be stored there. The Expedition continued clearing
the shaft through June and into July 1932. Two blocking stones were
found on July23, 1932, in a window at a depth of 24.70m (fig.9.24).
6
eisners diary entries for April23, 1912, that describe work between g2210
R
and g2220, must be referring solely to the area in front (east) of the chapel of
g2210.
7 R
eisner diary, March28, 1912, p. 76.
8 Reisner diary, April2, 1912, p. 81.
9 I bid.
10 On Friday, May6, the diary switches to the hand of Hansmartin Handrick until
his departure for Germany on August19, 1932.
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The pit continued downward until the bottom was reached on

August4, 1932. Two rows of door blocking stones were found but
not in original position. Three of four stones bore one quarry mark
each in black and one with one red and one black mark.11
The longest entryAugust12, 1932for the burial chamber is
initialed by both Handrick and Wheeler, but is written in Handricks
hand:
g 2210 a. After H. Handrick has drawn the second row of doorblocking stones, they are removed and two found to be with
quarry marks also, i.e., the eastern one of the bottom layer with
one black and the western one with two (red and black) quarry
marks. After that the burial chamber is open. The debris of the
door blocking, mud, smaller stones and chips of white limestone
have partly fallen into the burial chamber, forming a small heap
near the door. The ground of the chamber itself is covered with a
layer of chips and white limestone dust, on top of which are lying
the bones of one disturbed skeleton in the southwest corner, a few
fragments of decayed wood around it and on top of the heap of
debris inside the door. Potsherds and bits of straw, rope and other
organic matter are scattered over the floor. Besides that are two
square limestone blocks, either from the door blocking or from
the casing, in the southeast corner, the southern one with a quarry
mark on the upper side, both lying on bigger limestone chips.
And several brown round flint stones.
All four walls have an unfinished casing of white limestone,
south and west wall as high as one (west) or two (south) layers
under the ceiling, north and east wall to be completed around
the door from the fourth (east) and fifth (north) layer from
the floor. Two stones of the ninth layer of the west wall have
quarry marksand two of the second of the north wall in red
[figs.9.28, 9.37].
Cleared small passage along the east wall down to floor of the
chamber, which is natural rock. The debris of white limestone
chips is about 815cm deep. Photograph taken from over the
door looking south.12
The final entry for 1932 came on August15, when the floor of the
burial chamber was cleared.
The reiss diary contains several entries for g2210. On April28,
1935, the search commenced for the corners of the mastaba. The
northwest and southeast corners (figs.9.1, 9.3, 9.16) were exposed.
The northeast corner proved harder to locate, and was not reached
until May6, 1935. The southwest corner (fig. 9.3) was exposed on
May89, 1935. Excavations in the chapel on May31 and June3, 1935
produced no inscribed material.
Final confirmation that g2210 really did belong to Cemetery
g2100 did not come until the winter of 1935. Reisner himself
mentions the tomb in a BMFA aticle published later that year:
In another case, g2210, a small gang examining the interior
of the mastaba found that it contained a core mastaba of the
type built by Cheops and that this core was a part of the Cheops
Cemetery g2100. Thus the rather puzzling combination of type
forms was cleared up and the chronological problem presented by
that mastaba completely elucidated.13
The final diary entry comes on May1, 1938, when shaftsx and
y at the southwest corner of the mastaba were cleared (figs. 9.6,
9.499.50).
11 H
andrick diary, August6, 1932, p. 1186.
12 H
andrick/Wheeler diary, August12, 1932, pp.118788.
13 Reisner, Report on the Egyptian Expedition during 193435, BMFA33, no.199
(October 1935), p.72.
Finds
3291: upper part of roughly inscribed sunk relief limestone stela(?)

fragment with both vertical and horizontal lines of inscription,
and head of a figure in the center; h.14cm; w.35.8cm; th.15cm
(fig.9.8)

2 i O g
g
n U
T
4
or
n
T
1
Text: (1)ry [p]t ty- m-nr [] (2)m [] nb [] m [] n-prd(?) (3)ry pt ty- m-nr [] (4)m- []
Translation: (1)hereditary nobleman and count, priest of [], (2)[]
Ankhpakhered(?) [] (3)hereditary nobleman and count, priest of
[] (4)in/with []
3292: fragment of deep sunk limestone relief with horizontal lines and
possible tp sign(?) (present location uncertain); h.12cm;
w.18cm; th.5cm (fig.9.9)
3293: fragment of limestone relief; h.3.8cm; w.19cm; th.11cm (fig.9.9)
3294: fragment of limestone relief showing cord or belt loop(?)(present
location uncertain); h.12cm; w.18cm; th.4.6cm (fig.9.9)
MFA 3295: fragment of limestone raised relief with curving diamond
pattern; h.12.6; w.14.4cm; th.5.2cm (fig.9.99.10)
MFA 3296: fragment of limestone raised relief with feather or wing
pattern; h.5.6cm; w.9.4cm; th.1.9cm (fig.9.9, 9.11)
3297: fragment of limestone sunk relief part of a text column showing
three hieroglyphs,
,
, and seated or standing man !
(present location not certain); h.9cm; w.13cm; th.6cm
(fig.9.12)
3298: base fragment of alabaster jar (present location not certain);
h.510cm; w. at top: 8+/-cm; diam. at base 10.8cm (fig.9.13)
3299: fragment of head of Old Kingdom limestone statue, right half,
left quarter; top and face missing (present location not certain);
h.10cm; w.5.6cm; th.8.8cm (fig.9.14)
Objects: found on floor of chamber of shafta:

32101: RP bowl with recurved rim, round bottom, typeCXXXIIa;
h.6.0cm; d.22cm14
32102: RP bowl as 32101 above; type cxxxii a; h. 7.5cm; d. c. 25cm;
smeared with plaster in and outside15
32103: DbW or WSR fragments of jar of typeAIIb; h.35cm;
d.ca.23cm; potters marks on shoulder; plaster inside16 (fig.9.15)
32104: RBrW jar of typeAIIb; 20 fragments, all with plaster inside;
h.43cm; d. ca.21cm17
32105: coarse RW offering jar of typeAIVb, with plaster inside;
h.28cm; d.13.6cm18
32106: coarse RW jar of typeAIVb, with plaster inside; h.31.6cm;
d.15cm19
32107: coarse RW jar of typeIVb, without neck; h.18.4cm; d.12.2cm20
32108: 3 RW fragments of base of large basin, typeDXXXV(?); d. of flat
base, ca. 30cm, d. of rim over 45cm
32109: 3 fragments of mud-ware pottery bread mold, typeFXXV;
h.15+cm; d.20cm21
14 Reisner, GN1, p.435; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.81.

15 R
eisner, GN1, p.435; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.81.
16 R
eisner, GN1, p.435; fig.253; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.70.
20 Reisner, GN1, p.435; fig.253; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.71.
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321010, 321011: 23 fragments of large DbW jars of typeA-IIb; d. of rim,

ca.12cm; one with potters mark (fig.9.15)22
321012: 5 coarse RW fragments from neck of at least two jars of typeA
IVb; d. of rim, ca.12cm23
321013: 31 BrW fragments from one or more large jars, typeAIIb;
h.40cm; d.22cm24
321014: BrW, RBrW or RW base fragments of four jars of typeAIIb or
similar, and fragments of at least eight others; mostly with white
plaster inside; one with potters mark25
Architecture
This tomb, along with mastabas g2140, g2160, g2170, and g2220,
belongs to the group of anonymous major mastabas of Cemetery
g2100. Taking into account its eastern and northern extension,
it forms one of the larger mastabas of the cemetery, coupled with
g2120 and g2130. It still cannot compete, however, against the
massive size of g2220, located immediately to the east, and with
which Reisner assumed an association based on proximity.26
G2210 is the last of the earlier, western-half tombs in Cemetery
g2100 to be considered. It clearly belongs with this group by virtue
of the T-shaped portcullis grooves on its burial shaft (figs. 9.22
9.23). However, it underwent drastic alterations, with the extension
using massive boulders on the east and north. To the south, however,
we see little or no trace of these massive casing stones. There was
apparently little space to expand southwards, due to the northern
extension of Khentkas mastaba (g2130), a fact that proves that
g2210 postdates g2130.
In viewing the mastaba from the northwest today, the friable,
yellow undercolor of the deteriorating blocks of the northern side of
the mastaba is still visible. On the west side, there is only one area
where about six courses of the core blocks are visible through the
debris and dumps from other excavation areas (fig.9.6). Further to
the north of the tomb, even more hills of debris dumps are visible,
and this area was never excavated. The northern edges of g2220
are particularly difficult to identify in this area. The massive core
blocks on the east side of g2210, north of the chapel, have suffered
extensive weathering, also revealing their friable, yellow undercolor.
It is impossible to determine the original shape and dimensions
of the secondary chapel, located not within the original mastaba core
but within the eastern extension (figs.9.49.5). A large, rectangular
recess is all that is visible in this area. The massive casing blocks
forming the rear (west) wall of the chapel against the core are missing,
revealing the cores east wall proper (compare figs. 9.4 and 9.20
with 9.5 and 9.21). If there was a stela emplacement for g2210, the
massive boulders for the stone chapel would most likely be covering
its location. The same holds true for a possible north niche, such as
appears in the tombs of Nefer (g2110), Khentka (g2130), Kanefer
(g2150), and KaninisutI (g2155). The street between g2210 and
2220 was never excavated; one small hill of debris may represent the
fill from one of these two tombs burial shafts.
There is ample evidence that this mastaba was never completed,
and may only have been occupied secondarily. The burial chamber
of the single shafta was originally planned for a depth of 13m,
where a burial chamber was begun but only partly completed when
22
23
24
25
26
Reisner, GN1, p.435, fig.253; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.70.

R
the work was halted. Later the shaft excavation was recommenced,
ending in a much deeper second burial chamber (figs.9.269.36).27
This chamberII is also far larger than most in Cemetery g2100.
It is possible, as Jnosi postulates, that the deepening of the shaft
and the mastaba cores extension to the north and east took place
simultaneously, but these tasks were not completed.28 The lining
of the burial chamber also remained unfinished (figs. 9.289.29,
9.339.36). These features all confirmed for Reisner that the owner
of g2210 died prematurely.29 A mass of wood coffin fragments
and disarticulated human bones was found in the second (lower)
chamber of shafta.30 Two other interesting features of chamberII
include a window joining the shaft and burial chamber, located
just above the passageway southwards from the shaft to the chamber
(figs.9.24, 9.30),31 and a number of masons marks or quarry graffiti
on the blocking and lining stones of chamberII (figs.9.379.45).
Shafts and Burials
g2210a (figs.9.469.47)
Distant view of mainly disarticulated skeleton; vertebrae, ribs, and
sacrum are articulated, but long bones, cranium, and pelvis are
not properly associated. Visible elements include cranium (upside
down), left os coxa, scattered ribs, tibia, fibula, right and left femora,
several unidentified long bones, vertebral column, sacrum, and
articulated ribs. Adult, sex uncertain. Tomb card sketch adds no
further information; note that the sketch is not exactseveral bones
are incorrectly drawn or positioned, or are missing from the drawing.
Date

early reign of Khufu (core); Khafre (mastaba).
This tomb must postdate g2130. The mastaba core dates to
Khufus reign due to the burial shafts T-shaped portcullis grooves,
the original size of the core and its location in the (earlier) western
half of Cemetery g2100. But secondary alterations, including the
uncharacteristically large, second burial chamber cut in shafta,
point to activity subsequent to the reign of Khufu. Reisner and
Jnosi may be correct in assigning the mastaba as finished during
the reign of Khafre.32
Decoration
No decoration is preserved in the tomb.
Name: no name recovered.

The names of no other individuals are preserved in the tomb.
27
28
29
30
31
32

J nosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.154.
R
eisner, GN1, p.435.
Given the wood coffin fragments and scattered human bones, it is unclear why
Jnosi suggests the tomb may never have been used, Giza in der 4. Dynastie,
p.222.
Compare other shaft passages with similar windows: g1223a, g1235a, and
g7320a; Reisner, GN1, p.164, figs.7073.
Cf. Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.219, table12.
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Other People
Rwr (stela north of chapel of g 2210), Rawer

wb nswt, royal wab-priest
n-p-rd, Ankhpakhered(?) (3291)

ry pt, hereditary nobleman
ty-, count
m-nr [], priest of []
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Fig. 9.1. G 2210, southeast corner and chapel area, with g2130 at left, looking northwest. March 12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.026.12.
Fig. 9.2. Street east of g2210, showing g2220 (to the left, east) and g2210
(to the right, west), looking south towards the Khafre Pyramid. March 11,
Fig. 9.3. G 2210, south side, looking north. November15, 1993.

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Fig. 9.4. G 2210a, remains of chapel, looking west. May 20, 1935. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7279.
Fig. 9.5. G 2210a, remains of chapel, looking west. March 12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.026.11.
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N M
Fig. 9.6. G 2210, west face, from top of g2000, looking east. November
19, c
1993.
pdm_1993.100.14.
d
t eManuelian,
v a Der
a Peter
Unex
A B
C
G 2115
N
X
G 2210
2131
W
U
Unexcavated
Y Z
A C
2134a X
10 m
D B C
Fig. 9.7. G2210, plan.
G 2134
G 2137
A
B
A
A
G 2133
G 2132
G 2151
X
C G 2136
B A
A
C G 2152
G 2220
265
G 2138
A
G 2139
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10
cm
Fig. 9.8. 3291, fragment of limestone sunk-relief stela(?) from area of g2210, reproduced from
HUMFA Expedition Object Register vol.24, p. 1148.
10 cm
Fig. 9.9. 3292, 3293, 3294, 3295, 3296, relief fragments

found in the vicinity of g2210, drawn from HUMFA Expedition
Object Register vol.24, p. 1148.
1:5 or 20% scale
Fig. 9.10. MFA3295, fragment of limestone relief from area of g2210.

Fig. 9.11. MFA3296, fragment of limestone relief from area of g2210.

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10
cm
Fig. 9.12. 3297, fragment of limestone sunk relief

from area of g2210, reproduced from HUMFA
Expedition Object Register 24, p.1149. Present
location not certain.
10
cm
Fig. 9.14. 3299, fragment of limestone head from area of g2210, reproduced from HU
MFA Expedition Object Register 24, p.1149. Present location not certain.
32-9-9
G 2210
0
10
cm
Fig. 9.13. 3298, base fragment of alabaster

jar from
area of g2210, drawnL.from
G 2210
13 HU
cm
MFA Expedition Object
Register
24,cm
p.1149.
1/2
W.
9
32-9-7
G 2210
H. not
5 cm,
10.8 cm
Present
location
certain.
Th. 6 cm
32103
321011
H. 5 cm, 15 cm
W. 5.6 cm
Th.25 cm
8.8 cm
5
10
cm
Fig. 9.15. 32103, 321011, potters marks on ceramics

from floor of burial chamber of g2210a: after Reisner,
Fig . 253 G 2210
GN1, p.435, fig.253.
32-9-8 W. top + and - 8 cm

D. base 10.8 cm
1/2
alabaster jar
Fig. 9.16. G 2210, southeast corner, looking northwest. March 11, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.013.18.
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Fig. 9.17. G 2210, chapel profile and street, looking south, with workman at north niche of g2130. November3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.055.07.
A
chapel
Fig. 9.18. G2210 chapel area, sketch plan. Drawing by Alexander Floroff,
June4, 1935.
G 2220
268
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Section AB
Filling
Baseline
Fig. 9.19. G2210 chapel area, section AB looking north
Fig. 9.20. G2210, chapel area, sketch of west wall casing stones, looking
west. Drawing by Alexander Floroff, June1, 1935. Compare figs.9.49.5.
0
chapel supposedly 6 m wide; scale off here?
Section WE Looking North
Fig. 9.21. G 2210, chapel profile and street, looking north. November3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.055.06.
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Fig. 9.22. G2210a, mouth of shaft, looking south. November 3, 1993.

Fig. 9.23. G2210a, mouth of shaft, looking east. November 3, 1993.

Fig. 9.24. G2210a, window above chamber II, looking south. July25,
1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, A6988
Fig. 9.25. G2210a, outer blocking of passage, looking south. August5,

1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, b8247.
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5.15 m
13.00 m
13.00 m
26.80 m
Chamber I
10
m
26.80 m
Section AB
271
Section AB looking west
Fig. 9.26. G2210a, sections of chambers I and II.
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Plan of Chamber I
N
C
V
A
VI
E
Plan of Chamber II
Fig. 9.27. G2210a, plans of chambers I and II.
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IV
Section CD north wall
II
III
Section EF looking south
chamber II
Plan of window
Section BA looking east
0
Fig. 9.28. G2210a, section CD, looking north, and BA, looking east, showing
the lining of the burial chamber walls.
Fig. 9.30. G2210a, plan and section of window to chamber II.
Fig. 9.29. G2210a, section CD, looking south, casing of south wall of
chamber II.
273
Casing of south wall of chamber II
G2210. A.II
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Fig. 9.31. G2210a, looking south through passage into chamber. August13,
Fig. 9.32. G2210a, inner blocking of passage, looking south. August7,

Fig. 9.33. G2210a, burial chamber corner, casing of south wall, looking
south. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
a7019.
Fig. 9.34. G2210a, burial chamber corner, casing of west wall, looking
west. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
a7020.
Fig. 9.35. G2210a, burial chamber corner, casing of north wall, looking
north. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
a7017.
Fig. 9.36. G2210a, burial chamber corner, casing of east wall, looking east.
October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7018.
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Fig. 9.37. G2210a, north wall of chamberII, quarry marks on two casing stones. October10, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, b8261.
Fig. 9.38. G2210a, limestone block from door blocking, first row,
block no.III west. August13, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
block no.III west. August13, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
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Stones with quarry marks in lining of chamber II:

in black
in black
in black
in red
west wall, south

end, top
in red
north wall, second course from

bottom, east end
west wall, north end, second course

from top
Stones in door blocking:

in black
in red
in black
on floor in
chamber
in red
first row
block no. III
south
first row, block no. II

bottom
first row, block no. I,

east
in red
in red
first row
block no. IV
east
Second row
block no. V
south
first row, block no. III

west
in black
in black
Second row
block no. V
east
Second row
block no. VI
top
0
Fig. 9.40. G2210a, limestone blocks from lining of chamberII and from door blocking.
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Fig. 9.41. G2210a, limestone block from door blocking, second row,
block no.V east. August14, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
block no.V south. August12, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
block no.V south. August14, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
block no.III south. August12, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Fig. 9.45. G2210a, limestone block from door blocking, first row, block
no.II bottom. August14, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
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Fig. 9.46. G2210a, floor of burial chamber, looking south. August12, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Fig. 9.47. G2210a, burial chamber, remains of burial (skeleton) and debris on floor, looking west. August14, 1932. HU
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55
56
40
39
39
45
46
42
40
22
41
vertebrae
and ribs in one mass

29
skull
37
pelvis
61
61
61
33
61
62
61
20
18
25
28
32
31
35
47
61
21
24
34
36
lower jaw
61
23
27
26
53
19
30
61
N
62
50
pelvis
62
58
17
62
64
60
51
48
7
8
49
16
11
12
10
Window above door
14
13
15
3
54
57
5
m
Fig. 9.48. G2210a, burial chamber, plan of remains of burial (skeleton) and debris on floor.
Section
Section
based on description
in reiss diary, p. 651
based on sketch in
reiss diary, p. 651
N
0
Plan
2210 X plan
Fig. 9.49.GG2210x,
and section.
Plan
Fig. 9.50. G2210y, plan and section.
1
G 2210 Y
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Chapter 10
ANONYMOUS TOMB:
Mastaba g 2135 (= VIInn = g 4770)
Finds
Fragment of limestone raised-relief slab stela: GermanAustrian Expedition

under H. Junker, 191213; found in the debris east of the chapel
area of g2135; current location: Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna, Inv. S7799; h. 24cm; w. 27cm; th. 8cm ( see discussion
below, figs.10.1310.15).2
From shafta:3
Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim3051:4 fragmentary white limestone sarcophagus
(now restored): plain box with flat lid; outside 2.09 x 0.82m;
h.0.62m; thickness of lid 7.58cm; rebate on outside of upper edge
of box with corresponding ledge on coffin lid fitting down outside
the rebate; two projecting lug handles on each end of lid; thickness of
sides of sarcophagus 9.5cm (figs.10.1010.12)
Lower part of (limestone?) female seated statuette, from the debris of the
shaft
Fragments of alabaster vessels
Fragments of Arabic lamp
Mastaba:1 core typeIIa, used as mastaba with exterior crude brick chapel of
type(1a) and slab stela emplacement: 23.45 x 10.3m (Junkers plan)

area 241.53sq.m; proportion 1/2.27; h. 4.0m
Chapel: exterior crude brick chapel of type(1 a), built around

emplacement for slab stela; partly obscured by later

constructions; probably five rooms, (a), (b), on west, and
(c), (d), (e), on east

Room (a): northsouth offering room around slab stela emplacement

set in south end of west wall; 5.4 x 2.5m; area 13.5sq.m
proportion 1/2.16

Room (b): magazine south of (a): 2.15 x 2.5m; area 5.38sq.m

entered from (a) by doorway in east end of north wall

Room (c): vestibule east of (a), on north; destroyed

Room (d): room connecting (c) with (e); northern part destroyed
width 2.0m

Room (e): magazine south of (d): 2.15 x 2.0m; area 4.3sq.m; entered

from (d) in west end of north wall

Total area, (a)(e), estimated at 33.0sq.m; relation 1/7.31
Shafta: one shaft north of middle; type 1cm

lining unfinished; 2.1 x 2.1m at top and 1.8 x 1.8m at bottom

5.7m (15 courses) lined with masonry; 7.0m in rock

chamber on south, partly lined but not paved in rock

3.8 x 3.06m; h.3.05m; area 14.63sq.m

capacity 44.62cu.m

lined room 3.01 x 3.06m; h.3.05m; the lining was begun and

built to a mean height of four courses

pavement was never begun


passage (including lining): 1.55 x 1.31.45m; h.1.1m)

step down from passage to floor of chamber 1.2m

blocking gone

white limestone sarcophagus: plain box with flat lid, typed; now

Hildesheim3051; see description below, under Finds

canopic pit in southeast corner; 0.52 x 0.5m; 0.43m
Excavation
This tomb lay south of the dividing line separating the American
concession on the north from the GermanAustrian concession on
the south. It was thus excavated by Hermann Junker in 1912 (see
his Gza1, pp.22731, numbered VII NN and g4770), and will
accordingly receive only the briefest of treatments here.
See Reisner, GN1, pp.43536; Junker, Gza1, pp.22731; idem, Gza6, p.84,
fig. 26.
Architecture
Along with the tomb of KaninisutI (g2155), mastaba g2135 forms the
southward extension of Cemetery g2100 (figs.2.5, 10.2). Whether the
location of these two mastaba cores, out of alignment with the rest of
the Cemetery g2100 cluster, was forced by the existence of the large
mastaba g2220 further to the north, cannot be determined.
Reisner took g2135 to be the first tomb of the later, eastern
group of mastabas, contemporary with g2210 and dating towards
the end of Khufus reign.5 Junker, on the other hand, dated the tomb
to the reign of Menkaure.6 Several features serve to link the tomb to
the older, western half of the cemetery. Primary among them are the
mud-brick exterior chapel, the remnants of a slab stela (although the
location of its original emplacement can no longer be identified),
and the lining of the burial chamber, which also includes a canopic
depression in the southeast corner. The lack of T-shaped portcullis
grooves in the burial shaft and the mastabas location in the eastern half
of the cemetery are all that serve to postdate it slightly after the core
construction of mastabas g2100, g2110, g2120, g2130, and g2210.
The core of g2135 was never cased, nor were any alterations
made to the exterior mud-brick chapel once surrounding the cult
focus of the slab stela. Although the chapel was later destroyed by
subsequent constructions to the north (figs.10.1, 10.3), it preserves
at least three or four rooms.7 The entrance from the north led into
a long, rectangular entrance room, connecting to a square room
further south, and an offering room to the west, up against the
mastaba and surrounding the slab stela emplacement.
The burial shaft occupies the positionnorth of centerin
the core that is expected for a Khufu-era mastaba (figs.10.610.9).
2
3
4
5
6
7
I am grateful to Regina Hlzl of the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, for

providing these corrected measurements, improving on those published by
Junker, Gza1, pp.229, 230 fig.53, pl.37b. See also Manuelian, Slab Stelae,
pp.8487, pls.1920 (stela10).
Junker, Gza1, p.231C (Liste der Kleinfnde).
PMIII, p.75; Junker, Gza1, pp.5455, 231, fig.5, pl.11; G. Roeder, Neue
Hildesheimer Denkmler aus den Grabungen bei Gise, in Alt-Hildesheim (Eine
Zeitschrift fr Stadt und Stift Hildesheim) 10 (1930), pp.5257 (for this reference
I thank Bettina Schmitz); Kayser, Die gyptischen Altertmer, p.11; DonadoniRoveri, Sarcofagi egizi, p.122 [b30]. The sarcophagus is at this writing in
fragments in storage in the Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim.
Reisner, GN1, pp.112, 43536.
Junker, Gza1, pp.1112, 14.
R
eisner reconstructed five rooms: GN1, p.435. For a detailed plan of the area, see
Junker, Gza6, p.84, fig.26, and overview plan at the end of the volume.
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The layout of the burial chamber follows Reisners type1cm. This

consists of a lined chamber south of the shaft, entered by a connecting
passage near the east end of the north wall of the chamber. The burial
chamber is lined and paved with fine white limestone blocks but not
roofed. Reisners designation c stands for a square or nearly square
chamber on the south, and m for an opening near the middle of
the chamber wall, with a rise to the roof and a drop to floor of the
chamber. While the lining of the walls appears incomplete, Junker
notes that possible quarrying away of the blocks might explain their
absence.8
A number of later intrusive shafts were sunk into the street
east of the mastaba. Reisner omitted these from his general plan of
Cemetery g2100, and Junker only includes them on a small plan in
his Gza6 (redrawn and augmented in figs.2.5, 10.2).9 Ten shafts
seem to obscure the chapel area proper; they are numbered 137,
280ab, and 281af. Another six shafts were located further north
and numbered 275, 278ad. Shaft280a, one of the larger, more
regular mud-brick shafts, was positioned directly behind a small false
door (not illustrated in Gza6). Junker reproduces traces of the text
as follows:
along with its companion tombs likewise (once) containing slab

stelae (Sedit g2100, Nefer g2110[?], Seshatsekhentiu g2120, and
KaninisutI[?] g2155), should be placed in the early to mid-reign of
Khufu.
Decoration
The Slab Stela Fragment.12

Text and translation:
Sectiona:
[]
Sectionb:
[]
Sectionc:
1
Text: []nfr r.nf prt-rw t nt pt []

Translation: [] Nefer. May he make (or: may there be made for him)
invocation offerings of bread, beer and cakes
[], (1)msdmt, [w](?), (2)tt mrt, rp, (3)d, nbs

[], (1)black eye-paint, [green eye]-paint(?), (2)best ointment,
wine, (3)persea fruit, zizyphus13
To avoid confusion, Junker named this individual NeferIII,

although his name might be compounded with another element
preceeding nfr that is not preserved. The other shafts, nos.281 and
281bc, show merely rough stone walls and are thus likely to be later
and intrusive.
Sectiond:
Y[
I
[[[
Shafts and Burials
Junker does not mention skeletal remains in the shaft, despite the
presence of the fragmentary limestone sarcophagus. No photography
of the burial chamber has yet been identified among the preserved
Junker archives in Vienna and Hildesheim.
!
rrr
rr r
r
rr
rr
rr rr
rr
rr r
rr
rr
rr
rr
IIII
rr
r
Date

late reign of Khufu (core), late reign of KhufuDjedefre (mastaba).10
Junker believed that g2135 dates to the reign of Shepseskaf,
but Jnosi has shown that there is no reason to posit such a late
Dynasty4 date for the tomb.11 Reisners interpretation (Khufu) is
preferred to that of Junker (MenkaureShepseskaf ). Otherwise, it
would be difficult to explain why, under Menkaure, g2135 would
have retained just a slab stela and mud-brick chapel, while
elsewhere, during the same reign, entire decorated chapels with false
doors were being constructed.
In the surviving decoration of the slab stela (figs.10.1310.15),
the absence of vertical separators in the linen list (Sectiond), and
the tall, but still flaring, shape to the offering loaves in the table
scene (Sectionc), all speak for an early date in the dynasty. As one
of the earlier of two groups of Cemetery g2100 mastabas, g2135,
dmy 4 , 3 , 2 , 1
idemy-linen:14 a thousand of 4 (cubits wide), a thousand of 3 (cubits
wide), a thousand of 2 (cubits wide), a thousand of 1 (cubit wide)
12
8 J unker, Gza1, p.231, n.2.
9 J unker, Gza6, pp.9394, with fig.26.
10 Compare PMIII, p. 75: middle of late Dynasty4; Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie,
p.153: Khufu or shortly thereafter; Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.85: Khufu.
11 Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.15153; cf. also Reisner, GN1, p.112.
$
F

u
C

Yu
13
14
Selected bibliography: PMIII, p.75, Junker, Gza1, pp.22930, fig.53b, pl.37b;

Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.8487, pls.1920 (stela10); Hlzl, Reliefs und
Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches3, CAA22 (in preparation).
Alternatively, nabq-fruit; see Emery, Hemaka, p.52.
On the choice of transliteration dmy instead of twy, see Manuelian, Slab Stelae,
pp.15360, discussion of Sectiond (linen lists).
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sr , t , psw , mnw , sfw , ssw

sesher-linen: a thousand of width ,15 a thousand of 100 (cubits wide),
a thousand of 90 (cubits wide),16 a thousand of 80 (cubits wide), a
thousand of 70 (cubits wide), a thousand of 60 (cubits wide)
mt-nfrt t [], [psw?], []
fine linen: a thousand of 100 (cubits wide), a thousand of [90? (cubits
wide)], []
[ ]
[aa-linen]
Only the upper right-hand corner of this piece survives. Junker

was unable to determine either the exact findspot for the fragment, or
the emplacement area in the mastaba core wall. Recent examination of
the tomb has only revealed that the area has since deteriorated further.
Extrapolating from the single fragment allows for the
reconstruction of a short-form17 stela that bears much in common
with slab stelae discovered by Reisner in Cemetery g1200. The linen
list, containing four dmy falcons (Sectiond), reached to the top of
the decoration. The offerings of Sectionc are arranged just to the
15
16
17
his word is written t on the Helwan stela from tomb247; cf. Saad, Ceiling
T
Stelae in Second Dynasty Tombs, pl.30; Kahl, Kloth, and Zimmermann, Die
Inschriften der 3. Dynastie, p.175(d); however, it never appears with a .t on any of
the Giza slab stelae. The value is most likely more than 100 or 200, but less than
1,000; cf. P. Posener-Kriger, Les mesures des toffes lancien empire, RdE29
(1977), pp.9394.
Or possibly 90 cubits square? On the difference between vertical and horizontal
linen units of measure, see Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.137, based on P. PosenerKriger, Les mesures des toffes lancien empire, pp.8696; Kahl, Kloth, and
Zimmermann, Die Inschriften der 3. Dynastie, p. 175ff.; Edel, Eine althieratische
Liste von Grabbeigaben aus einem Grab des spten Alten Reiches der Qubbet
el-Hawa bei Assuan, NAWG6 (1987), pp.98, 104. On the large numbers,
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Textiles, in Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology,
p.295, notes that 845 square meters of cloth were found in the Middle Kingdom
tomb of Meketre at Thebes (H.E. Winlock, The Mummy of Wah unwrapped,
BMMA35 [1940], p.257), and Tutankhamens tomb produced 400 items of
clothing.
For a discussion of short-form and long-form slab stelae, see Manuelian, Slab
Stelae, pp.1, 117, fig.176, and passim.
left of the list in vertical columns without any vertical dividing lines.
This means that the identifying inscription (Sectiona) was a short
one, possibly restricted to the area just above the head of the deceased,
as with the slab stelae of Khufunakht (g1205), Nefer (g1207), and
Nefretiabet (g1225).18 Oddly enough, however, each of these stelae
displays some sort of dividing lines, either vertical or horizontal,
to separate the offerings; those slab stelae that do not separate the
offerings with lines tend to surmount them with a longer horizontal
band of text with the identifying inscription (Sectiona). The present
fragment, then, seems to combine elements from both traditions.
The linen list falcons hover just above the mnt signs in an
arrangement paralleled only on the slab stela of Kanefer from g1203
and on an anonymous stela from g4860, although in the latter
case the mnt signs appear in front of each (reversed) falcon rather
than behind.19 A final element that recalls slab stela examples from
Cemetery g1200 is the absence of vertical dividers in the width and
amount designations () of the linen list. Parallels include the slab
stelae of Wepemnefret (g1201), Kanefer (g1203), and Khufunakht
(g1205).20 Nothing survives of the funerary repast (Sectionb) except
for six left-facing and one right-facing half-loaves of bread.

The names of no other individuals are preserved in the tomb.
18
19
20
I bid., pls.58, 1112, pp. 4653, 5862.

Ibid., pp.4245, 108111.
The stela of Nefretiabet (g1225) corrected this arrangement with the addition of
vertical separators between the signs in red and yellow paint.
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G 2100I
C
G 2100II
B
A
G 2102
B
X
G 2120
slab stela
Fig. 10.1. Street and chapel area east of g2135, looking north. Most likely March 1912. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Viennaaeos_1_5461.
10 m
G 2136b
Nimaatre
G 4760 = VII N
132
131
G 2140
G 2135
266
133
G 2135a
Qedfy
267
270
137
281
b
281 281 281

f
d e
281
281
c
280
a
Nefer III
G 4761 Nefer
130
280
?
280
b
278
278
a
275
278
d
278
b
G 2136
Kahif
G
B
G 2148
271
278
c
G 2136a
Djednefret
Fig.10.2. G2135, plan of mastaba and surrounding area, based on and augmented from Junker, Gza1, p.228, fig.52; idem, Gza6, p.81,
fig.21, and p.93,
fig.26.
G 2155
284
G 2160
A
S
G 2156a
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B
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2165
Fig. 10.3. Street and chapel area east of g2135, looking south (= Junker, Gza1, pl.37a). Most likely March 1912. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Viennaaeos_1_5284.
Fig. 10.4. Street and chapel area east of g2135, looking south towards
the Khafre Pyramid. November20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.103.07.
Fig. 10.5. Chapel area of g2135, looking west. November21, 1993. Peter
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Fig. 10.6. G 2135, north end, looking south towards shafta. November20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.104.06.
Fig. 10.7. G 2135a, mouth of shaft, looking north. November3, 1993. Peter
Fig. 10.8. G 2135a, mouth of shaft, looking south. November3, 1993. Peter
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7.0 m
5.7 m
Section
Plan
0
Fig. 10.9. G 2135a, plan and section, adapted from Junker, Gza1, p.228, fig.52.
G 2135 A
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B
A
B
A
Fig. 10.11. Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 3051, limestone sarcophagus

from g2135a. About 19301940. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna, o_neg_nr_0566 (3051_Pos_01; Hildesheim 941_3051_a).
Fig. 10.10. Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 3051, limestone sarcophagus

from g2135a. Courtesy Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim.
50 cm
Fig. 10.12. Drawing of limestone sarcophagus from g2135a, Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 3051, after Junker, Gza1, p.55, fig.5.
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Junker,
Giza 1
p. 55
sarcophagus
from G 2135
Kalksteinsarg aus VIInn (Hildesheim)

Abb. 5
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PDM
10 cm
Fig. 10.13. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7799 from g2135 (=VIInn, g4770). Colorized drawing of the slab stela fragment,
showing three of the four decorative sections.
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Fig. 10.14. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7799 from g2135 (=VIInn, g4770), slab stela fragment.
Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum.
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PDM
PDM
0
10 cm
a, S 7799
(55%)
Fig. 10.15. Drawing of slab stela fragment Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7799 from g2135 (=VIInn, g4770).
291
0
S 7799
10 cm
(55%)
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Chapter 11. Anonymous tomb: Mastaba: g2140
Chapter 11
ANONYMOUS TOMB:
Mastaba g 2140
Mastaba:1 old core of typeIIa of normal size; uncased

altered by introduction of interior chapel of type(3a) into

uncased mastaba of typeVIb(1); 23.2 x 10.4m


retaining wall of z-masonry of drab limestone; h.4.2m


Chapel type: white limestone interior, type(3a), in hole broken in old core
2.65 x 1.1m; h.2.55m; area 2.91sq.m; proportion 1/2.4

relation 1/82.91

single false door near south end of west wall

entered from east by doorway in north end of east wall
Shafta: sole shaft, north of middle

1.85 x 1.85m at top and 1.6 x 1.6m at bottom; -2.9m in rock

lined with drab masonry, 4.15m; eleven courses

chamber: low degenerate form of type3b

on south; 2.3 x 2.1m; h.1.45m

area 4.83sq.m; capacity, 7.0cu.m

passage: 1.05 x 1.2m; h.1.2m; step up from floor of passage

to floor of chamber, 0.2m

blocking: typeIIb(1); two blocks remained in place

stone bench: an unfinished attached stone coffin; along

west wall beginning against south wall; 1.95 x 0.6m

h.0.5m

chamber littered with rubbish, broken human bones and a large

two-handled jar (MFA 321218; see below, Finds)
Excavation
Primary excavation of g2140 took place under Lythgoe during

the 19051906 season. No excavation diaries were preserved from
this season. Additional concentration on this area took place from
January21 to February5, 1912 (fig. 11.4). Expedition photographs
from 19051906 show the clearance of the area in front of the chapel,
as well as the excavation of shafta (figs.11.3, 11.1911.20). Diary entries
mentioning this tomb are preserved from 1912, 193232, and 1938.
Fishers diary entry for January21, 1912 states that in the northeast
corner of g2140, a broken sandstone figure of man standing was
found, and in the debris above the subsidiary burial pits between
g2140 and g2150 were a number of fragments of a fine large
alabaster statue. The following days were spent clearing the area
between g2140 and g2150, but no further details are forthcoming
from Fishers notes, and the present location of said statue fragments
is not certain. On January28, 1912, the day of Reisners return to
1
See Reisner, GN1, pp.43637, figs.25446, pls.38ab.
Giza, work began on the east face of g2140 (fig.11.4). Fisher describes
the chapel thus:
Here there is a simple beam lintel door-way opening into a
plain unsculptured room. On the walls are Arabic inscriptions,
evidence of the recent opening of the offering room.2
The only other mention made of the tomb in 1912 consists of the
discovery of a fragment of a large alabaster jar between g2140 and
g2160 (February14, 1912; similar to one found near g2184), and
Reisners statement on February25, 1912, that g2140, g2160, and
g2180 appear not to have been used.
The burial chamber of shafta (fig.11.22) was examined for the
second time, judging from the 1905-dated excavation photographs,
on December30, 1932. Wheeler notes in his diary that the room is
rough, with a mastaba on the west side. Found in debris:bones
of body disturbed and broken, broken pot (large, handled).3 On
January1, 1933, a search on the top of the mastaba for a second burial
shaft proved unsuccessful.
The final entries preserved for g2140 came in March, 1938, in
the reiss s diary. On March19, the crew searched for the lining of the
mastabas core on the north side, and the area between g2140 and
g2150 was excavated (revealing subsidiary mastabas g2141, g2143,
and g2144). Limestone debris, pebbles, and stones were mentioned,
as well as an inscribed limestone fragment with a figure on it. On
March2021 and 23, 1938, the work shifted east of g2140 in the
street, but no additional structures were exposed.4
On November27, 1993, the chapel floor inside the entrance
was cleared in search of door socket holes. An empty rectangular
emplacement is present above the door on the south side (see
fig.11.12). This indicates that the door was intended to swing open
into the chapel (southward), partially obstructing access to the room
itself, instead of to the north, covering only the north wall. No
socket was located in the stone floor below this ceiling emplacement
block. The chapel was, however, unfinished, and most likely no door
was ever installed.
Finds
Found in shafta
321218 (=MFA47.1661; fig. 11.7): Special combed ware: two-handled
Byblos oil amphora, typeBLIV, partly covered with thin plaster
coat; incised with heavily combed horizontal lines, a few diagonal
hatchings, and triangular pot mark at top towards one handle;
sand and lime particle inclusions; complete except for chips from
rolled rim; h.43cm; diam.39cm; d.rim 9.0cm; d.neck 6.0cm;
d.body 20cm; w. with two stirrup handles 27.6cm; d. base
10.0cm;5 Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.75: Reisner believed that
the jars found at Giza were used as containers for olive oil or cedar
oil. The jars from g2140a (321218) and g2350l (4057)
both contained a dried resinous substance. Mr. Lucas analyzed a
sample from the first of these jars (g2140a) and reported that the
material was a fragrant resin, a true resin as distinguished from
fragrant gum resins, such as frankincense and myrrh. It is almost
2
3
4
Fischer diary, January28, 1912, p.16.

heeler diary, December30, 1932, p.1193.
W
The reiss diary for March20, 1928, p.634 contains the following addendum:
The Cocktail Day. An Exhibition of paintings by Joseph Lindon Smith was held
at 4 p.m. at the Harvard Camp; the guests were 258 and the cars were 105. The
day was a grand day; everything was all right; Mrs. and Miss Reisner were looking
[after] every body in the exhibition and also all the expedition staff.
R
eisner, GN1, p.437, fig.256; Reisner and Smith, GN2, pp.7476.
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certainly from a coniferous tree, and from Western Asia, that is

from Syria or Asia Minor. In the same letter, dated in December
1939, Mr. Lucas went on to say: I would suggest, first, that the
tree from which the resin was derived was either fir (possibly
Cilician Fir, which grows both in Syria and Asia Minor: Abies
cilicica) or pine (possibly the Aleppo pine, Pinus halepensis, which
is the commonest pine in the Mediterranean region); second,
that the material is what the Egyptians called ach-resin.6 An
analysis conducted at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in
OctoberNovember 1981 was summarized in 1986.7 Results from
that analysis included the following details:
Data Summary: MFA 47.1661
Technique:
cut off
Firing:
oxidized
Inclusions:
sand, lime particles
Rim:
rolled rim
Ware:
medium
Color (Munsell): surface: 10R 6/4;

Variations of
section
Surface
treatment:
Natural slip:
Function
indications:
gray core, redyellow to pale red

combed all over, deeply and heavily
impressed; cord impressions on mid- upper
body; triangular pot mark at top of one
handle
incrustations heavy all over exterior
321220: Bones and skull of human skeleton, from chamber of shafta

(fig.11.22)
38320: White limestone sunk-relief fragment with leg of male figure;
h.36.5cm; w.41cm8 (fig.11.8)
Architecture
This tomb is located in the later, eastern half of Cemetery g2100.

It is an uncased mastaba core, with no north subsidiary niche. It
received secondary alterations before it was ultimately left unfinished.
The most significant change was the placement of an interior stone
chapel, broken into the core of the original mastaba. The shaft is
unusually short (less than 3m below ground level), with none of the
older, T-shaped portcullis grooves (fig.11.19). Moreover, the burial
chamber is likewise uncharacteristically small (4.83sq.m), with a
raised platform on its western side (fig.11.22). Despite the unfinished
nature of the chapel, there are skeletal remains in the burial chamber,
including a skull found on the platform, although there is no way to
demonstrate that it is contemporaneous with the chapel.
The chapel entrance consists of massive limestone blocks
forming the architrave and entrance jambs (figs. 11.2, 11.1011.11).
Reisners section drawing correctly indicates the makeshift nature of

the south entrance thickness (fig.11.9).9 The drum is set back deep
within the entrance. None of these surfaces was ever inscribed.
Inside the chapel, the ceiling slabs are still preserved, as they
are in the chapels of Nensedjerkai (g2100-11), Kahif (g2136), and
KaninisutII (g2156). Four intact roofing slabs, each measuring about
123cm in length and from 75, 65, 88, and 45cm in width respectively,
extend from south to north (figs.11.1411.15). Pink plaster mortar is
preserved in several of the roofing joints. The undecorated walls are
intact but for a large hole broken into the east wall (fig.11.14). The
false door is prepared, with two pairs of jambs, but received merely
the beginning of the offering formula, running right to left in vertical
formation, on the architrave at the top of the door.
East of g2140, the street was later occupied by small mastabas,
g2148 south of the chapel and g2145g2147 to the north.
Shafts and Burials
g2140a (fig.11.22)
Disarrayed skeleton (321220)cranium and mandible are up
on the stone bench at foot of the infracranium. Legs are mainly
articulatedapparently lying on back, legs extended. Observable are
both femora, tibiae, and fibulae. Age and sex uncertain. No tomb
card sketch.
Date

late reign of Khufu (core); Khafre (mastaba).10
Based on the surrounding mastabas and their alterations, Jnosi
suggests that g2140 received its secondary attention after the reign
of Khufu.11 The lack of two false doors in the interior stone chapel
and the form of the shaft (no T-shaped portcullis grooves, no lined
burial chamber, or canopic depression) seem to support a final date
in the reign of Khafre.
Decoration
The only decorated surface clearly associated with g2140 is the

unfinished architrave over the false door at the southern end of the
interior stone chapels west wall (figs.11.1511.18). The text is carved in
raised relief, roughly hewn, and barely continuing beyond the initial
tp nswt formula. The surface has been taken back all around the
carved hieroglyphs, and this work has proceeded further in the lower
half of the architrave. The layout seems to consist of several vertically
arranged groupings, instead of two horizontally spaced lines.12 None
of the signs bears rounded, smooth edges or interior detail. Smith
discusses the unfinished hieroglyph , and the small chisel strokes
and pitting of the background.13
4
=

8
uncarved
I n the third edition of his Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries (1948), p.370,
Lucas again discusses the sample from g2140a. Here, although he states his
conclusions somewhat more cautiously, he retains the same opinion: Manifestly,
therefore, it was a true resin from a coniferous tree and possibly ach-resin.
D. Esse and P.K. Hopke, Levantine Trade in the Early Bronze Age, in Proceedings
of the 24th International Archaeometry Symposium, pp. 34, 336, fig.31.4c. The
authors mention a similar vessel excavated by S. Hassan in his mastaba of
shaft294 (=g8887), cf. his Giza2, p.146, fig.173.
The only confirmation that this fragment belongs with this tombs objects list
is the original HUMFA Expedition photographic register entry: frag. of sunk
relief 38320 from 2140.
uncarved
9
10
11
12

R
Compare: PMIII, p.77: late Dynasty 4 or Dynasty5.
Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.22223.
The drum of Khentka (g2130, shows a similar vertical arrangement of short
phrases, although they are separated by vertical dividers; see figs.8.478.48).
13 Smith, HESPOK, pp.24748.
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Text: (1)tp nswt (2)npw nty s nr (3)rst (4)[uncarved] mntt

Translation: (1)A gift which the king gives, and (2)Anubis, foremost of
the divine booth, (3)(consisting of ) a burial (4)[uncarved] the west

The names of no other individuals are preserved.
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slab stela
B
G 2121
G 2136b
Nimaatre
G 2141 A
G 2142
B A
G 2140
266
267
G 2136
Kahif
G 2147
B A
X
G 2145
C
B A
D C
G 2148
271
278
c
Djednefret
B
G 2144
G 2146
D E G 2162
F G
C0
G 2160
Fig.11.1. G2140, plan.
B G 2161
G 2136a
A B
G 2143
X
270
278
d
E
A
G 2150
B
Y
10 m
G 2170
B
A
G 2163
G 2156a
A
C
X
2165
A 2167 B C
H
I
4984
A B C
B C
Z 2168 E
E
F
C
A B
X 2166
H
I
2171
E F G
A C
G
D
X
Y
2169
E
D
A
2181
Y
Z
C November21,
D
B g2160.
Fig.11.2. G2140, east face, looking west towards the chapel entrance from the top of theAmastaba
1993. Peter Der
2183
21
81
a
2182
4981a
U
4981
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A
z
c
b X
A B 21
2172
C
2178
X
4982
D
B
Z U
4983
A
I
D
G 2180 = G 4990
A
A 2173 C
S D B X
X
V
C
G
2184b
E
F
c
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Fig.11.3. Excavation of g2140, chapel area, looking southwest. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe,
c1188 [=c12613].
Fig.11.4. Street between g2140 (Fishers VIII.3) to the left (west) and g2160 (Fishers VIII.4) to the right (east), with shafts
associated with g2148 (foreground), g2147 (middle of street), g2146 and g2145 (abutting east face of g2140), looking north.
February16, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph, photographer not listed, a635p.
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Fig.11.5. G2140, south face, looking north. November15, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.073.20.
Fig.11.6. G2140, top of the mastaba, looking south. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.093.21.
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32-12-18
0
Special Ware
5
10
cm
FigJune18,
. 2561942.
G 2140 A ch.
Fig.11.7. 321218 (=MFA47.1661), combed-ware amphora. Left: May11, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc139375. Center:
HUMFA Expedition photograph, photographer not listed, b9313 (detail). Right: drawing.
0
0
PDM
PDM
10 cm
10
Fig.11.8. Photograph and drawing of 38320, limestone sunk relief from north of g2140. April3, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
1:5 or 20% scale

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Plan
W
Fig.11.10. G2140, east face, looking south across the chapel entrance.
Baseline
Section AB Looking South

Fig.11.9. G2140, chapel plan and section.
Fig. 254
G 2140
Fig.11.11. G2140, chapel entrance, looking west. November17, 1993. Peter

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Fig.11.12. G2140, chapel, entrance, blocks over the doorway with a

rectangular cutout on the south (right) side for the upper door socket hole,
looking east. November17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.083.24.
Fig.11.13. G2140, chapel, entrance, stone floor (no door socket holes),
looking east. November27, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.119.11.
Fig.11.14. G2140, chapel, north wall, looking north. November17, 1993.

Fig.11.15. G2140, chapel, south wall, and false door on west wall, looking
southwest. November17, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.083.21.
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Fig.11.16. G2140, chapel, west wall, unfinished false door architrave, looking west. November17, 1993.
HUMFA Expedition photograph. Mohammedani Ibrahim, a5771.
Fig.11.17. G2140, chapel, west wall, detail of unfinished false door architrave, looking west. November17, 1993.
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PDM
Fig.11.18. G2140, chapel, west wall, drawing of unfinished false door architrave.
Fig.11.19. G2140a, stone-lined shaft, with entrance to burial chamber,

looking south. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, c863 [=c12622].
10 cm
1:5
Fig.11.20. G2140a, entrance to burial chamber, looking southwest. 1905

1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b894 [=b7329].
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11 courses
4.15 m
Section AB
N
Plan
Fig.11.21. G2140a, plan and section.

G 2140 A
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Fig.11.22. G2140a, burial chamber, limestone blocks and skeleton (321220) on floor, looking south. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
A.M. Lythgoe, b926 [=b7328].
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Chapter 12. The tomb of Kanefer: Mastaba g2150
Chapter 12
THE TOMB OF KANEFER:
Mastaba g 2150
Mastaba:1 old core of typeIIa

23.2 x 10.4m

area 241.28sq.m; proportion 1/2.23; h.ca. 4m

retaining wall of z-masonry of stepped courses, of drab limestone


casing: gray nummulitic limestone in small stepped courses

(z-masonry); 25.2 x 12.0m; area 302.4sq.m

proportion 1/2.0

average height of courses 46.0cm

Chapel: interior two-niched interior chapel of white limestone, in hole

broken in old core of type4a

3.15 x 1.05 m; area 3.3sq.m

proportion 1/3.0; relation 1/91.63; h.2.60m

entered from east by doorway in north end of east wall,

opening in embrasure in east face of casing
Exterior crude brick chapel of type(lg), consisting of three rooms, (b), (c),

(d) from south to north

Room (b): magazine on south, entered from north from room(c) by

doorway in east end of north wall; 1.6 x 2.25m

area 3.6sq.m; thickness of south wall 1.75m

thickness of east wall 1.6m; thickness of north wall 1.1m

Room (c): NS hall around entrance to interior chapel; 4.0 x 2.35m

area 9.4sq.m; entered from north from room(d) by

doorway in west end of north wall; doorway to

room(a), near south end of west side; doorway to (b),

in east end of south wall; thickness of east wall 1.6m;

of north wall, 1.15m

Room (d): long NS corridor extending to north end of mastaba,

15.0 x 2.8m; area 42.0sq.m; entered by doorway in north

end of east wall, the walls forming room(d) were built later

against the north face of the north wall of (c); thickness of

east wall 1.12m; thickness of north wall 0.85 m

total area, rooms (b), (c) 13.0sq.m

total area, rooms (a), (b) (c) 16.3sq.m

total area, rooms (a)(d) 58.3sq.m
Northern subsidiary niche: towards north end of east face, a monolithic

framed stela inset in the stepped face of wall of

z-masonry

width (northsouth) 1.15m

outer niche 0.76 x 0.12m; inner niche 0.25 x 0.14m
Serdab: behind north false door of room(a)

lined with masonry 1.0 x 0.7m

area, 0.7sq.m

probably connected with false door by slot now destroyed;

found filled with rubbish
Shafta: chief shaft; 2.1 x 2.07m; -8.5m in rock

lined with drab masonry, 14m; ten courses

chamber type4b(1), on south. 4.0 x 3.5m; h.1.65m


passage: 1.15 x 1.65m; h.1.65m

blocking: remains of masonry set in plaster, typeIIb(1)

coffin: red granite sarcophagus covered with plaster, found

overturned on side; with flat lid typed (see below, Finds,

33420)

canopic pit: in SE corner; 0.95 x 0.6m and 0.65 m deep

slab lid displaced, 1.15 x 0.65m; th.0.15m

nearly completely plundered: scattered broken bones, and

miscellaneous objects (see below)
Shaftb: secondary shaft in south end of mastaba, west of serdab

1.6 x 1.6m at top; 1.5 x 1.5m at bottom; -8.4m in rock

lined with gray masonry, 3.15 m, 10 courses

chamber: type6a(3); on north; at 2.8m in rock

1.15 x 2.25m; h.0.95m


shaft descends 5.6m below chamber but contains no second

chamber; completely plundered: intrusive objects in debris
Shaftss through z estimated based on tomb card plans and sections only:
Shafts: against east face of mastaba, north of north niche in exterior chapel
roomd; 0.93 x 0.92m

0.90m lined with crude brick (.45m on east side)

ends at rock; no chamber, pit empty
Shaftt: north of shafts; 0.90 x 0.95m

1.53m lined with crude brick (1.10m on east side)

Shaftu: against east face of mastaba, south of north niche; 1.65 x 1.40m

1.0m lined with masonry

-2.0m total to bottom of empty pit
Shaftv: east of shaftu; 0.97 x 0.92m


Shaftx: in center of exterior chapel roomd; 0.88 x 0.87m


Shafty: north of shaftx; 0.90 x 0.85m


Shaftz: south of shaftu; 0.94 x 1.0m

0.46m lined with crude brick

Excavation
Prior to the arrival of the HarvardMFA Expedition, Flinders

Petrie undertook some clearance operations in the area of g2150.2
Mlek quotes Petries entry in Sayce Mss.24, top: Uncovered about
16April 1881, by order from the Bulak Museum. Much of the top
of this and neighbouring tomb was stripped by the Arabs a few
years ago.3 Petrie copied inscriptions on April19, 1881. However,
p.363 of his notebook shows his transcriptions of portions of the
chapel inscriptions in g2150, along with the note Tomb of [KAnfr:
], opened in 1882. Destroyed soon after next to the
hieroglyphs of personified estates from the east wall.4 Petrie must have
mistaken 1882 for 1881. Finally, it is also possible that Mariette was
CU
3
4
1
See Reisner, GN1, pp.43746, figs.86, 123, 25768, pls.38ce, 39b, 40ab, 43ac.
J . Mlek, New Reliefs and Inscriptions from five Old Tombs at Giza and
Saqqara, BSEG6 (1982), pp.4752. Better known are Petries excavations to the
south of Giza; cf. H.G. Fischer, Old Kingdom Inscriptions in the Yale Gallery,
MIO7 (1960), p.311, n. 26. For Petries letters from Giza, see now Drower, Letters
from the Desert, esp. pp.1236.
Mlek, BSEG6 (1982), p.51. The author has not seen this page.
Petrie notebook 0031, pp.35965 for g2150, and esp. p.363. All these documents
are housed in the Griffith Institute, Oxford.
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active in this area as well (see below), although he does not specifically
mention the tomb in his Mastabas de lAncien Empire (1889).5
Like most of the other major mastabas in this cemetery, g2150
was excavated primarily during the 19051906 season under Lythgoe,
whose diary, if he kept one, has not survived. Numerous Expedition
photographs from these years document the step-by-step clearance
of the decorated chapel, but the two shaftsa and b were not cleared
until 1933. The decorated entrance thickness blocks found loose
around the chapel (see figs.12.412.5, 12.1112.18) were stored at
Harvard Camp until their shipment to Boston in May, 1933.6 For
a reconstruction sketch of how the Boston reliefs once adorned the
entrance, see fig.12.65.
Fishers diary mentions the tomb for the first time on January21,
1912, with the surface masonry beginning to show on the south
side on January23. The east face with the door to the chapel and
decorated facade appeared the next day. But most of this area had
already been cleared under Lythgoe in 19051906, as documented
by Expedition photography. In his entry for January28, 1912, Fisher
describes the varied facing around the core, as it differs from that
surrounding the chapel entrance (figs.12.212.7), and the mud-brick
extension to the chapel built in the street directly in front of it:
The mud chapel has walls 1.50m thick; almost all the east
side being gone, the line being traced by the beginning of the
plastering at the floor. There is a door at north, and another at
south, which appears to lead into a second room as the east wall
continues to the south. Here there is a later mud brick pit sunk
down through debris of upper walls.7
The fine masonry ends with niche and behind is clearly seen the
masonry of the earlier mastaba.
The mud walls joining on to mud chamber of this mastaba seem
to be a still later addition but the end of wall is not yet cleared.
There are three masonry lined pits near niche and two others
about centre of mastaba face, inside this later mud structure.10
Reisner took over the excavation after February21, 1912. On

February2627, he searched without success for additional serdabs
behind the chapel, and also noted that shaftb behind the chapel was
filled with sand (i.e., opened and plundered).
Under Wheelers supervision, the top of the mastaba was cleared
on December28, 1932. Shaftb was (re)located, and part of the right
leg of an alabaster statuette came to light (see below, Finds, 32
122, fig.12.42). Shaftb was excavated from December29, 1932 to
January2, 1933, revealing rubble and sand debris (figs.12.5512.56).
What resembled a first chamber was cut on the north side of the
shaft, and a small fragment of a fine alabaster statuette was found
(figs. 12.4212.45). Continuing downward, the excavators reached
clean rubble below the level of this (empty) chamber. Another
statuette fragment was found at a depth of 10.2m on January1,
1933, and shafta was (re)located. The bottom of shaftb was reached
the next day, but no additional chambers were found. Meanwhile,
more statuette fragments turned up in the fill of shafta. The burial
chamber (on the south) of shafta was reached on January7, 1933;
part of the rubble door-blocking was still in situ. Clearance ended
the next day, and on January9 and 12, 1933, Wheeler described the
burial chamber of shafta:
Fishers entry for January31, 1912 is similarly lengthy:
Removed debris from entrance to burial chamber and

photographed chamber. A sarcophagus, plain, rectangular, lies
overturned in the chamber; the lid being in a recess cut in the
west wall. Sarcophagus looks like granite, with whitening material
over the black stone.11
Sarcophagus is of red granite, with a coating of white plaster
on many parts of the outside surface. The sarcophagus is empty
and on its side; the lid being in a recess in the west wall of chamber
on a built-up mastaba of stones and cement. On the floor of the
room are some fragments of wood, much decayed, fragments of
white plaster from sarcophagus, scattered bones, and two pots.
The sarcophagus is 193 x 66 x 66 cm, and the lid flat above and
below.12
A mass of debris over mud walls at southeast corner of mastaba

g2150 has been removed leaving a later mud brick pit against
the face of the tomb and disclosing an additional room to south
of chapel already cleared.8 The masonry of this tomb (g2150) is
very regularly cut and dressed. In the inner chapel the sculptures
are in part unfinished but where finished are well done. Behind
the north niche here is a small room in the masonry in which the
statues had been placed. Thieves had broken through the niche to
reach this and fragments of very fine alabaster and diorite statues
were found in debris in front of tomb, probably from this room.9
The brick size of the mud-brick chapel is listed in the entry for
February6, 1912 (16 x 33 x 9cm) and the northern false door niche
is mentioned on February9. The fallen architrave of Kanefer was
found in the street debris in front of this niche, at the north end of
the mastabas east face, (fig. 12.60). This later prompted Reisner to
postulate its original position above the north niche. However, no
other northern niche in the cemetery bore such an inscribed architrave,
and the more likely reconstruction would place this architrave over
the chapel propers entrance, further to the south. Fishers entry for
February9 also mentions what must be Junkers discovery of the chapel
of Nensedjerkai (g2100-1i). The north niche of Kanefers mastaba was
cleared by February14, 1912 and Fisher noted that:
5
S ee Bauds reconstruction of early excavations around the tomb in his Famille

royale et pouvoir2, pp.59596.
6 See below, Finds, 32127 (=MFA34.58) and 32128 (=MFA34.57). Note
that other chapel reliefs were apparently stored on top of mastaba g2170 and
forgotten between 1906 and 1932; see below chapter15.
7 F
isher diary, January28, 1912, p. 16.
8 Already cleared must be a reference to Lythgoes 19051906 season.
9 F
isher diary, January31, 1912, p. 17.
This sarcophagus was later removed to Boston (33420), and still

bears some of the plaster coating, most likely used as padding to
protect it during its precarious descent to the burial chamber in
ancient times (figs.12.41, 12.5212.53). The chamber was cleared on
January13, 1933, when additional objects, including alabaster model
vessels, copper implements, and carnelian fragments, turned up.
The limestone lid of the canopic pit lay partly displaced over the
empty pit. January14, 1933 was the final day of work in the chamber.
Among the finds on this day were thirty-two alabaster model vessels,
additional copper utensils, a polishing stone, and scraps of gold leaf.
The reiss diary takes over on March14, 16, and 18 of 1938,
mentioning the clearance of the area immediately south of the
mastaba, and focusing primarily on subsidiary mastaba g2143.
10
11
12
isher is referring to shaftsu, v, a, south of the north niche, and s and t north
F
of it; February14, 1912, p.20.
Wheeler diary, January9, 1933, p.1198.
Wheeler diary, January12, 1933, p.1201.
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On November8, 1993, the floor of the chapel was re-cleared,

revealing a rectangular door socket hole just inside the chapel
entrance on the north side (fig.12.9). This allowed the door to swing
open to the north, against the north wall, providing unobstructed
access southwards to the rest of the chapel.13
Finds
MFA 06.1889: Fragment of flat alabaster round-bottomed bowl;

diam.35.3cm; precise findspot not recorded (fig.12.10)
32127 (MFA34.58; shipped to Boston May 1933): limestone doorjamb and
thickness; from debris between g2150 and g2170 (in 19051906
buried on top of g2170), originally from g2150, south entrance
thickness; three fragments: a) h. 117 cm; w. 22 cm; th. 45 cm;
b)h.110cm; w.23cm; th.30cm; c) h.87cm; w.67cm; th.50cm
(figs.12.11, 12.1312.14, 12.6512.69)14
32128 (MFA34.57; shipped to Boston May 1933): limestone doorjamb;
from debris between g2150 and g2170 (in 19051906 buried on
top of g2170), originally from g2150, north entrance thickness;
h.110cm; w.17cm; th.36cm (figs.12.12, 12.77)15
32129 (shipped to Boston May 1933): block of limestone raised relief with
four sarcophagi and one male offering bearer, along with door
socket recession and hole on left (north) underside for chapel
door; from debris between g2150 and g2170 (in 19051906
buried on top of g2170), originally from g2150, inner chapel,
east wall, north end, over door, top course; h.30.4cm; w.142cm;
th.37.5cm (figs.12.16, 12.7912.80)16
321210 (shipped to Boston May 1933): block of limestone raised relief with
heads of Kanefer and Meresankh (his mother?) facing left, from
debris between g2150 and g2170 (in 19051906 buried on top
of g2170), originally from g2150, outer chapel facade, north of
entrance; h.41cm; w.70cm; th.32cm (figs.12.15, 12.7212.73,
12.77)17
321211 (shipped to Boston May 1933): block of limestone raised relief
fragment with one standing male figure facing right, msw t[], the retainer Ikhet-[], from debris between g2150 and
g2170 (in 19051906 buried on top of g2170), originally from
g2150, chapel, west wall, north false door(?); h.67cm; w.28cm;
th.20cm (figs.12.17, 12.87, 12.97)18
321212.12 (shipped to Boston May 1933): two fragments of limestone
raised relief with lower portion of standing female figure (of
Shepsetkau) facing right, from debris between g2150 and g2170
(in 19051906 buried on top of g2170), originally from g2150,
chapel north wall; h.39cm; w.31cm; th.13cm (figs.12.18, 12.83
12.85)19
MFA 06.1878: granite hammer, very shallow necking, abrasion hollow on
one side, opposite side smoother, edge blunt; h.19.5 x w.9.5cm;
(fig.12.19)20
Found in the burial chamber of g2150a
3314 (shipped to Boston May 1933): fragment of alabaster statue, part of
base including toes of left foot; h.8.2cm; w.7.4cm; l.13.6cm;
(fig.12.20)
33134 (shipped to Boston May 1933): RP: neckless shoulder-jar, typeB

LV; h.22.6cm; d. shoulder 18.6cm; d. base 9.0cm (fig.12.21)21
33135 (MFA 33.1044; shipped to Boston May 1933): alabaster model
cylinder jar, typeSId; h.5.8cm; d. rim 4.3cm; d. base 3.4cm;
dummy (fig.12.22)22
33136 (MFA 33.1045; shipped to Boston May 1933): eight alabaster model
basins; typeSXb; h.2.33.0cm; d. rim 4.04.6cm; d. base
ca.2.4cm (fig.12.23)23
33137 (MFA33.1157; shipped to Boston May 1933): FRW: two jars with
tapering base, short neck and roll rim; typeAVIb; one complete
shoulder jar (typeAIIb) with hieratic inscription on shoulder
and fragments of another; h.22.4cm; d. rim 6.0cm; d. neck,
5.2cm; d. max. 13.0cm; the fragments of a second jar have a
hieratic ink inscription on shoulder (fig.12.24)24
33138 (MFA33.1046; shipped to Boston May 1933): two copper model
chisels; spear-head blade with square haft; length, 8.8cm; w.
blade, 0.7cm; thickness, 0.4cm; haft 0.3 x 0.3cm (figs.12.25,
12.27)25
33139 (MFA33.1047; shipped to Boston May 1933): copper model chisel;
length 6.5cm; w.0.75 mm; th.2mm (figs.12.25, 12.27)26
33140 (MFA33.1048; shipped to Boston May 1933): copper model chisel
with pointed end; length, 8.8cm; w.1.0cm; th.5mm (figs.12.25,
12.27)27
33141 (MFA33.1048; shipped to Boston May 1933): copper fragments of
two or more implements (figs.12.25, 12.27)28
33142 (shipped to Boston May 1933): copper model neckless shoulder
jar; h.4.0cm; d. rim 1.6cm; d. shoulder 2.7cm; d. base 2.3cm
(figs.12.2612.27)29
33143 (shipped to Boston May 1933): copper cover(?) or lid; h.1.0cm;
d.4.5cm (figs.12.2712.28)30
33144 (shipped to Boston May 1933): carnelian: disk; d. 3.0cm; th.0.5cm
in middle decreasing to edges (figs.12.27, 12.29)31
33145: faded green glazed faience disk; d. 3.0cm; thickness, 0.5cm
(figs.12.27, 12.30)32
33146 (shipped to Boston May 1933): gold: small sheet of leaf gold and
four bits; l. 4.5cm; w. 3.2cm (fig.12.27)33
33147+33166 (=MFA33.1053; shipped to Boston May 1933): RBrW:
fragments of a jar with slender neck and slightly flaring mouth;
typeAVII; h.22cm; d. rim 6.6cm; d. neck 5.2cm; d. body
9.6cm (fig.12.31)34
33148 (MFA33.1054; shipped to Boston May 1933): BrW: fragments
of large jar; typeAIIb; h.19cm; d.rim, 10.4cm; d.body,
ca.29.5cm (fig.12.32)35
33149: RBrW: fragments of jar of typeAIIb; d. rim ca. 7cm (fig.12.33)36
33150 (MFA33.1055): copper model dished rectangular razor; l.4.7cm;
w.2.7cm; th.0.1cm (fig.12.34)37
21
22
23
24
ompare g2140, where the ceiling socket is on the south side, indicating the
C
door would open into, and thus obstruct, access to the chapel. One would
have to open the door, enter, then swing the door shut to gain access to the rest
of the room.
14 Reisner, GN1, fig.262, pl.39b.
15 Reisner, GN1, fig.261.
16 R
eisner, GN1, fig.260.
17 R
18 R
19 R
20 I llustrated in Seipel, Gott Mensch Pharao, p.457; Berger et al., Der Entwurf des
Knstlers: Bildhauerkanon in der Antike und Neuzeit, p.20, fig.14.
13
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.444; pl.43b (3/2); Reisner and Smith, GN2,
p.77.
p.93.
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267, p.445; pl.43b (2/14); Reisner and Smith, GN2,
p.101.
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; pl.43b (3/3); Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.69,
fig.81.
R
eisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.445; pl.43c (2/67).
R
eisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.445; pl.43c (2/5)
R
eisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.445; pl.43c (2/5). Note that both 33140 and
41 are now numbered MFA33.1048.
Reisner, GN1, pl.43c (2/4).
R
eisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267, p.445; pl.43c (2/4).
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267, p.445; pl.43c (1/1).
Reisner, GN1, p.445; pl.43c (1/3).
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267, p.445; pl.43b (3/1).
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.445; pl.43c (2/2).
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33151 (MFA34.48ab; shipped to Boston May 1933): two fragments of

carved wood with bound papyrus design, probably from a chair
or a coffin; (a)28 x 5cm and 6.4cm thick; (b)28 x 13cm, th.
3.0cm (fig.12.35)38
33152 (MFA33.1056): wood piece worked on all four sides; 27.4 x 6cm
and 3.2m thick (fig.12.36)39
33157 (MFA33.1057; shipped to Boston May 1933): white sandstone whet
stone, copper stained on all sides; 12.2x 11.0x 5.4 (fig.12.37)40
33162 (MFA33.1061; shipped to Boston May 1933): 33 alabaster model
basins of typeSXb; h.2.43.4cm; d. 3.94.8cm (fig.12.38)41
33163 (MFA33.1062; shipped to Boston May 1933): alabaster model
cylinder jar; typeSId; h.6.3cm; d. 4.6cm (fig.12.39)42
33164 (MFA33.1063; shipped to Boston May 1933): alabaster model barrel
belted jar; typeSV extra; h.7.2cm; d.rim, 3.0cm; d.max.
4.4cm; d.base, 2.4cm (fig.12.40)43
33420 (shipped to Boston May 1933): red granite sarcophagus, h.80cm;
w.197.2cm; th.66cm; h.of box: 70.3cm; inside of box: 175
x 48cm; interior depth 54cm; h.of lid: 13.3cm; w.of box lip/
walls at top: 7.6cm; th. of adhering plaster: 2.5cm; no rebate on
underside of flat lid (figs.12.41, 12.5212.53)44
A few intrusive objects in debris of shaftb:
32122, 32123, 3311 (MFA33.1021; shipped to Boston May 1933): three
alabaster fragments from a standing male statuette: (a) from right
leg: 13 x 4.8 x 6.8cm; (b) from left arm: 15.6 x 4.0 x 4.0cm; (c)
from left shoulder: 14.0 x 7.3cm; possibly thrown out from the
serdab; on top of the mastaba at north end was found another
fragment of a smaller statuette; these fragments could derive from
another mastaba (figs.12.4212.44).45
3312 (MFA33.1022): alabaster fragment of left shoulder of statuette,
smaller than the fragments listed above; 8.8x 3.2cm.46 (fig.12.45)
Architecture
Kanefers mastaba offers us some of the firmest dating criteria in

Cemetery g2100. First of all, the southern face of the tomb, as well
as that of g2170, does not align with the original southern face of
g2130 (fig.2.5). A better alignment only occurs with the southern
casing blocks of g2130; this implies that Khentkas mastaba (g2130)
was expanded before the casing of g2150 was added.47 There are
also chronological implications on the north face of the mastaba,
where subisidiary mastabas, such as that of Senwehem (g2132) abut
the tomb directly and hence must postdate it (see PartII). Another
subsidiary mastaba (g2151; see PartII) to the north of Kanefers
tomb belongs to a man named Ptahwer, a funerary priest who
also appears in Kanefers chapel. We thus have one of our very few
examples of a subsidiary tomb bearing a direct relation to a major
mastaba in its immediate vicinity; another example is provided by
the tomb of Nefer (g211o), in whose chapel Senenuka, owner of
g2041, appears (see above, Chapter6). The rest of the area to the
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
eisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.445; pl.43a. For a Middle Kingdom limestone
R
parallel to this motif, see D. Arnold, in Antike Welt 33.6 (2002), p.625, fig. 9
(mastaba of Khnumhotep at Lisht), and P.P. Koemoth, Osiris et le motif des
deux papyrus lis, DE46 (2000), p.25.
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.445.
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.445.
Reisner, GN1, p.445; pl.43b (1/112; 2/812).
p.93.
Reisner, GN1, p.443, fig.267; p.445; pl.43b (2/6).
Reisner, GN1, p.444; pl.38e.
Ibid.
S ee Jnosi, Giza in der. 4. Dynastie, p.149.
north, between g2150 and g2220, was filled with several complexes
of small mastabas, numbered g2131g2139 and g2151g2159.
None of the earliest features of Khufu-era mastabas is present
here. There is no evidence of a slab stela, although one could argue
that the subsequent interior stone chapel construction, broken into
the mastabas core, might have destroyed any stela emplacement. The
burial shaft (a) shows no T-shaped portcullis stone grooves, nor is the
burial chamber lined with fine limestone blocks (figs.12.5112.54). Even
the casing stones show a unique pattern for this cemetery: Reisners
z masonry, consisting of nummulitic limestone blocks set in lowstepped courses, instead of smoothly dressed sloping surfaces (x or y
masonry).48 This marks a sharp constrast around the chapel facade,
where massive limestone blocks make up the panels north and south
of the entrance. Kanefer joins Merib (g2100-1) as one of only two
mastabas in Cemetery g2100 to show (preserved) facade decoration.
Kanefer was the only individual who added a secondary shaft
to his mastaba core, the unfinished shaftb, directly west of the
chapel area (figs.12.5512.56).49 The chapel itself contains two false
doors, and a destroyed serdab west of the northern false door. A
set of exterior mud-brick rooms complements the interior stone
chapel, and runs the entire length of the east face of the mastaba.
It even encloses the tombs subsidiary north niche, which shows a
tiny rectangular offering basin carved in its base (figs.12.4812.50).50
Thick mud-brick walls running northsouth down the middle
of the street between g2150 and g2170 make up three rooms of the
exterior chapel (figs. 12.112.3). Within the precinct of the longest,
northernmost room (d), seven subsidiary shafts were later sunk into
the street (figs. 12.112.3, 12.10812.114). There are also later burials
placed along the mastabas western face (see below, Shafts and Burials).
Curiously, Cemetery g2100 is almost devoid of preserved
statuary. Perhaps the dearth of serdabs provides the explanation.
Qedfy (g2135a) and Kanefer are among the few exceptions.
Fragments of statuettes turned up on top and around the mastaba,
most likely dispersed by tomb robbers who punctured the chapels
north false door in an effort to reach the serdab. None of the
fragments is inscribed, so there is no way to discern whether Kanefer,
Shepsetkau, or Meretites were represented, either singly or in group
statuary (see above, Finds).
Shafta was sunk in the traditional location, north of the center
of the mastaba core (figs.12.5112.54). It takes the form of a typical
post-Khufu shaft, with corridor and burial chamber to the south of
the shaft, but no portcullis grooves or burial chamber lining. Relative
to many of the other burial chambers in Cemetery g2100, shafta
produced a large number of small artifacts. The most important
item, however was the uninscribed red granite sarcophagus (with lid
propped against the west wall), still coated with plaster padding
to protect it during its descent to the burial chamber (figs. 12.41,
12.5212.53).
48
49
50

he other secondary or tertiary shafts in tombs in Cemetery g2100, such as
T
Sedit (g2100), Merib (g2100-1), and the anonymous (g2220), are probably
later additions. The only true parallel to Kanefer, with two contemporary shafts,
may be Nensedjerkai (g2100-11).
Cf. Reisner, GN1, p.375, fig.206. Similar rectangular basins incised in the floor
may also be found in the narrow passage between g2120 (Seshatsekhentiu) and
g2100-11 (Nensedjerkai) (pdm_1993.107.18), perhaps in the stone flooring of
Seshatsekhentius exterior stone chapel, g2120 (pdm_1993.115.20), and in the
floor of the north chapel of g2000 (Lepsius23) (c1028).
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Shaftb contained a small chamber with no connecting passage,

placed uncharacteristically to the north of the shaft (figs. 12.55
12.56).51 This chamber was apparently deemed unsatisfactory, for the
shaft was excavated further down for another 5.6m, but no second
chamber was ever hewn. Objects found in this shaft were considered
by Reisner to be intrusive. Since both chapel false doors appear to be
dedicated to Kanefer, no particular connection can be made between
the two false doors and the two shaftsa and b.52
Much of the interior chapel is carved in a thin plaster layer laid
over the limestone slabs. The texts on the north wall are in much
worse condition today than they appear in Reisner-era photography.
Similarly, many of the estate names in the lowest register of the east
wall, visible to Petrie in 1881, are now worn away. A modern concrete
roof constructed over the chapel area has walled up the serdab area
behind (west of ) the north false door.
Shafts and Burials
G2150 was originally a one-shaft mastaba with chief shafta, in a

medial axis north of the center of the mastaba. Later a secondary shaft
was dug south of a and west of the serdab (shaftb). In addition, several
exterior burials were located in and around the mastaba complex:
g2150 exterior burial by west wall (fig.12.57)
Uninterpretable; no tomb card sketch.
g2150 coffin of a different exterior burial by west wall (fig.12.58)
A different burial from the above; some fragmentary bone visible,
but uninterpretable. No tomb card sketch.
SeshemneferII (g5080=g2200), between Shepseskaf and first

half of Dynasty5. Moreover, a statistical analysis by Seidlmayer,
examining some of Cherpions dating criteria, place the tomb in the
reign of Userkaf.54 This is a logical date for the occupation of g2150
by Kanefer.55
An unpublished three-page manuscript in the archives of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is entitled, The Family of Kanofer
of g2150. Reisner assumes Kanefer is a great-grandson of Khufu,
and dates the tomb to prior to the reign of Neferirkare based on the
chapel form (4a) and decoration, and the red granite sarcophagus.
Reisner states that Kanefers son Kasewedja (g5340) must have
found all cores in Cemetery g2100 already occupied, hence the
location of his tomb in the Cemetery en Echelon.56 He claims that
g5340 was obviously later than the mastabas of Duaenre (g5110),
Khnumbaef (g5230), and Khemten (g5210). Kasewedja is dated
to post-Neferirkare, perhaps as late as Niuserre.57 Summarizing the
tombs of the Seshemnefer family along with those of Kanefer and
descendants, Reisner reconstructs a period of about 90 years for
seven mastabas for individuals over four generations.
Decoration
Smith relates Kanefers chapel decoration to that of SeshemneferI

(g4940) and SeshemneferII (g5080), calling them transitional
tombs ranging from the reign of Shepseskaf to the first half of
Dynasty5. Of the relief carving in g2150, Smith writes that:
The chapel of Kanofer (g2150) was lined with white limestone,
but the reliefs are very uneven in quality. The entrance jambs are
well carved, bold in style although not very high, and with simple
masses little broken by inner detail. The west wall has a large
figure in high, bold relief, well modelled; but the other reliefs are
hastily executed. The east wall has figures indicated by little more
than incised outlines, roughly drawn and with uneven surfaces.
Perhaps the work is unfinished, certainly the evidence points to a
g2150 exterior burial by west wall, (fig.12.59)

Exterior burial; articulated skeleton, lying on back in extended
position. Visible elements include fragmentary skull, ribs, vertebrae,
right and left os pubis, right and left femora, tibiae and fibulae, some
foot bones. Age and sex uncertain. No tomb card sketch.
Date

late reign of Khufu (core); Shepseskaf or later (mastaba).
While the mastaba core was constructed under Khufus reign, a
long interval elapsed between construction and the near completion
of the chapel. Based on the repertoire of scenes, and the occurrence
of cartouches of Khafre and Menkaure on the east wall, the reliefs
were most likely carved at the beginning of Dynasty5. Whether
Kanefer was the original owner of the mastaba under Khufu is open
to debate.53
A second burial shaft and two false doors in the chapel are
features often ascribed to the reign of Menkaure and after. The
finished mastaba cannot, of course, predate Menkaure, since a
personified estate with that kings name appears on the chapels
east wall. Reisner dates the decoration to Shepseskaf or later. The
reliefs are often compared to those of SeshemneferI (g4940) and
51
52
53
or examples of burial chambers placed other than south of the shaft in Cemetery
F
g2100, see g2170a (chamber on west), and g2220b (chamber on north).
On the relationship of shafts to tomb owner identity, see Jnosi, Aspects of
Mastaba Development: The Position of Shafts and the Identification of Tomb
Owners, in Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2001, pp.33750.
See Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.223.
54
55
56
57
S eidlmayer, Stephan J. Stil und Statistik. Die Datierung dekorierter Grber

des Alten Reichesein Problem der Methode, in Internationale Archologie 23
(1997), pp.40, 4546.
C
ompare PMIII, p.77: early Dynasty5; Baer, Rank and Title, p.146 [536]:
early Dynasty5; Barta, Opferliste, p.156: early Dynasty5; Baud, Famille royale
et pouvoir1, p.42; 2, pp.593996 [239]: Menkaurebeginning of Dynasty5;
Cherpion, Mastabas et hypoges, p.226: Menkaure; Harpur, Decoration in Egyptian
Tombs, p.270 [268]: UserkafNeferirkare; Jacquet-Gordon, Domaines funraires,
pp.24142 [19G5]: early Dynasty5; Kanawati, Egyptian Administration, pp.123
24, 155 [351]: early Dynasty5; Kaplony, Die Rollsiegel des Alten Reichs2, pp.4950,
pl.16: not later than Menkaure; Piacentini, Les scribes, p.148: end of Dynasty4
beginning of Dynasty5; Reisner, GN1, pp.214, 311: post-Menkaure.
J unker, Gza 7, pp.15884.
See Baer, Rank and Title, p. 14849 [546]: A large mastaba with an interior
L-shaped chapel with two false doors and a northern niche. It is situated two
rows to the east of the cemetery en chelon and was planned with an interior
chapel from the beginning. An extension for a serdab was added on the south and
a mastaba much like it on the north, against which were later built innumerable
small, multishafted later tombs. This second mastaba, Giza g5350, probably
was built for the son of K-sw, and against it was built the small mastaba of
a K-nfr, perhaps a grandson. Junker shows that K-sw was almost certainly a
descendant, probably the son of K-nfr [536, g2150], who has a son with the
name K-s depicted in his tomb and who bore titles very similar to those in
[546]. Date: mid-Dynasty5. Smith, HESPOK, p.165, dates the tomb to the
transitional period from the reign of Shepseskaf to the first half of Dynasty5.
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hasty completion of decoration which had been begun with the

carefully executed work of the entrance doorway.58
Chapel Entrance (figs. 12.6312.69). The architrave found in

the street east of the tomb was originally assigned by Reisner to
the subsidiaary northern niche.59 But there is no precedent for an
inscribed north niche in Cemetery g2100; nor does the north niche
appear constructed to receive an architrave. On the other hand, the
architraves measurement of about 1.85m wide would fit well over
the entrance to the chapel. The architrave bears one horizontal line
of titles, with space left below for a second line of name(s) and title(s)
that were never carved (fig.12.60):
9 F s
L
L 6fi
_ f
g
Text: my r wpwt [smsw s] pr.wy rp w ry st st nb smr

Translation: Overseer of commissions, [elder of the chamber] of the
double administrations, controller of interpreters,60 master of secrets
of every foreign land,61 companion (rest uncarved).
nswt. Thus both titles on the Louvre drum, s nswt and my-r wpwt,
also occur in g2150. This fact, coupled with the alignment in the
widths of the drum vis vis the chapel entrance, and the similarities
in the raised relief-carving style, seem to certify the assignment of
the Louvre drum to g2150. Baud came to this conclusion as well in
1999, and carefully reconstructed the likely 19th-century excavation
history around Kanefers tomb (Wilkinson, Mariette, Petrie).66
Excavations between 1850 and 1880, conducted either by Mariette
or illicit diggers, thus most likely account for the discovery of the
Louvre drum near the entrance to g2150.
South (Left) Entrance Thickness (figs.12.63, 12.6512.67). Kanefer

is seated holding a staff, facing out (eastwards) of the chapel. Facing
him is the scribe Wehemka presenting a document, while another
scribe kneels behind him recording events.67 Two registers contain
male bearers escorting livestock (oryx and calf ) towards Kanefers
figure. The scene is divided today between the tomb itself and relief
blocks in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (32127a= MFA34.58).
1
A false door drum, excavated by Mariette and given to the

Muse du Louvre (C155) by Prince Napolon on February15, 1964,
-g
(figs. 12.6112.62), bears the inscription CU
~ s nswt
my-r wpwt K-nfr, Kings son, overseer of commisions, Kanefer.62

The drum is currently set within the false door of Mery (Louvre
B49), with which it is unrelated. Some doubt has arisen as to which
of the many Kanefers63 known in the Old Kingdom originally owned
the drum. It preserves a height of 26cm and, more importantly, a
width of 67cm. The available space at the entrance to the chapel of
g2150 is likewise about 67cm, making for a possible fit. Mariette
makes no mention of this tomb.64 Ziegler states that the only
Kanefer to bear both titles (s nswt and my-r wpwt) was the Kanefer
buried at Dahshur.65 However, a fragmentary text on the southern
exterior facade of g2150, restored by an additional block of currently
unknown location and published by Mlek (see below, south facade,
figs.12.7012.71), does indeed provide our Kanefer with the title s
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
S mith, HESPOK, pp.165, 250.

The word (ww) means interpreters when applied to Egyptians, and
Egyptianized Nubians when applied to foreigners; cf. L. Bell, Interpreters and
Egyptianized Nubians in Ancient Egyptian Foreign Policy: Aspects of the History of
Egypt and Nubia, Ph.D. dissertation (University of Pennsylvania, 1976), pp.57
(for Kanefer, g2150, and Kasewedja, g5340), 7476, 9092, and Hans
Goedicke, The Title
g
in the Old Kingdom, JEA46 (1960), pp.6064;
Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles2, pp.702703, no.2569.
Note the full Old Kingdom spelling of st
including the sign
(Wb.3, p.234), in contrast to the abbreviated writing 9, on the chapels west
wall, above the large-scale standing figure of Kanefer.
Muse du Louvre C 155 (other number: E3908); Ziegler, Catalogue des stles,
cat.43, pp.23839; Donadoni-Roveri, and Tiradritti, Kemet, Alle Sorgenti del
Tempo, cat.264. The lintel is h.26cm; w.67cm.
G1203, likewise an my-r wpwt, and possibly an ancestor to the Kanefer of
g2150; Reisner, GN1, pp.38992, and Manuelian, Slab Stelae, stela2, pp.42
45, with pls.34; g2184, steward (my-r pr) Kanefer, attested in the tomb of
Akhmeretnisut: A.M. Roth, in Mummies & Magic, cat.14, pp.8387; Kanefer,
judge and district administrator (sb mr), owner of a false door in the tomb
adjacent to mastaba g5350 (=S846/847): Junker, Gza7, p.191, fig.81; g4620,
royal document scribe (s nswt), Kanefer (HUMFA Expedition photograph
c5703): Reisner, GN1, pl.67f. See also Junker, Gza7, pp.16263.
Mariette, Les mastabas, pp.488571 (Giza appendix).
Ziegler, Catalogue des stles, commentaire, p.238. For the Dahshur Kanefer, see
ibid., cat.42, pp.23137 (E 11 286).
9_ n
>U
| C g
T9 #
2
Text: (1)my-r wpwt (2)smr wty (3)m-nr Sbk dt (4)K-nfr (5)s

Wm-k (6).t
Translation: (1)Overseer of commissions, (2)sole companion, (3)priest
of Sobek of Crocodilopolis, (4) Kanefer. (5)The scribe Wehemka.68
(6)Taking an oryx.
North (Right) Entrance Thickness (figs. 12.6412.65, 12.68

12.69). Only the lower half of Kanefers seated figure survives, along
with most of the table of nine or ten half-loaves of bread. Only one
additional male appears in the scene, the funerary priest Nakhtkai,
who extends an ewer and basin towards Kanefer. Extending under
the table is an ideographic list of offerings. In the fragmentary
register above Nakhtkai are three different types of jars on stands,
along with bread loaves resting on the ground line and in a basin
respectively. As with the south entrance thickness, the scene is split
between the tomb itself and Boston (32128= MFA34.57).
-g
C y !
n
1
Text: (1)[my-r] wpwt [] (2)m-k Ntk() (3)nt (4)t (5)s

(6)mnt (7)w (8)m- (9)gs
66
67
68
Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir2, pp.59396, with figs.4445.

his figure is reproduced on the title page of Cherpion, Mastabas et hypoges.
T
A man named Wehemka also appears in the nearby tomb of KaninisutI (g2155).
As s pr mt he is shown on the west wall, south of the south false door, and as
my-r pr wm-k he appears on the west wall, central scene, and the north wall,
presenting a document to the deceased; for the latter, cf. Manuelian, Presenting
the Scroll: Papyrus documents in tomb scenes of the Old Kingdom, in Studies
in Honor of William Kelly Simpson2, figs.2 and 7. This man, and not the
Wehemka in Kanefers tomb, is the owner of D117, excavated by Steindorff,
whose chapel is in Hildesheim (no.2970): PMIII, pp.11415, plansXI, XIV.
Junker, Gza3, pp.3738 [22]; Steindorff and Hlscher, Die Mastabas westlich
der Cheopspyramide, pl.16; Kayser, Die Mastaba des Uhemka; Roeder, Die
Mastaba des Uhemka im Pelizus-Museum zu Hildesheim.
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Translation: (1)[Overseer of ] commissions, [] (2)funerary priest,

Nakhtkai. (3)A thousand jars of beer, (4)a thousand loaves of bread,
(5)a thousand alabaster vessels, (6)a thousand pieces of cloth, (7)a
thousand oxen, (8)a thousand oryxes, (9)a thousand gazelles.
South (Left) Facade (figs.12.3, 12.7012.71). The large standing

figure of the deceased in this scene has been partially restored
through Mleks discovery of a block, labeled Amherst185,
containing Kanefers head, name, and titles.69 Kanefer wears a short,
valanced wig, and holds a staff in one hand and a handkerchief
in the other. The central portion of his body is missing. Tucked
underneath Kanefers left elbow and holding onto his staff, a small
naked figure of his son Kasewedja, owner of g5340, sports a sidelock
and necklace, and holds a bird. At right are four vertical registers,
each with one named male standing figure proffering (from top
to bottom): a brazier, linen, a libation vessel and water jar, and
three birds. Behind Kanefer, four very damaged vertical registers of
funerary priests complete the scene, carrying additional items. All
that can be confirmed are a bird in the hand of the second figure, and
a situla and brush70 in the left hand and a bag over the shoulder of
the fourth (lowest) figure (similar to that shown on the north facade,
fig.12.77).
dY Y
g
CU T
g
~
~
s
T
n { n g
CC T { n n C
s n
C
?
Text: (1)s nswt my-r wpwt mdw k- (2)K-nfr (3)sf [smsw?] my-r
wpwt K-s[w] (4)my-r m-k Pt-wr (5)m-k R-n-pt (6)m-k
Snb (7)m-k Pt-wr (8)[] Nfr-[r]-n-pt (9)m-k r-nfr(?)
Translation: (1)Kings son, overseer of commissions, herdsman of the
white bull,71 (2)Kanefer. (3)His [eldest?] son, overseer of commissions,
Kase[wedja].72 (4)Overseer of funerary priests, Ptahwer.73 (5)Funerary
priest Redjienptah.74 (6)Funerary priest Seneb.75 (7)Funerary priest
Ptahwer. (8)[] Nefer[her?]enptah. (9)Funerary priest Hernefer(?)
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
J. Mlek, New Reliefs and Inscriptions from five Old Tombs at Giza and
Saqqara, BSEG6 (1982), pp.4750. Mlek suggests that this relief was removed
from the tomb between 1875 and 1921; ibid., p.50. This range could be narrowed
to 18751905, since it was absent from the tomb when Lythgoe first cleared it
during the 19051906 season. For this reference, I am grateful to E. Brovarski,
and for the photograph reproduced in fig.12.70 I thank Jaromr Mlek. For the
earliest reference to this fragment, see the London Sothebys sale for June13,
1921: Catalogue of the Amherst Collection of Egyptian and Oriental Antiquities,
p.18, no.185: Limestone Bas-Relief from the Pyramid plateau, 19in. by 13in.,
bearing a portrait head of an official, a fine example of Old Kingdom work.
On these spatulate utensils, see E. Brovarski, The Priestly Title of Anubis:
,
in Hommages Fayza Haikal, pp.6778.

Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles1, p.455, no.1701, and compare the
completely preserved title on the north wall, figs.12.8312.86.
For an almost identical (Saqqara) parallel of a son grasping his fathers staff,
standing naked with sidelock, amulet necklace, and bird in the rear hand, see
Davies, PtahhetepII, pl.6.
Ptahwer appears several times in the tomb. He is also the owner of the small,
subsidiary mastaba (g2151) with two partially inscribed false doors just north of
g2150, marking one of the few clear-cut examples of a mortuary cult attendants
tomb in the vicinity of that of the deceased he served.
Cf. Ranke, PN1, p.228.3. This may be the same individual represented on the
chapels west wall, although in that case the r is not written.
The crack in the block line cuts right through this personal name; while Sn
might be a viable alternative reading to Snb, note that a Snb appears on the west
of the chapel, just north of the southern false door.
North (Right) Facade (figs. 12.3, 12.7212.77). Kanefer is
embraced, presumably by his mother, the rt nswt Meresankh.76 The

scene is entirely preserved on the tomb wall but for the two heads
and the identifying text for Meresankh, which is carved in plaster
and preserved in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (321210). Both
figures stand facing left, or southwards into the chapel entrance.
Kanefer wears an elaborately striated kilt and a broad collar and
holds an (almost completely) missing staff in his right hand and a
handkerchief in his left. His wig bears only horizontal detail, rather
than the individually articulated curls typical of most short wigs.
Meresankh extends one hand over Kanefers shoulder, and grasps
his left wrist with her other hand. She wears a close-fitting garment
extending from her shins to just below her breasts and held up by
tapering shoulder straps, but no other carved accessories. In front
of Kanefer, only the hand of a child, apparently named Nedjem,
survives. One vertical column of hieroglyphs identifies the deceased
at the extreme left edge of the scene.
Behind the large-scale figures of Kanefer and Meresankh, registers
of men face inward to the left. The topmost register preserves merely
the legs of one figure. In the second register, the first funerary priest
carries a rectangular bolt of cloth with tabs, while the second bears a
fan77 and bag. A box or chest is on the ground between them. In the
third and lowest register, the first man carries a bag and probably had
a situla coupled with a brush, the second possibly carries a scribal
case(?) on his shoulder, and the third figure is a male dwarf carrying a
monkey on a leash on his head.78 The monkey wears an abbreviated
garment tied at the back.
North facade panel:
76
77
78
he tombs of Nefer (g2110) and Kanefer (g2150) were originally associated by

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Reisner because of this Meresankh. Reisner incorrectly reconstructed the name of
Nefers wife as Meresankh, presumably the mother of Kanefer represented here.
But in fact Nefers wife was called Wenankhes (named on a relief fragment in
Birmingham, England, discovered by H.G. Fischer (Varia, pp.3132); see above,
tomb of Nefer). Meresankh should be corrected to read Wenankhes in the
following publications: Reisner, GN1, p.422; Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie,
p.123; PMIII.1, p.72; Baer, Rank and Title, p.146 [536]; Harpur, Decoration of
Egyptian Tombs, p.286 (table2.3); Piacentini, Les scribes, pp.9798.
Similar representations of this type of fan appear in the tombs of KhafkhufuI
(g71307140), Simpson, The Mastabas of Kawab, KhafkhufuI and II, pl.22b,
fig.33; Khuenre (mq1), HUMFA Expedition Photographs b2046 and b2058
(east wall), b2059 (south wall); and Kaemsekhem (g7660= Lepsius59), north
wall (HUMFA Expedition Photograph a5165). See also Beth Thompson, Two
Unusual Fans in Wall Scenes at el-Hagarsa, BACE3 (1992), pp.7783.
This scene is reproduced in the study on dwarves by V. Dasen, Dwarfs in Ancient
Egypt and Greece, pl.18.2 (E15), and see her discussion of Old Kingdom scenes
on pp.10934. For additional scenes of dwarves and monkeys, see H.G. Fischer,
A Scribe of the Army in a Saqqara Mastaba of the Early Fifth Dynasty, JNES18
(1959), pp.243, fig.8, and esp. pp.25152 with fig.18; three examples with the
monkey perched on the head of the dwarf, including the tombs of Kanefer
(g2150), Idu, in Junker, Gza8, p.83, fig.35, pl.14a (=Hildesheim2390,
Martin, Reliefs des Alten Reiches und Verwandte Denkmler1, CAA Hildesheim3,
p.89), and Ankhmahor, in Kanawati and Hassan, The Tomb of Ankhmahor,
pls.8, 42, and Capart, Une rue de tombeaux, pl.41. The Saqqara tomb of Kaaper
described by Fischer has now been published by M. Brta, The Cemeteries at
Abusir SouthI, esp. p.156, fig.4.11, p.161, fig.4.13, and pl.55a. See also Elizabeth
Thompson, Dwarfs in the Old Kingdom in Egypt, BACE2 (1991), pp.9198
(with pl.16). A catalogue of dwarf scenes was collected by G. Pieke, Der Zwerg
im Flachbild des Alten Reiches (MA thesis, Munich, 1994). On the subject of
dwarves and pygmies in general, see H.G. Fischer, Some Titles Associated
with Dwarfs and Midgets, GM187 (2002), pp.3539; O. el-Aguizy, Dwarfs
and Pygmies in Ancient Egypt, ASAE71 (1987), pp.5360; and D. Silverman,
Pygmies and Dwarves in the Old Kingdom, Sarapis1 (1969), pp.5362.
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L B
m
g
fi5 L C [ U C
C
9
T _ M T g T Y Tg
Y
Y
C
n
3
Text: (1)[my]-r wpwt mdw ryt smsw s pr.wy my-b n nrf K-nfr
(2)[] smr79 wt(t) r(t) nswt Mrs-n (3)[]m r [nswt]
Nm(?)80 [] (4)m-k N()-k()-r81 (5)gf
Translation: (1)[Over]seer of commissions, staff of the subjects, elder
of the chamber of the double administrations, favorite of his god,
Kanefer. (2)[] sole companion, royal acquaintance, Meresankh.
(3)[kings] acquaintance Nedjem(?) []. (4)funerary priest
Nikare. (5)Monkey
East Wall (figs. 12.7812.80). Over the chapel entrance is a long
architrave block with representations of four rs(w)-sarcophagi;

these take the place occupied by boating scenes in the tombs of
Merib (g2100-1) and KaninisutI (g2155). To the right (south) of the
entrance, the wall is composed of three registers of personified estate
offering bearers, a single slaughter scene, and in the upper right
(southmost) corner, a menu list with 24 compartments. The righthand entry in each row is ideographic and does not conform to the
normal sequence of offerings.82 These four compartments contain,
from top to bottom: a destroyed item, an offering table(?), and two
tall loaves of bread. Since no large-scale figure of Kanefer appears
on this wall, the offering bearers should probably be understood to
be marching around the corner towards Kanefers seated figure on
the south wall. The carving here is among the crudest in the entire
chapel, and damage had already rendered much of the lowest register
less readable by the time of Lythgoes excavations (19051906) than
in Petries time (1881).
Five individuals occupy the topmost register, each with a
basket of offerings on his or her head. They march in alternating
arrangement: male-female-male-female-male. This is not true of
the second register below, where a male named Iymery offers a fowl
with both hands at the front of the procession, followed by eight
females. The third and lowest register begins with a man with both
arms upraised holding bread loaves,83 with a haunch and containers
before him. Just behind, two butchers remove the foreleg of an ox,
and behind them follow four individuals whose gender is uncertain
due to the damage. Based on Petries 1881 hand copy of this scene,
we can reconstruct some of the estate names. The final figure, clearly
preserved, is a male with a basket on his head and a calf on a leash

before him.
The critical elements for purposes of dating the tomb appear
in the second and third registers, where cartouches of Khafre and
Menkaure appear in the names of the estates. We thus have at least a
terminus a quo, Menkaures reign, for the chapel decoration.
East wall, offering list:84
Row A
(a1)
D
T
& s
(a2)
snr
(a3)
a
s b
(a4)
81
82
83
Note the reversal of the s.

he initial m of this column, missed by Reisner (GN1 fig.263), is located
T
above Kanefers outstretched arm bearing a staff. No other signs survive in the
vicinity; perhaps my-r [] was written here. Below Kanefers elbow the text
continues, with the final three signs visible being n, m, and either or f. The
name may be Nm, but it is spelled Nm, and no nm pod (Sign List M23)
can be confirmed. There is no Nm in Ranke, but Nm is, of course, attested:
PN1, p.215.8, and Junker, Gza5, p.21, no.22 (official of Seneb). Snm might
be another alternative, but the spelling would still be flawed. While this text
appears on the facade still preserved at Giza, part of Kanefers staff and the
hand of his son or daughter survives on the connnecting relief now in Boston,
MFA34.58.
Note the reversal of the k, most likely due to the hieratic Vorlage for the text. For
the name, see Ranke, PN1, p.180.16.
See Hassan, Giza6.2, pls.1719. The omitted items are mst and nt, and the
final two damaged compartments are difficult to identify.
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eisner calls these wine jars, GN1, p.444.
knw
sf
(a6) C
g
(a5)
Row B
(b7)
tt
(b9)
incense
festival perfume
reversal of s and
hekenu-oil
sefetj-oil
nekhnum-oil
Translation
Remarks
tuaut-oil
w
twwt
F$
fl
(b8)
Remarks
nnm
$
2
tt nw
(b10)
best cedar oil
best Libyan oil
green eye-paint
black eye-paint
(b11)
79
80
Translation
libation
(b12)
msdmt
two pieces of cloth
wnw 2
Row C
(c13)
A
A
Translation
Remarks
two drops of cool water
bw 2
84
For the Dynasty5 pattern followed here, see Barta, Die altgyptische Opferliste,
pp. 4756, 181, fig. 4; and Junker, Gza3, pp.99102.
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(c14)
(c15)
offering table
grgt r mdw
foundation of
Horus Medjedu
tnw
the obelisk
Y
m
(5) 6
db r mdw
bank of the Horus

Medjedu
w rw
the island of reeds
wt
two royal offerings
tp-nswt 2
(c16)
two royal offerings of the mst often appears

broad hall
after this item
(tp)-nswt wst 2
(c17)
repast: a shenes-loaf and

a jug
ns ww bw-r
(c18)
Y
m
(2)
T t-wt
barley bread
Row D
Translation
g
A t-rt
(d20)
srt
(d21)
C
g
nms
(d22)
6
f ns 2
(d23) O
baked bread
(d19)
"

ns ww bw(?)
(d24)
? [swt?]
De Meulenaere,
Supplement to
BIFAO81 (1981),
pp.8789; Dorman,
in Hommages Jean
Leclant1, pp.45570;
Fischer, Varia Nova,
pp.33(h), 182 and n.62
The t and w are much
clearer than drawn in
Reisner, GN1, fig. 260
(3)
(4)
Remarks
ale
nt often appears after

this item
Register
2 figure
no.
m/f
Text
Translation
Remarks
friendly [beer]
reversal of s and m
(6)
grgt Knfr
foundation of
Kanefer
preceding
male:
a serving of shenes-bread
U
C
G
|
offering of
Menkaure
grgt hdn
foundation of
Heden
destroyed
destroyed
grgt mr
foundation of Meri
Y
m
grgt r mdw
foundation of
Horus Medjedu
tt
tet
nwt
foundations of inet
|
(8)
O
C
G
|
food: a shenes-loaf and

a jug(?)
[sut-meat?]
(9) []
(10)
tp Mn-kw-r
East wall, funerary estates:85

Register
1 figure
no.
(1)
(7)
m/f
Text
Translation
Remarks
nfw
the captain []
barque
determinative
instead of a
mast
Iymery
M
(11)
(12)
85
Jacquet-Gordon, Les noms des domaines funraires, pp.24142 (no. 19G5); Reisner,
GN1, p. 444; Junker, Gza 3, p. 37.
(13)
|
|
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m/f
Text
Translation
<
destroyed;
Mlek: N-dwfr
see note a)
destroyed (male):
Mlek: Praise be to below
Khafre
[?
[grgt K]nfr
[the foundation of
Ka]nefer
(17) []
destroyed(?)
(18)
destroyed;
Mlek: does not
exist
mr nrw fr
(15)
%
<
.w
C
|
(16)
U
C
G
Khafre is beloved of
the gods
ranged midway in quality between the finely carved portions of the

entrance jambs and the roughly incised scenes on the south wall.
Kanefer and his wife Shepsetkau stand facing right, eastwards out
of the chapel towards the entrance. Kanefer holds a staff and sekhem
scepter. At a much smaller scale, his daughter Meretites stands
on her own register line and grasps his staff. Kanefer wears a long
kilt with a belt sash, a broad collar, and a short valanced wig that
appears unfinished, for most of the vertical curls are left uncarved.
Shepsetkau holds him in a close embrace, with her hands on his
shoulder and torso. The lower half of her figure, except her legs, is on
a loose block housed in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA32
1212). Traces of red pigment survive on Kanefers right arm and hand
preserved on this block. The rest of the scene was reconstructed in
place and remains in situ in the tomb. Above the couple, six vertical
columns of text identify them with name and titles.
7
6
5
4
3
/

/

#
U
C
n K
I
occupies almost the entire wall as preserved.86 He sits before a table

of mixed offerings, upon a high-backed chair with solid arms and
bulls legs, resting on plain drum frustrum-shaped supports. By
facing to the left, Kanefer is probably intended to receive all the
offering bearers marching towards him on the east wall. He holds
a brachiomorphic fly whisk in his bent left hand,87 while his right
stretches out towards the offering table. Above the table appear at
least three registers of food and drink offerings.88
South wall, traces above the main seated figure of Kanefer:
Text: (1)[ my-r wp]wt []

Translation: (1)[ Overseer of comm]issions, [].
88
Reisner, GN1, p.439, fig.259; pl.40b.

H
.G. Fischer discusses fly whisks and bastinados terminating in human hands
in Varia Aegyptiaca, JARCE2 (1963), pp.3233, fig.8gh, and scepterlike batons in Notes on Sticks and Staves in Ancient Egypt, MMJ13
(1979)=Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, Supplement, pp.16
17; see also Sourdive, La Main, p.138, top. For additional representations of
fly whisks, see Moussa and Altenmller, Nefer and Ka-hay, pl.24a; K. Weeks,
Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, p.38, fig.32 (tomb of Iymery, g6020); and the
tomb of Khuenre (Giza MQ1), HUMFA Expedition photographs B2046 and
B2058 (east wall). In the Eastern Cemetery, a rare representation of a humanhanded staff is held by a female offering bearer on the north wall of the chapel
of g75307540: Dunham and Simpson, Mersyankh, pl. 13a; L. Flentye, The
Mastaba of MeresankhIII (G7530/7540) in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza: An
Archaeological and Art Historical Analysis, BEM3 (2006), pp. 73, 79 fig.4.
For the table offerings as dating criterion, cf. Cherpion, Mastabas et hypoges,
pp.4950, critre22, table garnie de victuailles diverses (KhafreNiuserre).
_
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Text: (1)my-r wpwt (2)smr wty (3)mdw k- (4)rp w rp tmtyw

(5)K-nfr (6)r(.t) nswt mtf m(.t)-nr wt-r (7)m(.t)-nr Nt
pst-kw
Translation: (1)Overseer of commissions, (2)sole companion,
(3)herdsman of the white bull, (4)controller of interpreters, controller
of bowcase bearers,90 (5)Kanefer. (6)The royal acquaintance, his wife,
priestess of Hathor, (7)priestess of Neith, Shepsetkau.
South Wall (figs.12.8112.82). A single, large-scale figure of Kanefer
U
U
a) Mlek relates this estate (no. 15) to a parallel in the tomb of Sekhemkare
(Lepsius89); Jacquet-Gordon, Les noms des domaines funraires, p.224, no.12; for
the tomb in general, see PMIII, pp.23334; Junker, Gza3, p.49 [46]. Lepsius,
Denkmaeler Text1, pp. 108111; Mariette, Les mastabas, pp.54647; Hassan, Giza4,
pp.103123, figs.53-70, pls.3335; Reisner, GN1, pp.22324, fig.128.
86
87
North Wall (figs. 12.8312.86).89 The carving on the north wall
M|
Text: (2)t (3)nt

Translation: (2)a thousand loaves of bread, (3)a thousand jars of beer.
destroyed;
destroyed (female),
Mlek: sb[]w[t] Mlek: Sebiut/Sabut
<
South wall, beneath the offering table:
Remarks
Register
3 figure
no.
(14)
Below, by the representation of Kanefers daughter, are two horizontal lines:
~ 8
Text: (8)stf krt-nswt (9)Mrt-ts

Translation: (8)His daughter, royal ornamented, (9)Meretites.
West Wall, South of South False Door (figs.12.87, 12.89, 12.92).

Two registers, each with two figures, are squeezed into the space
between the south false door and the corner joining the south wall.
In the upper register, two men stand facing to the right, the first
carrying a haunch and the second several live birds. No inscription
was carved to accompany them, but the word ryt appears above
the two women in the lower register.91 Each woman wears a tight
garment with shoulder straps, has close-cropped hair, and balances a
box on her head. The first woman hold a jar by the handle while the
89
90
91

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For this military title see Fischer, A Scribe of the Army in a Saqqara Mastaba of
the Early Fifth Dynasty, JNES18 (1959), pp.26768 (22), and Junker, Gza4,
pp.7172, title9 of K-m-n; Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles2, pp.753
54, nos.27452747.
Discussed by H.G. Fischer, Varia, p.45, fig.11,
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West Wall, South False Door, Lintel (figs.12.9112.92).
second carries a bird.
9
CU V _ Text: smr wty, rp K-nfr
Text: ryt
Translation: djeryt-mourners.92
Translation: The sole companion, controller of the palace, Kanefer.
West Wall, South False Door, Architrave (figs. 12.8712.88,

12.90, 12.92). Petrie saw more of the inscription here in 1881 than
West Wall, South False Door, Drum (figs.12.9112.92).
CU _
was preserved by 19051906. The beginning of the offering formula

relies on his hand copy.93
0
5 fi g
5
g
8
9

V
C G
H
g
{
C
U _ [ `
7
Text: smr K-nfr

Translation: The companion, Kanefer.
West Wall, South False Door, Left (South) and Right (North)
Jambs (figs.12.9112.92).

UC CU
Text: (1)tp nswt tp npw (2)nb t-sr nty s nr (3)rs m mntt

(4)m nb m r94 nr (5)w nfr wrt (6)my-r wpwt smr (7)smsw s
rp K-nfr
Translation: (1)A gift which the king gives, and a gift which Anubis,
(2)lord of the necropolis, foremost of the divine booth, gives,
(3)(namely) a burial in the west, (4)as a possessor of veneration before
the great god, (5)having achieved a very great old age, (6)the overseer
of commissions, companion, (7)elder of the chamber, controller of the
palace,95 Kanefer.
West Wall, South False Door, Tablet (figs.12.9112.92). Kanefer

is seated at a table of summarily carved half-loaves of bread, with an
abbreviated ideographic list surrounding the table. His bull-legged
stool shows a papyrus umbel and cushion behind him. His name
and titles fill the rest of the tablet in both vertical, then horizontal,
arrangement.
3
C U _ g
9
!

7
Text: (1)my-r wpwt (2)smr wty (3)K-nfr (4)t (5)nt (6)mnt

(7)w m- gs (8)r t
Translation: (1)The overseer of commissions, (2)sole companion,
(3)Kanefer, (4)a thousand loaves of bread, (5)a thousand jars of beer,
(6)a thousand pieces of cloth, (7)oxen, oryx, gazelle, (8)greylag(?)
goose, crane.
92
93
94
95
n this word, denoting a professional mourning service provided by women at

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certain funeral rites, see Fischer, Varia, pp.4549, with the scene from g2150
illustrated on p. 45, fig.11. The Djeryt-mourners appear again in Cemetery
g2100 on the false door of Senwehem (Sn()-wm) from minor mastaba g2132
(MFA 27.444); see Part2.
The beginnings of columns13 have been restored following Petries transcription
in Sayce Mss.24, middle, at the Griffith Institute; cf. Mlek, BSEG6, p.50,
fig.1.2.
The two signs of m and r have been telescoped to one in haplography, as
is common for this phrase.
For this title see, M. Brta. The Title Inspector of the Palace during the
Egyptian Old Kingdom, Archv Orientln67, no.1 (1999), pp.120, citing
this tomb on p.5.
Text: K-nfr
Translation: Kanefer.
West Wall, Between False Doors (figs.12.9212.98). In one of

the most detailed (and highest) raised relief scenes in the chapel,
Kanefer stands between the two false doors, facing left (southwards).
He is dressed in his most elaborate costume, a kilt with overlap, a
wig with long striations, a beaded nw-collar,96 and a leopard skin
with shoulder tie. The linen belt of his kilt is fastened by a double
loop and the overfold is held in place by a long tab. Since he faces
left, his sekhem scepter passes behind his body.97 In his right hand he
grasps a staff, onto which the little figure of his naked son Kasewedja
holds, while gazing back towards his father with a finger raised to
his mouth. Kasewedjas figure appears unfinished, but the large, bold
hieroglyphs above him, listing his name and titles, are extremely
detailed. In front of Kanefer are two registers, each with two men
who march right (northwards) facing the tomb owner. Above, the
first man is censing, while his partner, a scribe, follows behind in
a respectful attitude. In the register below, the first man bears two
pieces of linen, while the second holds a spouted jar and a live bird.
All four of these men are named; two of them are listed as Ptahwer,
doubtless the owner of subsidiary mastaba g2151, just slightly to the
north of Kanefers mastaba. Six columns of vertical text surmount
the entire scene, identifying Kanefer.
1
g fi 5
g
6
gE
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9
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Text: (1)my-r wpwt smr w(ty) (2)smsw s m pr.wy rp mrwy nswt

(3)my-r pw (4)ry-st n st nb (5)rp w rp tmtyw (6)K-nfr
(7)sf s nswt my-r wpwt K-sw
Translation: (1)Overseer of commissions, sole companion, (2)elder
of the chamber in the double administrations, controller of the two
96
97
S ee E. Brovarski, Old Kingdom Beaded Collars, in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean

and the Near East. Studies in Honour of Martha Rhoads Bell, Volume 1, pp.13762.
Cf. the line drawing in Smith, HESPOK, p.277, fig.111, noting the properly
reversed hands, but the staff passing behind the figure.
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canals of the king,98 (3)overseer of the marshlands, (4)master of

secrets of every foreign land,99 (5)controller of interpreters, controller
of bowcase bearers,100 (6)Kanefer. (7)His son, the royal document
scribe, overseer of commissions, Kasewedja.101
West wall, facing main figures:
C n { n g
{ n C
Text: (1)my-r m(w) k Pt-wr (2)s m(w) k Snb102 (3)(R)-nPt103 (4)m-k Pt-wr
Translation: (1)Overseer of funerary priests, Ptahwer, (2)scribe of
funerary priests, Seneb, (3)(Re)dienptah, (4)funerary priest Ptahwer.
West Wall, North False Door (figs.12.97, 12.9912.101). Thieves

have broken through this false door in a search for serdab treasure
behind (figs. 12.75, 12.88). The only decoration preserved is at the
bottom of the two outer niches. The left (southern) jamb preserves
more text, and a complete figure of Kanefer standing with a staff and
sekhem scepter. The right (northern) jamb preserves just the lower
half of a similarly posed figure of Kanefer.
West wall, north false door, left (south) jamb:
C U
my-r pw, overseer of the marshlands

mdw ryt, staff of the subjects
mdw k-, herdsman of the white bull
m-nr Sbk dt, priest of Sobek of Crocodilopolis
ry-st n st nb, master of secrets of every foreign land
rp w, controller of interpreters
rp mrwy nswt, controller of the two banks of the king
rp tmtyw, controller of bowcase bearers
s nswt, kings son
smsw s m pr.wy, elder of the chamber in the double administrations
Family
wife: pstkw, Shepsetkau

m-nr Nt, priestess of Neith
m-nr wt-r, priestess of Hathor
mtf, his wife
son: K-sw, Kasewedja105
my-r wpwt, overseer of commissions
sf, his son
s nswt, royal document scribe
mother(?): Mrsn, Meresankh
daughter: Mrtts, Meretites
stf, his daughter
Text: my-r wpwt K-nfr

Translation: Overseer of commissions, Kanefer.
West Wall, North of North False Door (figs.12.17, 12.97). One

male figure is preserved on a loose fragment (MFA321211), facing
right and carrying large case(?) or unrolled linen. His orientation,
however, may speak against his restoration to this false door, despite
Reisners reconstruction.104
Other People106
y-mry, Iymery
t-[], Ikhet-[]
msw, retainer
Wm-k, Wehemka
s, scribe
Y
?
Ptwr (also owner of g 2151), Ptahwer

my-r m-k, overseer of funerary priests
Text: msw t-[]

Translation: The retainer, Ikhet-[].
At least 16 individuals are named in the tomb.
Ni-k-r, Nikare
Titles of Kanefer
Nfr-[r]-n-pt, Nefer[her]enptah107
my-b n nrf, favorite of his god

my-r wpwt, overseer of commissions
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
Nm(?), Nemedj? (more likely Nedjem: see under Nm
or this controversial title, see Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles2, p.717
F
no.2615.
Note the abbreviated spelling of st 9 here, in contrast to the full writing,
including the sign, on the chapels exterior architrave:
.
Cf. Fischer, JNES 18 (1959), pp.26768 (22); Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian
Titles2, pp.75354, no.27462747.
Of this figure, Smith, HESPOK, p.249, writes that it shows along the back of
the figure a sharp outline which slopes a little in section, but the front lines of
the figure are smoothly rounded off to the background. The inner line of the
thigh has been drawn and partly modelled, but the head remains in one plane.
The same individual appears on the chapels facade, south of the entrance.
Although in this case the r is not written, this may be the same individual
represented on the chapels facade, south of the entrance.
Reisner, GN1, fig.257.
Nt-k(), Nakhtka(i)
Nm(?) (son of Kanefer(?)), Nedjem(?)
[]m[y-r(?) ], nswt, over[seer ?
105
106
107
or Kasewedjas tomb (g5340= Lepsius37), see Junker, Gza7, pp.15884.

F
For those bearing scribal titles, see Piacentini, Les scribes, pp.14748.
C
ould this individual be the owner of an architrave found east of the north
niche of g2130, and possibly deriving from g2131 or g2133? See above,
Chapter8, object no.3615 (fig.8.28).
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C
Z
B
E
G 2104
I
Z
G 2114
D
B
X
A G 2112a
A
A
G 2112c
A B
C
G 2115
X
G 22
G 2130
Rnpt, Redjienptah
Snb, Seneb
s, scribe
r-nfr(?), Hernefer
B
G 2121
X
Y
G 2131
G 2141 A
G 2142
B A
A
X
G 2145
C
B A
B
G 2144
B C
G 2170
A
A B
X 2166
E
D
X
Y
H
I
2171
E F G
2169
I
D
E
A
2181
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W Z
2225
B
a
b X
2175
A
z
C
2178
X
A
Z
C G 2154a
B A
G 2154
2177
X
U
A
V
2224
B C
G 2222
C
A
A
G 2223a
2221
B
319
2179
G 2156
E10 m
G 2223
D 2174
B C
A B 2176 C
2172
Y
C
F
B
G 2157
Z U
E
D
A 2173 C
S D B X
0 = G 4990
A
G 2139
A C
G 2137
A
G 2138
A
C G 2152
B
A
G 2163
C G 2136
B A
G 2151
Z 2168 E
D E G 2162
C
A
D B C
G 2134
A G 2153
Fig.12.1. G2150,F plan.G
B G 2161
2167 B C
Y Z
G 2132
G 2133
G 2134a X
A C
Z
A
A B
G 2143
X
W
U
G 2150
F
F
G
G 2105
A
J
C D
2186
B C
E
F G H
E
2461 B C D
A
B
A
2462a
C D
2463
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Fig.12.2. Street between g2150, to the west (right) and g2170, to the east (left), showing the east face and exterior
mud brick chapel of g2150, looking south from top of g2220. March23, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Fig.12.3. G2150 (=Fishers IX.3), entrance to interior chapel and exterior chapel at south end of east face after
removal of mud-brick debris down to floor level, looking west. February 4, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
photographer not listed, a631.
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Fig.12.4. G2150, chapel, looking southwest. February 1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b1570
[=b7881].
Fig.12.5. G2150, chapel area, looking northwest. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b960
[=b7459].
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Filling
Base Line
Section AB Looking South
Fig.12.6. G2150, section of core and casing blocks,

looking west.
G 2150
Casing type Z
GN I, Fig. 86
Plan
Fig.12.7. G2150, south face, looking north. November 15, 1993. Peter Der
Fig.12.8. G2150, section and plan of chapel and serdab..

G 2150
Fig. 265
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Fig.12.9. G2150, chapel entrance, door-socket hole on left (north) side,

looking east out of the chapel. November 18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.087.19.
Fig.12.10. MFA 06.1889,

fragments of alabaster bowl
from g2150. 19051906.
HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M. Lythgoe,
c820 [=c12668].
Fig.12.11. 32127c (MFA34.58), from g2150, south entrance thickness

fragment. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe,
b921 [=b7463].
Fig.12.12. 32128
(MFA34.57), from
g2150, north doorjamb
(quarter view). 1906.
HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b750
[=b7464].
Fig.12.13. 32127a
(MFA34.58), from
g2150, south doorjamb
(quarter view). 1906.
HUMFA Expedition
photograph, A.M.
Lythgoe, b743 [=b7465].
Fig.12.14. 32127b
(MFA34.58),
from g2150, south
facade, adjoining
south doorjamb.
December28,
1932. HUMFA
Expedition
photograph,
Mohammedani
Ibrahim, a7031.
(detail).
Fig.12.15. 321210, g2150, north facade of chapel entrance. April5, 2006.

Museum of Fine Arts, sc170361.
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Fig.12.16. 32129, from g2150, chapel, east wall, relief over interior entrance doorway. October14, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc156677.
Fig.12.19. MFA06.1878, from g2150, granite hammer. Left: December2,

2002. Museum of Fine Arts, e7184cr_d1 (detail). Right: 19051906. HU
MFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c992.
Fig.12.17. 321211, from

g2150, relief fragment from
chapel (north false door?).
April5, 2006. Museum of
Fine Arts, sc170362.
Fig.12.18. 321212.12, from g2150,

chapel, north wall, two connecting relief
fragments with legs of Shepsetkau. April5
and May18, 2006. Digital montage
of Museum of Fine Arts sc169018 and
sc171080.
Fig.12.20. 3314 (MFA33.1024), fragment of alabaster statue from

g2150a, part of the base including the toes of the left foot. Left:
March 22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
c13411. Right: May21, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc129920.
10
cm
33-1-34
RW
Fig.12.21. 33134, neckless shoulder jar from
g2150a. March
15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299
(detail).
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10
cm
10
cm
33-1-36
Alabaster
33-1-35 A
Fig.12.22. 33135 (MFA33.1044), alabaster model cylinder jar from

g2150a. Left: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (detail). Center: May 15, 2008. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_img00481. Right: drawing.
Fig.12.24. 33137a (MFA33.1157),

complete shoulder jar with hieratic
inscription on shoulder, from
g2150a. Top left: March 15, 1933.
Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (detail). Top
right: March11, 2005.Museum of
Fine Arts, sc139359. Bottom left:
drawing.
33140
33139
33138
Fig.12.23. 33136 (MFA33.1045), eight alabaster model

basins from g2150a. Top: March 15, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (detail).
Top right: drawing. Bottom: May 15, 2008. Peter Der
10
cm
Fig.12.25. Copper model chisels from g2150a. February27, 2004.

Museum of Fine Arts: 33138 (MFA33.1046, two copper chisels),
sc92884; 33139 (MFA33.1047, chisel), sc92885; 33140 (MFA33.1048,
chisel with pointed end), sc92886; 33141 (MFA33.1041, broken chisel
and tip fragment of another), sc92886.
10
cm
33-1-37a RW
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10
cm
33-1-42
Copper
Fig.12.26. 33142, drawing of copper model neckless

shoulder jar from g2150a (compare fig.12.27 2/1).
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Fig.12.27. Objects from g2150a. Top row: 33143 (MFA 33.1049, copper model lid), 33145 (MFA 33.1051, faience disk), 33146 (MFA 33.1052, gold
foil), 33144 (MFA 33.1050, fragments of carnelian disk). Bottom row: 33142 (copper model neckless shoulder jar), 33150 (MFA 33.1055, copper razor),
33139 (MFA 33.1047, copper chisel), 33141 (broken copper chisel and tip fragment of another), 33140 (copper chisel), 33138 (MFA 33.1046, two
copper chisels). March16, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8301.
10
cm
33-1-43 33143,
Copperdrawing of copper cover(?) or lid from g2150a
Fig.12.28.
(compare fig.12.27 1/1).
10
cm
Fig.12.29.
33-1-4433144, drawing of carnelian disk from g2150a (compare
fig.12.27
1/4).
Carnelian
0
0
10
cm
33-1-4533145, drawing of faded green-glazed faience disk from

Fig.12.30.
Faience(compare fig.12.27 1/2).
g2150a
10
cm
Fig.12.31. 33147+33166 (MFA33.1053), fragments of a jar with slender

33-1-47+66 RBrW
neck and slightly flaring mouth, from g2150a. Left: March 15, 1933.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8299 (detail). Center:
drawing. Right: May15, 2008, pdm_img00631.
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10
20
cm
front
Fig.12.32. 33148 (MFA33.1054): fragments of large jar from g2150a.

Top left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
a7065 (detail). Top right: May15, 2008, pdm_img00633. Bottom: drawing.
33-1-48
BrW
Fig.12.33. 33149, drawing of jar fragments from

g2150a.
0
33-1-49
10
cm
10
cm
10
20
cm
Fig.12.35.
33151 (MFA34.48ab),
two fragments of carved wood,
33-1-51
Wood
probably from a chair or a coffin, from g2150a. Top: March15, 1933. HU
MFA Expedition photograph. Dahi Ahmed, c13402. Center: July 16, 2008.
Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img02397. Bottom: drawing.
RBrW
side
top
Fig.12.34. 33150 (MFA33.1055), copper model

dished rectangular razor from g2150a. Top:
February27, 2004. Museum of Fine Arts, sc92887
(compare fig.12.27 2/2). Left: drawing.
10
20
cm
Fig.12.36. 33152 (MFA33.1056), wood piece worked on all four sides,

from g2150a.33-1-52
Top: July 16, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img02427.
Bottom: drawing.
33-1-50 Copper
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10
cm
Fig.12.37. 33157 (MFA33.1057),

white sandstone whetstone,
copper-stained on all sides, from
g2150a. Left; March 22, 1933.
Dahi Ahmed, c13412. Center:
September1, 2005. Museum of Fine
Arts, sc154007. Right: drawing.
33-1-57 White Sandstone
Fig.12.38. 33162 (MFA33.1061): 33 alabaster model basins from g2150a.

Above: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
b8299 (details from rows 1/12 1/112; 2/812). Right: May15, 2008. Peter
Der Manuelian, pdm_img00470.
0
Fig.12.39. 33163 (MFA33.1062), alabaster model cylinder jar from
g2150a. Left: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, b8299 (detail, 2/5). Right: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_img00497.
10
cm
Fig.12.40. 33164 (MFA33.1063): alabaster model barrel belted jar from

33-1-64
g2150a. Left: March 15, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Dahi A
Ahmed, b8299 (detail, 2/6). Center: May15, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian,
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Fig.12.41. 33420, red granite sarcophagus

from g2150a. Top left (east side and south
end): April05, 2006. Museum of Fine Arts,
sc169952. Remaining images: March15,
2006, Peter Der Manuelian. Center left
(south end): pdm_06353. Center right (north
end): pdm_06356. Bottom left (west side):
pdm_06355. Bottom right: drawing.
G 2150 A
Sarcophagus (red granite)

Sectional Elevation
Plan
50
1m
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Fig.12.42. 32122, alabaster fragment from right leg of a standing

male statuette, from debris of g2150b. Left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13411 (detail). Right: March21,
Fig.12.44. 3311 (MFA33.1021), alabaster fragment from left shoulder of

a standing male statuette, from debris of g2150b. Left: March 22, 1933.
HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13411 (detail). Right:
March21, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc129918.
Fig.12.43. 32123, alabaster fragment from left arm of a standing male

statuette, from debris of g2150b. Left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13411 (detail). Right: March21,
Fig.12.45. 3312, alabaster fragment from left shoulder of a statuette,

from debris of g2150b. Left: March 22, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13411 (detail). Right: March21, 2005. Museum
of Fine Arts, sc129919.
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Fig.12.46. G2150, general view, looking southwest. November 15, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.077.19.
Fig.12.47. G2150, general view, looking northwest. March 12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.026.04.
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Fig.12.48. G2150, north niche, looking west. November 4, 1993. Peter Der
0
2m
Fig.12.49. G2150, north niche, plan and section.
1-11-1937 N.M.
Fig.12.50. G2150, north niche, rectangular offering basin, looking down

westwards. November 4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.61.25.
O.K. A.F.
Fig. 206
G 2150
Fig.12.51. G2150a, mouth of shaft, looking south. November4, 1993.

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Fig.12.52. G2150a, burial chamber, with sarcophagus 33420, looking south. January11, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
Fig.12.53. G2150a, burial chamber, sarcophagus 33420 in situ, looking southwest. April20, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
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8.5 m
Section AB
Plan

Fig. 266
G 2150 A
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Fig.12.55. G2150b, mouth of shaft (filled in), looking west. November4,

Fig.12.57. G2150, intrusive burial by west face, looking east. 19051906.

Fig.12.58. G2150, intrusive burial by west face, looking northeast. 1905

1906. HUMFA Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, c1150 [=c12627].
A
Plan
5.6 m
Section AB
Fig.12.56. G2150b, plan and section.

G 2150 B
m
Fig.12.59. G2150, intrusive burial by west face,
looking north. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
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10 cm
1:5 or 20%
PDM
10 cm
Fig.12.60. G2150, architrave

found in the street east of the mastaba, looking west. Top: November4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, digital montage of
was 1:5 or 20%, but then reduced to 50% of that for
pdm_1993.059.21+pdm_1993.059.23.
Bottom: drawing..
use in volume
Fig.12.61. Muse du Louvre, Paris B49: false door and tablet of Mery (not
from Giza), upper part, with drum lintel of a Kanefer (C155) inserted,
possibly from g2150. June 4, 1936. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Fig.12.62. Muse du Louvre, Paris C155, drum lintel of a Kanefer, possibly

from g2150, set into false door and tablet of Mery (B49, not from Giza).
Courtesy Runion des Muses Nationaux.
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Fig.12.63. G2150, chapel, south entrance thickness, looking southeast.

Fig.12.64. G2150, chapel, north entrance thickness, looking northeast.

Fig.12.65. G2150, reconstruction sketch of chapel entrance, showing MFA

reliefs 34.57 and 34.58 outlined in red.
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Fig.12.66. G2150, chapel, reconstruction of south entrance thickness: digital montage of MFA34.58 with portions still in the mastaba. December19, 2002.
Museum of Fine Arts, cr4237_d1 (detail). November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.090.17 through pdm_1993.090.21.
338
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10 cm
PDM
ca. 70.5 cm to ground
Fig.12.67. G2150, chapel, drawing of south entrance thickness.
339
1:5
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Fig.12.68. G2150, chapel, reconstruction of north entrance thickness: digital montage of MFA34.58 with portions still in the mastaba. December19, 2002.
Museum of Fine Arts, cr4237_d1. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.090.14 through pdm_1993.090.16.
340
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PDM
10 cm
ca. 72 cm to ground
Fig.12.69. G2150, chapel, drawing of north entrance thickness.
341
collated at Giza, April 1999
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Fig.12.70. G2150, reconstruction of facade south of chapel, looking west. Digital montage of Museum of Fine Arts, cr4240_d1
(December19, 2002), unnumbered photograph courtesy Jaromir Mlek, and pdm_1993.061.11 by Peter Der Manuelian (November4, 1993).
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loose block; present location not known

MFA 34.58
ca. 94 cm to ground
10 cm
PDM
Fig.12.71. G2150, chapel, drawing of south facade.
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Fig.12.72. G2150, chapel, reconstruction of north facade, looking west, including the two heads on MFA321210.
Digital montage of pdm_1993.059.01 by Peter Der Manuelian (November4, 1993), and sc170361 by Museum of Fine Arts (April5, 2006).
344
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Fig.12.73. G2150, chapel, reconstruction of north facade, looking west,

detail, including the two heads on MFA321210. Digital montage of
pdm_1993.060.08 by Peter Der Manuelian (November4, 1994) and
sc170361 by Museum of Fine Arts (April5, 2006).
Fig.12.74. G2150, chapel, north facade, detail, looking west. November4,

Fig.12.76. G2150,
chapel, north facade,
detail of dwarf and
monkey, looking west.
November4, 1993.
pdm_1993.061.05.
Fig.12.75. G2150, chapel facade, looking west. 19051906. HUMFA

Expedition photograph, A.M. Lythgoe, b881 [=b7460] (detail).
345
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MFA
MFA 34.58
346
ca. 69 cm to ground
Fig.12.77. G2150, chapel, drawing of north facade.
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10 cm
PDM
ca. 74 cm to ground
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347
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Fig.12.78. G2150, chapel, east wall, looking southeast. July23, 1930. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a5750.
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Fig.12.79. G2150, chapel, reconstruction of east wall. Composite arrangement of aaw516, aaw531, aaw533, aaw548, aaw553, aaw598, all
by Brian Snyder (April26, 1999), and sc156677 (showing MFA32129) by Museum of Fine Arts (October14, 2005).
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location of cavity
underneath for
door socket
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Fig.12.80. G2150, drawing of east wall.
20 percent of 1:5; reduced in InDesign t

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draw in
all shade
86 cm to ground
351
10 cm
PDM
f 1:5; reduced in InDesign to 70 percent of 20 percent, hence 14 percent of original size

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Fig.12.81. G2150, chapel, south wall, looking south. July20, 1930. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a5736.
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10 cm
PDM
Fig.12.82. G2150, chapel, drawing of south wall.
ca. 91 cm to ground
353
1:5
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Fig.12.83. G2150, chapel, reconstruction of north wall, including MFA 321212, looking north. Digital montage of HUMFA
Expedition photographs b1571 [=b7882] by A.M. Lythgoe (February, 1906), and a7030 by Mohammedani Ibrahim (December28,
1932).
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MFA
10 cm
PDM
355
ca. 82 cm to ground
Fig.12.84. G2150, chapel, drawing of north wall.
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Fig.12.85. G2150, chapel, general view of north wall, looking north.

Fig.12.86. G2150, chapel, north wall, top half, looking north. April24, 1999. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1999.009.05.
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MFA
8 cm
to corner
10 cm
0
ca. 84 cm to ground
10 cm
10 cm
ca.. 82 cm to ground
Fig.12.87. G2150, chapel, reduced overview drawing of entire west wall.
Fig.12.88. G2150, chapel, view of west wall through entrance, looking southwest. 19051906. HUMFA Expedition
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Fig.12.90. G2150, chapel, west wall, architrave above south false door, looking west.
Digital montage of HUMFA Expedition photographs a5739 and a5740 (July 21, 1930),
both by Mohammedani Ibrahim.
Fig.12.89. g2150, chapel, west wall, south of south false door, looking
west. Digital montage of HUMFA Expedition photographs a5746p
(July23, 1930), and a5747 (December28, 1930), both by Mohammedani
Ibrahim.
Fig.12.91. G2150, chapel, west wall, south false door, looking west. July21,
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Fig.12.92. G2150, chapel, drawing of west wall, south half.
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359
0
10 cm
PDM
ca. 84 cm to ground
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Fig.12.93. G2150, chapel, west wall, area between the two false door, looking southwest. July23, 1930. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
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Fig.12.95. G2150, chapel, west wall, between the false doors, detail of
standing figure of Kanefer, looking west. April24, 1999. Brian Snyder,
aaw529.
Fig.12.94. G2150, chapel, west wall, area north of south false door, looking
west. Digital montage HUMFA Expedition photographs a5755 (July 26,
1930) and a5756 (July 27, 1930), both by Mohammedani Ibrahim.
Fig.12.96. G2150,
chapel, west wall,
detail of inscription
between the two false
doors, looking west.
November18, 1993.
pdm_1993.090.07.
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362
10 cm
0
ca. 84 cm to ground
10 cm
Fig.12.97. G2150, chapel, drawing of west wall, north half, with destroyed north false door, and fragment MFA321211.
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MFA
8 cm
to corner
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10 cm
10 cm
363
PDM
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Fig.12.98. G2150, chapel, west wall, detail of leopard skin face on

Kanefers standing figure between the two false doors, looking west.
Fig.12.100. G2150, chapel, west wall, fragmentary north false door,

looking west. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.089.22.
Fig.12.99. G2150, chapel, west wall, north false door, left (south jamb),
Fig.12.101. G2150, chapel, west wall, north false door, right (north) jamb,
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Fig.12.102. G2150, detail of head of Kanefer from facade, south of chapel

entrance. Unnumbered photograph courtesy Jaromir Mlek.
Fig.12.103. G2150, detail of head of Kanefer from west wall, looking west.
Fig.12.104. G2150, detail of head of Kanefer from north wall, looking

north. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.091.01.
Fig.12.105. G2150, detail of head of Kanefers wife Shepsetkau, from

north wall, looking north. November18, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian,
pdm_1993.091.04.
Fig.12.106. G2150, detail of head of Kanefer from south entrance

thickness; MFA34.58. December19, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts, cr4237_
d1 (detail).
Fig.12.107. G2150, detail of scribe from south entrance thickness;

MFA34.58. December19, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts, cr4238_d1 (detail).
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Section
Section
Section
G 2150
N
N
Plan
Plan
Fig.12.108. G2150s,
G 2150 S
plan and section.
Section
0
1
Plan
G 2150
X
Fig.12.112.
G2150x,
plan and section.
Fig.12.111.
G2150v,
G 2150
V plan
and section.
Section
0
G 2150
Plan
Fig.12.110. G2150u, plan and section.

G 2150 U
Plan
Section
Fig.12.109.
G G2150t,
2150 T
plan and section.
G 2150
0
Section
Plan
Fig.12.114. G2150z, plan

G 2150 Z
and section.
N
Plan
Fig.12.113.
G G2150y,
2150 Y plan
and section.
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Chapter 13. The tomb of Kaninisut I: Mastaba g2155
Chapter 13
THE TOMB OF KANINISUTI:
Mastaba g 2155 (= VIIInn = g 4870)
Mastaba:1 core of typeIIa

estimated at 23.5 x 10.5m

area 246.7sq.m; proportion 1/2.3; h.ca. 5.0m

converted into mastaba of typeVIIX by casing and extension

of south end to include interior chapel of type4a

32.2 x 12.4m; area 399.28sq.m; proportion 1/2.95

casing: mixed masonry (white and nummulitic limestone)

better constructed and dressed on east face; intended to present

appearance of smooth sloping casing of white limestone
Chapel: interior chapel of type4a and exterior crude brick chapel

Room (a): NS offering-room of white limestone with two niches,
one at each end of west wall; 3.7 x 1.5m; area 5.55sq.m

proportion 1/2.46; relation 1/73.76

entered from east by doorway in north end of east wall, opening

in embrasure in east face; window in south wall
Exterior crude brick chapel: type(1f ), consisting of one room and an open
court:

Room (b): vestibule room around doorway embrasure of room(a)

3.0 x 2.0m; area 6.0sq.m; entered from north by doorway

in east end of north wall (doorway from (c)

Room (c): open court built between the northern face of room(b)

and the south end of the added mastaba of the son:

made after the addition of the mastaba of the son;

2.45 x 2.5m

area 6.12sq.m

Total area: (a), (b), 11.55sq.m

Total area: (a)(c), 17.67sq.m
Subsidiary north niche: in north end of casing, a monolithic stela
Serdab: small EW serdab behind south false door of offering-room

connected with niche by slot opening under drum

0.6 x 0.8m; area 0.48sq.m

floor about level with pediment of niche
Shafta: sole shaft, north of middle in old core

2.12 x 2.12m; -12.0m in rock

lined above with drab masonry, 5.0m

chamber: type4a (4), on south. 4.0 x 4.3m; h.2.2m


passage: 1.1 x 1.1m, h.2.2m

canopic pit: in SE corner; 0.8 x 0.6m, d.0.6m

completely plundered; west wall of chamber repaired

with poor masonry
Excavation
This tomb lay south of the dividing line between the American and
GermanAustrian concessions. Despite Reisners tomb summary
above, the HUMFA Expedition was not involved in its excavation
in any way, except for the discovery in the American concession
zone of a displaced offering slab inscribed for KaninisutIs son
KaninisutII (MFA12.1513). H. Junker discovered the tomb during
his second season on January9, 1913. On January 27, 1914 he
completed the purchase of the decorated chapel, and its dismantling
began on March17, 1914. By April16, 1914, the crates containing the
reliefs were removed to Cairo, and departure for Vienna took place
on April23, 1914. During Junkers fourth season, he discovered the
related mastabas of KaninisutIII and Irienre (January29, 1926), and
KaninisutIs burial chamber was cleared on March20, 1926.2
Excellent, in-depth publications of the tomb, and especially
the chapel in Vienna, have been produced by Junker, Satzinger,
Demel, and most recently by Hlzl.3 For this reason, only a cursory
description will be provided below. The only item omitted from
these publications is the slab stela fragment in Vienna (S7447) that
may derive from this tomb, prior to the construction of the tombs
extension and interior stone chapel (see below).
Finds
Hildesheim 2431: mud seal, type VI-4. h. 1.5cm; w. max. 6.1cm; excavated
by Junker in 1914 (more likely from g2156, Kaninisut II)4
Text: (1)ry-b [] (2)r [] (3)[] ry-[]b (4)[r ]
(5)[nswt-bt] mry [Sk]r
Translation: (1)Lector priest [] (2)Horus [], (3)[] lector priest,
(4)[Horus ], (5)[king of Upper and Lower Egypt], beloved of [So]kar
Hildesheim 2502: mud seal, type VI-1. h. 2.5cm; w. max. 5.8cm; containing
the Horus name of Niuserre (Isetibtawy); excavated by Junker in
19145
Text: (1)[r] st-b-[twy] (2)ry-b ry-[s]t n [] (3)r st-b-twy
(4)ry-[]b ry-[s][t] (5)r st-[b-twy] (6)[ry-b] [ry-st]
Translation: (1)[Horus] Iset-ib-[tawy], (2)lector priest, master of [se]crets
of [] (3)Horus Isetibtawy, (4)lector [pr]iest, master of [se]cr[ets],
(5)Horus Iset[ibtawy], (6)[lector priest], ma[ster of secrets]
S ee Reisner, GN1, pp.44649; Junker, Gza2, pp.13572; idem, Vorbericht

19121913, pp.16369, pl.4 (=pp.1319 of separately printed version); Baud,
Famille royale et pouvoir2, p.480; Piacentini, Les scribes, pp.22527. On the name
Kaninisut, see Ranke, PN1, p.340.9, mein ka ist der des Knigs, and p.340, n.3.
J unker, Vorbericht 19121913, pp.6369 (= pp.1319 of separately printed

version); idem, Gza2, pp.13570; idem, Die Kultkammer des Prinzen Kanjnjswt,
pp. 67. idem, The Offering Room of Prince Kaninisut, pp. 79. Baer notes in
Rank and Title, p.102, that the tomb number was changed to g4870 by the time
of the publication of Junkers Gza12, map 4.
In addition to Junkers publications in Gza2 and his Vorbericht 19121913,
cited above, see idem, Die Kultkammer des Prinzen Kanjnjswt; idem, The Offering
Room of Prince Kaninisut; Demel, Die Reliefs der Kultkammer des Kaninisut;
Satzinger, Das Kunsthistorische Museum Wien, pp.9093; Hlzl, Ka-ni-nisut, and
idem, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches2, pp.3387.
P
. Kaplony, in Martin, Reliefs des Alten Reiches und Verwandte Denkmler3,
pp.3435 (Hildesheim 2431; compare 2502); Junker, Gza3, p.150; idem, Gza7,
p.240; idem Gza8, p.178d and n.3; Kaplony, Die Rollsiegel des Alten Reichs2,
pp.41112, K(nig) u(nbekannt) 13, pl.116. See in general Wolfgang Boochs,
Siegel und Siegeln im Alten gypten.
K
aplony, in Karl Martin, Reliefs des Alten Reiches und Verwandte Denkmler3,
pp.4243 (Hildesheim 2502); Junker, Gza3, p.150; idem, Gza 7, p.240, fig.99;
Kaplony, Die Rollsiegel des Alten Reichs1, pp.55 21, 179 68; idem, Die Rollsiegel
des Alten Reichs2, p.244, K(nig) u(nbekannt) 13, pl.73.
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Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Inv. S7447: limestone anonymous

slab stela fragment in raised relief; h.52cm; w.53cm (as restored:
ca.80cm); th.10cm; possibly from g2155(?) (see below; figs.13.21
13.25)6
was excavated by Steindorff in 1906 and removed to the PelizaeusMuseum, Hildesheim (no.2970).9
Architecture
The shaft and burial chamber show all the hallmarks of post-Khufuera construction.The shaft continues down beneath the level of the
passage and burial chamber, located to the south. Several attempts
to cut the southern burial chamber are in evidence, but most were
abandoned, probably due to the friable nature of the bedrock. The
burial chamber shows uneven walls, and a rough ceiling and floor.
The orientation of the chamber is also asymmetrical, with the
west wall angling too far westwards at its northern corner, and the
southern wall too far southwards at its western corner. Presumably
to compensate for the misaligned west wall, several courses of rough
blocks were erected in front of it. A canopic pit, also off axis, was set
into the southeast corner.
Junker reports that the shaft and chamber were already open
at the commencement of his excavations here in 1912. He was not
able to confirm rumors that the antiquities authorities had already
cleared g2155a themselves and removed an alabaster sarcophagus.
No skeletal remains were found by Junkers crew,10 and no ancient
attempt had been made to sink a second burial shaft, or orient
shafta in closer proximity to the interior stone chapel added to the
mastabas southern extension.
Since both g2135 and g2155 extend Cemetery g2100 to the south,
connecting to Cemetery g4000, it seems clear that the large mastaba
g2220 must already have been in existence at the northern end of
this cemetery, filling the logical area for additional cores of normal
size. In response, KaninisutI and the owner of g2135 had to extend
the cemetery southwards. Kaninisuts original core presents no
particular anomalies, but the secondary additions severely altered
the tombs appearance on all four sides. Until recently, there was no
evidence for an original slab stela or stela emplacement (see below).
Subsequent to the core construction under Khufu, the mastaba
received extensive casing and a southern extension that houses the
interior stone chapel. A mud-brick anteroom with an entrance on
the north side fronts the entrance to the interior chapel, which
shows a long entrance corridor, two false doors in the west wall,
and a serdab behind (west of ) the primary southern false door. No
secondary shaft was added in the southern extension.
The casing extends all the way around the mastaba, and is
particularly well preserved, although some areas reveal blocks that
were never finished and smoothed. A subsidiary north niche was
cut in the east facade. The tomb is one of five major mastabas in
Cemetery g2100 to show a north niche, the others belonging to
Merib (g2100-1), Nefer (g2110), Khentka (g2130), and Kanefer
(g2150). Roofing slabs are also in evidence.7 The chapel area, and
indeed the southern facade of the mastaba extension, are at this
writing (2008) completely obscured by fill sand. This differs from
the situation with the other removed and relocated chapel: Meribs
chapel area (g2100-1) still shows traces of the foundation blocks and
an instructive section view of the surrounding mastaba fill, despite
the fact that his chapel was dismantled by Lepsius in 1845, while
Kaninisuts came down much later, in MarchApril, 1914.
Another feature among the tombs many alterations is the
addition of the small chapel of the owners son, KaninisutII,
directly to the east facade of mastaba g2155. That tomb contains
two chapel false doors and a menu list between them on the west
wall (see PartII). But beyond this addition, there is a clear reduction
in the resources and influence of KaninisutIs family. Additional
family membersKaninisutIII, Irienre, and Ankhmareall
have relatively unimpressive structures, either abutting or in close
proximity to g2155.8 In fact, much more impressive is the decorated
chapel of KaninisutIs butler (my-r pr) and library scribe (s pr mt)
Wehemka, who appears in prominence throughout his masters
tomb. Wehemkas tomb (D117), located west of Cemetery g2100,
7
8
Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pp.8891, pls.2122 (stela11); Junker, Gza1, pp.5859,

230, fig.53c, pl.29b; Hlzl, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches3, CAA22
(in preparation); Brovarski, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson1, p.128
(item no.13, incorrectly citing Junker, Gza1, pl.37b instead of pl.29b); idem, in
Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente, esp. p.2, n.2
(item no.13, incorrectly assigned to mastabaVIInn = g4770, and incorrectly citing
Junker, Gza1, pl.37b instead of pl.29b), pp.3239, 41 (table4.1, item no.13).
S ee Junker, Gza2, p.140, with fig.14.
These minor mastabas, excavated by Junker, are briefly described in PartII.
Shafts and Burials
Date

late reign of Khufu (core); early Dynasty5 (mastaba).11
Jnosi has noted that the only tomb in Cemetery g2100 that
seems complete is g2155, a fact he attributes, not to Khufus early
death, but to a decline in royal administration support for private
mastaba construction towards the end of Dynasty4.12 There is much
evidence to date the occupation of the mastaba by KaninisutI in
the early reigns of Dynasty5. First, the possibility of a primary, prechapel phase for the tomb, with a slab stela as sole decoration, cannot
be discounted. Second, the addition of the southern annex and
interior stone chapel with two false doors tends to suggest Menkaure
or later in all but the largest Giza mastabas. The extensive repertoire
of the chapels decoration, similar to that in Meribs chapel, speaks
for a Dynasty5 date. The burial shaft shows no T-shaped portcullis
J unker, Gza2, p.164. For D117, see PMIII, pp. 11415, plans XI, XIV. Junker,
Gza3, pp.3738 [22]; Steindorff and Hlscher, Die Mastabas westlich der
Cheopspyramide, pl. 16; Kayser, Die Mastaba des Uhemka; Roeder, Die Mastaba
des Uhemka im Pelizus-Museum zu Hildesheim; P. Piacentini, Les scribes dans la
socit gyptienne de lAncien Empire: Une enqute en cours, in Proceedings of
the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, p. 867.
10 Junker, Gza2, p.141.
11 Compare PMIII, p.78: early Dynasty5; Baer, Rank and Title, p.145 [531]:
early Dynasty5 (Junker dates to the earlier Fifth Dynasty, basing his argument
for the lower limit on an independent dating for the adjoining mastaba of Kn-nswts son); Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir1, pp.4243; 2, p.480 [102]:
KhufuDjedefre;; Cherpion, Mastabas et hypoges, pp.11819, 224: not later than
Djedefre; Demel, Kaninisut, p.13: Niuserre; Harpur, Decoration in Egyptian
Tombs, p.270 [265]: UserkafNeferirkare; Jacquet-Gordon, Domaines funraires,
pp.24750 (22G5): early Dynasty5; Junker, Gza2, pp. 15, 39, 137: early
Dynasty 5; Kanawati, Egyptian Administration, pp.19, 12324, 155 [345]: Sahure
or later; Reisner, GN1, pp.214, 311: late Menkaurepost-Neferirkare; Schmitz,
Untersuchungen zum Titel S-Njwt, p.26; early Dynasty5.
12 Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.219.
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grooves, and the burial chamber is uneven and unlinedall later

period features of Western Cemetery tomb construction. There is
general scholarly agreement on this date, with the exception of N.
Cherpion, who prefers an earlier date of KhufuDjedefre.13 It is
unlikely that KaninisutI was an actual son of Khufu, contrary to his
titular claims. We should not expect in that case to find his mastaba
located here in the Western Cemetery.
Date of the Slab Stela. The mastaba belongs to the second

group constructed in Cemetery g2100, and the decoration of the
subsequently added chapel is clearly post-Khufu, most likely early
Dynasty5. If KaninisutI were an actual kings son (of Khufu), we
might ask why his tomb is not located in the Eastern Cemetery.14
This raises the question of how many years and reigns might
have passed between the completion of the slab stela and the later
construction of the annex with interior stone chapel. KaninisutI
could not have lived from Khufus reign all the way into the early
reigns of Dynasty5. If the slab stela does not represent a first phase of
Kaninisuts tomb decoration, then perhaps it should be taken as the
only surviving object of the previous/original owner of g2155, before
it was finally assigned to and altered by KaninisutI.
Decoration
Slab Stela of KaninisutI? In his original publication of several

slab stela fragments (fig.13.2113.25), Junker noted that they were an
bestimmtes Grab nicht mehr zuweisbar.15 From this point forward,
the larger fragment had no secure provenance at Giza. Junker was
unable to assign it to a particular tomb by the time he published
Gza1 in 1929 (for his suggestions, see Gza1, p.258). Recent
examination of Reisners excavation records in the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, however, produced a manuscript in which g2155 is
clearly listed as the findspot for the fragments. In this manuscript,
entitled, The Development of the Tablet Scene, Reisner describes
the slab stela fragment thus on p.18:
g2155 Prince Ka-ny-nswt:
1) A small fragment from the top with nb[s] and a hawk from
the top of the linen list.
2) A large fragment of the bottom of the stela from a little to the
left of the table to the right border. No remnant of figure, and no
indication of his titles and name. Beneath the table, ideographic
list: on left, ointment, 1,000, and nfr (from ikhet nbt nfrt ?): on
right, bread, beer, 2,000 and rnpwt nbt. At the extreme right,
a linen list, remains of two kinds of linen, but the upper one
is curiously arranged with two sets of 1,000 signs separated by
the sub-headings. Between the table and the linen list, a large
compartment list occupying all the space preserved (to a height
a little above the base of the bread on the table). Two registers
remain, each with a register of 1,000 signs beneath: 1) (above) two
garments, bed, headrest, and three boxes; 2) (below) stone vessels.
On pp.1920 of this unpublished manuscript, Reisner classifies

the slab stelae, and refers to the fragment as stela of unknown
provenience (g2155?). Finally, in the published GN1, he describes
the fragments as near g2155, two fragments, one from the top of
a linen list and the other, larger, from the lower edge of the slab
from the table to the right border.16 He does not mention these
fragments in his brief summary of g2155.17
Some doubt certainly remains as to a secure provenance for
these fragments. I have nevertheless accepted Reisners assignation
here, albeit with some reservation.18 I base this acceptance on the
assumption of Reisners continued presence at Giza versus Junkers
forced absence from the site between the time just after the discovery
of the fragments (191213 season) until his return to Giza well after
World WarI.19 In other words, Reisners notes may accurately reflect
the situation as he learned it from Junker and recorded it, whereas
Junker lost track of the stelas provenance due to GermanAustrian
expeditions exile from Giza between 1914 and 1925.20
If true, this revelation may revise our interpretation of the tomb
of KaninisutI (g2155), whose decorated chapel is on display in the
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (S8006). His mastaba would
have held an emplacement for the slab stela, and then received the
most elaborate and complete expansion of any tomb in Cemetery
g2100. An annex was appended to the southern end of the core
mastaba, and the new limestone chapel was broken into the interior
of the superstructure. At a later time, the small mastaba of his son
KaninisutII was added to the eastern side of g2155, converting the
exterior east wall of the larger tomb into the decorated interior west
wall of the smaller one (figs.13.3, 13.5, 13.16).21 All of this subsequent
construction activity has obscured the area of the southern end of
the core mastabas east wall. The result is our present inability to
determine any emplacement or original location of a slab stela. The
situation is similar to that of Nefer (g2110, figs. 6.1, 6.266.27),
whose exterior stone chapel has covered what might once have been
a slab stela emplacement.22
In terms of the decoration of the slab stela fragment itself, there
is probably little use in a stylistic comparison with Kaninisuts chapel,
for the two monuments must be quite separated chronologically. If
our fragment belongs with other slab stelae from Giza, it should
date to the reign of Khufu, whereas Kaninisuts chapel in Vienna
is traditionally dated to early Dynasty5.23 There are a number of
possible scenarios, once again assuming that we have the correct
provenance for the slab stela fragment in the first place:
the mastaba originally belonged to someone else in Khufus reign,
when the slab stela was prepared, and was subsequently usurped
by KaninisutI, who added his chapel in the southern extension
both the stela fragment and decorated chapel belong to KaninisutI,
and the mastaba dates not to Dynasty5 but to Dynasty4, as N.
Cherpion has argued24
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
13
14
15
herpion, Mastabas et hypoges, pp.11819. This position has been convincingly

C
refuted by Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.22324.
See Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.12324, 21825.
Junker, Gza1, p.230, fig.53; Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.91, fig.129.
24

Ibid., p.446 (AppendixC).
It is true that in other places within these unpublished manuscripts, Reisner
mixes up some tomb numbers, e.g. g2120 and g2130.
Cf. Jnosi, sterreich vor den Pyramiden, p.91.
No mention of the Junker fragments is made in the HarvardMFA Expedition
Diaries for 19121914.
For the tomb of KaninisutII, cf. Junker, Gza3, pp.14556; Manuelian, Slab
Stelae, p.90, fig.128 (=pdm_1993.96.33 on www.gizapyramids.org).
C
f. Manuelian, A New Slab Stela for Nefer from g2110? (Giza Archives Project
Gleanings: I), in Egypt and Beyond. Fs. Lesko, pp. 22736, and see above for the
mastaba of Nefer (g2110).
C
f. PMIII, p.78; Hlzl, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches2, p.33,
Satzinger, Das Kunsthistorische Museum Wien, p.90; Y. Harpur, Decoration in
Egyptian Tombs, p.270; Strudwick, Administration, p.43 (end of Dynasty4 to
early Dynasty5); Baer, Rank and Title, p.145 [531].
Cherpion, Mastabas et Hypoges, pp.11819, dates the tomb to KhufuDjedefre,
which is followed by M. Baud, Famille royale et pouvoir2, p.480 [102].
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the stela fragment is an archaism and dates not to the reign of Khufu,
but perhaps even into Dynasty5, closer to the date of the chapel
itself.25
4
No determination can be made on the pose, costume, or even

gender of the missing seated figure; and only traces survive of the
offering table and stand, without any visible bread loaves. A unique
addition to the usual items listed beneath such offering tables is the
phrase [t nb(t)] nfr(t) rnpw(t) nb(t), represented only by the top
of the nfr sign, the rnpt-hieroglyph, quail chick, and nb-basket. No
other Giza slab stela contains these words, and if the text is to be
read horizontally, that is, on either side of the table stand, the word
arrangement, too, is unique.
This is the only Giza slab stela that layers three rows together
without the separation of a different type of linen. Other slab stelae
show a specific linen type, then its widths in one row, and the
corresponding amounts in another. The Kaninisut list shows, from
top to bottom, amounts (), widths, and amounts again (), before
switching to , a new type of linen. The situation would be clearer if
more of the linen list had survived above. Perhaps there was a split in
an upper row between two types of linen, such as we find in the stela
from g4860, where mt-nfrt and sr share the same row.26
) H
(4) b , mst , t , wrs , sr , -t , hn

(4)a thousand leopard-skin mantles,29 a thousand mantles of wild
cow skin,30 a thousand beds,31 a thousand headrests,32 a thousand
caskets,33 a thousand boxes,34 a thousand chests35
C
i G A) y G
C
(5)tt , nmtt , k , s , nmst , wt , mw

(5)a thousand lug-handled porphyry vessels,36 a thousand lughandled white quartzite vessels,37 a thousand lug-handled vessels of
ka-stone,38 a thousand alabaster (cylinder) vessels, a thousand nemsetvessels, a thousand cooking pots,39 a thousand shamu-basins40
Section d:

Section a:
[]
TT T T
Section b:
y
T
m
Hi
T
C
(1)[mnt s ?] (2)t , nt , [t nb] nfr rnpw nb

(1)[a thousand pieces of cloth, a thousand alabas]ter27 [vessels], (2)a
thousand loaves of bread, a thousand jars of beer, and everything good
and all kinds of vegetables28
TTTTTTT
TTTTTTT
T T T
(3)[] , [ ], [] , [] , [] , [ ], [ ]
(3)a thousand [] [a thousand ] a thousand [] a thousand []
a thousand [] [a thousand ] [a thousand ]
25
26
27
28
In Slab Stelae, p.91, I opted to accept Kaninisut as the owner of both the slab
stela fragment and the subsequent decorated chapel, thus dating both to some
time after Khufus reign. But the somewhat suspect nature of the stela fragments
provenance, based solely on Reisners unpublished notes, leaves us without a
definitive solution for the present.
See Manuelian, Slab Stelae, pls.2930.
Junker, Gza1, p.258, assumes that the s sign is upside down, z for y. It is
perhaps more likely that the tiny corner preserved is a different sign altogether.
For upside-down examples at Giza, see the false door tablet fragment from
g4260; Junker, Gza1, pl.29a (image o_neg_nr_0565 on www.gizapyramids.
org), and the north (wifes) false door of the tomb of Kapunisut Kai (g1741).
Following Junkers restoration, Gza1, p.258, and based on a similar phrase on
the false door panel of Wenshet, ibid., p.252, fig.63, p.253; Manuelian, Slab
Stelae, p.107, figs.16263.
h
T
[] , [] , [] , []
a thousand [], a thousand [], a thousand [], a thousand []
Section c:
3
{ O
U
C
29
f. Junker, Gza1, p.258; W.S. Smith, The Coffin of Prince Min-khaf, JEA19
C
(1933), pp.15557; Simpson, Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II, p.14, n.27, fig.30,
b m.
30 See Junker, Gza1, p.258; Smith, JEA19 (1933), pp.15557; E. Brovarski, An
Inventory List from Covingtons Tomb and Nomenclature for Furniture in the
Old Kingdom, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson1, p.122.
31 Cf. Junker, Gza1, p.258, n.1; Brovarski, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly
Simpson1, pp.13033, 155 (item no.13).
32 Ibid., pp.13334, 155 (item no.13); Junker, Gza1, p.258, n.2.
33 Cf. E. Brovarski, Inventory Offering Lists and Nomenclature for Boxes and
Chests in the Old Kingdom, in Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor
of Edward F. Wente, pp.4345, 49 (item no.13); Junker, Gza1, p.259, n. 1.
34 Brovarski, in Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente,
pp.3839, 49 (item no.13).
35 Ibid., pp.3238, 49 (item no.13).
36 Cf. Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptischDeutsch, p.917. For vessels of
tiaat-stone cf. Leprohon, Stelae1, p.60 with references to Hassan, Barta, Harris,
and Meeks. On the stone in general see R.S. Bianchi, Porphyr, L4, cols.1071
73, and in Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, esp. pp.4849.
37 Wb.2, p. 272.3; Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptischDeutsch, p.415
(Topf, Krug); Junker, Gza1, p.259 (roter Granit?); Leprohon, Stelae1, p.59
(pots of white quartzite); Harris, Lex. Stud., pp.8889 (white quartzite).
38 W
b.5, p.93.10; Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptischDeutsch, p.873.
39 Faulkner, CDME, p.66 (cauldron); Hannig, Groes Handwrterbuch gyptisch
Deutsch, p.209 (Kochkessel).
40 Wb.4, p.411.2 (groer Krug); Junker, Gza1, p.259.
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The third figure stands reciting reversion offerings, and the fourth
carries a haunch.45
5
t , psw [], mnw , sfw

aa-linen: a thousand of 100 (cubits wide), a [thousand] of 90 (cubits
wide),42 a thousand of 80 (cubits wide), a thousand of 70 (cubits wide)
Decoration of Chapel.43 The raised-relief entrance thicknesses

and four chapel walls of g2155 contain the most complete, best
preserved, and overall consistently highest-quality relief sculpture
in all of Cemetery g2100. By comparison, Meribs chapel (g21001), though similar in date and extensive thematic repertoire, is far
coarser in style. Nensedjerkais chapel (g2100-11) bears only pillar,
architrave, and false door decoration. Kanefers chapel (g2150)
shows four decorated walls, but again with a very varied range in
quality. The exterior chapel of Nefer (g2110) lacks the amount and
diversity of wall scenes, but shows occasional examples of masterly
craftsmanship. The only other chapel to bear extensive decoration
belongs to Kahif (g2136), a much later Dynasty6 intrusive structure
at the southern end of the cemetery (see PartII). Kahif s craftsmen,
too, lacked the skills evident on the walls of KaninisutIs chapel.
Smith relates KaninisutIs chapel to a general group including
the chapels of Merib (g2100-1), Nensedjerkai (g2100-11), Seshathetep
(g5150), Nisutnefer (g4970), SeshemneferIII (g5170), Setju
(g4710), Tjenti (g4920), g5010, g5030 (=Lepsius 46), Khemten
(g5210), and Kasewedja (g5340). These chapels are characterized
by reliefs of medium height and mediocre execution, and some of
them show evidence of a use of plaster washes to give a smoother
finish to the relief for the laying on of the color44 Contrary to
Smiths assertion, the execution of KaninisutIs relief work seems
superior to that of most, if not all, of these chapels.
41
42
43
44
or an alternative reading, arguing for a redundant s at the the beginning

F
of the word, cf. Kahl, Das System der gyptischen Hieroglyphenschrift in der
0.3. Dynastie, pp.6670 (zf, Stoff mit bekannten Abmessungen). See also
P. Posener-Kriger, Les Mesures des toffes lancien empire, RdE29 (1977),
p.94; and Junker, Gza1, p.31.
Or possibly 90 cubits square? On the difference between vertical and horizontal
linen units of measure, see Manuelian, Slab Stelae, p.137, based on PosenerKriger, Les mesures des toffes lancien empire, pp.8696; Kahl, Kloth,
and Zimmermann, Die Inschriften der 3. Dynastie, p.175ff.; E. Edel, Eine
althieratische Liste von Grabbeigaben aus einem Grab des spten Alten Reiches
der Qubbet el-Hawa bei Assuan, NAWG6 (1987), pp.98, 104. On the large
numbers, Vogelsang-Eastwood, Textiles, in Ancient Egyptian Materials and
Technology, p.295, notes that 845 square meters of cloth were found in the
Middle Kingdom tomb of Meket-re at Thebes (H.E. Winlock, The Mummy
of Wah unwrapped, BMMA35 [1940], p.257), and Tutankhamens tomb
produced 400 items of clothing.
See Junker, Gza2, p.142; idem, Die Kultkammer des Prinzen Kanjnjswt, Hlzl,
Ka-ni-nisut, pp.3955; Demel, Die Reliefs der Kultkammer des Kaninisut.
Smith, HESPOK, p.166.
8 9
Text: (1)wdpw nty wr (2)snmt wt (3) t (4)ry wb (5)my-sr

(6)t (7)nt (8)mnt (9)s
Translation: (1)The butler of the great hall.46 (2)Supplying the akh
[by] the embalming priest. (3)Placing the offerings. (4)Chief of
reversion offerings. (5)Imysekher. (6)A thousand loaves of bread, (7)a
thousand jars of beer, (8)a thousand pieces of cloth, (9)a thousand
alabaster vessels.
Further into the chapel, the south rebate of the door embrasure
may relate to the fourth (lowest) register on the east wall. Two short
registers above display ideographic offerings, while the primary,
third register below contains three men proceeding to the right. The
first carries cuts of meat, while the two following behind him escort
an oryx. One man glances backwards, grasping the animal by the
horns, while his assistant holds it by the tail and brandishes a stick.
All three men wear their hair close-cropped. The leader wears a kilt
with a belt tie, while the two followers simply wear waistbands with
three straps hanging down in front.47 In addition to the identifying
inscriptions, painted traces of hieroglyphs (presumably concerning
the t funerary estate) appear above the third male figure.
South Entrance Thickness (figs.13.2613.28, 13.3013.33). KaninisutI

sits at a table of 11 half-loaves of bread (six facing five) facing out of
the chapel to the left (east). Both hands are extended towards the
table. He wears a long, striated wig, bracelets, and a leopard skin
with shoulder tie. He sits on a bull-legged stool with a papyrus
umbel and cushion. To the left of the table, four figures face him
to the right, into the chapel. The first two kneeling figures resemble
their counterparts on the north entrance thickness. The first holds
a vessel and conical bread loaf; the second is a gesturing wt-priest.
g s G
o {
L
gCC
C g
U a
n
C
snw , w , tm , szf
[]-linen: a thousand of 2 (cubits wide), a thousand of 1 (cubit wide),
a thousand of width tema, a thousand of width sezef 41
Text: (1)w wdw m t nb nfrt r nb (2)nt rn m nt-r nt pr t

(3)tp (4)m-k n-f (5)rp s N-n-wt-r
Translation: (1)Laying the offering table with every good thing every
day. (2)Bringing a young oryx as a presentation of the funerary
estate.48 (3)Hetep, (4)the funerary priest, Ankhhaf, (5)controller of
the kitchen, Niankhhathor.
North Entrance Thickness. In a very similar posebut for the

long, striated wigto his figure on the south entrance thickness,
here KaninisutI sits before a table of 12 bread-loaves, facing out to
the right. Before him four men kneel and stand facing him. The two
kneeling figures resemble their south thickness counterparts, but it is
interesting to note that the second figure, the gesturing wt-priest, has
reversed his arm positions. It is his rear arm that reaches towards his
45
46
47
48
I llustrated in Junker, Gza2, p.147, fig.16, and Gza12, p.77, fig.6.20, and
Staehelin, Untersuchungen zur gyptischen Tracht, pl.28, fig.27.
See Junkers discussion, Gza2, p.64, no. 1; Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian
Titles1, p.407, no.1497.
For a discussion of this item of apparel, see Brovarski, The Senedjemib Complex,
Part1, pp.4445.
The concluding phrase -r nt pr-t is merely painted, not carved, but only pr-t
has been drawn on Junkers line drawing, Giza2, p.149, fig.17. Compare the
Mlinar drawing in Hlzl, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches2, p.68.
For this genre of scene, see H. Altenmller, Presenting the nt-r-offerings to
the tomb owner, in The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology, pp.2535.
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forehead, while his front arm extends outward. The third figure stands
behind holding aloft an ewer and basin, and the final figure stands
with his right arm extended in a reversion-offering pose, twice as tall
as his fellows. Before him is a lightly incised vertical text, presumably
applying to him, although the hieroglyphs face towards him, that reads
m-k K()-m-d, the funerary priest, Kaemked.49
g n
C C
I

~ AAA AAA
g
T T
u
AAA
u
AAA
T
m
C

# g
AAA
AAA @

g

|
C
G 6
{ o
L C
y
prow.54 KaninisutI stands in the center, leaning on a staff, with a

long, striated wig and a kilt extending below the knees. A crew of
seventeen men fills the craft. At the stern, one man controls the sail
ropes, three others hold large steering oars, and a lookout towards
the prow surveys the way ahead. One individual perches atop the
deckhouse, probably relaying navigation instructions between
the prow and stern staff.55 In front of the boat, two subregisters
are squeezed in above the hedgehog prow, each with two running
men. Above, they carry a coil of rope on a pole, and below, the first
man holds a paddle, while he seems to support another coil of rope
around his neck.56 All four men wear the waistband with three strips
of linen hanging down in front.
E
E
E
Text: (1)s nswt K-n-nswt (2)wdpw nty wr (3)snmt []n wt (4)ry

wb (5)snr [tt mrty(?)] [] [w] msdmt [r]p w nbs (6)db dpt
t(?)-nbs t-rt gt swt st t s(t) w(t) (7)nt t pt (8)mnt s
ry-b w
Translation: (1)Kings son Kaninisut. (2)The butler of the great hall.
(3)Supplying the akh by the embalming priest. (4)Chief of reversion
offerings. (5)Incense, [best of two ointments(?)], [], [green eyepaint], black eye-paint, wine, carob beans,50 zizyphus,51 (6)figs, depetbread, loaf of(?) zizyphus, baked bread, parched wheat, white 6-row
barley, green 6-row barley. (7)a thousand jars of beer, a thousand loaves
of bread, cakes, (8)a thousand pieces of cloth, a thousand alabaster
vessels, suckled calves, oxen.
L w
m
Text: (1)wt m Dp sdwt57 r st tp nfr wrt (2)sm K-n-nswt

(3)tp-spt (4)W-b (5)Pnw (6)Pr-nw (7)ry-mrw
Translation: (1)Returning from Dep, sailing to the very beautiful field of
offerings.58 (2)The sem priest, Kaninisut, (3)Hetepsepit, (4)Wahib,59
(5)Penu,60 (6)Pernedju,61 (7)Herymeru.
In the lower register, a papyrus boat is paddled. Once again,

KaninisutI stands in the center, leaning on a staff and wearing a
short valanced wig. He also shows a folded-up cloak (less likely a
life preserver) wrapped around one shoulder.62 Around him, a
crew of 13 men handle the oars. The deckhouse shows no poles in
this case, but does contain forked supports and a single man once
again perched on top.63 Where Meribs papyrus boat required only
East Wall, over the Doorway. Two boats proceed to the right
(southwards).52 The composition shows remarkable similarities to

(and some significant differences from) the only other boating scene
from Cemetery g2100, in the tomb of Merib (g2100-1).53 The boat
in the upper register shows its sails unfurled with a hedgehog-headed
49
50
51
52
53
hat appears to be a t under the d in the Mlinar drawing, Hlzl, Reliefs und
W
Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches2 p.66 (reproduced here in fig.13.37), may
in fact be the circular determinative of d. This text is omitted from Junkers
drawing, Gza2, p.146, fig.15, and Gza12, p.77, fig.6.19. The scene also
occurs in Staehelin, Untersuchungen zur gyptischen Tracht, pl.29, fig.28.
Alternatively, earth almonds; see Edel, Qubbet el HawaII/1/2, p.22; Germer,
Flora, pp.24546.
This scene is illustrated in color in Hlzl, Ka-ni-nisut, p.8, and Satzinger,
Das Kunsthistorische Museum in Wien, pp.91, 93; cf. also, Junker, Gza2, p.156,
fig.22; Hlzl, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches2, pp.69, 79; Abubakr
and Mustafa, The Funerary Boat of Khufu, in Aufstze zum 70. Geburtstag
von Herbert Ricke, p.14, fig.11. On the subject of boats in general, cf. Haldane,
Ancient Egyptian Hull Construction; Jones, Boats, pp.3645; and Drring,
Materialien zum Schiffbau im alten gypten.
Decoration over the entrance to the chapel of Kanefer (g2150) consists of
four sarcophagi, and the beginnings of a procession of funerary estate offering
bearers.
54
or a study on the significance of the hedgehog-headed night-boats (Henet)

F
versus the papyrus-prowed day-boats (Shabet), see H. Altenmller, Funerary
Boats and Boat Pits of the Old Kingdom, in Abusir and Saqqara in the
Year 2001, pp.26990. On the hedgehog-headed prow itself, see von Droste
zu Hlshoff, Der Igel im alten gypten, pp.9697 (cat. no.47, fig.38), with
extensive bibliography, and on hedgehogs in general, idem, Igel, in L3,
col.124.
55 A
very similar arrangement occurs in the upper and lower boats in both the
tombs of KaninisutI (g2155) and Merib (g2100-1). Kaninisuts deckhouse
resembles the actual one reconstructed on Khufus boat at Giza; cf. Landstrm,
Ships of the Pharaohs, pp.2634. Kaninisuts hedgehog-prowed ship is illustrated
on p.36, fig.97.
56 Illustrated in Klebs, Die Reliefs des alten Reiches, pp.104105, fig.86; Landstrm,
Ships of the Pharaohs, p.36, fig.97; Demel, Die Reliefs der Kultkammer des
Kaninisut, pl. 1.
57 O
n the writing of this infinitive, see Wb.4, 309.915.
58 This passage is discussed by Jrgen Settgast, Untersuchungen zu altgyptischen
Bestattungsdarstellungen, p.72; see also Junker, Gza 2, pp.67, 156 fig.22, 169,
and idem, Giza 3, p.185.
59 R
anke, PN1, p.72.27.
60 Ranke, PN1, p.133.6.
61 R
anke, PN1, p.133.29.
62 C
ompare the similar item in the Eastern Cemetery rock-cut tomb of Khafreankh, g 7948: Lepsius, Denkmaeler 2, pl. 9 (top), and image a7391 on www
.gizapyramids.org.
63 Landstrm, Ships of the Pharaohs, p.36, fig.97, suggests the forked corners of the
deckhouse served to support the mast when it was lowered.
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two steering oars (figs.4.374.39), there are three on Kaninisuts

boat.

| g
E B g
m
m
w
Text: (1)sd.tw64 r wnw (2)sm K-n-nswt (3)K-m-st65 (4)Wb (5)Stb

Translation: (1)Sailing to Heliopolis. (2)The sem priest, Kaninisut,
(3)Kaemheset, (4)Wahib,66 (5)Seteb.
=
U
G
|
(3)
&
grgt Ky
foundation of Kay
grgt Wb-sw
foundation of
Wabsu
reversal of
the s
(4) CI
grgt Nfr-mm
foundation of
Nefer-shemem
there is a
Nefer-shemem
in the tomb of
Nefer (g2110)
G
|
grgt Mr-w.nf
foundation of
Meriuenef
w
?
U
|
(7)
C
G
(8) m
C
wt
the way
grgt Nfr-n
foundation of
Neferankh
snsnt
the burnt
U
|
(10)
|
(11)
|
(12) m
~
B
G
wt ftyw
the house of brewers
grgt Ry
foundation of Ray
nt Wp
valley of Inet-wep
grgt s-b
foundation of Za-ib g2092+2093:
(2)
g
g
G
|
East Wall, Presentation Scenes (figs. 13.3813.39, 13.4213.44).

The rest of the east wall bears no large-scale figure of the tomb owner.
Presumably, the four registers of processions should be understood
as oriented either towards the large, standing figure of KaninisutI
on the north wall, or to his (now missing) seated figure before an
offering table on the south wall. The east wall figures march in both
directions; this arrangement is found on Meribs east wall as well
(g2100-1), but in that case there are large-scaled figures to face them
at either end of the same wall. On Kanefers east wall (g2150), all
the figures face right (south) towards Kanefers seated figure on the
south wall.
For detailed descriptions of the many individuals represented
on this wall, and the various items they carry, the reader is referred
to the publications of Junker and Hlzl.67 A brief summary will
suffice here. In the topmost register, fourteen female personified
estates march left (northwards), each wearing a tripartite wig and a
long garment with shoulder straps. The primary distinction among
these figures is the diaphanous nature of the dresses of the first four
women, where leg details are carved and visible beneath the garment,
versus the remaining nine women, whose dresses completely hide
their legs. Only two figures are male: the third from the end of the
procession, and the final (damaged) figure at the far right (south)
end of the wall. Masculine estate names are, of course, represented
by male offering bearers, and feminine estates by females. In the
two topmost registers, a total of 30 estates are shown. Three of these
are called the foundation of Kaninisut, two contain the cartouche
of Snefru, and one the cartouche of Khufu. This represents by far
the longest procession of funerary estates in all of Cemetery g2100.
Register
1 figure
no.
(1)
64
65
66
67
m/f
Text
Translation
Remarks
grgt K-n(y)-nswt foundation of

Kaninisut
Scribal error has placed the t after the preposition

r.
Note the reversal of the k basket.
Ranke, PN1, p.72.27.
Junker, Gza2, p.15658, figs.20, 22; Hlzl, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine des Alten
Reiches2, pp.3643, 6970, 79.
(5)
(6)
(9)
male Za-ib
(Izezi); cf.
Roth, A
Cemetery
of Palace
Attendants,
pp.106113
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g
U
|
(14)
C
d
U
|
wntyw
the bowmen
nt
(15)
(13)
mr R wfw
reversal of
Re loves Khufu
(11)
|M
Register
2 figure
no.
m/f
Text
Translation
(1)
st rt
the field of the

hedjeret-animal
Remarks
(2)
(3)
|
C
sw
nbs Snfrw
C

|
(4)
(5)
grgt K-n(y)nswt
the satisfied
the zizyphus/nabqfruit of Snefru
reversal of
the s
reversal of
the s
|
C
(12)
|
(13) y
y
y
|
(14) C
|
(15)
E
C
C
C
G
pr m
house of the
servant/majesty
smywt
the desert hills
grgt K-n(y)nswt
foundation of
Kaninisut
grgt Snfrw
foundation of
Snefru
nt Nb
foundation inet of
Nebi
rwt
the granaries
pnt
the (place of )
capsizing
grgt Smw
foundation of
Seshemu
reversal of the
b and the
Register3 consists of men escorting two oxen and one cow

on leashes (left), and butchery scenes (right). Nine men in all are
depicted; three bring animals to the left (north), and on the right are
two groups of three men removing the forelegs of two trussed oxen.
foundation of
Kaninisut
C
G
grgt s
foundation of
Iskhakh
reversal of
the s
bst
panthers head(?)
cf. Fischer,
Varia Nova,
p.36(e)
grgt pr
foundation of
Pekher
U
G
|
(6)
m
)
|
(7)
N
L
|n
(9) 9
9
9
|
(10)
C
(8)
C
w

s ||| L 1 m
L
C
O B C E F
E
C
C
C
E
E
mE
g
10
11
Text: (1)nt nt-r nt nwt nt pr t (2)s (3)w mt (4)Kng (5)rs

n sm (6)Hr-b (7)sm -nfrt (8)n-tf (9)wdpw Smw (10)sm mysr (11)sm s
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(11)
Register4 at the bottom of the wall contains thirteen male

offering bearers, all with short kilts, belt ties, and close-cropped hair,
and all marching to the right (south) bearing various offerings for
the funerary meal. Their names and occasional titles are provided,
but these are not personified estates.
(12)
C
i
(2)
(3)
U
C
(4)
C
(6)
g
(5)
m/f
Text
Translation
rp s nt
controller of the
kitchen, Tjenti
wdpw Kr
butler Kairi
wdpw N-nwt-r
butler
Niankhhathor
wdpw n
butler Ankhi
wdpw Snb
butler Seneb
rt N(y)-mrt
baker Nimeret
rt nt
baker Tjenti
M
C
(7)
g
C
i
(8)

fsw Wnw
cook Wenkhu
(10)
Mdw
Medu
Bb
Bebi
68
69
70
ote the reversal of the w w sign.

N
Note the reversal of the k sign.
Note the reversal of the O h sign.
m-k wfw-mr- funerary priest

nrw
Khufumernetjeru
m-k Smr-k
funerary priest
Semerka
tmty Prsn
seal-bearer Persen
Also Merib?
_ n
(13)
:
C
South Wall (figs.13.4513.48). Most of the figural decoration on this

wall has been lost. Beneath six wide registers filled with an offering
list, a seated figure of KaninisutI at table originally faced left (east).
All that remains is his outstretched right hand, which touches the
offering table laden with thirteen half-loaves of bread.71 Further to
the left, the face of one of the officiating priests is barely preserved.
The menu list reads from right to left and lacks any vertical
separators between the individual items.72 At the upper-left corner
of the wall, a window provided the only source of light into the
chapel.73
1
yO

g ~
C
@
O
Y
Y C
T
Text: (1)sm rp nwt sm r (2)s nswt n tf [K-n]-nswt (3)nt
(4)t (5)s (6)mnt []
Translation: (1)The sem priest, controller of kilts, stolist of Horus,
(2)kings son of his body, [Kani]nisut. (3)A thousand jars of beer,
(4)a thousand loaves of bread, (5)a thousand alabaster vessels, (6)[a
thousand pieces] of cloth.
Junker, Giza
2, p.166:
otherwise
unattested
Offering list:
Register A
(a1)
(9)
Remarks
Register
4 figure
no.
(1)
Translation: (1)Bringing the presentation of the towns of the funerary

estate. (2)Hesi. (3)Oxen from the stall.68 (4)Kanegi.69 (5)Slaughtering
by the butcher(s). (6)Herib,70 (7)the butcher Iinefret, (8)Ini-ishetef,
(9)the butler Seshemu, (10)the butcher Imysekher, (11)the butcher
Isi.
D
& sk
(a2)
C
wnw
71
72
73
Translation
Libation
roll of cloth
Remarks
S is typically expected
See Junker, Gza2, p.171,

commentary to no.3
In the center of the table, where the two central half-loaves face each other, no
vertical divider seems to have been carved, separating the two. The differentiation
was perhaps indicated in paint.
Junker notes that vertical dividers were not yet prevalant at this stage of
Dynasty5: Gza2, p.156. See the arrangement on the west wall of the chapel
of Senenuka (g2041), which similarly lacks vertical dividers (pdm_06872 on
the Giza Web site, www.gizapyramids.org). On the possibly archaic nature of
missing vertical separators on Dynasty4 slab stela linen lists, see Manuelian,
Slab Stelae, pp.15556.
Junker, Gza2, pp.13839, and for the offering list, pp.17071. The division into
lettered registers follows the pattern laid out by Hlzl, Reliefs und Inschriftensteine
des Alten Reiches2, pp.4346.
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(a3)
basin(?)
snr 2
(a5)
a
s b
two pellets of incense
(a6)
hekenu-oil
(a8)
knw
bw 2
(b10)
green eye-paint
II
[tpt] my wst
Register B
t-wt
6
(b4)
g
t-rt
(b5)
srt
(b67) F
" 6
f bw ns ww
(b8)
L swt
1 jug of beer
two cups of wine
rp 2
Register C
Translation
(c1)
four loaves of depet-bread

dpt 4
C
(c2)
s
nrw 4
(c3) m
black eye-paint
burnt offering of incense
royal offering
Translation
Remarks
bread and beer for

breakfast
Or: repast
z
C
ns 4
four loaves of shenesbread
(c5)
four loaves of imy-tabread
nfw 4
(c7)
g=
(c9)
=3
ale
Cf. Brovarski, The

Senedjemib Complex,
p.81, n.f
t-my-t 4
(c6)
pwt 4
baked bread
four loaves of psn-bread
psn 4
bnnwt 4
(c8)
barley bread
Remarks
four loaves of neherubread
(c4)
offering of the broad hall Junkers restoration, Giza

2, p. 171, commentary to
no.11 (damaged due to
proximity with window)
t nt bw-r
1 loaf of hetja-bread
nt ww
(b12)
tpt-nswt
(a12)
two cups of cool water
(b11)
best ointment
w
(a9)
g
u
msdmt
(a10)
st-snr
(a11)
T
(b3)
festival perfume
tt mrt
(b12)
(b9)
(a4)
(a7)
First sign a mistake for

?
four loaves of khenfubread

four loaves of hebnenutbread
four loaves of paut-bread
four loaves of qemehuqema-bread
mwt m
(c10)
serving of portion of
shenes-bread and jug
sut-meat
For parallels to swt with

s instead of sw, see
Junker, Gza2, p.171,
commentary to no.20
F
U
four loaves of cooked

bread
t r 4
(c11)
##
#
w 4
four cups of onions
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F
7
p
(c13)
L w
(c14) m
(c12)
foreleg
(e3)
Remarks
m
mst
(d3)
I
S
two cups of milky ale
srt tt 2
(e7)
spleen
spt 2
nnm
(e8)
meat
breast meat
~
r
(d7)
~
(rp)
(d6)
(f1)
U
db 2
(f2)

F

rp b 2
(f3)

rp m 2
(f4)
greylag goose
white-fronted goose
smen-goose
~
smn
m
(d9)
~
st
pintail duck
~
s
(d11)
~ mnwt
(d12)
t-sf
(d10)
s[t w]
Register G
two pellets of natron
four loaves of idat-bread

d(t) 4
(f6)
(g12)
(e1)
two jugs of sesher-drink
Translation
Remarks
two cups of fig (wine?)

wine in 2 abesh-vessels
two cups of Lower

Egyptian(?) wine
See note on south false

door, and Barta, Opferliste,
p.62
two cups of pekha-drink
[two] persea fruit
[]d [2]
sif-bread
Translation
TI
turtledove
Register E
bd 2
p() 2
(f5)
teal duck
two cups of sekhepetdrink
ww-sr 2
Register F
C
$
n t
! :
wf
liver
(d2)
two loaves of mesutbread
mswt 2
(e6)
spr 4
(e2)
g
m

npt 2
four ribs
(d8)
two loaves of nepautbread
(e5)
(d1)
(d5)
(e4)
kidney
Translation
(d4)
four shaut-cakes
wt 4
thigh
sn
Register D
Remarks
[white and green] 6-row

barley
Translation
Remarks
two cups of parched

wheat and of prepared
barley
Cf. Junker, Giza2,

pp.17273, nos. 6667
gt swt 2 t 2
(g3)
babaut-fruit
bbw[t]
(g4) [nbs?]
zizyphus?
tt
Alternatively, nabq-fruit;
see Emery, Hemaka, p.52
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(g5) [t-nbs?]
[loaf of zizyphus?]
Register H
Translation
(h1)
(h2)
O
t-wr
(h3)
O t-
st twy(?)
s | E
C _9 s F
~ r | .wf |T T
Remarks
great loaf
2
large (loaf?) of bread
bread of the Two

Lands(?)
gL
C
@
s
T
{
T
Y !
! !
Junker, Gza2, p.172,

no.72: otherwise
unattested; Hannig,
gyptisches WrterbuchI,
p.1385 {36214}
tp sign behind st belongs
to a priest (Junker,
Giza2, p.172, no.73); cf.
Nisutnefer, Junker, Gza2,
p.89, idem, Gza3, p.89,
and Barta, Opferliste, p.57
North Wall (figs. 13.4913.52).74 The dominant figure of
KaninisutI75 occupies almost half the width of the wall. He faces

right (east) towards the chapel entrance. Holding a staff and a sekhem
scepter, Kaninisut wears a leopard skin, shoulder tie,76 pleated kilt,
and belt tie, along with bracelets to complement the long, striated
wig that covers his ear. Just before his face, grid lines are indicated
in paint, presumably left over from either the original canon of grid
squares or from copyists of later ages. Instead of standing in front
of the deceased and holding onto his staff, Kaninisuts naked son
Horwer stands behind him, reaching up to touch the back of his
fathers thigh.
KaninisutI faces three registers containing the presentation
of accounts. Eleven scribes face their master. Most kneel, inscribing
papyrus documents, and show multiple styli tucked behind their ears.
Scribal kits are in their hands as well, some of which are bivalve
shells, which we have also seen in the tomb of Nefer (g2110;
fig.6.50, 6.53). Both the first scribe in the topmost register1 and
his counterpart below in register2 (damaged) extend their papyrus
texts towards Kaninisut in a gesture I have elsewhere described as
presenting the scroll.77 Bound documents, cases, and bags rest on
the floor in between several of the scribes.
|
|
|
C
11
12
m g
L C
g

g
C i M
10
6
C
U C
13
14
Text: (1)[] d mr Dp r pyw nbw ry st pr dwt ry-tp Nb s nswt smr

wty K-n-nswt (2)r nswt sf n tf r-wr (3)rt s nwt n[t pr t s]
p rmw (4)my-r pr Wm-k (5)s mtst (6)m[y-sr]78 (7)my-r pr
K-m-nfrt (8)s nm-tp (9)ry mt nt (10)s mt d-mrr (11)s S
(12)s Mn-k (13)s P-r-nfr (14)s R-tp
Translation: (1)[] district administrator of Dep, mouth of all the
people of Pe, overlord of el-Kab, kings son, sole companion, Kaninisut.
(2)The royal acquaintance, his son of his body, Horwer. (3)Presenting
the document of the towns of [the funerary estate, and the li]st of
the census of people.79 (4)Steward Wehemka, (5)scribe of the
archive, Tjeset, (6)Im[y-sekher], (7)steward Kaemnefret, (8)scribe
Khnumhetep, (9)archivist Tjenti, (10)archive scribe Qedmerer,
(11)scribe Sahi, (12)scribe Menkhka, (13)scribe Pehernefer, (14)scribe
Rahetep.
West Wall (figs. 13.5313.60). As is the case with the chapel of

Merib (g2100-1), KaninisutIs west wall shows the most complex
arrangement, with two false doors and several important figures at
various large scales in the presentation scenes between them.80 Four
faces belonging to major figures on this wall have been defaced,
and both false doors show evidence of attempts to puncture them
in search of plunder behind. The southern (primary) false door
contains a very wide offering platform on the floor before it. The
architraves over both false doors extend asymmetrically towards the
center of the wall.
West Wall, South of South False Door (figs.13.53, 13.55, 13.57).
Two thin registers each contain a standing man facing right towards
the false door. The upper register shows the scribe Wehemka, with
74
75
76
77
Illustrations of this wall may be found in Hlzl, Meisterwerke der gyptischOrientalischen Sammlung, pp.3233, cat. no.3; Satzinger, Das Kunsthistorische
Museum in Wien, pp.9092; Vandersleyen, Das alte gypten, fig.245; Satzinger,
gyptische Sammlung Wien, pp.11213 (color view of the north and part of the
west walls); Schlott, Schrift und Schreiber im Alten gypten, fig.2; p.150. fig.80
(describing the various methods of writing on rolled and unrolled papyrus).
F
or discussion of this figure of Kaninisut facing right, with scepter passing in
front of his body, in contrast to his west wall representation (facing left) where it
passes behind him, cf. Fischer, LEcriture et lart de lEgypte ancienne, pp.6971,
figs.2425.
This accessory appears in faint painted traces just above the sekhem scepter.
Manuelian, Presenting the Scroll: Papyrus documents in tomb scenes of the
Old Kingdom, in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson2, pp.56188.
78
79
80
he container with scribal equipment in front of the third scribe in this register
T
is discussed by P. Schienerl, who claims such containers were the forerunners for
amulet cases, Der Ursprung und die Entwicklung von Amulettbehltnissen in
der antiken Welt, Antike Welt15 (1984), fig.1 and p.48.
On s p rm cf P. Andrassy, Die mrt-Leute. berlegungen zur sozialstruktur des
Alten Reiches, in Texte und Denkmler des gyptischen Alten Reiches, pp.4546,
with fig.2.
I n addition to the full treatment in the Junker and Hlzl publications, portions
of the west wall are also illustrated in Hlzl, Ka-ni-nisut, pp. 4954, figs.2731;
Schlott, Schrift und Schreiber im Alten gypten, fig.2; p.155, fig.85; Fischer,
Lcriture et lart de lEgypte ancienne, p. 71, fig.25.
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Text: (1)smr wty rp sm s nswt K-n-nswt (2)snr (3)w (4)msdmt

(5)d (6)rp mw(?) (7)rp (8)dt 4 (9)st (t) w(t) 2 (10)nbs
(11)db (12)t-nbs (13)nt (14) t (15)s (16)mnt
Translation: (1)Sole companion, controller of the palace,83 sem-priest,
kings son, Kaninisut. (2)Incense, (3)green eye-paint, (4)black eyepaint, (5)persea fruit, (6)Lower Egyptian wine(?),84 (7)wine, (8) 4
loaves of idat-bread, (9)white and green 6-row barley, 2 portions,
(10)zizyphus,85 (11)figs, (12)loaf of zizyphus, (13)a thousand jars of
beer, (14)a thousand loaves of bread, (15)a thousand alabaster vessels,
(16)a thousand pieces of cloth.
scribal equipment and long kilt. Below, a partially destroyed figure of

Iduneferhetep holds out two strips of linen.
2
2C

Text: (1)s pr mt Wm-k (2)dw nfr tp

Translation: (1)The library scribe, Wehemka. (2)The page and recruit,
Hetep.81
West Wall, South False Door, Architrave (figs.13.53, 13.55, 13.57).
=
G
5
g
H
{ C q 8
h
West Wall, South False Door, Lintel (figs.13.53, 13.55, 13.57).
C
_ Yg
C @
9
Text: (1)tp nswt r82 npw nty s nr rs.t()f m rt-nr nb m

r nr w nfr wrt sm rp nwt K-n-nswt
Translation: (1)A gift which the King, and Anubis, foremost of the
divine booth, give, that he might be buried in the necropolis (as) a
possessor of veneration before the great god, having attained a very
great old age, the sem priest, controller of kilts, Kaninisut.
Text: (1)sm rp nwt sm r smr wty s nswt n tf K-n-nswt

Translation: (1)The sem priest, controller of kilts, stolist of Horus, sole
companion, kings son of his body, Kaninisut.
West Wall, South False Door, Drum (figs.13.53, 13.55, 13.57).
CYg

West Wall, South False Door, Tablet (figs. 13.53, 13.55, 13.57).
The seated figures of KaninisutI on the tablets of both false doors are
nearly identical: short, curled wig; a long, close-fitting garment with
shoulder tie; a bull-legged stool with a papyrus umbel and cushion;
and a table with six left-side, and five right-side half-loaves of bread.
The central half-loaves on the southern false door tablet have not
been separated; see the similar treatment on the south wall. Another
distinction between the two tablets is the placement of the southern
false doors jar stand on its own register line, above Kaninisuts feet.
The northern false door tablet uses Kaninisuts ground line, allowing
his rear foot to overlap in front of the jar stand.

C
_
~g V 9
2
w
u
9
@
U
A
13 14
AAA
5
H
AAAAA
10
11
Text: (1)sm rp nwt sm r K-n-nswt

Kaninisut.
West Wall, South False Door, South Jamb (figs. 13.53, 13.55,
13.57). One offering figure appears above, and one below. The top
figure apparently offers a beaker; the title and item(s) held by the
lower figure are obscured by damage.
2
Text: (1)my-r srw Pr-nw (2)[]

Translation: (1)Overseer of linen, Pernedju. (2)[]i.
12
15 16
T L
West Wall, South False Door, North Jamb (figs. 13.53, 13.55,
13.57). The upper figure of Herymeru presumably carries a papyrus
document. The lower figure, bearing a sack, has lost his inscription
due to the damage inflicted to the false door.
1
E
E
E
Text: (1)ry-mrw
Translation: (1)Herymeru.
81
82
ischer, The Inspector of Youths Nfr-n-wfw, OMRO 41 (1960), p. 9,

F
corrects Junker (Gza2, p.167, no.11) and Ranke (PN1, p.416.15) in reading
Iduneferhetep as actually two titles, dw and nfr side by side, preceding the
personal name Hetep. Hlzl, Ka-ni-nisut, p. 51, reads der Jngling Neferhotep.
One wonders if some confusion has crept in here between t for tp and r
for r. For another example of rp for tp, see Leprohon, Stelae1, p.145 (false
door tablet of Mestju and wife Nebuhetep), once written Nebuherep, from shaft
g7248a; (264206 = MFA27.1117).
83
84
85
or this title, see M. Brta, The Title Inspector of the Palace during the
F
Egyptian Old Kingdom, Archv Orientln67 no.1 (1999), pp.120, citing this
tomb on p.5.
This item first occurs, according to Barta, with Unas, along with other specific
types of wine: rp mw (A/72; Pyr.92b), see Barta, Opferliste, p.62. Hlzl, Reliefs
und Inschriftensteine des Alten Reiches2, p.47, takes the m sign as part of nbs.
A
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West Wall, Between the Two False Doors (figs. 13.5313.56).
Kaninisuts wife:
16
The presentation scene here is divided into three sizes of figures,

doubtless to indicate their importance. Primary among them are, of
course, KaninisutI and Neferhanisut, standing at the right (north)
end of the scene, and facing left.86
The second tier of importance is indicated by the smaller figures
of two sons, Horwer and Ka(ni)nisut Junior, and one daughter
(Wadjethetep) who directly face the larger couple. Each is set off by a
vertical separator dividing their names and titles. Ka(ni)nisut Junior
appears as a naked child, with hand to mouth. Wadjethetep wears a
full-length, tightly fitting garment with shoulder straps and a closecropped wig. Horwer holds a rolled papyrus(?) in his right hand,
nothing in his left, and wears a typical short pleated kilt with belt tie.
The scene moves to yet a third scale for representing the rest of
the (all) male figures. Behind the three children, two registers fill the
space. Above are four scribes. The first inscribes his document; the
second two carry their scribal equipment, and the fourth and final
man shows the unusual pose of grasping one hand with the other
behind his back in a gesture of respect,87 while clenching his scribal
kit under his arm.88 The lower of these two registers depicts five
men presenting two vessels, and three fowl. Fifteen short columns
of vertical hieroglyphs, reading left to right (i.e., oriented with
the large-scale standing couple) containing the name and titles of
KaninisutI, fill the space above, nestled between the two false door
architraves.89
Text: (16)Nfr(t)--nswt
Translation: (16)Nefre(t)hanisut.
Above the three figures of Kaninisuts children:

22
gYE
10
11
12
13
14
89
90
91
18
~ ~
C
C
@
@
{
17
C
@
i C ? 9 g 9Lg
23
U
H
Uu
15
For three comparative line drawings of the panther head on Kaninisuts garments
(west and north walls), see Smith, HESPOK, p.320, fig.190 (=Junker, Gza2,
figs.16, 1819). The figure of Kaninisut facing left, with scepter passing behind
him, in contrast to his north wall representation (facing right) where it passes
in front of his body, is noted by Fischer, LEcriture de lart de lEgypte ancienne,
pp.6971, figs.2425.
S ee Dominicus, Gesten und Gebrden, pp.69, fig.2.
For a line drawing of the final scribe, with one arm behind his back, see Smith,
HESPOK, p. 312 fig.174a.
A
ll four tall s signs in this inscription (lines 1 [twice], 5, and 6) are reversed. The
only other reversal of this sign on the west wall occurs (at least three times) on
the tablet of the north false door.
Note the reversal of the word st.
Following Junker, Gza2, pp.159 (no.14), 16162, and see R.O. Faulkners
review of Junkers volume in JEA27 (1941), p.167; Jones, Index of Ancient
Egyptian Titles2, pp.72526, no.2642; Fischer, Egyptian Titles of the Middle
Kingdom, p.67, no.1136.
24
Text: (23)s m (24)my-r pr Wm-k s K-m-wm s Msy s nt

Translation: (23)Viewing the document.93 (24)The steward Wehemka,94
the scribe Kaemwehem, the scribe Mesy, the scribe Tjenti.
Accompanying the five male offering bearers below the scribes:

29
28
27
26
25
87
88
19
Accompanying the four scribes:
Text: (1)sm rp nwt smr (2)sm r (3)-mr Dp (4)r pyw nbw (5)smr
wty (6)ry st90 (7)n pr dwt (8)ry tp Nb (9)ry wb wt-n
(10) bt rp hs km (11)m-nr nb mt (12)s mtt ry-b (13)(my)t (14)w (m) wrw b (15)K-n-nswt
Translation: (1)The sem priest, controller of kilts, companion, (2)stolist
of Horus, (3)district administrator of Dep, (4)mouth of all the people
of Pe, (5)sole companion, (6)master of secrets (7)of the robing room,
(8)overlord of el-Kab, (9)chief of reversion offerings of the house of
life, (10)ruler of Bat, controller of the black jar,91 (11)priest of the
lord of Buto, (12)son of the north, lector priest, (13)follower of Ha,
(14)one (among) the great ones of the festival, (15)Kaninisut
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20
Text: (17)sf n tf (18)r nswt r-wr (19)stf n tf (20)Wt-tp

(21)sf n tf (22)K-n-nswt-ns
Translation: (17)His son of his body, (18)royal acquaintance Horwer.
(19)His daughter of his body, (20)Wadjethetep. (21)His son of his
body, (22)Kaninisut Junior.92
99
sC
s
L
6 2~
F
aC
|
ws
_ | f . r n @
1
21
n
n n n n
w
B

C
Text: (25)m-k Pnw (26)m-k W-b (27)m-k f (28)m-k

wfw-snb (29)m-k ty
Translation: (25)The funerary priest Penu, (26) the funerary priest
Wahib, (27)the funerary priest Itjef, (28)the funerary priest Khufuseneb, (29)the funerary priest Ity.
The lowest register of this composition fills the entire space

available between the two false doors, even extending underneath
the standing figures of KaninisutI and Neferhanisut. Ten male
offering bearers in short kilts march rightward (north). From first to
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93
94
This is KaninisutII, the owner of g2156 (see PartII for his tomb).
iterally, The document; viewing.
L
A
nother Wehemka (s pr mt) appears on the west wall, south of the south false
door, and a s Wm-k is known from the south entrance thickness of the nearby
tomb of Kanefer (g2150).
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last, they bear two haunches, two geese, a duck, a gazelle, a skewered
fowl and a fan, a tray with meat, a goose and a wickerwork frail, and
a bowl of fruit.95
u C Y
F
C E
g
C E
n
C
n MTT n C n
32
36
31
35
30
38
33
West Wall, North False Door, Architrave (figs.13.53, 13.55, 13.58,
C =
C % GHg
q 8
West Wall, North False Door, Tablet (figs. 13.53, 13.55, 13.58,
13.60).
w
u
u
g
AAA
89
10 11
12 13
AAA
13.60).
C
C
Text: (1)K-n-nswt
Translation: (1)Kaninisut.
West Wall, North False Door, South Jamb (figs. 13.53, 13.55,
13.58, 13.60). Unlike the south false door, with two registers on each
jamb, the north false door shows only a single figure on each jamb.
Each bears a libation s-vase, and wears a short kilt and has closecropped hair.
Text: (1)Pnw
Translation: (1)Penu.
West Wall, North False Door, North Jamb (figs. 13.53, 13.55,
13.58, 13.60).
B
Text: (1)b-k-Pt
Translation: (1)Ibkaptah.
West Wall, North of Northern False Door (figs. 13.53, 13.55,
West Wall, North False Door, Drum (figs. 13.53, 13.55, 13.58,
Text: (1)tp nswt npw nty s nr rs.t()f m rt-nr nb m prt-rw

nf r nb s nswt K-n-nswt
Translation: (1)A gift which the King, and Anubis, foremost of the
divine booth, give, that he might be buried in the necropolis (as) a
possessor of veneration, and that invocation offerings might be made
for him every day, the kings son, Kaninisut.
C
~ g
Text: (1)sm rp nwt sm r mr Dp smr wty K-n-nswt

district administrator of Dep, sole companion, Kaninisut.
37
Text: (30)wdpw N(y)-n-wt-r (31)wdpw K-r (32)rp st wfwmr-nrw (33)my-r sr Smw (34)wdpw Snb (35)sm(?) -nfrt (36)mk (n)w (37)m-k N(y)-n-wfw (38)m-k Snb--sw
Translation: (30)The butler Niankhhathor, (31)the butler Kairi,
(32)controller of the crew, Khufumernetjeru, (33)the overseer of the
bag Seshemu, (34)the butler Seneb, (35)the butcher Iynefret, (36)the
funerary priest She(n)dju, (37)the funerary priest Niankhkhufu, (38)the
funerary priest Khufumernetjer[u], (39)the funerary priest Senebdisu.
13.60).
34
39
Yg
C
_ E
9
C |
AAAAA
C
AAA
Text: (1)sm s nswt K-n-nswt (2)snr (3)ww (4)msdmt (5)d (6)nbs

(7)t-nbs (8)t-wr (9)t-rt (10)nt (11)t (12)s (13)mnt
Translation: (1)The sem-priest, kings son, Kaninisut. (2)Incense,
(3)green eye-paint, (4)black eye-paint, (5)persea fruit, (6)zizyphus,96
(7)loaf of zizyphus, (8)great loaf, (9)baked bread, (10)a thousand
jars of beer, (11)a thousand loaves of bread, (12)a thousand alabaster
vessels, (13)a thousand pieces of cloth.
13.58, 13.60). Two thin registers fit into this area. Above, a larger
figure of Neferhanisut faces northwards, away from the false door
and towards the standing figure of KaninisutI on the north wall. She
wears a long, slender garment with shoulder straps, and a tripartite
wig. One arm folds back across her breast, the other hangs straight
by her side. The lower figure is a male funerary priest, oriented back
towards the west wall and adjacent (north) false door. He extends a
ewer and basin.
West Wall, North of North False Door.
C

2
fi
West Wall, North False Door, Lintel (figs. 13.53, 13.55, 13.58,
13.60).
n g
Text: (1)rt nswt Nfr(t)--nswt (2)m-k my-sr

Translation: (1)Royal acquaintance, Nefre(t)hanisut. (2)The funerary
priest, Imysekher.
95
96
he sixth man, carrying a gazelle, is represented in Smith, HESPOK, p.363,

T
fig.236 (=Junker, Gza2, fig.18).
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Jnosi and others have noted the similarities between the titles of
KaninisutI and Snefruseneb (g4240), including many honorary
titles that only princes bear.97 He was a high palace official (rp ,
bt), whose titles involved personal attendance on his sovereign
(ry-st n pr-dwt, rp nwt), and who was charged with the meal
service of the king (ry-wb wt-n,98 rp ts km). But according
to the inscriptions, Kaninisut was no prince of royal blood, and his
origins remain unknown.99
Titles of Kaninisut I100
(my)-t , follower of Ha
-mr Dp, district administrator of Dep
w (m) wrw b, one (among) the great ones of the festival
wdpw nty wr, butler of the great hall
nb m (r nr ), revered before the great god
r pyw nbw, mouth of all the people of Pe
m-nr nb mt, priest of the lord of Buto
ry wb wt-n, chief of reversion offerings of the house of life
ry st (n) pr dwt, master of secrets of the robing room
ry tp Nb, overlord of el-Kab
bt, ruler of Bat
rp , controller of the palace
rp hs km, controller of the black jar
rp nwt, controller of kilts
ry-b, lector priest
s mtt, son of the north
s nswt, kings son
s nswt n tf, kings son of his body
sm, sem priest
sm r, stolist of Horus
smr, companion
Family
wife: Nfr(t)--nswt, Nefre(t)hanisut

sons: r-wr, Horwer
sf n tf, his son of his body
n-tf, Ini-ishetef
s, Isi
sm, butcher
ty, Ity
f, Itjef
n, Ankhi
wdpw, butler
n-f, Ankhhaf
W-b, Wahib
Wnw, Wenkhu
fsw, cook
Wm-k, Wehemka
my-r pr, steward
s pr mt, library scribe
Bb, Bebi
Pnw, Penu
Pr-nw, Pernedju
my-r srw, overseer of linen
Prsn, Persen
tmty, seal-bearer
P-r-nfr, Pehernefer
s, scribe
Mn-k, Menkh-ka
s, scribe
K-n-nswt ns, Kaninisut Junior

sf n tf, his son of his body
Msy, Mesy
s, scribe
Daughters:
Wt-tp, Wadjethetep
stf n tf, his daughter of his body
Mdw, Medu
Other People101
-nfrt, Iynefret
sm, butcher
b-k-Pt, Ibkaptah
my-sr, Imysekher
J nosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.124; Schmitz, Untersuchungen zum Titel SNjwt, p.77.
98 G
ardiner, The Mansion of Life and the Master of the Kings Largess, JEA24
(1938), pp.8390.
99 Schmitz, Untersuchungen zum Titel S-Njwt, pp.78f., 164f.; Helck, Miszelle,
ZS81 (1956), p.64.
100 Junker, Gza2, pp.15962; Hlzl, Ka-ni-nisut, p.26, text fig1.
101 For officials in the scribal profession, see Piacentini, Les scribes, pp.22527.
97
N(y)-n-wt-r, Niankhhathor,
wdpw, butler
rp s, controller of the kitchen
N(y)-n-wfw, Niankhkhufu
N(y)-mrt, Nimeret
rt, baker
R-tp, Rahetep
s, scribe
Hr-b, Herib
ry-mrw, Herymeru
s, Hesi
tp, Hetep
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tp, Hetep
dw, page
nfr, recruit
tp-spt, Hetepsepit
wfw-mr-nrw, Khufumernetjeru
rp st, controller of the crew
wfw-snb, Khufuseneb
nm-tp, Khnumhetep
s, scribe
S, Sahi
s, scribe
Smr-k, Semerka
Snb, Seneb
wdpw, butler
d-mrr, Qedmerer
s mt, archive scribe
K-r, Kairi
wdpw, butler
K-m-wm, Kaemwehem
s, scribe
K-m-nfrt, Kaemnefret
my-r pr, steward
K-m-st, Kaemheset
K()-m-d, Kaemked
Kng, Kanegi
nt, Tjenti
ry mt, archivist
nt, Tjenti
rp s, controller of the kitchen
Snb--sw, Senebdjisu
nt, Tjenti
rt, baker
s, scribe
Smw, Seshemu
wdpw, butler
nt, Tjenti
s, scribe
Smw, Seshemu
my-r s, overseer of the bag
st, Tjeset
s mt, archive scribe
Stb, Seteb
(n)w, She(n)dju
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Fig.13.1. G2155, chapel area during excavation, looking west. Circa January 1913. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
Fig.13.2. G 2155, east face, north half, looking west. November 20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.096.32.
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G 47
133
G 2135a
Qedfy
267
270
137
281
b
281 281 281

f
d e
281
281
c
280
a
Nefer III
G 4761 Nefer
130
280
?
278
278Chapter
a
G I:2136
278 of Kaninisut
13. The tomb
Mastaba g2155
d
Kahif
280
b
275
278
b
G2
B
G 2148
271
278
c
G 2136a
Djednefret
G 2155
G 2160
N
A
S
G 2156a
10 m X
G 2156
2165
Y
A
4984
B C
Fig.13.3. G2155, plan.
G 4980
A
4983
A
4982
E
B
4981
X
Fig.13.4. General view looking north towards the southeast corner of g2155, with g4860 to the left (west) and g4970 to the right (east). GermanAustrian
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Fig.13.5. Computer reconstruction of g2155, showing exterior mud-brick

chapel and g2156, looking northwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.13.8. Narrow passage south of g2155, with g4860 to the left (south),
looking west to tomb of Nefer (g4761). November 20, 1993. Peter Der
Fig.13.6. Computer reconstruction of g2155, southwest corner, looking

northeast. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.13.7. Computer reconstruction of g2155 and g2156a, northwest

corners, looking southeast. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.13.9. G 2155, north niche, looking west. November 20, 1993.

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Fig.13.10. G2155, west face, looking east. November 15, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.073.05 and pdm_1993.073.06, with pdm_1993.073.07 at right.
Fig.13.11. G 2155, chapel area, reburied, looking west. November20, 1993.

Fig.13.14. G2155, dismantling the chapel, looking north. Circa

January 1913. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy
Fig.13.12. G 2155, north face, looking south. November 20, 1993. Peter Der
Fig.13.13. G2155, southeast corner and chapel entrance during excavation,

looking northwest. Circa January 1913. GermanAustrian Expedition
photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0531.
Fig.13.15. G2155, dismantling the chapel (for shipment to Vienna), looking

north. Circa January 1913. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
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Fig.13.16. Computer reconstruction of g2155, looking southwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.13.17. Computer reconstruction of the subterranean layout of g2155, looking northwest, showing chapel (top center) and
shafta (right). Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig.13.18. G2155a, mouth of shaft, looking north. November 3, 1993.

Fig.13.19. Computer reconstruction of the burial chamber of g2155a (with

sarcophagus restored), looking southwest. Courtesy Dassault Systmes,
2009.
12 m
Plan
Section
Abbildung 12
Steinverkleidung
Lehmziegel
Fuellmauerwerk
389
Junker, Giza 2
fig. 12
G 2155 A
Kaninisut I
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Fig.13.21. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7447 from g2155(?). Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
PDM
Plate 22. Stela 11: g 2155(?) (= VIIInn = g 4870) Kaninisut. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S 7447
10 cm
(55%)
Fig.13.22. Drawing of Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7447 from g2155(?).
Fig.13.23. Additional slab stela fragment, after

Junker, Gza1, p.230, fig.53a; present location
not known.
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PDM
10 cm
Fig.13.24. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7447 from g2155(?). Colorized facsimile drawing showing three of the four
decorative sections.
Fig.13.25. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S7447 from g2155(?). Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5312_S 7447.
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Fig.13.26. Computer reconstruction of entrance facade to chapel of g2155, looking west. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
Fig.13.27. Computer reconstruction of entrance tbicknesses to chapel of g2155 (with wood door restored), looking west. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig.13.28. G2155, chapel, south entrance thickness, looking southeast. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
Fig.13.29. G2155, chapel, north entrance thickness, looking northeast. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph.
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Fig.13.30. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of south entrance thickness from g2155.
aeos_8006_sw_beiderTuer. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0191.
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Fig.13.32. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of south entrance thickness from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Fig.13.33. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of south entrance thickness from g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
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Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_8006_sw_beiderTuer.
396
Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
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Fig.13.36. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of north entrance thickness from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Fig.13.37. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of north entrance thickness from g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
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Fig.13.38. G2155, chapel, east wall, still in situ, looking east. Circa January 1913. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches
398
Fig.13.39. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2155 (with wood door restored), looking east towards the east wall.
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Fig.13.40. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, from g2155, detail of east wall, above the entrance.
Fig.13.41. Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna, S8006, from
g2155, detail of east wall, above
the entrance. Drawing by Christa
Mlinar.
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Fig.13.42. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, east wall from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_8006_36528.
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Fig.13.43. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of east wall from g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
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Fig.13.44. G2155, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, detail of east wall. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches
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Fig.13.45. G2155, chapel, south wall in situ, looking south. Circa January 1913. GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches
Fig.13.46. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2155, looking south towards the south wall. Courtesy
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Fig.13.47. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, south wall from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_8006_35395.
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Fig.13.48. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, south wall from g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
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Fig.13.49. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, north wall from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_8006_35392.
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Fig.13.50. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, north wall from g2155. Drawing by Christa Mlinar.
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Fig.13.51. G2155, chapel, north wall, still in situ, looking north. Circa January 1913. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_1_5494.
Fig.13.52. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2155, looking north towards the north wall. Courtesy Dassault Systmes, 2009.
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Fig.13.53. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west wall from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, aeos_8006_35389.
409
Fig.13.54. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west wall from g2155, between the two false doors. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna, Digital montage of aeos_8006_35402 and aeos_8006_35408.
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Fig.13.55.
wall of
from
Drawing
by Drawing
Christa Mlinar.
Fig.13.55. Kunsthistorisches
Museum, Vienna,
Vienna, S8006,
S8006, west
overview
westg2155.
wall from
g2155.
by Christa Mlinar.
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Fig.13.56. Computer reconstruction of the chapel of g2155,

looking west towards the west wall. Courtesy Dassault
Systmes, 2009.
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Fig.13.57. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west wall from g2155, south false door. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
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Fig.13.58. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, S8006, west wall, north false door from g2155. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum,
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Fig.13.59. G2155, chapel, west wall, detail in situ of area between the two false door, looking west. Circa January 1913.
GermanAustrian Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0194.
Fig.13.60. G2155, chapel, west wall, detail in situ of northern half, looking west. Circa January 1913. GermanAustrian
Expedition photograph. Courtesy Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, o_neg_nr_0164.
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Chapter 14
ANONYMOUS TOMB:
Mastaba g 2160
Mastaba:1 old core of typeIIa uncased

23.6 x 10.4m; area 245.44sq.m; proportion 1/2.26; h.4.1m


Chapel: probably originally of type(1), but all remains have been destroyed

or obscured by later constructions in street
Shafta: sole shaft, north of middle; 1.9 x 2.05m at top; 1.7 x 1.55m at

bottom; -8.0m in rock

lined with drab masonry, 4.1m; ten courses

chamber: type4a(2)x, unfinished, on south

2.7 x 2.65 m; h.1.5m

area ca. 7.15sq.m; capacity 10.73cu.m

chamber floor not completely excavated

passage: 1.2 x 1.4m; h.1.5m

on shaft side over the doorway, a rebate to take top

of blocking, h.0.95m; d.0.40.6m

found open and empty
Excavation
This tomb was not one of those originally excavated under Lythgoes
supervision in 19051906. The first Expedition photograph to show
work in this area dates to January21, 19122 (cf. fig. 14.1), and the
first day the tomb is mentioned in surviving Expedition diaries (by
Clarence Fisher) is January21, 1912. By January23, the Expedition
was working in the street between g2160 and g2180, where later
the subsidiary mastabas g2165g2168 would come to light. Fisher
noted that the east face of g2160 either never had a dressed face
or it was removed before the later pits were sunk, as in several cases
these are built directly against the rough, stepped face.3 This area
was completely cleared by February6, 1912, and on February26,
after Reisner took over the diary entries, we read that:
There is no trace of an offering place in g2180 and the chamber
of g2160 was never finished.There are poor, small later mastabas
between g2160 and g2180. One of these is rather better.

Fragments of two stelae were found.4
When the Expedition returned to the tomb under Wheelers

direction, shafta was opened, beginning on December30, 1932. On
January2, 1933, a small rock-cutting was located in the side of the
pit, and the next day, 11.50m down, the chamber on the south was
discovered open and full of debris. Potsherds turned up during the
clearance of the chamber, and Wheeler noted a small mastaba to
the south of the west side (January6, 1933). On January8, 1933, the
top of the mastaba was searched for additional shafts, but none was
found. No Expedition photography from the bottom of the shaft or
the burial chamber has so far been identified.
The reiss diary mentions work to the west of g2160, in the street
between this tomb and g2140, on March19, 1938. Four days were
spent the following year (September27October1, 1939) just east
of the mastaba. By this time, part of the debris from Junkers dump
running from south to north over the eastern strip of Cemetery g2100
had to be removed to allow for the excavation of g2165.
Finds
Fragments of pottery in debris from shafta:

3318 (shipped to Cairo, September 29, 1933): RP: small basin with flat
bottom and tubular spout; contracted plain mouth; type D
LXXIIc; h.13 (15.2)cm; d.rim 39cm; d. body 43.2cm; d.base
16.4cm; w. with spout 49cm (fig.14.5)5
Architecture
Of all the major mastabas of Cemetery g2100, tombs g2160 and

g2170 are the least informative. No inscriptions survived to link
them with specific individuals. Both tombs were constructed in the
later, eastern half of the cemetery, and there is no reason to date the
cores themselves to later than Khufus reign. G2160, like g2140,
aligns on its southern face with the southern edge of g2120. The
west face of the mastaba seems to have received a few courses of
vertical stepped casing at the northern end, similar to the typez
masonry casing surrounding the mastaba of Kanefer (g2150), with
ample traces of mortar added between joins (figs.14.714.8).6 Either
the casing was never completed, or most of it was quarried away. But
no evidence of a cult focus of any kind survives towards the south
end of the east face of the mastaba. Neither exterior mud brick nor
stone chapel traces were found, nor signs of an interior chapel broken
into the core. It could be argued, however, that the later subsidiary
mastaba g2165, built flush up against the east face of g2160, could
have destroyed an earlier cult focus (figs.14.1, 14.6). But it is more
likely that g2160, if used at all, was occupied well after Khufus reign,
and perhaps even after the end of Dynasty4. Additional evidence for
4
1
2
3

HUMFA Expedition Photographs a628, b1053, and b1054 (available on www
.gizapyramids.org).
Fisher diary, January23, 1912, p.13.
5
6
eisner diary, February25, 1912, p.27 (fragments of two stelae were found).
R
Neither of these two false doors is included in the present volume. One belongs
to Neferi, and was found partly in front (to the east) of g2180 (=g4990) and
partly in front (to the east) of g2200 (=g5080): see MFA12.1393 (top fragment),
MFA12.1498 (lower-left fragment), and MFA12.1515 (bottom lowerright
fragment) (HUMFA Expedition Photograph a684). The other false door is a
tablet fragment belonging to the funerary priest Khentka (Kakhent), (no relation
to the owner of g2130), found in front (to the east) of g2180 (=g4990): see
MFA 12.1520 (HUMFA Expedition Photograph b1090b1091).
R
eisner, GN1, pp.448, fig.272, 449; pl.43d; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.86,
fig.124.
C
ontra Reisner, GN1, p.440, and Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.152.
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this conclusion lies in the burial shaft that is atypical for a Khufuera mastaba (figs.14.2, 14.914.10). There are no T-shaped portcullis
grooves and no lined burial chamber. While the chamber leads off
from the shaft to the south, in typical arrangement, the chamber
itself extends not to the west but atypically to the east. The form of
the chamber is extremely rough, and the bottom of the shaft appears
uneven as well.
Later construction around g2160 consists primarily of the
filling of the entire street east of the mastaba with late Old Kingdom
subsidiary tombs. Reisner numbered this complex of small mastabas
beginning on the south with g2165 and extending northwards with
g2166g2168. By the time he reached the subsidiary tombs east
of g2170, he was up to the number g2169 and counting higher.
In the avenue between g2160 and g2170, Reisner numbered three
mastabas g2161g2163.
Date

late reign of Khufu (core); Dynasty45 (mastaba).8
The mastaba core dates to Khufus original layout scheme for
Cemetery g2100, but the unfinished nature of the tomb, the lack of
alterations, and the atypical shaft and burial chamber all point to a
much later date, most likely in Dynasty5.
No Decoration
No individual names are preserved in the tomb.
Shafts and Burials
Reisner noted that the burial chamber floor of shafta was never
completely excavated (figs. 14.914.10).7 Expedition photography
for this chamber has so far not been identified.
8
7
S ee also Reisner, GN1, p.113: The two chambers in 2160 and 2170 are difficult
to place but are probably of late Dyn.IV or early Dyn.V.
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A
G 2102
G 2103
J
G
A D
B
E
G 2104
F
G
G 2105
B
X
G 2114
E
A
G 21
G 2130
G 2120
slab stela
B
G 2121
G 2136b
Nimaatre
G 2141 A
G 2142
B A
G 2140
266
E
A
267
A B
G 2143
X
270
G 2150
X
C
D
Y
G 2145
Fig.14.1. Street between g2160 (Fishers VIII.4) to the left (west) and g2180=Dg4990
(Fishers
VIII.5)
to
the
right
(east),
showing g2165, g2167, and c
Kahif
C
B A
b
A B
G 2147 Expedition
g2166, looking north.
February16, 1912. HUMFA
photograph (photographer not listed), a633p.
G 2148
B A
B A
271
G 2144
G 2146
B A
G 2136
278
d
278
c
D C
G 2136a
Djednefret
D E G 2162
F G
C
G 2160
B G 2161
G 2170
B
Y
B
A
G 2163
G 2156a
A
C
X
2165
Y
A
A 2167 B C
H
I
4984
B C
B C
Fig.14.2. G 2160, plan.
U
Z 2168 E
X 2166
E
F
C
A B
B
B
X
Y
2169
10 m
A
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E
B
E
D
C
21
A
2181
X
A
2183
C
2178
X
B
a
C
G
E
F
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c
b X
4982
A B2
2172
D
B
Z U
Y 417
4983
A
A 2173 C
S D B X
G 2180 = G 4990
A
A C
H
I
2171
E F G
Fig.14.3. G2160, northeast corner, looking southwest. March12, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.022.11.
Fig.14.4. G2160, north face, looking south. November20, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.096.22.
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Bibliography
33-1-8
0
10
RP
20
cm
G 2160 A
Fig. 272
Fig.14.5. 3318, fragment of large pottery bowl with tubular spout from g2160a. Left: March 16, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
b8300 (detail). Right: drawing.
Fig.14.6. G2160, chapel area, and mud layer beneath limestone blocks,
looking north. November27, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.119.14.
Fig.14.7. G2160, northwest corner, looking southeast. March12, 1993.

Fig.14.8. Street east of g2140, with g2140 to the right (west) and g2160 to the left (east), looking south. March11, 1993. Peter Der
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8.20 m
Fig.14.9. G2160, shafta (filled in), looking north. November3, 1993. Peter
Section AB
Plan
0
420

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Chapter 15
ANONYMOUS TOMB:
Mastaba g 2170
Mastaba:1 core of typeIIa, not cased


h.3.5m; average height of stepped courses 43.7cm

Chapel: probably exterior crude brick chapel of type(1), but all traces

destroyed by later constructions
Shafta: sole shaft, north of middle

2.07 x 2.05m at top; 1.25 x 1.5m at bottom; -5.1m in rock

lined with masonry, 3.5m; eleven courses
chamber: type 6a(3): on west. 2.05 x 1.35m; h.1.2m

blocking: crude brick wall inside doorway, typeIIIa,

penetrated at top; plundered
Excavation
Like the anonymous tomb g2160 immediately to the south, g2170

was not excavated during the first season in Cemetery g2100 under
Lythgoe in 19051906. Expedition diary entries that mention the
tomb range from 1912 to 1932. Fishers diary of January and February,
1912 mentions sporadic clearance work in and around g2170. A
fragment of a limestone statuette was unearthed in the debris east
of the tomb on February7, 1912. Reisners diary entry of March5,
1912 mentions the space between g2190 and 2170 finished as far as
planned. He further notes the extension of the clearing operation
westward along northern end of 2170 as far as 2150. The entry for
March23, 1912 places the Expedition at work just north of g2170.
Nothing more was written concerning g2170 until Wheelers
diary entry of December24, 1932, noting the clearance of the top
of the mastaba and the location of shafta. The long interval since
the Expeditions earlier work in Cemetery g2100 led to a minor
surprise. Wheeler states that in the drift sand of shafta were found
eight inscribed blocks of wall relief. After Christmas day, the search
continued for other shafts but none were found. In the entry for
December26, 1932, Wheeler explains part of the mystery:
whom occur in g2170.2 There is also the name of a m-k priest,

Ns-t(?) and of (Pt?)-rd-r, and a scribe K-m-(?), which are not
recorded in g2170. Bringing stones up to camp. These stones
were found some years ago and buried here by the Expedition.3
While the first few names Wheeler mentions clearly come from
g2150, the second list of names is not particularly familiar. It seems
that the crew of either the Lythgoe expedition of 19051906 or the
Fisher expedition of 1912 deposited the reliefs on top of g2170. The
Lythgoe mission was never active in this part of the cemetery, but
that need not have prevented Lythgoe from using the top of g2170
as a temporary storage area.
By December28, 1932, Wheelers crew had reached the bottom
of shafta, at a depth of about 8.70m. The burial chamber was on
the west side, with the mud-brick door-blocking broken in at the
top. The chamber itself was small, rough-cut, and partly filled with
debris. A fragment of a large alabaster vessel was found in the pit
debris. December30, 1932 saw the removal of the mud-brick doorblocking and clearance of the burial chamber. Wood fragments,
alabaster vessel fragments, and potsherds were all that were found.
No subsequent diary entries mention work in g2170.
Finds
From debris of shafta itself:

32121: about one-quarter fragment of flat bottom(?) alabaster bowl with
contracted mouth and internal rim, typeS-Xc; h.8cm; d.max.,
28cm (fig.15.4)4
From debris of burial chamber of shafta:
321213 (MFA33.721; shipped to Boston May 1933): burnished red wash,
one-handled special ware jug with cord in relief around base of
neck; type B-LIIIb; broken into 35 fragments; h.23.6cm; d. rim,
6.0cm; d. neck 5.2cm; d. body, 14cm; d. base, 3.2cm (fig.15.5)5
321214: alabaster fragmentary bowl, 3 x 3cm and 0.8cm thick6
321215a: lower part of model RW jar of type B-LVI; d. base 3cm7
321215b: 10 fragments (5 fitting) of RP bowl with recurved rim, typeD-XXXVI
or C-XXXII; d. 22cm8
321217: 8 potsherd fragments from different vessels, RW, WSR, etc.9
Architecture
G2170 bears many similarities to the neighboring mastaba g2160,

immediately to the south. Both tombs are unfinished, lack completed
casing, fail to show evidence of enhancements or alterations, and
preserve no trace of a cult focus. There is neither an interior nor an
exterior chapel underneath the later subsidiary mastabas that choked
The eight blocks of relief in the drift sand debris of pit a have
the names and titles of K-nfr, Mr-s-n, K-s, Pt-wrall of
3
4
5
See Reisner, GN1, pp.44950.
6
7
8
9
heeler presumably means all of whom occur in g2150, the tomb of Kanefer,
W
not g2170. These reliefs were probably stored atop g2170, across the street
from Kanefers mastaba, until the latters chapel could be reconstructed. It is also
possible that some of these reliefs were subsequently shipped to Boston in 1933.
The name of Meresankh appears only on a fragment now in Boston (MFA32
1210), while the names of Ptahwer and Kasewedja occur on reliefs found only in
Kanefers chapel today.
Wheeler diary, December26, 1932, p.1191.
Reisner, GN1, p.449, fig.274; p.450.
Reisner, GN1, p.449, fig.274; p.450; Reisner and Smith, GN2, p.44, fig.95,
pl.53f (1/4).
R
R
eisner, GN1, p.450.
R
eisner, GN1, p.450.
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the street east of the tomb (fig.15.6). And no inscriptions were found
to identify the owner.
Both the shafts of g2160 and g2170 show evidence of belonging
to a later, secondary phase in the their respective tombs history. The
shaft in g2170 is square, lacking any T-shaped portcullis grooves
(fig.15.7). There is a blocking stone at the bottom of the shaft, but
no passageway (fig.15.8). And most uncharacteristically, the burial
chamber was situated, not to the south, but to the west of the shaft.
Reisner does not mention the presence of any skeletal remains; from
the debris of the pit came one fragment of an alabaster bowl, and
various other broken vessels were unearthed in the burial chamber
itself. Unfortunately, no Expedition photography from the burial
chamber has yet been located. The view of the shaft blocking
(fig.15.8) is the only photograph thus far identified from shafta.
East of the mastaba, the complex of minor tombs begins with
g2169 (at the south end of the street) and continues northwards
(figs.2.5, 15.1, 15.3). Reisner numbered the tombs north of g2180 and
east of the northeast corner of g2170 as g2171g2179. At the north
end of the street, this complex merges into the secondary cemetery
north of g2150 (g2151g2159). One large burial shaft, numbered
g2157a, directly abuts the north face of g2170. Additional subsidiary
tombs northeast of g2170 and southeast of g2220 received numbers
ranging from g2221 to g2227. The cemetery occupation then extends
eastwards, to the north of the Cemetery en Echelon, which was

populated primarily in Dynasty5.
Shafts and Burials
Apart from the isolated, fragmentary objects from shafta, there is

little evidence that the tomb was actually outfitted with a burial.
Date

late reign of Khufu (core); Dynasty45 (mastaba).
As noted above in the chapter on g2160, the most likely
chronological scenario is construction of the mastaba core during
Khufus reign as part of the later, eastern half of Cemetery g2100,
but occupation, if indeed the tomb was ever used, much later,
probably in Dynasty5.
No Decoration
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F
G
G 2105
A
J
B
E
G 2104
B
X
A
G 2112c
G 2115
X
B
G 2121
X
Y
G 2131
G 2141 A
G 2142
B A
A
146
A
Y
A
T
B C
Z 2168 E
A B
X 2166
G 2170
A
H
I
2171
E F G
A C
G
D
X
Y
2169
181a
A
2181
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X
A
Y
I
D
E
Z
U
C
C
2183
W Z
2225
b X
2175
A
z
C
2178
X
B
C G 2154a
B A
S
E
G 2154
U
A
V
2224
B C
G 2222
C
A
A
G 2223a
2221
2177
Y
X
10 m
B
423
2179
G 2156
G 2223
D 2174
B C
A B 2176 C
A
D
A
G 2139
G 2157
Z U
2172
Y
B C
2182
A 2173 C
S D B X
E
D
G 2137
A
G 2138
A
C G 2152
Fig.15.2. G2170, plan.
80 = G 4990
C G 2136
B A
E
F
G 2151
B
A
G 2163
Z
D B C
G 2134
A G 2153
D E G 2162
F G
C
A 2167 B C
B G 2161
Y Z
X
C general
D view, looking northwest. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.022.09.
G 2145 Fig.15.1. G 2170,
X Y
c
d
C
B A
b
A B
G 2144
G 2132
G 2134a X
G 2133
A C
A B
G 2143
X
W
U
G 2150
F
G2
G 2130
2186
B C
E
F G H
E
2461 B C D
A
2461
A
a B
B
A
2462a
A
C D
2462
2463
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2463
Fig.15.3. G 2170, chapel area at south end of east face, and avenue with subsidiary tombs between g2160 to the left (south) and g2170 to the right
(north), looking west. February 25, 1912. HUMFA Expedition photograph, photographer not listed, a640p.
Fig.15.4. 32121, alabaster bowl fragment from g2170a. Above:

February22, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts, sc27878. Upper right: March
16, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8300 (detail).
Right: drawing.
10
20
cm
32121
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RP
0
10
cm
Fig.15.5. 321213 (MFA 33.721), one-handled jug from g2170a. Left:

321213
May11, 2005. Museum of Fine Arts, sc139360. Center: March 22, 1933. HU
MFA Expedition photography, Dahi Ahmed, a7065 (detail). Right: drawing.
Fig.15.6. G 2170, chapel area at south end of east face looking west. November 4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.059.11.
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Fig.15.7. G 2170a. looking west. November4, 1993, Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.059.15.
Fig.15.8. G 2170a, door blocking, looking west. December29, 1932. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, a7028.
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Chapter 16
ANONYMOUS TOMB:
Mastaba g 2220
chamber: type4a(1)irregular and unfinished, on south

2.5 x 2.95m; h.1.4m

area intended 7.37sq.m; capacity intended 10.32cu.m
passage: 1.55 x 1.3m; h.1.4m; south wall only partly excavated

leaving a rock ledge

completely plundered; no objects found
Excavation
This tomb was not investigated during the 19051906 season in

Cemetery g2100. Reisners diary entry of March24, 1912 marks the
first mention of the tomb, when the inscribed false door of g2156 , just
south of g2220, was found (see Part2, g2156 ). By March27, 1912, the
chapel had been cleared:
The stone door-bar lies broken in the chamber. A mound of dirty,
stone-chip debris covered the north end. The destruction appears
to have been caused in part by stone thieves of indeterminable
date and in part by more recent Kafr-el-Haram plunderers. In the
surface sand a clay pipe was found with the GLASGOW stamp
on the stem. A similar one was found in Nubia at Cemetery
no.[]. The mastaba is built of large blocks of gray nummulitic
limestone of the second or early Chephren period.3
Mastaba:1 core of massive nummulitic corework, typeIViii

62.0 x 20.4m; area 1264.8sq.m

proportion 1/3.03; h.6.0m

on west, retaining wall of massive blocks presents high stepped

courses of gray nummulitic limestone (as core typeIV in

Cem. g4000); on east, wall also of large gray blocks, built

sloping as in mastabas of typesVIa and VIIa
Chapel: interior offering-room of type(4a), white limestone

recess measures 8.4 x 3.6m

built-in recess in massive core,

bonded with unfinished white casing

chapel appears to project outside the core


relation to the area of the massive core 1/131.75

relation of the area of the unfinished cased mastaba 1/175.35

entered by rebated doorway in north end of east wall

two false doors, one near each end
Subsidiary north niche uncertain
Shaftb: west of shaftc,west of medial axis; 2.05 x 1.8m at top; 1.8 x 1.5m

at bottom; -4.4m in rock

lined with small gray masonry, 5.7m; sixteen courses

(four high courses at top, twelve low courses

below them)
chamber: type4b(2), on north; at 2.9m at rock; 6.3 x 2.4m
irregular; h.1.4m

passage: 0.8; x 1.4m (wide EW); h.1.4m
blocking: interior blocking built in three parts from bottom

upwards, rubble, rough masonry and crude brick laid

dry but apparently intact; typeIIId+c+a(3)
coffin: 33421 (=MFA33.1016): well-preserved wooden coffin

(see below, Finds)
burial: in coffin, wrapped, extended, slightly on left side with

head north; legs together and hands at sides; body

very small (female) in relation to coffin, lying close

against west side and south end as if accidentally

displaced at some stage of the burial; body probably

originally extended on back; except for coffin and

linen wrapping, no objects found in chamber or coffin2
Shaftc: chief shaft(?); 2.25 x 2.2m at top; 1.8 x 1.85m at bottom; -22.4m

in rock; lined above with drab masonry 6.1m; eleven

courses, gray stone
1
2

For recent discussions of the wrappings, as well as the coffin and burial, see
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing, pp.11112, pl. 25; A.M. Roth
in Mummies & Magic, pp.7677, cat. 6; and Ikram and Dodson, The Mummy in
Ancient Egypt, p.156, fig.174. The burial is also mentioned in Smith, HESPOK,
p.24, and Reisner, GN1, pp.45253, and pl.42.
As of 2009, the massive drum from the chapel entrance still lay
broken in two inside the chapel (figs.16.316.4, 16.616.7). Reisners
diary entry for March30, 1912 notes the completion of the clearance
of the face of g2220 without locating any northern niche. The
excavation of the chapel concluded the next day. The Expedition
returned to the tomb under Wheelers direction on May1, 1932. The
first objective was the clearance of the mastabas north face, a task
which lasted some four days. Some of the diary entries for this period
were penned by Hansmartin Handrick.
Attention shifted to the top of the mastaba on October17, 1932,
stopped, and then resumed from December1826, 1932. At this time
the tombs two shafts, b and c, were located and their excavation
begun. Both shafts revealed primarily clean rubble and windblown
sand. Meanwhile, the search for a shafta at the northern end of
the mastaba proved unsuccessful. On December29, 1932 excavations
in shaftb had reached 7m, when they were stopped until pitc is
available for dumping. Wheeler did not know at the time that shaftc
would continue downward for over 25m; the bottom was reached
only on January6, 1933. The small, rough, burial chamber was on
the south, with no blocking visible. It was cleared by January11, 1933,
and excavations in shaftc resumed the following day. Hard clean
rubble filling only is how Wheeler characterized the shafts fill.
On January12, 1933, the burial chamber was located on the
north side at a depth of about 8.30m, with door-blocking intact.
Wheeler describes the blocking as small rubble 25cm high on the
floor, topped by 85cm of larger stones piled up but not plastered
or cemented (see figs.16.2, 16.1616.22). Above this and reaching
to the roof were loosely piled mud bricks, also without any binding
material of any sort. The measurements of the bricks are 37x 19.5x
13cm. The pit continued downwards, but no additional chambers
were found. Wheelers entries for January1329, 1933 record in
detail the discovery made in shaftb. They describe not only the
excavation process but the working practices of the Expedition in
general. For this reason, the diaries will be quoted extensively below
in the section on Shafts and Burials. It should also be noted that,
3
Reisner diary, March27, 1912, pp.7475.
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on January5, 1933, Reisner was forced to return to Cairos AngloAmerican Hospital for a second cataract operation. The operation
took place on January24, 1933, and he did not return to Harvard
Camp until May20, 1933, Reisners friend and colleague, the artist
Joseph Lindon Smith (18631950), was temporarily placed in charge
of the Expedition.4
The coffin itself was removed by winch between January2225,
1933 and the rest of the chamber was cleared. The rest of the shaft
was cleared by January27, continuing only 1.5m further below the
burial chamber. In the pit debris, a rough limestone headrest was
found on January28, suggesting to Wheeler the likelihood that the
chamber was plundered in antiquity, perhaps during the burial, or at
least before the pit was filled in.
Four years later (July5, 79, 1937), another search was made for
a shafta, but no other shafts were discovered. Additional clearance
of the chapel and general area of the mastaba resumed briefly on
March2728, 1938, exposing limestone debris and drift sand. The
final diary entry for the tomb comes on April13, 1938, when an
unsuccessful attempt was made to locate a northern niche in the
lining of the mastaba.
Finds
From debris on top of mastaba:

3771: Block of nummulitic limestone with red masons mark painted on
rough surface; w.15.5cm; l.24cm; th.15cm (fig.16.8)
3772: Block of nummulitic limestone with red masons mark on rough
surface; w.25.5cm; l.35.5cm; th.31cm (fig.16.8)
3773: Block of nummulitic limestone with red masons mark on smooth
hollow cylindrical surface; w.46cm; l.56cm; th.33cm (fig.16.8)
surface; w.26cm; l.35.5cm; th.25cm (fig.16.8)
3775: Block of nummulitic limestone with faint red masons mark on
rough surface; w.23.5cm; l.25cm; th.9cm (fig.16.9)
surface; w.26cm; l.27cm; th.14cm (fig.16.9)
surface; w.23cm; l. 29cm; th.14cm (fig.16.9)
surface; w.23cm. l.29cm; th.10cm (fig.16.9)
37710: Block of white limestone with faint red masons mark on rough
37712: Block of white limestone with black masons mark on rough
37713: Block of nummulitic limestone with faded masons mark; w.35cm;
l.46cm; th.27cm
From shaftb:
33421 (MFA33.1016; shipped to Boston September1933): Well-preserved
large cedar coffin; plain box with flat lid and overlapped beveljoints; made of large planks of cedar doweled together. The lid
was lowered by means of dowels fitted into its sides; the sockets
into which the dowels fitted are visible on the sides of the lid. The
exterior and interior panels are undecorated. Knotholes in the
wood were patched over and the panels were fitted together with
round wooden pegs. outside, l. 2.40m (l. of interior: 209.5cm)
or a popular account of the discovery and treatment of the mummy, see J.L.
F
Smith, Tombs, Temples & Ancient Art, pp.19091. Curiously, Smith omits any
mention of the large wooden coffin, but this may be attributable to the fact that
the book was posthumously compiled by his wife, Corinna Lindon Smith, from
miscellaneous notes.
x 98cm (w. of interior: 69cm); h.83.5cm; h.of lid 14cm; total

h.with lid h.97cm; weight of box 579.237kg (1277lb.); weight of
lid 187.333kg (413lb.); total weight 766.6kg (1,690lb.); along each
long side of lid two cylindrical handles which were sawn off after
burial; three of these were found in the chamber (figs.16.1916.26)
MFA OP1.33.1016, OP2.33.1016, OP3.33.1016, OP4.33.1016: four wooden
pegs from coffin 33421 (=MFA 33.1016) (three pegs: fig.16.11)
33422 (MFA33.1017.1, 33.1017.2; shipped to Boston September1933):
linen from mummy wrappings5 (figs.16.3616.41);
MFA33.1017.1:
Text: nfrt-nswt (3-ply) sm-?

Translation: Good royal (linen), 3-ply: Leading-? (festival).
MFA33.1017.2:
C
[ 6
Text: nfrt-nswt (2-ply) ms-nr

Translation: Good royal (linen), 2-ply: Following the God (festival).
From debris of shaftb, intrusive:
33183 (=MFA33.1067): White limestone crudely formed headrest, broken
in two; h.21.6cm; w.22.8cm; th.10.2cm (fig.16.13)6
Architecture
Some confusion has arisen in the tomb-numbering scheme because

the HUMFA Expedition originally believed the northern strip of
this area constituted a new cemetery. This resulted in the numbers
g2210 and g2220, instead of the continuation of tomb numbers in
the 2100s. Reisner described the revisions and the renumbering of
this part of Cemetery g2100 as follows:
When the excavation of the northern strip of our concession in
the Western Field was carried out in 1912, the work was continued
eastwards across the northern end of the Cem. en Echelon and the
core-mastabas of that cemetery were numbered in continuation of
the cores of the eastern group of Cem. g2100. Thus the mastaba
I now designate as g4990 was marked g2180. The mastabas of
the next line to the east now designated g5080 and g5090 were
numbered g2200 and g2190. At that time the Cem. en Echelon
had not been revealed by excavations and the mastabas in question
with cores of typeIIa appeared to continue Cem. g2100. At this
point the excavation of the last mastaba of the western group of
Cem. g2100 was undertaken and the number g2210 was assigned
to it. East of g2210 was another large mastaba on an independent
site which was numbered in succession g2220. At the present
time it is clear that g2210 was built around one of the five initial
cores of Cem. g2100. East of it stands g2220, aligned with it
later in date but on an independent site built before any of the
mastabas of the secondary cemetery. It is obvious that the owner
of g2220 was directly related to the owner of g2210 and probably
to the owner of g2130. It seems therefore advisable to include the
aynes and Markowitz, in Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids, p.68, cat.16; Manuelian,
H
Slab Stelae, p.156, figs.23133. For generously supplying the translations here, I am
grateful to James P. Allen.
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description of g2220 in the description of Cem. g2100 just as

was done above for the mastabas of Merib and Nensezerka.7
Logically, g2210 should have been numbered g2140, and g2220

should have been numbered g2160. But renumbering now would
only create additional confusion, particularly since these numbers
are already taken by other mastaba cores.
G2220 is not only the largest mastaba in nucleus Cemetery
g2100 (62x 20.4m), but after tombs g2000 (=Lepsius23; 105x
53.2m), and g7510 (Ankhhaf; 101x 52m), it is the largest private tomb
at Giza.8 It was designed to receive a white limestone casing but this
was only begun north and south of the projecting part of the interior
stone chapel and left unfinished. South of the chapel the thickness of
the white casing was 2.4m. Reisner noted that, had the casing of this
thickness been completed, the mastaba would have measured 66.8 x
25.2m with an area of 1683.36sq.m; proportion 1/2.65.9
The significance of this oversized mastaba for Cemetery g2100
is noteworthy. Should g2220 be seen as this cemeterys principal
tomb, after the manner of g1200 (Wepemnefret) in Cemetery
g1200 and g4000 (Hemiunu) in Cemetery g4000?10 As further
evidence for its early date, it might be argued that g2220 predates
the core construction of g2135 and g2155, for its location appears to
have forced the two latter tombs out of alignment with the rest of
this cemetery. G2135 and g2155 had to be placed further south than
any other Cemetery g2100 mastabas.
As originally constructed, g2220 aligned with g2210 along its
southern edge. Subsequent extensions can only be estimated, due
to the unfinished nature of the excavations, but they included an
interior stone chapel. This displays fine Tura limestone blocks of the
highest quality, even though the wall decoration was never completed
(figs.16.4, 16.1416.15). The scenes consist solely of some large-scale
standing figures of the tomb owner and his family on the east wall.
While the chapel bears two false doors, a feature that generally seems
to postdate Khufus reign, it may nevertheless represent a secondary
construction phase for the mastaba.11
The excavators were justifiably confused by the apparent
absence of a principal shafta in the northern half of the mastabas
superstructure. Instead, the HUMFA Expedition located two
shafts, b and c in an eastwest alignment just to the northwest of
the chapel. Both of these shafts are clearly later intrusive additions.
Shaftb, further away from the chapel, contained the finely wrapped
mummified body of a female, described above, placed within a
massive, uninscribed cedar coffin. This is the best-preserved of all the
core mastaba major shaft burials in Cemetery g2100. Noteworthy
here, and certainly atypical of Dynasty4, is the orientation of the
burial chamber opening to the north. The shaft continues below the
he mastaba of Hemiunu, by comparison, at 53.2 x 26.77m, is larger on the long
T
sides, but smaller on the short ends. Jnosi considers g4000 to be larger than
g2220; Giza in der 4. Dynastie, p.224.
9 R
eisner, GN1, p.451.
10 Helck, Miszelle, ZS 81 (1956), pp.6265, argued for such principal tombs for
each of the three early nucleus cemeteries, although he cited g2100 rather than
g2220 in the case of Cemetery g2100.
11 Cf. Jnosi, Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.22425; GN1, p.453. Note, however, that
the large mastaba of Ankhhaf in the Eastern Cemetery (g7510), also has two false
doors in its interior stone chapel, and Jnosi has convincingly redated this tomb
to the reign of Khufu; Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.11011. Additional Khufu-era
mastabas with two false doors include Hemiunu (g4000) and the anonymous
mastaba g2000 (=Lepsius23).
burial chamber containing the coffin, but no additional chambers

were located. Shaftc, by contrast, was left unfinished. Neither shaft
displays T-shaped portcullis grooves.
The identity of the tomb owner, most likely a male to judge
from the unfinished chapel reliefs, rather than the female buried in
shaftc, remains unknown.12 If the interior stone chapel does indeed
represent a later addition to the mastaba, then the presence of two false
doors need not counter our interpretation of the mastaba core itself as
belonging to the original group of 12 Cemetery g2100 tombs.
Shafts and Burials
Shafts in g2220: two shafts, c immediately northwest of chapel and

b west of c; a third shafta was presumed north of middle, but was
not found.
g2220 b
Wheelers diary records the events:
January13, 1933. 2220b. Removed door-blocking. Down
8.90m in pit. The chamber is small and roughly cut, on the north
side of the pit. The chamber contains a large wooden coffin, 240 x
98 x 98cm, of which the wood appears almost as hard and strong
as when new. The chamber is undisturbed, the coffin lid in place,
and no other objects visible. Photographed chamber. The coffin
is perfectly rectangular and flat on all faces, with two small hand
knobs to the lid visible along its east edge (the longer side). All
the joints and pegs of the wood are clearly visible and several small
patches to repair blemishes. The weight of the coffin should be
about 1044lbs, and of the lid about 378lbs.
From the position and nature of the chamber, and the fact
that the pit descends further, it would seem that this is not the
principal burial. The whole pit filling is undisturbed, so that one
may expect the principal burial at a lower level also undisturbed.13
January15, 1933. 2220b. Lifted lid of wooden coffin partly. The
coffin is smooth and undecorated inside, the lid being recessed to
fit the top edge. The body lies against the west side, partly on left
side, fully extended, legs and arms fully extended, arms at sides,
feet together, head turned to left: head north.
The body is wrapped as far as can be seen, in cloth bandages,
including hands, arms, feet and head. A loose cloth has been
laid over the body, covering from ankles to neck. Nothing else is
visible in the sarcophagus. Such photographs as are possible in the
confined space are being taken.
The construction of the sarcophagus is very clear, as all the
joints, inside and out, are visibleas are the pegs used. The
bottom appears to be one piece; the lid is in two pieces, joined;
each side consists mainly of three planks and the ends the same.14
This discovery prompted Wheeler to draft a memorandum to

Reisner, who was still recovering from cataract surgery in Cairo. This
memorandum is somewhat more detailed and is presented below.
7
8
January 16, 1933

THE PIT SHAFT
The pit is immediately west of pit C, near the south end of
the mastaba. Masonry pit, rock-cut below, rectangular plan with
longer sides NS, 210 x 180cms. The rock level is 5.70m below
12
13
14
In this context, mention might be made of an intrusive sunk-relief architrave

fragment belonging to a kings acquaintance, Hetephernefret, reused as fill material
inside a pit wall. However, there is no confirmation of the tomb in question in
a closeup view in HUMFA Expedition photograph c4748, online at the Giza
Archives Project (www.gizapyramids.org): March16, 1912, looking west.
Wheeler diary, January13, 1933, pp.120203.
Wheeler diary, January13, 1933, pp.120405.
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the top of the pit: a chamber is cut in the north side (roomI) and
the pit continues on down below this. Debris in whole of pit is
clean hard rubble, undisturbed.
THE CHAMBER (I)
A small, roughly cut chamber in the north face of the alignment
with the pit, has its floor 2.90metres below the rock surface. It
is in poor alignment with the pit, and is about 4m by 2m. The
door was found with blocking undisturbed, consisting of small
rubble 25cms deep, larger rubble on top of that 35cms deep, and
mud bricks piled in the remaining space at the top. No cement or
plaster was used in the door-blocking. The bricks used were 37 x
19.5 x 13cms. Door-blocking photographed, drawn, and removed.
The only object in the chamber is a large wooden sarcophagus,
with lid in position, apparently in remarkably good and strong
condition, and of very good and accurate work.
THE SARCOPHAGUS
Plain rectangular with smooth faces on all sides & on lid.
Length 240cms, width 98cms, height (coffin only) 83.5cms, &
(with lid) 97cms. The sarcophagus is placed along the west side
of the room, against the wall, and occupies most of the length of
that side: the floor of the room is of small rubble (see description
of composition of door-blocking). The joints of the timber are
clearly visible throughout, as are also the pegs and dowels; the lid
has two lugs for handles along its east edge (& presumably also
along the west edge against the wall). Measurements of heights
and lengths only differ by a few millimetres at different parts.
The weight of the coffin is estimated at about 1044lbs, & the lid
at 378lbs.
The lid has been raised sufficiently for photography, although the
confined space will not permit much of this till the lid is removed.
The only thing apparently in the sarcophagus is the body.
THE BODY
Lies at full length, head north, slightly on left side, against the
west side of the coffin, with head turned to left. A loose sheet
covers the body from ankles to neck. The feet, hands, forearm,
shoulder & head, (which are clear of the sheet) are wrapped
in narrow cloth bandaging; but from the appearance of bone
through the hand & foot wrapping, there seems no trace at the
moment of mummification. The body is fully extended, arms and
hands at the sides, feet together.
PROCEDURE
Such photographs as can be got in the present position are being
taken; but they can only show small parts in each view. I would
suggest, after taking these, that the lid be removed and transported
to the Camp, and other photographs be taken in the improved
conditions. After this, and before disturbing the body, the coffin
could be moved into the pit where good pictures could be got.
On the instructions of Mr. Lindon Smith I am taking no
further action until hearing your15 wishes.
N.F.W[heeler]
On January18, Joseph Lindon Smith and Dr. Douglas Derry

removed the lid and transferred the mummy to Harvard Camp for
additional photography and analysis. Two loose hand-lugs on the
coffins east side were removed, and the lid was placed in a crate
that reached Harvard Camp on January19, 1933. Wheeler and
(J.L.) Smith removed the body from the coffin on January20, 1933
by sliding two sheets of iron under it, with a wooden crate under
the iron. Derry removed the outer wrappings for photography on
January21. Wheelers notes continue:
15
January 21, 1933

Dr. Derry removed loose sheet from body. Sheet was laid single
over the body, tucked round the lower legs.
The wrapping now visible is of one wide strip running from the
ankles to the neck, and is the outer one of a thick covering, having
the appearance of a long dress with a V-shaped neck opening.
Removed this, which proved to be the end of lower wrappings
brought up in one stretch from feet to neck. The bands beneath
this are of 6.8cms wide and encircle the body from ankles to
neck. The outer fold was stitched down at one point.
The face is completely wrapped, the nose shaped & pads in
the cheeks. The breast wrappings are now visible, with the
nipples formed in small button-shaped pads on the outside of the
wrapping. The wrappings here cross in brace form over shoulders
and between the breasts. The lower part of the body is still under
encircling wrappings 10cms wide. On the outer face wrappings
one eye is still clearly painted in black, as is the eyebrow above it.
In removing these wrappings the right hand was removed as it
was unsupported.
The body is clearly that of a woman, and the height, from heels
to top of head-wrappings 151cms.
January 25, 1933. An examination of the outer sheet from the
body shows it to have retained the creases of folds as under. From
the nature and intervals of these folds it appears that the sheet had
been folded as shown below, and pressed in that position. Pull
lines denote upward creases and dotted lines downward creases
[fig.16.30].
Reconstruction of folds [fig.16.31]: A is a circumferential
wrapping, below which was a pad B to fill in the space between
the two legs at the stage when separate leg-wrapping gave way to
wrapping of body as a whole. Dr Derry removed A & B.
In order to preserve the construction of the upper part of the
body wrappings, over the breasts, etc, Dr. Derry removed D in
one piece. This revealed the section of the wrappings at this part,
which was 1.5cms. Both arms were removed, and then, in one
piece, the area E. Dr. Derry then removed all the bones, and the
legs and arms were unwrapped.
State of wrappings: The linen is in an unusually good state of
preservation and in the middle area (over thighs) is white and
strong as new.
Nature of wrappings: The body seems to have had a single layer
of wrapping with bands some 10cms wide, over which, on legs
and arms, was wound a thickness of 1.0cm of narrow tape. This
tape was formed by folding or twisting a wider band, and these
lengths of tape were joined by knotting their ends. Over this
tape was the ordinary bandage wrapping of about 37 layers over
arms, legs, and body. As the bandages were wound on the hollows
were filled in with pads: these pads were all made in the same way,
by folding a square of linen radially [fig.16.33]:
All such positions as between legs, in waist, etc, were padded
thus to retain the body shape. On one of these padsthat in the
hollow of the right groinis a hieratic inscription, which has been
photographed. On examining the other pads and wrapping bands
a further small inscription was found. Both these inscriptions are
in black ink on the linen Dr. Derrys conclusion from the bones
& body remains is that the lady was probably old, and certainly
had arthritis in the following joints: left side between sacrum &
pelvis, between vertebrae of neck; also abcesses in upper jaw (both
sides), & in pallet. The teeth were complete, well worn, but very
fragile. From internal traces it seems that no internal organs were
removed before burial.
Dr. Derry removed the head, and removed whole the face and
head-dress wrapping. The whole face was wrapped and padded to
preserve natural shape, the nose being entirely of linen and very well
I.e., G.A. Reisner.
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shaped. The body would seem to have been very thin at time of
wrapping, the neck diameter inside the wrappings being only 5cms.
The linen used is all good, the best being the outer sheet which
has 42 threads per cm; the inner wrappings are very slightly
coarser but still fine.
Some of the pieces of linen have stitched-on patches.
Material of wrappings.
On examining a specimen of the thread microscopically it is
seen to be as identical as could be expected with the difference
in age with a specimen of modern linen thread. Both show the
single hair to be of regular diameter, with distinct rings like
bamboo at intervals of about a length of 10 diameters. Cotton,
for a comparison, is of twisted and deformed appearance, the
diameter distorted, and there are no rings at all [fig.16.34].
In 1987, Leslie Smith, former conservator in the Textile Department

of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, examined fragmentary linen
remains from the mummy in conjunction with the special exhibition,
Mummies & Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt (Boston,
1988). Her notes, compiled by Margaret Leveque, former conservator
in the Museums Objects Conservation Laboratory, are included
below:
The fragmentary remains of the wrappings from an Old Kingdom
mummy of a woman, from Giza g2220 b:
MFA 33.10161017; Condition and Test Results
These are fragments from an Old Kingdom mummy which had
been elaborately wrapped with linen to replicate the appearance
of the deceased woman in life, including a padded wig with a
ponytail at the back, and a well-cut linen dress.
The fragments are in severely deteriorated condition. The linen
fibres have darkened and embrittled; they fracture at the slightest
touch: no flexibility remains in any of the fragments. The mummy
wrappings were cut apart by a Dr. Derry during an autopsy
shortly after excavation (1933). The body and the physicians notes
about his findings are now lost.18 Some handwritten notes were
taken during the autopsy about the wrappings; copies are in the
file and with the Giza notes in the MFA Department of Art of the
Ancient World.
Tests to discover the effects of humidification were done
on Egyptian textile fragments of similar age. This was fairly
unsuccessful. The fragments lost their structural integrity,
becoming even weaker, thus ruling out most water soluble resins
for impregnation.
Consolidation tests were conducted on detached fragments to
attempt to strengthen them and permit manipulation.
Klucel E, hydroxy propyl cellulose was chosen initially because
it is soluble in ethanol without water. It was applied in 2%
solution with a dropper, allowing the fragment to be saturated
slowly without disruption. The fragment was reimpregnated
three times and allowed to dry. Insufficient strength was imparted
by this resin.
Another fragment was impregnated with 3% B72 in toluene.
Following two applications the fragments could be handled
without losing large fragments and shaped slightly, but the fibres
at the outer edges were still friable. The surface had insufficient
cohesion to permit adhesion. Two larger fragments, one from
the neck and one apparently from the forehead, were chosen for
further testing with B72. Three applications of B72 (3% in toluene)
were applied dropwise. The fragments were reshaped and covered
with crepeline to allow them to dry. While the pieces gained more
overall strength they remained brittle. Pieces of loose strapping
were reattached with dots of Beva D-8 to prevent their loss.
Further consolidant testing was considered but due to time
constraints of the Mummies and Magic exhibition (1988), it was
decided that a replica of the mummy would be made for exhibition
purposes.19 It was felt that at this stage of our development of
consolidants for degraded textiles that the remaining fragments
Wrappings of body: examined by Dr. Douglas Derry:16
(1)body with limbs wrapped separately; single thickness of linen

band, 10cm wide; the legs and arms were wound to a thickness
of 1cm with narrow tape (formed by folding or twisting a band);
the lengths of tape were tied end to end.
(2)over the body thus prepared were wound bands in thirtyseven layers around body and legs; as wrapping proceeded hollows
were padded out with wads of linen, some folded in triangular
form and others in round wads, &c.; to fill out the appearance
of a body: one triangular pad was inscribed with black ink, mt
nfrt(?), sw(?), fine linen(?) : another frag. was inscribed mt
nfrt (for a drawing, see Vol.ii, chap.xiii, section 317).
(3)The upper part of the body was then covered with narrow
bandages, wound criss-cross to form the breasts which were
moulded to a natural form by the use of wet resin (Derry), padded
underneath the bandages the lower part of the body was wound
with wide strips of linen; the breast nipples were made of little
hard wads of linen stuck in the wrappings; the neck was filled with
bandages wound around and around; the face was moulded in
linen showing nose, mouth and eyes (eyes and eyebrows painted
on linen); head wrapped with linen ending in a twist like a pig-tail.
(4)A large sheet of linen was laid over the body looking like
a tunic with V-shaped neck, leaving arms and lower part of legs
exposed: similar to a statue.
(5)on top of the whole mummy was a rather crumpled sheet
of linen, showing regular folds as if taken from a box (newly
laundered); according to wrapped bodies of the O.K. found at
Naga-ed-Deir, the sheet had been spread evenly over the whole
mummy: in the present case, the sheet had probably been
disturbed by the sliding of the body in the coffin when the latter
was placed in the chamber.
Measurements provided by Wheeler for the skeletal remains

include the following:
humerus: 27780 mm
tibia: 309312
radius: 203205
fibula: 312315
ulna: 218221
femur & tibia: 704711
femur: 392396
18
16
17
his text derives from Reisner, GN1, pp.45253, but omits the long list of
T
Expedition photography provided there.
This reference pertains to Reisners unpublished manuscript The Funerary
Equipment Found in Burial Chambers: Miscellaneous Objects (continued),
in A History of the Giza NecropolisII, pp.67778 (no drawing present). At this
writing the manuscript is available online at the Giza Archives Project (www
.gizapyramids.org).
19
ote that what remains of the mummy was not lost, but stored at the Kasr el
N
Aini (Cairo) Faculty of Medicinefor study by Douglas Derryas mentioned
in the following report by Renate Germer.
A reproduction of the mummy was created from papier mach and other materials,
and was displayed in the exhibition next to the actual coffin in 1988; A.M. Roth
in Mummies & Magic, cat. 6, pp.7677. Both objects subsequently traveled to
the Dallas Museum of Art as part of a long-term loan from the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, to that institution.
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should simply be stored archivally to await further developments

in the field.
in upper jaw (both sides), + in pallet. The teeth were

complete, well worn, but very fragile.
Auf die interessante Frage nach der an dieser Person angewandten
Mumifizierungstechnik geht der Bericht von Wheeler nur mit einem
Satz ein: From internal traces it seems that no internal organs were
removed before burial. ber die im Alten Reich angewandten
Mumifizierungsverfahren sind wir bis heute nur unzureichend
informiert. Teilweise wurden wohl schon in der 4. Dynastie
die Organe aus der Leibeshhle entfernt und durch Leinen
ersetzt.24 Die Organe wickelten die Balsamierer anscheinend
gesondert in Leinen ein und setzten sie zuerst in einer Vertiefung
des Grabes mit bei. Der frheste Beleg ihrer Verwahrung in
Natronlauge in einem in vier Behltnisse unterteilten Gef
ist der Kanopenkasten der Knigin Hetepheres.25 Was mit
dem Muskelgewebe des Krpers geschah, ist unklar. Zwischen
Petrie und Wainwright einerseits und Elliot Smith andererseits
wurde darber eine ausfhrliche wissenschaftliche Diskussion
gefhrt.26 Petrie und Wainwright gingen davon aus, da die
Krper teilweise entfleischt und nur die Knochen in Leinen
gehllt worden waren. Smith hingegen war der Ansicht, da das
Krpergewebe unter der Leinenumhllung verweste, zerfiel und
so der Eindruck entstand, nur die Knochen seien mit Leinen
umwickelt. In einigen Fllen vermutete Smith, da die gypter
bereits bestattete und zerfallene oder durch Grabraub beschdigte
Krper noch einmal neu eingewickelt und ein zweites Mal
beigesetzt hatten. Derry, der eine groe Anzahl von Bestattungen
aus dem Alten Reich untersucht hatte, schlo sich der Meinung
von Smith an.27 Nach Derry gelang es den Balsamierern im
Alten Reich noch nicht, das Krpergewebe zu konservieren. Das
Muskelgewebe unter den Leinenschichten verkohlte, ebenso die
dem Krper anliegenden innersten Leinenschichten. Schnitt man
dann bei modernen Untersuchungen diese Leinenmumien auf,
so zerfiel die verkohlte Schicht zu Staub und es sah aus, als ob
das Leinen der Umwicklung dem blanken Knochen aufliegen
wurde. Einen wichtigen Beleg fr diese Ansicht, da die Krper
vor dem Einwickeln nicht entfleischt worden waren, sah Derry in
der Mumie aus g2220b. Leider schrieb er nur sehr kurz ber die
von ihm in dieser Hinsicht gemachten Beobachtungen:28
Dr. Renate Germer kindly contributed the following remarks

on the mummy, based on archival notes and photographs in the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She notes the use of the linen
wrappings prior to their funereal function, and discusses, along with
Derry and against Petrie and Wainwright, the unlikelihood of any
the removal of skin from the body during the embalming process:
In dem von Noel F. Wheeler abgefaten Grabungstagebuch ist
die Fundsituation und Bergung der Mumie genau beschrieben:
(siehe oben). Der von Wheeler erwhnte gesonderte Bericht
Derrys gibt nun ganz genau die Wicklung der Mumie wieder, wie
sie beim Ablsen der einzelnen Leinenschichten erkennbar wurde.
Der Bericht ist von Reisner in umgekehrter Reihenfolge, also von
den innersten Schichten nach auen gehend, verffentlicht.20
Wheeler bemerkte ausdrcklich, da sich das Leinen der
Mumienwicklung bei Auffindung der Mumie noch in einem
sehr guten Erhaltungszustand befand. Die Farbe des Leinens
variierte von hellwei bis dunkel brunlich [fig. 16.46] und die
Textur von ganz locker gewebt [fig. 16.38] bis recht dicht und
krftig. In einige Leinenstcke waren sorgfltig Flicken eingesetzt
[fig. 16.39]. Aus dieser Tatsache ist zu erkennen, da man die
Leinentcher bereits lngere Zeit im Haushalt benutzt hatte,
bevor sie zum Einwickeln der Toten benutzt wurden. Der heutige
Zustand des Leinens, das sich im Magazin des MFA Boston
befindet,21 ist sehr viel schlechter (siehe Bericht von Leslie Smith
und Margaret Leveque).
Aus Leinenstreifen und zusammengefalteten Leinenstcken
und Tchern hatten die Balsamierer kunstvoll die Konturen des
Gesichtes und des Krpers der verstorbenen Frau modelliert sowie
eine Bekleidung mit einem langen Gewand und einem im Nacken
zusammengebundenen Kopftuch (Zeichnung). Reisner bemerkte,
da nach Derry die verarbeiteten Leinenstreifen mit wet resin
getrnkt gewesen seien. Leider erfolgte keine chemische Analyse,
um Aufklrung ber die verwendeten Substanzen zu erhalten. In
seiner grundlegenden Arbeit uber die Mumifizierung im Alten
gypten beklagte sich Derry,22 da er zwar bei allen zu seiner
Zeit in gypten durchgefhrten Grabungen die menschlichen
berreste untersucht und auch ausfhrliche Berichte angefertigt
habe, diese jedoch meist von den Ausgrabern nicht publiziert
wurden. Ein solcher Fall liegt anscheinend auch bei der Mumie
aus g2220b vor. Ein ausfhrlicher anthropologischer Bericht von
Derry ist nicht erhalten. Reisner erwhnt in seiner Publikation
den Zustand des Skelettes dieses Krpers gar nicht. Eine
Nachuntersuchung des Skelettes ist zur Zeit auch nicht mglich,
da die in der Cairo School of Medicine23 aufbewahrten Knochen
nicht zugnglich sind. So ist uns ber den Krperzustand der
in g2220b beigesetzten Frau nur der in zwei Stzen abgefate
Bericht Wheelers erhalten, den er vermutlich whrend des
Sezierens der Mumie durch Derry von diesem diktiert bekam.
Bei dieser Untersuchung nahm Derry die Mumie vollstndig
auseinander und lste alle Knochen aus der Leinenumhllung.
Wheeler schrieb:
In order to preserve the breasts (die aus Leinen

modelliert waren) intact, an incision was made right
through the whole thickness of the bandages. In this
way a section was exposed, and it was possible to see
the boundary between the linen and what had been
bodywall. The tissues had mostly disappeared, or
existed in small fragments which crumbled at the
touch; but in the region of the abdomen a large sheet
of tissue was found in the abdominal cavity, which was
almost certainly the remains of the abdominal wall,
plus intestines which had become adherent to it during
the course of desiccation. There was no sign of any
material having been packed into either the abdominal
or chest-cavities; and from the latter a shrivelled mass
of tissue was removed, probably consisting of the heart
and lungs.
Fr die Bestattungsform der Frau aus g2220b lt sich also
feststellen, da der vollstndige Krper ohne die Eingeweide
zu entfernen, mit Leinenstreifen umhllt worden war. Mit
Hilfe zusammengefalteter Leinenstcke und Leinenstreifen
modellierten die Balsamierer dann kunstvoll eine Leinenmumie,
die lebensecht aussah und eine Gre von 151cm hatte. Das
Dr. Derrys conclusion from the bones + body remains

is that the lady was probably old, and certainly had
arthritis in the following joints: left side between
sacrum + pelvis, between vertebrae of neck; also abcesses
20
21
22
23
Reisner, GN1, S. 452.

I nventar-Nr. MFA 33.10161017.
Douglas Derry, Mummification. Methods practised at different periods,
ASAE41 (1942), S. 24046.
Inventar-Nr. 235.
24
25
26
27
28
Petrie, Mackay, and Wainwright, Meydum and Memphis3 S. 1819.

L
ucas, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Industries, S. 271.
D
erry, ASAE 41 (1942), S. 24346.
I bid.
Ibid., S. 242.
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Krpergewebe im Innern dieser Leinenmumie zerfiel im Laufe

der Zeit fast vollstndig, nur das Skelett blieb gut erhalten.
Diese Mumie ist ein Zeugnis des Versuches der gypter bereits
im Alten Reich verstorbene Personen so herzurichten, da die
Krper wie erhalten aussahen, obwohl die Formen wie Gesicht
und Muskelgewebe nur aus Leinen modelliert waren.
Finally, the V-necked garment (fig. 16.44) placed over the

mummy was discussed by G. Vogelsang-Eastwood:
It is a slight misnomer to call this particular item a garment,
as only the front half remained. It is not clear from either the
photography or the accompanying text whether it was a piece
of cloth which had simply been cut in the shape of a dress, or
whether it was part of an actual garment. Unfortunately, it was
destroyed during Derrys examination of the mummy in Egypt,
so it is not possible to state exactly how the garment was made.
What is clear, however, is that great attention was paid to the
mummy, down to the inclusion of well-made cloth breasts to
give as life-like an appearance as possible. The care taken with
the mummy suggests that equal regard was paid to ensure that
the form of the V-shaped garment was also accurate. Because no
sleeves or pleating were indicated it can be suggested that the Giza
dress was a simple, V-neck form without sleeves.29
Date

KhafreMenkaure (core); Dynasty45 (mastaba).
Reisner believed that the massive core of g2220 was constructed
sometime in the reign of Menkaure, and that a change in the owners
fortunes caused by the death of that king prevented the completion
of the tomb.30 According to him, shaftb was occupied during the
reign of Shepseskaf, while shaftc was a Dynasty5 construction.
Smith ascribed the tomb to the reign of Shepseskaf.31
There is, however, no evidence to pinpoint such a detailed
chronological reconstruction. The two shafts, located in unusual
positions, are clearly secondary additions (contra Reisner), and
therefore may bear no relation to the chapels construction, or even
to the tombs originally intended owner. While there is no reason
to doubt that the original core was built under Khufu, possibly
intended as the most significant tomb of Cemetery g2100, the
eventual occupation of the shaftbwith its early attempt at
mummificationcould date to late Dynasty4 (Menkaure?).32
Decoration
The chapels decoration occurs only on the east wall (figs. 16.50
16.55). At the left (north) end, the tomb owner and presumably
his wife and child stand facing to the right (south). Although we
see only the beginnings of the carvingthe unrounded outlines of
the very high raised-relief figureswe can still discern most of the
costume and pose of the figures.33 The tomb owner wears a short kilt
and a leopard skin, and holds a staff and sekhem scepter. Curiously,
the scepter appears to pass behind his figure, although he faces the
dominant Egyptian direction of left to right. Perhaps the carving
simply had not yet advanced far enough to show the scepter passing
in front of his lower body (see below). Leg musculature is indicated,
but there is little else in the way of interior detail. His wife wears
a tripartite wig and a long garment; her anklets are indicated, as
is a choker around her neck. To judge from the uncarved surface
remaining between her husbands scepter-wielding arm and his back,
his wifes left arm was meant to embrace his arm.34 Her right hand
meanwhile bends at the elbow and reaches across her body to touch
his elbow. The heads and faces of this standing couple have suffered
damage and deterioration.
The outlines of the sons figure reveal that he grasps his fathers
staff with one hand, while turning back to gaze up at his parents.
He places the finger of his right hand to his lips, and his arm is bent
at the elbow. The figure is otherwise too rough for us to determine
further details, such as whether he stands naked or clothed. But we
have already seen this pose in Cemetery g2100, on the west wall of
the chapel of Kanefer (g2150, see figs.12.93, 12.95, 12.97).
At the right (south) end of the east wall, another large-scale
male figure stands facing left (north) towards the couple described
above. He is presumably either a son or officiating priest (though
without a leopard skin) or, more likely, a second figure of the tomb
owner himself. He wears a short curled wig and a wraparound
pleated kilt, and holds a staff and sekhem scepter. Fingers, knees,
kilt pleats, and leg musculature are all in evidence, but have suffered
extensive deterioration since the time of excavation.35
The layout of the east wall resembles that of Merib (g2100-1).
Curiously, however, the depiction of the sekhem scepter here shows
reversed orientation from that of Merib. The scepter passes in front
of the body of this solitary male figure, even though he faces left,
and the scepter held by the first male figure, though perhaps never
carved, appears to pass behind the body even though he faces right.
The opposite scenario is visible in Meribs chapel (see Chapter4).
The space between the two sets of figures was probably intended for
registers of offering bearers or funerary estates, but the execution was
never begun.
The chapels two false door niches and the other walls were left
undecorated, but display expertly prepared masonry, sharp corners,
and symmetrical layout. The massive drum over the entrance was still
broken in two, lying on the ground, as of 2008. The north false door
is the better preserved of the two, with almost all elements intact
but for the broken architrave over the tablet. The south false door,
by contrast, preserves only the innermost lower jambs. However,
a semicircular hole immediately beneath the small drum seems
33
29
30
31
32
ogelsang-Eastwood, Pharaonic Egyptian Clothing, p.112, pl. 25. See also her
V
comments in Textiles, in Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, p.288,
with fig.11.16.
Smith, HESPOK, p.164.
Jnosi suggests Khafres reign as the earliest possible date, assuming that no
tombs this big could be built at Giza under Djedefre. If the two-door chapel
was part of the tombs original design, then it would not predate Menkaure. But
the chapel could be a later addition; cf. Giza in der 4. Dynastie, pp.124, 22425.
34
35
Smith, HESPOK, pp.164, 249, related the high-relief carving to that found in
mastabas g2041 (Senenuka), g4260 (fragments), g5110 (Duaenre), and in the
Eastern Cemetery on portions of the walls of g71107120 (Kawab).
For this pose, cf. the mastaba of Iteti (g7391), in Curto, Gli Scavi Italiani
a el-Ghiza, pl.6b. It is interesting to note two parallels between g2220 and
g7391: the pose of the embrace and a serdab(?) squint punched through both
chapel false doors (see below). A slightly different embrace occurs in the tomb of
KhufukhafI: Simpson, The Mastabas of Kawab, Khaf-Khufu I and II, pls.2324,
fig.33 = N. Cherpion, Sentiment Conjugal et Figuration lAncien Empire,
in Kunst des Alten Reiches, p.33, pl. 4a.
As of 2008, this chapel was still open to the elements and unprotected by a
modern roof or locking grated door.
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to hint at a possible serdab behind (fig.16.14), if it is not simply

a robbers hole. Reisner does not mention such a serdab, but there
are precedents for such an arrangement. The false door of Iteti from
g7391 (Turin, Museo Egizio Suppl.1843), shows a similar hole.36
36
Curto, Gli Scavi Italiani a el-Ghiza, pp.3940, fig.7, pls.5, 6a, and 7. See also,
Fisher, The Minor Cemetery at Giza, pp.9, 90, fig.77 (g3011). On the topic in
general, see E. Brovarski, Serdab, in L5, cols. 87479; Lehmann, Der Serdab
in den Privatgrbern des Alten Reiches.
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G 2113
Z
Y
N M
G 2110
G 2111
B
A
E
G
F
A
G 2112
G 2112b A
Unexcavated
A G 2112a
A
A
G 2112c
G 2114
B C D E
A B
G 2115
X
G 2210
130
Fig. 16.1. G 2220, chapel and south end of east face of, looking west. November 20, 1993. pdm1993.096.10.
X
Y
G 2131
0
A
Unexcavated
G 2133
G 2132
Y Z
A C
G 2134a X
W
U
A
D B
X
AG 2134
C
G 2137
B
D
G 2134
unexcavated
G 2220
B
AG 2137 B
A
S T
Z U
V
X Y
G 2151
X
G 2157
A 2173C
S D B X
Z U
Y
I
D
H G F
C
B A d
2172
C
A B2178
X
D 2174
A B C
A B 2176 C
2179
X
V
2184b
U V
2224
B C
CB
D E
D C
B A
B
G 2156
B
C G 2154aG 2156
B A
G 2154
G 2220
A
G 2223a
C
G 2222
B
C A
G 2222
D
B
2221
Unexcavated
unexcavated
2175
C D E F G
B C D
c Az
2177 A B
S
a
Y X
bX Y
E
Fig. 16.2. G2220, plan.
D
A B C
A B C D
Y
2225
A
Y
D
X
G 2139 C
G 2223
W Z
G 2139 B
G 2138
G 2153
A B
X
G 2138
A
C G 2152
A
C G 2136
B A
2186
B C
D E F
10
CEMETERY G 2100
435
Y
B
G H A
E F
2462a
2461 B C D
C D
A
A B
2461 B A
2462
a
X Y
2463
X
10
20 m
A 2463
a
2464
20 m
Surveyed and drawn by A. Floroff

Traced by N. Melnikoff
= False door
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N
B
3m
Fig. 16.3. G2220, plan of chapel area.
G 2220 Chapel Fig. 275
Fig. 16.4. G 2220, chapel, looking north. November 3, 1993. Peter Der
Fig. 16.5. G 2220, casing blocks just south of chapel entrance, looking
north. November 4, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm1993.059.06.
Fig. 16.6. G 2220, chapel interior, two fragments of fallen drum lintel
from chapel entrance, looking northwest. November 3, 1993. Peter Der
Fig. 16.7. G 2220, chapel interior, larger of two fragments of fallen drum
lintel from chapel entrance, looking west. November 3, 1993. Peter Der
436
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Fig. 16.8. Four limestone blocks with masons marks from debris on top of
g2220: left, upper: 37-7-1; left, lower: 3772; middle: 3773; right: 37
74. October11, 1938. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani
Ibrahim, c14213.
Fig. 16.11. Left to right: 33421.1, 33421.2, 33421.3 (MFAOP1.33.1016,

OP2.33.1016, OP3.33.1016, OP4.33.1016), wooden pegs from coffin
from shaftb. Top: March14, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph,
Mohammedani Ibrahim, c14140. Bottom: July16, 2008. Peter Der
Manuelian, pdm_img_02379.
Fig. 16.9. Five limestone blocks with masons marks from debris on top
of g2220: left, upper: 3775; left, lower: 3776; middle: 3777;
right, upper: 3778; right, lower: 3779. October11, 1938. HUMFA
Fig. 16.10. Three limestone blocks with masons marks from debris on top
of g2220: left: 37710; middle: 37711; right: 37712. October11, 1938.
Fig. 16.12. 33421 (MFA OP1.33.1016, OP2.33.1016, OP3.33.1016,

OP4.33.1016), wooden peg elements from the coffin from shaftb. July16,
2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img_02390.
437
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10
20
cm
Fig. 16.13. 33183 (MFA33.1067), limestone headrest from g2220b. Left: March16, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13403
33-1-83
(detail). Center: July16, 2008. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_img_02344. Right: drawing.
Fig. 277
Fig. 16.14. G 2220, chapel, west wall, south false door, looking northwest.
Lst.
G 2220
Fig. 16.15. G 2220, chapel, west wall, north false door, looking west.
438
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Fig.16.16. G2220b, mouth of shaft, looking north. November18, 1993.

Fig.16.19. G2220b i, chamber with wood coffin, looking north.

January13, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8266.
Fig.16.17. G2220b, mouth of shaft, looking down, eastwards.

Fig.16.20. G2220b i, chamber with south end of wood coffin, looking

north. January13, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed,
b8267.
Fig.16.18. G2220b i, door blocking, looking north. January13, 1933.

Fig. 16.21. 33421 (MFA33.1016), cedar coffin from g2220b, with

a modern reproduction of the female mummy, prepared for MFA
Mummies & Magic exhibition in 1981. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
sl16173.
439
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Section A B
Plan
440
0
Fig.16.22. G2220b i, plan and section.
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G 2220 B
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Fig.16.23. G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) in wood coffin (33421= MFA33.1016), looking south. January19, 1933.
441
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Fig.16.24. G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) in wood coffin (33421= MFA33.1016), looking north. January19, 1933.
442
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Fig.16.25. G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) in wood coffin (33

421= MFA33.1016), foot end, looking west. January16, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7039.
Fig.16.26. G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) in wood coffin (33

421= MFA33.1016), head end, looking west. January16, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7038.
Fig.16.27. G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) without sheet covering body. January21, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph.
Dahi Ahmed, a7043.
Fig.16.28. G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) without sheet covering body. January21, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph.
Dahi Ahmed, a7042.
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Fig.16.29. G2220b i, mummy (wrappings 33422) head end, partially unwrapped. January23, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
444
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G 2220 B
WOODEN SARCOPHAGUS
East Side Elevation
South End Elevation
Plan
Inside of South End Panel
Inside of West Side Panel
Fig.16.30. Drawing of wood coffin (33421= MFA33.1016), from g2220b i.
Inside of North End Panel
50
100
m
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Width 115 cm
Length 225 cm
13 11
32.0
8.5
16.0
15.0
12.8
12.8
7 courses at
intervals of 4.5 cm
12.8
13.0
12.5
12.5
17.0
10 12
15.0
8.5
37.0
8 courses at
intervals of 4.5 cm
Middle of sheet
2,3
4,5,12
Fig.16.31. Diagram of linen

sheet folds on mummy from
g2220b.
6,7,10
8
9,13
11
I
B
II
II
III
Fig.16.34. Sketch of linen threads by N.F. Wheeler.
II
E
III
Fig.16.32. Diagram of linen wrapping layers on
mummy from g2220b.
wrapping in form
of head dress
tail of head
wrapping
15 cm long
Fig.16.33. Diagram of linen wrapping layers on mummy from g2220b.
Fig.16.35. Sketch of linen head

wrapping by N.F. Wheeler.
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Fig.16.36. 33422 (MFA 33.1017.2), hieratic text

on linen from mummy wrappings from g2220bi.
February7, 2002. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,
cr6989-d1.
Fig.16.37. 33422 (MFA 33.1017.2), hieratic text on linen from mummy

wrappings from g2220bi. January25, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8272. (detail)
Fig.16.38. 33422, cloth from mummy wrappings (worn) from g2220bi.

April13, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, b8316.
Fig.16.39. 33422, cloth from mummy wrappings (patched) from

g2220bi. April14, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi
Ahmed, b8317.
Fig.16.40. 33422 (MFA 33.1017.1), hieratic text on linen from mummy

wrappings from g2220bi. January26, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13376.
Fig.16.41. 33422 (MFA 33.1017.1), detail of hieratic text on linen

from mummy wrappings from g2220bi. January26, 1933. HUMFA
Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, c13376.
447
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Fig.16.43. 33422, linen from mummy wrappings from g2220bi.

May4, 1933. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7078.
Fig.16.42. 33422, linen from mummy wrappings from

Dahi Ahmed, a7075.
Fig.16.44. 33422, linen from mummy wrappings

from g2220bi. May4, 1933. HUMFA Expedition
Fig.16.45. 33422, linen from mummy wrappings from

Dahi Ahmed, a7078.
448
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Fig.16.46. 33422, linen from mummy wrappings from g2220bi. May10, 1033. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Dahi Ahmed, a7079.
Fig.16.47. G2220c, looking southwest. November 3, 1993. Peter Der

Fig.16.48. G2220 c, looking down, north. November 3, 1993. Peter Der

449
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22.40 m
Section AB
Plan
450
Fig.16.49. G2220 c, plan and section.

Fig. 278
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G 2100 C
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Fig.16.50. G2220, chapel, east wall, looking east. November3, 1993. Peter Der Manuelian, pdm_1993.056.02.
Fig.16.51. G 2220, chapel, east wall, north end, looking east. February28,
Fig.16.52. G 2220, chapel, east wall, south end, looking east. February28,
451
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Total height of woman ca. 148 cm
Total height of block ca. 196 cm
Fig.16.53. G2220, chapel, drawing of east wall.
452
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10 cm
PDM
453
1:5
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Fig.16.54. G 2220, chapel, east wall, north end, obliques view of unfinished relief carving, looking
northeast. February28, 1931. HUMFA Expedition photograph, Mohammedani Ibrahim, a6335.
0
Total height of woman ca. 148 cm
Total height of block ca. 196 cm
10 cm
50 cm
Fig.16.55. G 2220, interior chapel, east wall,

reduced-size overview drawing.
1:5
454
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Indexes
Indexes
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I. GENERAL
Abousir: xlvii, 152

Ab Rawsh: xlvii
Abu-Bakr: xxxix, 23, 80, 160
Abusir: xxxixxl, xliv, xlvii, xlixl, 44, 70, 75, 119, 160, 311, 313, 372
accession of Cheops: xlviii
administration: xi, xxxix, xlv, xlix, liv, 8, 3940, 72, 83, 153155, 213, 241, 311,
368369
Aegean: xxxixxl, xlvi, xlix, 161, 317
AERA: xii, xlvi, li
Aeragram: liii
Afifi, Mahmoud: xii
gyptische Sammlung Wien: xlviii, 378
gyptisches Museum Berlin: xviixix, liv, 71, 88, 9498, 100, 103, 106, 110,
112, 114, 160
Ahmed, Badawi: xv, 6
Ahmed, Dahi: xvixvii, xxivxxvii, xxixxxx, xxxiiixxxv, 58, 85, 186, 192,
194, 225227, 229, 231, 249, 264, 274275, 324, 325328, 330, 333,
419, 424425, 438439, 441444, 447449
Ahmed, Duwy Mahmud: 16
Ahmed, Hamid: 50
Ahmed (Diraz), Mahmud Said: iii, xxi, 1617, 154, 173
Ahmed (Diraz), Mohamed Said: iii, xxi, 1617
Ahmed, Said: iii, xv, 6, 16
Ahmed Diraz, Hagg Hassan Mohamed Said: 17
Akhet-Khufu: 152, 155, 162
alabaster: xvixvii, xxiv, xxvii, xxixxxx, xxxiii, 9, 42, 50, 5558, 66, 71, 79,
82, 117, 119120, 122123, 157, 159, 210211, 213, 222, 226227, 240,
260, 267, 281, 293, 308310, 313, 323325, 328, 330, 368, 370372,
375, 379, 381, 421422, 424
Alaska: 3
Aleppo: 294
Alexanian, Nicole: xv, xxxix, xlix, 25, 28
Allen, James P.: xiii, xxxix, 428
Allen, Nancy: xi
Altenmller, Hartwig: xxxix, xlvii, 7475, 316, 371372
Amarna Period: 215
Amenhotep III: xli, 159
America: 9, 152, 160
American Federation of Arts: xlii, xlviii
American Oriental Society: xlii
American Research Center: xii
American University: xliixliii, xlvii, l
Amherst: 3, 313
amulet: xvi, xlvii, 50, 58, 313, 378
Ancestor(s): 312
Ancient Egypt Research Associates: xii, xv, li, 26
Ancient Near East: xlii
Andrassy, Petra: xxxix, 378
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: xii, liii, 16, 18
Anglo-American Hospital: 428
animal(s): xliv, 74, 117, 371, 374
animal mating motifs: xliv
anklet: 7677, 121123, 433
antelope: 80
Antikenmuseum Basel: xl
Anubis: xl, 73, 7681, 83, 120123, 153, 240, 295, 313, 317, 379, 381
Aqes: 77
Arabic: xiii, 7, 1617, 152, 281, 293
Arabic Diary: 16, 152
Arabic Expedition Diary: xiii
archaeological photography: xlvi, 17
Archeological Survey of Egypt: xliv
architrave: xixxx, xxvi, xxviii, xxxxxxi, 3, 20, 3132, 3940, 69, 7273, 79,
81, 117123, 134135, 137138, 142, 147148, 155, 240, 242, 250, 294,
302303, 308, 312, 314, 317318, 336, 358, 371, 378381, 429, 433
army: xlii, 7678, 80, 83, 155, 157, 313, 316
Arnold, Dieter: xxxix, 28, 39, 310
Arnold, Dorothea: 3
Aronin, Rachel: xi
Ashmolean Museum: xxxvii
Asia Minor: 294
Assmann, Jan: xxxixxl, xliixliii, xlvii, 156, 161
Assuan: xli, 283, 371
Aston, Barbara: xxxix, 50, 214
Atlanta: xlii
DAuria, Sue: xlvii
Austrian Expedition: xv, xixxx, xxxiixxxiii, liv, 1213, 15, 21, 125, 129130,
133, 136, 141143, 145147, 149, 281, 369, 384385, 387, 393, 398,
402403, 414
Baer, Klaus: xxxix, xliii, xlvi, xlviii, 30, 35, 72, 154, 158, 311, 313, 367369
bag(s): 7475, 78, 83, 313, 378, 381, 383
Bakr, Mohamed Ibrahim: xii
Barati, Fabien: xiii
barley: 159160, 213214, 315, 372, 376377, 379
Brta: xxxix, xliiixlix, 77, 313, 317, 379
basket(s): xxivxxv, 78, 76, 210, 212, 222, 231, 314, 373
basketry: l, 210
Bates, Oric: xl, 9, 71, 156, 160
Baud, Michel: xl, 23, 52, 72, 120, 241, 308, 311312, 367369
Beale, Arthur: xi
bearded: 73
bed: 80, 82, 369
bedrock: liii, 17, 4244, 153, 155, 368
beer jars: xxxix, 78
Bell, Lanny: xl, 16, 312
belt: 7778, 157, 260, 316317, 371, 375, 378, 380
Bergamini, Giovanni: xii, 18
Berkeley: xi, xxxix, xlii, xlvi, xlviii, liiiliv, 15, 18, 160
Berlin: xii, xviixix, xxxviixliii, xlvl, liiiliv, 34, 18, 31, 49, 6972, 8082, 88,
9498, 100, 102104, 106107, 109110, 112, 114115, 118, 160, 162
Berlin, M, Inv., No., Nr.: xvii, 6971, 88
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie: xii
Berman, Lawrence: xi
Bianchi, Robert: 214, 370
Bietak, Manfred: xiixiii, 18
Bigio, Ruth: xi, xvi, xxxxi, xxiii, 36, 164, 171, 173, 219
birds: xliiixliv, 71, 73, 76, 81, 83, 157, 313, 316317
Birmingham Museum of Art: xii, xxii, xlix, 158, 192
bivalve shell: 156, 378
blocking: xvii, xxi, xxiii, xxvixxvii, xxxiv, 31, 37, 4344, 49, 61, 63, 69, 117,
151152, 175, 210211, 222, 239, 252, 259261, 270, 274277, 281,
293, 307, 415, 421422, 426427, 430, 439
boat pit: xxxix, 75, 372
boat: xxxix, xliv, 75, 372373
Bode Museum: 3
Bonaparte (collection): 158
bones (skeleton): xiixiii, xvixvii, xxi, xxv, xxviixxviii, xlv, liv, 3, 7, 1519,
30, 34, 42, 4952, 56, 65, 69, 71, 117, 120, 151154, 160161, 175, 213,
234, 239, 241, 259261, 278279, 282, 293294, 305, 307308, 311,
368, 422, 430432
Boraik, Mansour: xii
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Indexes
I. GENERAL
Borla, Matilde: xii, 18

Boston: iii, xixiii, xxi, xxxiv, xxxvii, xxxixxlii, xlvili, liiiliv, 34, 79,
1519, 35, 4950, 71, 152, 155, 157158, 160, 172, 210212, 215, 240,
308314, 316, 369, 421, 428, 431432, 439, 447
Boston Museum of Fine Arts: iii, xxxvii, xxxixxlii, xlvil, liiiliv, 34, 79,
18, 215
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian Expedition: xxxvii
Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition: iii, liiiliv, 3, 8, 18
Bothmer, Bernard V.: xl, 17, 156
Boulos, Elhamy: 17
box: xl, 82, 214215, 281, 310, 313, 316, 369370, 428, 431
bracelet: 7475, 77, 80, 121123, 156, 371, 378
bread: xxxix, 51, 73, 75, 7879, 8183, 120, 122123, 154, 157, 159, 213, 242, 260,
282283, 312317, 369372, 375379, 381
Breitner, Richard: xiii
Brookhaven National Laboratory: 294
Brovarski, Edward: xiii, xl, liii, 3, 23, 28, 30, 76, 82, 153, 159, 211, 214215, 313,
317, 368, 370371, 376, 434
Brown, Farrah: xii
Bulak Museum: 307
burial: viiviii, xii, xvxix, xxi, xxivxxviii, xxx, xxxii, xl, xlviii, liiiliv, 3, 7,
11, 1520, 23, 25, 28, 3035, 37, 4246, 49, 5152, 61, 6365, 6973,
79, 81, 93, 117, 119120, 132133, 152155, 162, 174175, 210, 212213,
225, 234, 239241, 247, 249, 252, 259261, 267, 273274, 278279,
281282, 293295, 303, 305, 308311, 317, 333, 335, 367369, 389,
415416, 421422, 427432
burial chamber: xv, xviixix, xxivxxviii, xxx, xxxii, 3, 7, 15, 1720, 23, 31,
3335, 37, 4245, 49, 5152, 61, 6365, 7172, 93, 119120, 132133,
152154, 210, 212213, 225, 239241, 247, 249, 252, 259261, 267,
273274, 278279, 281282, 293294, 303, 305, 308311, 333, 367
369, 389, 415416, 421422, 427429, 431
butler: 81, 368, 371372, 375, 381383
Buto: 33, 380, 382
Byblos: 293
CAA: xliv, xlvi, 117, 282, 313, 368

CAA Boston: xlvi
CAA Hildesheim: 313
CAA Kunsthistorisches Museum: xliv
CAA Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim: xlvi
Cachinho, Adrien: xiii
Cairo: xiixiii, xxxvii, xxxixxliv, xlvil, liii, 45, 1518, 157160, 211, 367, 415,
428429, 431432
Cairo JE: 159160
Cairo School of Medicine: 432
cake(s):
Callender, Vivienne G.: xl, 70
canopic(s): xvii, xix, 17, 23, 31, 4243, 45, 49, 52, 65, 69, 7172, 117, 120, 132,
210, 212213, 239, 241, 281, 294, 307308, 367368
carrying chair: xlviii, 35
cattle: xlvii, 5, 35, 8081, 213
cased: 7, 32, 3436, 39, 42, 117118, 151, 153, 210, 239, 241, 281, 421, 427
casing: vii, xvixvii, xxi, xxivxxvii, xxix, xxxiv, 7, 12, 2831, 3337, 3940,
42, 51, 59, 7172, 89, 118, 151, 153154, 172, 209213, 225, 239241,
247, 250251, 260261, 269, 273275, 307, 310, 322, 367368, 415,
421, 427, 429, 436
cattle counts: xlvii, 35
cavetto cornice: 40
ceiling stelae: xlviii, 283
Cemetery en Echelon: xv, xliv, liii, 11, 15, 1718, 23, 26, 29, 32, 154, 311, 422
Central Field: 19
ceramic: xvixvii, xxiv, xxvii, xxxixxl, xlvi, 1819, 50, 57, 7172, 78, 83, 88,
156, 211, 226227, 229230, 267
CG 590 (Egyptian Museum): 156
CG 1385 (Egyptian Museum): 159
chamber: xv, xviixix, xxi, xxivxxviii, xxx, xxxii, xxxiv, 45, 7, 9, 15, 17,
1920, 23, 3134, 3637, 4245, 4952, 61, 6365, 6971, 93, 117,
119120, 132133, 151154, 175, 209213, 225, 234, 239241, 247,
249, 252, 259261, 267, 270, 273276, 278279, 281282, 293294,

303, 305, 307312, 314, 317318, 333, 367369, 389, 415416, 421
422, 427431, 439
chapel: ii, iv, vii, xiixiii, xvxxiii, xxvxxxv, xli, xlviixlix, liv, 35, 78, 12, 15,
17, 19, 23, 2840, 42, 44, 49, 5152, 6975, 7880, 8286, 88, 93
100, 102110, 112115, 117122, 128129, 134149, 151158, 161, 163,
165, 170171, 175176, 182187, 189192, 194198, 200201, 205,
209213, 215, 217221, 232233, 239242, 245246, 251, 253257,
259264, 268269, 281282, 284285, 293294, 296297, 300303,
307314, 316318, 320324, 337346, 348349, 352362, 364365,
367372, 375, 378, 384, 386388, 392393, 398, 403, 408, 411, 414
415, 419, 421, 424425, 427429, 433, 435436, 438, 451452, 454
Chauvet: 23
Cheops: see under Khufu
Chephren: see under Khafre
Cherpion, Nadine: xli, 39, 72, 7778, 154155, 157, 311312, 316, 368369, 433
chests: xl, 78, 82, 214215, 313, 370
cilician fir: 294
cloth: xxxiv, 7374, 7879, 82, 120, 122123, 157, 159, 213, 283, 313314, 317,
370372, 375, 379, 381, 429430, 433, 447
clothes, clothing: l, 283, 371, 427, 433
coffin: xxix, xxxiv, 3, 33, 42, 45, 49, 69, 71, 117, 151, 210, 214, 239, 259, 261,
281, 293, 307, 310311, 327, 370, 427431, 437, 439, 441443, 445
collar: xl, 7577, 80, 82, 313, 316317
color: xii, l, liv, 9, 16, 50, 69, 72, 7678, 80, 117, 119, 155, 158, 215, 241, 294,
371372, 378
color conventions: l
columns: 74, 7778, 82, 121, 152, 156, 158, 242, 283, 316317, 380
composite: xvi, xxxi, 58, 349
computer: xiii, xvxxiii, xxxiixxxiii, 1921, 2932, 54, 61, 63, 86, 93, 99, 104,
107, 109, 126, 128, 132, 135, 138139, 144, 166, 174, 176, 185, 190, 197,
386, 388389, 392, 398, 403, 408, 411
computer modeling: xv, 1920
concealed statue-rooms: 41
conservation: xixii, 212, 431
consolidation: 431
Copenhagen: xii, xxii, xxxvii, xliv, xlvii, 3, 154, 156158, 183, 189, 192193
copper: xxix, 8, 308310, 325327
Cornille, Mary L.: xi
costume: 72, 77, 122123, 317, 370, 433
courtiers: xlv
Covington: xl, 82, 214215, 370
crane: 75, 7981, 157, 159, 214, 317
crania: xlv
Crocodilopolis: 312, 318
Dahshur: xv, xxxix, xlvii, xlix, 23, 25, 28, 46, 162, 312
DAI: xxxix, xli, xliiixlv, 18
Dallas Museum of Art: 431
dancers, dancing: xliii
Dasen, Vronique: xli, 313
Dassault Systmes: xiii, xvxxiii, xxxiixxxiii, 1921, 2932, 54, 63, 86, 93, 99,
104, 107, 109, 126, 128, 132, 135, 138139, 144, 166, 174, 176, 185, 190,
197, 386, 388389, 392, 398, 403, 408, 411
dated texts: xlix, 209, 213, 241
dating: xliv, 16, 23, 31, 3435, 44, 4950, 213, 259, 281, 310311, 314, 316, 368, 370
Davies, Norman de Garis: xli, 36, 313
Davis, Whitney M.: xli, xlvi, xlix, 156
Dean, Emily: xi
debris: xxv, xxvii, xxixxxx, xxxiv, 4, 78, 12, 16, 23, 29, 31, 35, 37, 42, 4950,
71, 118, 124, 151, 153, 209211, 215, 233, 239240, 259261, 278279,
281, 293, 307310, 320, 330, 415, 421422, 427428, 430, 437
Dcamps, Christian: xxii, 180
Decauville railway: 4
Delange, Elisabeth: xiii
Denkmaeler: xviixix, xlvi, liv, 3, 52, 69, 7182, 8788, 95, 97, 99, 102, 105,
108, 112114, 316, 372
Derry, Douglas: xli, 430433
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destroyed: xxxi, 20, 37, 39, 42, 49, 69, 119, 154, 209, 215, 239, 241242, 259,
281, 307, 310, 314316, 362, 379, 415, 421, 433
destruction: xliii, 427
Deutsche Akademie: xxxvii
Deutsche Gesellschaft: 160
Deutsche Morgenlndische Gesellschaft: xxxviii
Deutsche Orientgesellschaft: xxxvii
Deutsches Archologisches Institut: xii, xxxvii, xxxix, xli, xliiixlv, xlix, 18, 28
diary (diaries): xi, xiii, xxv, 3, 9, 11, 1517, 4950, 7071, 151154, 210, 239
240, 245, 259260, 293, 308, 369, 415, 421, 427429
digital epigraphy: xlvi, liv, 16, 18
Diraz family: 16
Diraz, Hagg Hassan Mohamed Said Ahmed: 17
dismantling: xxxii, 3, 15, 367, 387
division list: 215
divisions: 5, 15
Djedkare Izezi: liii, 40, 121, 373
djeryt-mourners: 317
documents: xli, xlvixlvii, 18, 75, 77, 152, 155156, 307, 312, 378
Dodson, Aidan: xliv, 427
Dominicus, Brigitte: xli, 75, 78, 81, 380
Donadoni-Roveri, Anna Maria: xli, 117, 281, 312
door-blocking: 210, 260, 308, 421, 427, 429430
doorway: xxviiixxix, 69, 7475, 117119, 151, 209, 211, 239, 281, 293, 301, 307,
312, 324, 367, 372, 415, 421, 427
Doxey, Denise: xi
dress: 73, 75, 77, 80, 118, 120, 430431, 433
drink: 316
Drioton, Etienne: 213, 215
Drower, Margaret: xli, 3, 307
drum: xiii, xx, xxii, xxiv, xxx, xxxiv, 3, 20, 40, 42, 69, 7374, 79, 82, 119,
122123, 137138, 155156, 176177, 210211, 213, 225, 241242, 294,
312, 316317, 336, 367, 379, 381, 427, 433, 436
Dunham, Dows: xli, xlvi, xlix, liii, 9, 16, 75, 155, 161, 215, 316
Dunning, Ariana: xi
dwarfs: xxxix, xlixlii, xlixl, 313
Dynasty 2: xlviii, 283
Dynasty 4: xxxix, xl, xliiixliv, xlviiil, liv, 45, 89, 1617, 19, 28, 33, 39, 41,
50, 72, 120, 154155, 160, 209, 213, 240241, 282, 294, 311, 368369,
375, 415416, 422
Dynasty 5: xlii, l, liii, 5, 8, 3133, 36, 39, 41, 4546, 72, 78, 80, 118, 120, 154
155, 157, 294, 311, 313314, 316, 368370, 375, 416, 422, 433
Dynasty 6: xlii, 7, 16, 31, 74, 118, 155, 371
Dynasty 12: 28
Early Bronze Age: xlii, 294

Early Dynastic Period: xl, 28
early Fifth Dynasty: xlii, 78, 80, 155, 157, 313, 316
early history of Giza: xlvi, 3
early Old Kingdom: l, liii, 41, 78
early Old Kingdom cemetery: l
Eastern Cemetery: xliii, 16, 23, 3132, 36, 52, 316, 369, 372, 429, 433
Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Foundation: xlii
economic decline: xlv
Edel, Elmar: xlixlii, xlix, 73, 79, 81, 117, 159160, 213, 283, 371372
Eggebrecht, Arne: xli, xlvii, 23
Egypt Exploration Fund I(EEF): xxxvii, xlxli, xlvii
Egypt Exploration Society (EES): xxxvii, xliv, xlviiil
Egyptian Antiquities Organization: xii
Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA): liii, 17, 19
El-Metwally, Emad: xlvi, liv, 7374, 154157, 241
Emery, Walter B.: xlii, 152, 159, 213, 282, 372, 377, 379, 381
Emissive: xiii
emmer: 160, 214
entrance: ii, iv, xii, xv, xviixxiii, xxvi, xxviiixxxiv, 3, 20, 23, 31, 3940, 43, 45,
61, 6970, 7275, 81, 86, 88, 9399, 118122, 129, 152157, 161, 165,
176181, 201, 209, 239242, 252253, 281, 293294, 296, 300301,
303, 307314, 316, 318, 320, 323324, 337341, 357, 365, 368, 371
372, 378, 380, 387, 392397, 399, 427, 433, 436
entrance thickness: ii, iv, xii, xv, xviii, xxiixxiii, xxvi, xxixxxxii, 20, 70,
7375, 9699, 152, 155157, 161, 176, 178181, 201, 242, 253, 294,
308309, 312, 323, 337341, 365, 371, 380, 393397
Epigraphic Survey: xl, 16
epithets: ix, xliv, 157
Europe: liv
Evans, Heather: xi
expedition: iii, xixiii, xvxvii, xixxxxv, xxxvii, xl, xliixliii, xlvxlix, liii
liv, 321, 2425, 3233, 35, 42, 45, 4952, 5561, 6567, 6971,
8485, 89, 117118, 122, 125, 129130, 133, 136, 141143, 145147,
149, 152156, 158, 163, 165, 167175, 182, 186187, 191192, 194, 204,
208, 210212, 215, 217218, 220222, 225227, 229231, 233234,
239243, 245247, 249252, 255, 257, 259260, 264, 266267, 270,
274275, 277278, 281, 293294, 297, 299, 302303, 305, 307308,
312313, 316, 320321, 323328, 330, 333, 335336, 345, 348, 352,
354, 357358, 360361, 367, 369, 384385, 387, 393, 398, 402403,
414417, 419, 421422, 424429, 431, 437439, 441444, 447449,
451, 454
Expedition Diaries: xi, xiii, xxv, 1516, 49, 71, 152153, 210, 239, 245, 369,
415, 421
eye paint: 74, 79, 82, 122123, 157, 159, 213, 282, 314, 372, 376, 379, 381
facade: xii, xviixviii, xxi, xxixxxxii, 3, 20, 3133, 39, 7273, 80, 86, 9395,
97, 118, 170, 242, 308310, 312314, 318, 323, 342346, 365, 368, 392
Faculty of Medicine: 15, 431
Fairbanks, Arthur: 16
false door(s): vii, xiii, xviiixx, xxiixxiii, xxvxxvi, xxviiixxxi, xxxiiixxxiv,
9, 20, 3134, 37, 3940, 42, 44, 69, 7172, 7883, 112, 114115, 118
119, 122124, 141149, 153158, 194195, 200201, 209, 211213, 221,
232, 239, 241242, 251, 255257, 282, 293294, 301303, 307313,
316318, 324, 336, 358, 360362, 364, 367368, 370371, 377381,
409, 412415, 427, 429, 433434, 438
Faltings, Dina: xlii, 160, 214, 240
fan: l, 80, 160, 313, 381
Farouk, May: xlii, liii, 23
Faulkner, Raymond O.: xlii, liii, 370, 380
festival of Sokar: 120
Fifth Dynasty: xlii, liii, 78, 80, 155, 157, 313, 316, 368
figs: ii, iv, xiixiii, xvxvi, xxvii, 3, 11, 15, 1719, 23, 25, 28, 3031, 3537,
3940, 43, 45, 4952, 5556, 7183, 117124, 151157, 159161, 210
213, 239242, 259261, 269, 281282, 293294, 307314, 316318,
368373, 375, 378381, 415416, 422, 427429, 433
fingers: 160, 433
finished mastabas: 1718, 52, 72, 120, 154, 213, 241, 261, 282, 294, 311, 368,
416, 422, 433
Finneiser, Klaus: xixii, 18, 71
First Intermediate Period: xlix
Fischer, Henry G.: xlii, 30, 7374, 76, 7880, 155159, 216, 239, 293, 307, 313,
315318, 374, 378380
Fisher, Clarence S.: iii, xxviiixxix, xxxiii, xlii, xlviii, 9, 11, 1617, 29, 35, 155,
239, 293, 297, 308, 320, 415, 417, 421, 434
Fischer-Elfert, Hans-Werner: xii, 18
Fitzenreiter, Martin: xl, xliii, l, 39
fleet: 75, 7879, 8183, 121, 124
Flentye, Laurel: xliii, 23, 316
flint: xxvi, 50, 210, 240, 249, 260
Flores, Diane Victoria: xi
Floroff, Alexander: iii, xv, xxi, xxiii, xxvii, 18, 26, 171, 219, 268269
fly whisk: 316
Fourth Dynasty: xliiixliv, xlviiixlix, liv, 9, 19, 154, 209, 213, 241
fowl: 7778, 81, 157, 159, 314, 380381
Freed, Rita E.: xi, xlii, xlvi
fruit: 159, 213, 282, 377, 379, 381
funerary boat of Khufu: xxxix, 372
funerary boats: xxxix, 75, 372
funerary estates: 76, 315, 373, 433
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Indexes
I. GENERAL
funerary priest: 14, 32, 80, 117, 122124, 157158, 162, 310, 312314, 318319,
371372, 375, 380383, 415
furniture: xl, 82, 214215, 370
Gaballa, Gaballa A.: 120

Gable, Pierre: xiii
Gadbery, Laura: xi
Galazka, G.: xxii, 195
Gant, Rus: xiii, 16
Gardiner, Alan H.: xxxvii, xliii, 9, 382
garment(s): 7374, 121123, 156, 242, 313, 316, 369, 373, 379381, 433
gazelle: 7576, 80, 157, 313, 317, 381
geese: 75, 7879, 8182, 122123, 157, 159, 214, 242, 317, 377, 381
gentlemen: 45
geomorphology: liii
German collaboration: xlvi, 15
Germany: 3, 259
Germer, Renate: iii, xii, xliii, 159160, 213, 372, 431432
Getchell, Katie: xi
Girga: 35
GIS: xii, xv, xliii, 26
Giza Archives Project Gleanings: 3, xlvi, 15, 153, 369
Giza Archives Project: xixiii, xlvi, liiiliv, 1516, 1819, 69, 117120, 153, 369,
429, 431
Giza Mastabas:
G 1029: xlix
G 1201: 33, 37, 46, 215, 283
G 1203: 82, 160, 283, 312
G 1227: 214216
G 1461: xxii, 155, 176
G 1741: 370
G 2000 (Lepsius 23): xxvi, liii, 35, 711, 14, 16, 28, 33, 118, 212,
265, 310, 429
G 2001: xlix, 9
G 2041: 4, 8, 18, 30, 39, 51, 154, 156, 162, 310, 375, 433
G 2051: xx, 18, 152, 154, 164
G 2052: 18
G 2053: 18, 164
G 2054: 18, 164
G 2100: i, iiiiv, vii, xixiii, xvxvii, xix, xxv, xlvi, liiiliv, 36,
821, 23, 26, 2846, 4967, 6972, 75, 83, 86, 89, 117
119, 126, 153154, 156, 159, 212213, 215, 239241, 243,
259261, 281282, 294, 310312, 317, 368369, 371373,
415416, 421422, 427429, 433
G 2100-1: vii, xii, xvxix, liv, 9, 13, 19, 2932, 3436, 3846, 4955,
63, 67, 69, 7172, 75, 83100, 102110, 112115, 117121,
124, 126, 212, 240, 242, 310, 314, 368, 371373, 378, 433
G 2100-11: vii, xii, xvxvii, xixxx, 13, 15, 19, 2931, 36, 39, 4243,
4546, 49, 5354, 6970, 7273, 83, 8586, 118, 120,
124149, 212, 294, 310, 371
G 2101: 36, 82, 117
G 2102: 18, 50, 71, 118, 124
G 2103: 17, 118
G 2104: 17, 118
G 2105: xvi, 55, 118
G 2106: 118
G 2110: ii, iv, vii, xiixiii, xvxvii, xxxxiii, xlvi, 3, 5, 89, 1214,
1819, 28, 3031, 3435, 3746, 51, 74, 86, 119, 151155,
162198, 200208, 210, 212, 239, 241242, 261, 281282,
313, 368369, 371, 373, 378
G 2111: 51, 72, 154
G 2112: 164
G 2112a: 154
G 2112b: 154
G 2112c: 154
G 2113: 51, 154, 159
G 2114: xvi, 55, 118
G 2115: 39, 152, 154
G 2120: vii, xv, xix, xxiiixxv, 89, 1214, 28, 3031, 3437, 3940,
4246, 52, 118119, 128, 153, 209213, 215, 217237, 241,
243, 261, 281282, 310, 369, 415
G 2121: 210, 212
G 2130: vii, xvi, xxi, xxvxxvii, 89, 12, 14, 28, 3132, 3446, 51,
152154, 170171, 212, 215, 239258, 261, 263, 268, 281,
294, 310, 318, 368369, 415, 428
G 2131: 240, 310, 318
G 2132: xiii, 9, 310, 317
G 2133: 240, 318
G 2134a: 319
G 2135: viii, xii, xxviixxviii, 12, 1415, 28, 3137, 40, 4246, 118,
213, 281282, 284291, 368, 429
G 2135a: 15, 19, 36, 118119, 310
G 2136: liv, 15, 19, 31, 39, 42, 118, 294, 371
G 2136a: 19
G 2136 : liv, 15, 19, 31, 39, 42, 118, 294, 371
G 2136b: 15, 19
G 2139: 310
G 2140: viii, xxviii, xxxiii, 12, 14, 28, 31, 3435, 3739, 4246, 118,
210, 212, 261, 293294, 296305, 309, 415, 419, 429
G 2141: 293
G 2142: 26, 319
G 2143: 293, 308
G 2144: 293
G 2145: xxviii, 294, 297
G 2146: xxviii, 294, 297
G 2147: xxviii, 294, 297
G 2148: xxviii, 294, 297
G 2150: viii, xiixiii, xvi, xxviiixxxi, 3, 1012, 1415, 28, 3031,
3435, 3746, 72, 75, 118, 162, 212, 239240, 242, 261,
293, 307313, 317, 319346, 348350, 352362, 364366,
368, 371373, 380, 415, 421422, 433
G 2151: 32, 39, 310, 313, 317318, 422
G 2154: xv, 11
G 2154a: xv, 11
G 2155 (g 4870, VIII nn): viii, xii, xvi, xxxiixxxiii, liv, 12, 1415,
19, 28, 3146, 51, 72, 75, 81, 117118, 156, 213215, 240,
242, 261, 281282, 312, 314, 367369, 371372, 382, 384
414, 429
G 2156: xvi, xxxii, 15, 19, 3233, 39, 119, 294, 380, 386, 427
G 2156a: xvi, xxxii, 19, 3233, 386
G 2156b: 19
G 2156c: 19
G 2156 : xvi, xxxii, 15, 19, 3233, 39, 119, 294, 380, 386, 427
G 2156a: xvi, xxxii, 19, 3233, 386
G 2157: 18, 422
G 2159: 310, 422
G 2160: viii, xxiv, xxviii, xxxiii, 12, 14, 28, 3335, 37, 4246, 226,
261, 293, 296297, 415422, 424, 429
G 2161: 18, 416
G 2165: xxxiii, 18, 415417
G 2166: xxxiii, 18, 416417
G 2167: xxxiii, 18, 417
G 2168: 18, 415416
G 2169: 18, 416, 422
G 2170: viii, xv, xxiv, xxviii, xxxiiixxxiv, 1012, 14, 18, 28, 3335,
37, 4246, 226, 261, 308311, 320, 415416, 421426
G 2171: 18, 422
G 2172: xv, 10, 15, 18
G 2173: xv, 10, 18, 42
G 2174: xv, 10, 18
G 2175: xv, 1011, 18, 39, 42
G 2177: xv, 1011, 18
G 2178: xv, 10, 18
G 2179: xv, 10, 18, 422
G 2180: xv, xxiv, xxxiii, 10, 15, 226, 241, 293, 415, 417, 422, 428
G 2184: xv, 10, 29, 293, 312
G 2186: xv, 10
G 2190: 29, 37, 421, 428
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G 2196: xlix
G 2197: xlix, 75, 153
G 2200: 311, 415, 428
G 2210: viii, xxvixxvii, 12, 1416, 2829, 31, 3337, 39, 4246,
152154, 212, 259279, 281, 428429
G 2220: viii, xiixiii, xxvi, xxviii, xxxivxxxv, 3, 1011, 14, 16, 28
29, 3135, 3739, 4246, 242, 259, 261, 263, 281, 310311,
320, 368, 422, 427429, 431433, 435452, 454
G 2221: 18, 422
G 2222: 18, 27, 435
G 2223: xv, 11
G 2223a: 18, 26, 435
G 2224: xv, 1011, 18
G 2225: xv, 10, 18
G 2227: xv, 1011, 422
G 2231: xv, 10
G 2352/53: xlix
G 2370: 11, 28, 40, 159
G 2374: 28
G 2378: 28
G 2381: 11
G 3000: 11
G 3011: 434
G 3015: xiii, xxii, 155, 177
G 4000: liii, 9, 12, 14, 2324, 29, 3335, 37, 43, 46, 154, 241, 368,
427, 429
G 4140: 37, 214216
G 4150: 82, 214, 216
G 4160: 160
G 4440: 161
G 4240: 382
G 4250: 45
G 4561: xlv
G 4620: 312
G 4640: 160
G 4710: 72, 117, 371
G 4760: 26, 284
G 4761: xxxii, 386
G 4770 (VII nn): viii, xxviixxviii, 12, 281, 289291, 368
G 4860: xxxii, 82, 214216, 283, 370, 385386
G 4870: viii, xxxii, 12, 367
G 4920: 72, 117, 371
G 4940: xlv, 36, 160, 311
G 4970: xxxii, 72, 81, 117, 214, 371, 385
G 4980: 15
G 4990: xv, xxxiii, 10, 241, 415, 417, 428
G 5010: 72, 117, 371
G 5030: 72, 117, 371
G 5080: 311, 415, 428
G 5090: 428
G 5110: 311, 433
G 5150: 72, 76, 81, 117, 371
G 5170: 72, 117, 371
G 5210: 72, 117, 311, 371
G 5230: 36, 51, 69, 311
G 5236: 152154
G 5340: 15, 32, 36, 72, 117, 240, 311313, 318, 371
G 5350: 311312
G 6000: l, liii, 51, 240, 316
G 6020: 316
G 6040: 118
G 7000 X: 18
G 7101: xlix
G 7102: xlix
G 7110-7120: xlix, 433
G 7130-7140: xlix, 76, 313, 433
G 7150: xlix
G 7220: 211, 242
G 7248: 379
G 7320: 261
G 7391: 433434
G 7510: 16, 24, 33, 155, 241, 429
G 7530-7540: xli, 45, 316
G 7650: 155, 241
G 7660: 313
G 7948: 372
G 8000: 19
G 8674 (Lepsius 95): 75
G 8887 (mastaba of shaft 294): 294
Giza Mastabas Project: iii, 15
Giza Mastabas Series: xi, xiii, liii, 15, 17
Giza Plateau Mapping Project: xlvi
Giza Reports: xlvi, liii
Giza Slab Stelae: xlvi, 82, 153, 283
Giza: xl, xliiixlv, xlviii, 5, 7, 9, 28, 39, 119, 153, 158, 281
Glasgow stamp on clay pipe: 427
Goedicke, Hans: xliii, 312
Gordan-Rastelli, Lucy: xliii, 158
Goudsmit, S.A.: xliii, 156
Graham Gund Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: xi
grain: 36, 159160, 213
granite: xxivxxv, xxixxxx, 31, 45, 79, 119, 210211, 213214, 225, 239, 247,
307311, 324, 329
Great Pyramid: iv, xiii, liii, 5, 9, 15, 23, 28, 152
Greece: xli, 313
Griffith, F. Ll.: xxxvii, xliixliii, xlviiixlix, 3, 39, 307, 317
Griffith Institute: xxxvii, xliixliii, xlviii, 3, 307, 317
Grunert, Stefan: xii, xliii, liv, 18
Guerriero, Emmanuel: xiii
gypsum: 212
Hackley, Laurel: xi
Haeny, Gerhard: xliii, 39, 153154, 158
Haikal, Fayza: xl, xliv, 76, 313
hair: 73, 80, 121, 157, 160, 316, 371, 375, 381, 431
Haldane, Cheryl: xliii, 372
Handrick, Hansmartin: 15, 259260, 427
Hannig, Rainer: xliii, 7375, 77, 7980, 120, 159160, 214, 370, 378
Harpur, Yvonne: xliii, 23, 28, 30, 7273, 120, 154, 158, 241, 311, 313, 368369
Harrell, James: xxxix, 214
Harvard Camp: xlix, 1517, 51, 210, 293, 308, 428, 430
Harvard University: iii, xxxvii, xlii, xlvixlix, liiiliv, 34, 79, 11, 1518, 30,
3233, 35, 42, 49, 51, 69, 71, 117118, 153, 158, 210, 293, 307308,
369, 428, 430
Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Egyptian Expedition: xlii
Haslauer, Elfriede: xiii
Hassan, Ali: xliii, xlv, 313
Hassan, El Azab A.: xv, 26
Hassan, Selim: xliii, 19, 23, 39, 152153, 214, 294, 314, 316
Hathor: 32, 83, 122124, 316, 318
Hawass, Zahi: xii, xliii, l, 1719, 23, 161
Haynes, Joyce L.: xi, xlii, xlvi, 428
headrest(s): xxxiv, 82, 214, 369, 428, 438
Hearst, Phoebe Apperson: liv
Hearst Egyptian Expedition: liv, 3, 5, 7, 9, 15
Hearst Museum of Anthropology (formerly Lowie Museum): 15, 160
Heindl, Gnter: xlix, 28
Helck, Wolfgang: xliv, liv, 23, 28, 33, 382, 429
Heliopolis: 78, 83, 373
Helwan: xliii, xlviii, 39, 153, 158, 283
Heracleopolitan Period: xlii
Herb, Michael: xlxli, xliii, l, 39
hieroglyphs: iv, xi, xiii, xxxvii, xlixlii, 74, 7677, 80, 121, 152153, 156, 210,
242, 260, 294, 307, 313, 317, 371372, 380
Hildesheim: xii, xxviii, xxxvii, xli, xliiixlviii, liiiliv, 18, 45, 160, 281282,
288, 312313, 367368
Hildesheimer gyptologische Beitrge (HB): xxxvii, xli, xliiixliv, xlvi
Hill, Marsha: 3
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Indexes
I. GENERAL
history of American Egyptology: l

Hlscher, Uvo: xliv, xlix, 15, 312, 368
Hlzl, Regina: xiixiii, xliv, liv, 18, 33, 117, 281282, 367369, 371373,
375, 378379, 382
Hopke, P.K.: xlii, 294
Horizon of Khufu (Akhet-Khufu): 8, 152, 155, 162
Horus: 33, 82, 215, 240241, 315, 367, 375, 379382
Horus Isetibtawy (Niuserre): 367
Horus Medjedu: 315
HU (Harvard University): xiii, xvxvii, xxxxxi, xxxiiixxxv, xxxvii,
6, 1011, 14, 1921, 25, 45, 50, 52, 55, 5761, 6567, 70, 8485,
89, 118, 155, 163, 165, 167175, 182, 186187, 191192, 194, 204,
208, 211212, 217218, 220222, 225227, 229231, 233234,
241243, 246247, 249252, 255, 257, 264, 266267, 270,
274275, 277278, 294, 297, 299, 302303, 305, 312313, 316,
320321, 323328, 330, 333, 335336, 345, 348, 352, 354, 357
358, 360361, 367, 415, 417, 419, 424426, 428429, 437439,
441444, 447449, 451, 454
HU-MFA Expedition: xvixvii, 56, 61
Humboldt-Universitt: xl, l, 162
Hussein, Adel: xii
Hussein, Ramadan: 152
Ibrahim, Mohamed Said (reis): 239

Ibrahim, Mohammedani: xvxvii, xxixxxi, xxxivxxxv, 1011, 14, 17,
20, 25, 56, 61, 65, 8485, 167169, 175, 182, 187, 191192, 217
218, 220, 222, 230231, 233234, 247, 249250, 252, 255, 257,
270, 274275, 277278, 299, 302, 320, 323, 336, 348, 352, 354,
358, 360361, 426, 437, 451, 454
Ikram Salima: xliv, 427
incense: 74, 77, 79, 82, 122123, 157, 159, 213, 314, 372, 376, 379, 381
inclusions: 293294
inkings: 17
inscription(s): xiii, xxii, xxvxxvi, xxix, xxxi, xlii, xlvi, liv, 3, 8, 16, 18, 31,
33, 50, 72, 74, 81, 118120, 152, 154158, 162, 177, 209, 215, 233,
241242, 250, 260, 283, 293, 307, 309, 312313, 316317, 325,
361, 371, 379380, 382, 415, 422, 430
Institut Franais dArchologie Orientale (IFAO): xxxvii, xlxli, xliv,
xlvi, xlixl
International Archaeometry Symposium: xlii, xlvii, 294
Internet: xi, liii, 18
interpreters: xl, 32, 312, 316, 318
intrusive burials: xlviii, 3, 28
inventory offering lists: xl, 82, 214215, 370
invocation: 73, 75, 77, 81, 120, 122, 153, 240, 282, 381
island: xlii, 7677, 315
Izezi: liii, 40, 121, 373
jamb(s): xx, xxvi, xxxi, 3940, 75, 7980, 8283, 118, 122124, 142, 155
156, 161, 212, 242, 257, 318, 364, 379, 381
Jnosi, Peter: xiixiii, xvi, xliv, liiiliv, 4, 1819, 23, 28, 30, 3437, 39, 42,
4445, 51, 70, 118119, 154155, 158, 161, 212213, 241, 261, 282,
294, 310311, 313, 368369, 382, 415, 429, 433
JE (Egyptian Museum, Journal dEntre) 46216: 160
JE (Egyptian Museum, Journal dEntre) 72135: xlvi, 152, 159
jewelry: 122
Jones, Dilwyn: xliv, 7375, 80, 117, 156158, 210, 312313, 316, 318, 371
372, 380
Jrgensen, Mogens: xii, xliv, 157158
Jorry, Vanessa: xiii
jubilee of Amenhotep III: xli, 159
Junge, Friedrich: xliv, xlviiixlix, 156, 161
junior: xl, xlvii, 7275, 83, 120, 157, 162, 380, 382
Junker, Hermann: viii, xii, xixxx, xxviixxviii, xxxii, xlii, xlivxlv, liv,
12, 1415, 1819, 23, 28, 31, 3334, 36, 39, 43, 45, 49, 52, 69,
7176, 79, 81, 83, 117124, 127, 131, 135136, 138, 142, 148, 153,
156, 158159, 161, 214, 281285, 287288, 308, 311316, 318, 367373,
375382, 390, 415
ka: xliii, xlvi, xlviii, 35, 117, 242, 316, 367, 380
Kafr-el-Haram: 427
Kahl, Joachim: xlv, 159, 214, 283, 371
Kaiser, Werner: xlv, 161
Kampp-Seyfried, Friederike: xii, xlix, 18
Kanawati, Naguib: xlv, 32, 72, 76, 213, 241, 311, 313, 368
Kaplony, Peter: xlv, 311, 367
Karnak: 156
Kasr el Aini: 15, 431, 433
Keller, Cathleen: xi, 18
Kemp, Barry: l, 28
Khafkhufu: xlix, 7576, 214, 313, 370, 433
Khafre: xv, xxi, xxiii, xxvi, xxviii, 56, 15, 31, 46, 50, 72, 122, 154155, 170, 208,
213, 217, 241, 261, 263, 285, 294, 311, 314, 316, 427, 433
Khafre Pyramid: xv, xxi, xxiii, xxvi, xxviii, 6, 15, 170, 208, 217, 263, 285
Khattab, Amira: xii
Khnum: 7677
Khufu: xvxvi, xxxix, xliii, xlvxlvi, xlviii, liii, 46, 89, 12, 14, 23, 25, 28,
3037, 4243, 4546, 52, 72, 7578, 83, 118, 122, 124, 154155, 209,
213, 240241, 260261, 281282, 294, 311, 368370, 372374, 415
416, 422, 429, 433
Khufu Project: xlvi, liii, 23
Khufu Pyramid: xvxvi, liii, 4, 6, 12, 14, 23, 25, 28, 30
Khufu-era: xvi, 23, 28, 31, 3335, 37, 4245, 120, 155, 212, 281, 310, 416, 429
kilt(s): 33, 7280, 82, 121, 155, 157, 313, 316317, 371372, 375, 378382, 433
king: xl, xliii, liii, 5, 23, 30, 3233, 36, 52, 7383, 120124, 152153, 156, 158,
162, 213, 240, 242, 295, 311314, 317318, 367, 369, 372, 375, 378
379, 381382, 429, 433
Kisala, Melissa: xi
Kitchen, K.A.: 120, 371, 375, 382383
Klebs, Luise: xlv, 158, 372
Klitgord, Steven: xi
Kloth, Nicole: xlv, 159, 283, 371
Koefoed-Petersen, O.: 158
Koemoth, P.P.: xlv, 310
Koenigsberger, B.: xlv, 152
Kriesten, Rolf: xii, xviiixix, 94, 96, 98, 100, 103, 106, 110, 112, 114
Kuhlman, Klaus P.: 20
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: xiii, xv, xviiixx, xxviixxviii, xxxii
xxxiii, xliv, xlviii, liv, 1213, 15, 33, 95, 97, 117, 125, 129130, 133, 136,
141143, 145147, 149, 281, 284285, 288291, 367369, 372, 378,
384385, 387, 390391, 393410, 412414
Kuraszkiewicz, Kamil O.: xlv, 73
Lacovara, Peter: xlv, xlvii, 119, 161

Lane, Gardiner Martin: 5
Lapp, Gnther: xlv, 79, 81
lector priest: 33, 74, 7677, 80, 83, 121, 216, 367, 380, 382
leg(s): xxixxxx, 18, 30, 7173, 78, 80, 121123, 213, 215, 242, 294, 308, 310, 313,
316, 324, 330, 373, 427, 429431, 433
Lehmann, Katja: xlv, 4142, 434
Lehner, Mark: xii, xlvi, liii, 23
Lehtola, Elizabeth: xi
Leibe, Kenneth: xi
Leipzig: xii, xxxviixxxviii, xl, xlii, xlvi, xlviiixlix, liiiliv, 18
Lembke, Katja: xii, 18
Leprtre, Marc: xiii
Leprohon, Ronald J.: xlvi, xlix, 210, 214, 370, 379
Lepsius, Carl Richard: xii, xvixix, xlvxlvi, liv, 35, 79, 28, 31, 3334, 36,
4950, 52, 55, 67, 6982, 8485, 8788, 95, 97, 99, 102, 105, 108,
112114, 117118, 212, 310, 313, 316, 318, 368, 371372, 429
Lesko, Leonard H.: xliixliii, xlvi, 153, 369
Leveque, Margaret: 431432
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Lichtheim, Miriam: xlvi, 120121
limestone: xvii, xxixxii, xxvxxviii, xxxiiixxxiv, 5, 78, 1112, 29, 31, 33, 35
37, 4243, 45, 4951, 65, 69, 72, 117120, 124, 151153, 160, 167168,
174, 176177, 209213, 215, 239241, 247, 250, 259260, 266267,
275277, 281282, 288, 293294, 299, 305, 307311, 313, 367369,
419, 421, 427429, 437438
Lindon Smith, Corinna: xlix, 428
Lindon Smith, Joseph: xlix, 215, 293, 428, 430
linen: xiixiii, xxxivxxxv, xlix, 74, 7682, 152153, 155, 159, 214215, 282283,
313, 317318, 369372, 375, 379, 382, 427428, 430432, 446449
linen list: xlix, 79, 8182, 152153, 155, 159, 214215, 282283, 369370, 375
lintel: xx, xxvi, xxx, xxxiv, 40, 79, 8182, 122123, 143, 158, 160, 210, 255, 293,
312, 317, 336, 379, 381, 436
Lisht: 310
literary comparisons: xlii, 74
livestock: xviii, 74, 9697, 157, 242, 312
Loiko, Patricia: 17
London: xxxvii, xxxixxliv, xlvil, 313
Lord Amherst of Hackney: 3
Louvre Museum: xiii, xxiixxiii, xxx, li, 152, 155156, 180181, 201, 216, 312, 336
Lovell, Nancy C.: iii, xii, 52
Lower Egypt: 76, 160, 367
Lowie, Robert M.: 15
Lucas, Alfred: xlvi, 293294, 432
Luft, Ulrich: xlvi, 73, 77, 120
Luxor: 15
Lythgoe, Albert M.: iii, xvxvii, xxxxiii, xxvxxvi, xxviiixxxi, xlvi, 35,
79, 1517, 19, 36, 45, 4950, 55, 57, 5961, 6567, 6971, 89, 117,
152, 155, 160, 163, 165, 170175, 204, 208, 210, 213, 217, 221222,
239240, 243, 246247, 251, 259, 293, 297, 303, 305, 308, 313314,
321, 323324, 335, 345, 354, 357, 415, 421
Mackay, Ernest: xlvii, 28, 432

magic: xxxiv, xlvii, 119, 312, 427, 431, 439
Mahmud, Duwy: 16
Majerus, Liza: xiii, xvxvi, 24, 35
Mlek, Jaromr: xii, xxxxxxi, xlvixlvii, 3, 307, 312313, 316317, 342, 365
Manetho: xlviii, liii
Manuelian, Peter Der: iiiiv, xiii, xvxxxv, xxxvii, xxxixxl, xlii, xlvi, l, liii,
34, 15, 18, 23, 3031, 33, 37, 39, 41, 5152, 56, 5859, 67, 75, 82,
8890, 92, 102, 104, 107, 109, 112, 114115, 122, 128129, 131, 134,
136138, 140, 142143, 145, 147149, 152154, 158159, 163, 165,
170171, 173174, 178179, 183, 186, 189, 192193, 196, 201, 203,
205, 210, 213216, 220221, 228233, 241, 244247, 249, 251, 253
255, 257, 263265, 267270, 281283, 285286, 296, 298, 300302,
312, 322323, 325, 327329, 331332, 335338, 340, 342, 344345,
356, 361, 364365, 368371, 375, 378, 384, 386387, 389, 418420,
423, 425426, 428, 436439, 449, 451
Mariette, Auguste: xlvi, 5, 7, 156, 307, 312, 316
Markowitz, Yvonne: xi, xlii, xlvi, 155, 428
Marochetti, Elisa Fiore: xii, 18
Martin, Karl: xlvi, l, 45, 313, 367
masonry: xxxix, xli, 5, 8, 23, 36, 49, 6970, 117, 151152, 209210, 239240,
259, 281, 293, 307308, 310, 367, 415, 421, 427, 429, 433
masons: 8, 17, 34, 44, 240
Mazzucato, Camilla: xii, xv, 26
McAweeney, Terry: xi
meat: xliv, 117, 123, 156, 371, 377, 381
meat production: xliv
Mediterranean: 294
Meidum: xv, xliii, xlvii, 23, 25, 28, 46, 72, 162, 214, 432
Meeks, Dimitri: 214, 370
Meir: xl
Meketre: 283, 371
Mellon Foundation, the Andrew W.: xii, liii, 16, 18
Melnikoff, Nicholas: iii, xv, xx, xxiii, 18, 26, 152, 164, 219
Melton, Maureen: xi
Memphis: xlvii, 28, 432

Menkaure: xlviii, 4, 89, 14, 31, 3334, 46, 52, 72, 75, 83, 122, 281282, 311,
314315, 368, 433
menu list/offering list: 314, 368, 375
Mereruka: xli
Meresankh: xli, xliii, xlviii, 30, 32, 45, 52, 75, 158, 162, 309, 313314, 316, 318, 421
Mesheikh: xlii
Metropolitan Museum of Art: xxxvii, xxxix, xlii, xlvi, l, 3, 9, 316
MFA Annual Reports: 9
MFA Expedition Diaries: 369
MFA Expedition Object Register: xvi, xxi, xxvixxvii, 58, 167, 172, 266267
MFA Expedition Photograph: xvxvii, xxxxxi, xxxiiixxxv, 6, 1011, 14,
1920, 25, 45, 50, 52, 55, 5761, 6567, 8485, 89, 118, 163, 165,
167175, 182, 186, 191192, 194, 204, 208, 212, 217218, 220222,
225227, 229231, 233234, 242243, 246247, 249252, 255, 257,
264, 270, 274275, 277278, 297, 299, 302303, 305, 312313, 320
321, 323328, 330, 333, 335336, 345, 348, 352, 357358, 360, 415, 417,
419, 424, 426, 429, 437439, 441444, 447449, 451, 454
Middle Egyptian: xlixlii
Middle Kingdom: xlii, li, 18, 28, 119, 283, 310, 371, 380
Millet, Nicholas: xlvi, 161
Min: 73, 120
Minor, Elizabeth: xi
Mlinar, Christa: xxxiixxxiii, 371372, 395397, 399, 401, 405, 407, 410
Mogenson, M.: 157158
Mohamed: xii, 1617, 19, 52
Mohamed Said Ahmed: 1617
Mohammed Ibrahim Bakr: xii
Mohammed Said Ahmed: iii
Mohammed Said Ibrahim: 239
Mohammedani Ibrahim: xvxvii, xxixxxi, xxxivxxxv, 1011, 14, 17, 20, 25,
56, 61, 65, 8485, 167168, 169, 175, 182, 187, 191192, 217218, 220,
222, 225, 230231, 233234, 247, 249250, 252, 255, 257, 270, 274
275, 277278, 299, 302, 320, 323, 336, 348, 352, 354, 358, 360361,
426, 437, 451, 454
monkey: xxxi, 313314, 345
Montels, Nicolas: xiii
De Morgan, Jacques: xv, xlvii, 25, 28
Moussa, Ahmed: xii, xlvii, 316
MQ (Menkaure Quarry): 313, 316
Muir, Paula: xii
Munich: xli, xlviixlviii, 313
Munsell (color chart): 294
Murray, Margaret: xlvii, liii, 159
Muse du Louvre: xiii, xxiixxiii, xxx, li, 152, 155156, 180181, 201, 216, 312, 336
Museo Barracco, Rome: xiii, xxiixxiii, xlviixlviii, 39, 154, 158159, 192,
194195, 201
Museo Egizio, Turin: 434
Museum accession numbers:

gyptisches Museum, Berlin

M Inv. IV1173: 71

M 1107: xii, xviiixix, liv, 3, 69, 94, 96, 98, 100, 103,

106, 110, 112, 114, 118

M 1235: 71

M1319: 71

M1320: xvii, 71, 88

M1321: 71

M1322: 71

M1345: 71

M1347: 71

M1352: xvii, 71, 88

M 1607: 71

M 8634: 71

M 8651: 71

M 16455: 160

Mud jar stoppers: 71

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK

241/57: xii, xxii, 158, 192
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

IN819: xxii, 154, 158, 189, 192193
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Indexes
I. GENERAL

IN 937: xxii, 156157, 183
Egyptian Museum, Cairo

CG590: 156

CG 1385: 159

JE 46216: 160

JE 72135: xlvi, 152, 159

3317: xxiv, 211, 222, 227

3318: xxxiii, 415, 419

Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley

6-19767: 160

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

S7447: 214, 367368

S 8006: xiii, xxxiixxxiii, liv, 33, 369, 394397, 399

402, 404407, 409410, 412413

S 8550: 117

Muse du Louvre, Paris

B51: 152, 156

C 155: xxx, 312, 336

D 59: 156
E 3908: 312
E 5599: 156
E 11 286: 312

Museo Barracco, Rome

C.M.B.1: xiii, xxiixxiii, 158, 192, 194196, 201

Museo Egizio, Turin

Suppl. 1843: 434


MFA Accession numbers:

MFA 06.1878: xxix, 309, 324

MFA 06.1886: iv, xxi, xxiii, 9, 30, 152155, 161, 174175,

202205

MFA06.1889: xxix, 309, 323

MFA 06.1892: xvixvii, 50, 57, 66

MFA 06.1894: xxv, 30, 52, 209210, 213, 235237, 463

MFA 06.550: 119

MFA 07.1000: 156

MFA 07.1001: 156

MFA 07.1002: ii, iv, xv, xxiixxiii, 152, 155, 176, 178179,

201

MFA 07.1003: 156

MFA 07.1004: 156

MFA 07.1005: 156

MFA 09.204: 4

MFA 12.1393: 415

MFA 12.1498: 415

MFA 12.1504: 153

MFA 12.1513: 367

MFA 12.1515: 415

MFA 12.1520: 241, 415

MFA 14.719: 161

MFA 21.329: 160

MFA 21.3080: xxii, 155, 176

MFA 27.444: 317

MFA 27.1117: 379

MFA 31.780: xxiixxiii, 152, 157, 186, 201, 205, 463

MFA33.721: xxxiii, 421, 425, 463

MFA33.1016: xxxiv, 33, 45, 427428, 431432, 439, 441

443, 445, 463

MFA OP1.33.1016: xxxiv, 428, 437

MFA OP2.33.1016: xxxiv, 428, 437

MFA OP3.33.1016: xxxiv, 428, 437

MFA OP4.33.1016: xxxiv, 428, 437

MFA33.1017.1: xxxv, 428, 447, 463

MFA 33.1017.2: xxxiv, 428, 432, 447, 463

MFA33.1021: xxx, 42, 310, 330, 463

MFA33.1022: 42, 310, 463

MFA 33.1023: xxiv, 211, 226227, 463

MFA33.1025: xxiv, 211, 226227, 463

MFA33.1026: xxiv, 211, 226227, 463

MFA 33.1027: xxiv, 211, 226227, 463

MFA33.1028: xxiv, 211, 226, 228, 463

MFA33.1029: xxiv, 211, 226, 228, 463

MFA33.1030: xxiv, 211, 226, 228

MFA33.1031: xxiv, 211, 226, 228, 230, 463

MFA33.1032: xxiv, 211, 229, 463

MFA33.1033: xxiv, 211, 229, 463

MFA33.1034: xxiv, 211, 230, 463

MFA33.1035: xxiv, 211, 230, 463

MFA33.1036: xxiv, 211, 230, 463

MFA33.1037: xxiv, 211, 230, 463

MFA33.1038: xxiv, 212, 230, 463

MFA33.1039: xxiv, 212, 230, 463

MFA33.1040: xxiv, 212, 231, 463

MFA33.1041: xxix, 212, 325

MFA 33.1044: xxix, 309, 325, 463

MFA 33.1045: xxix, 309, 325, 463

MFA33.1046: xxix, 309, 325326, 463

MFA33.1047: xxix, 309, 325326, 463

MFA33.1048: xxix, 309, 325, 463

MFA33.1053: xxix, 309, 326, 463

MFA33.1054: xxix, 309, 327, 463

MFA33.1055: xxix, 309, 326327, 463

MFA33.1056: xxix, 310, 327, 463

MFA33.1057: xxx, 310, 328, 463

MFA33.1061: xxx, 310, 328, 463

MFA33.1062: xxx, 310, 328, 463

MFA33.1063: xxx, 310, 328, 463

MFA33.1067: xxxiv, 428, 438, 463

MFA33.1155.1: xxiv, 211, 228, 463

MFA 33.1155.2: xxiv, 211, 228, 463

MFA33.1156: xxiv, 211, 226, 228, 463

MFA33.1157: xxix, 309, 325, 463

MFA34.48ab: xxix, 310, 327, 463

MFA34.57: xxix, 308309, 312, 323, 462

MFA34.58: xxixxxxi, 308309, 312, 314, 323, 338, 340,

365, 462

MFA47.1661: xxviii, 293294, 299, 463

MFA Eg.Inv.13034: 210, 212

MFA Object Register numbers:

264206 (MFA 27.1117): 379

3295: xxvi, 260, 266

3296: xxvixxvii, 259260, 266

32122: xxx, 308, 310, 330

32123: xxx, 42, 310, 330

32124: xxvi, 240, 249

32125: xxvi, 240, 249

32126: xxvi, 31, 240, 249

32127 (MFA 34.58): 308309

32128 (MFA 34.57): xxix, 308309, 313, 323

32129: xxix, xxxi, 309, 324, 349

321210: xxix, xxxi, 309, 313, 323, 344345, 421

321211: xxix, xxxi, 309, 318, 324, 362

321212.12: xxix, 309, 324

321213 (MFA 33.721): xxxiii, 421, 425

321218 (MFA 47.1661): xxviii, 293, 299

3311 (MFA 33.1021): xxx, 42, 310, 330

3312 (MFA 33.1022): xxx, 42, 310, 330

3313 (MFA 33.1023): xxiv, 211, 226227

3314 (MFA 33.1024): xxix, 42, 309, 324

3315 (MFA 33.1025): xxiv, 211, 226227

3316 (MFA 33.1026): xxiv, 211, 226227

3319 (MFA 33.1027): xxiv, 211, 226227

33110 (MFA 33.1028): xxiv, 211, 226228

33111ab (MFA 33.1155.1, 33.1155.2): 211

33112 (MFA 33.1156): xxiv, 211, 226, 228
33114 (MFA 33.1029): xxiv, 211, 226, 228

33115 (MFA 33.1031): xxiv, 211, 226, 228

33116 (MFA 33.1031): xxiv, 211, 226, 228, 230

33117 (MFA 33.1032): xxiv, 211, 229

33118 (MFA 33.1033): xxiv, 211, 229
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33119 (MFA 33.1034): xxiv, 211, 230

33120 (MFA 33.1035): xxiv, 211, 230

33121 (MFA 33.1036): xxiv, 211, 230

33122 (MFA 33.1037): xxiv, 211, 230

33124 (MFA 33.1038): xxiv, 212, 230

33125 (MFA 33.1039): xxiv, 212, 230

33127 (MFA 33.1040): xxiv, 212, 231

33130 (MFA Eg.Inv.13034): xxivxxv, 210, 212, 222, 231

33134: xxix, 309, 324

33135 (MFA 33.1044): xxix, 309, 325

33136 (MFA 33.1045): xxix, 309, 325

33137 (MFA 33.1157): 309

33138 (MFA 33.1046): xxix, 309, 325326

33139 (MFA 33.1047): xxix, 309, 325326

33140 (MFA 33.1048): xxix, 309, 325326

33141 (MFA 33.1048): xxix, 309, 325326

33142: xxix, 309, 325326

33144: xxix, 309, 326

33146: xxix, 309, 326

33147+33166 (MFA 33.1053): xxix, 309, 326

33148 (MFA 33.1054): xxix, 309, 327

33150 (MFA 33.1055): xxix, 309, 326327

33151 (MFA 34.48ab): xxix, 310, 327

33152 (MFA 33.1056): xxix, 310, 327

33157 (MFA 33.1057): xxx, 310, 328

33162 (MFA 33.1061): xxx, 310, 328

33163 (MFA 33.1062): xxx, 310, 328

33164 (MFA 33.1063): xxx, 310, 328

33183 (MFA 33.1067): xxxiv, 428, 438

332183: xvi, 50, 58

332184: xvi, 50, 58

332187 (MFA 06.1894): 52, 210

332189: xvi, 50, 58, 71, 124

33420: xxx, 45, 307308, 310, 329, 333

33421 (MFA 33.1016): xxxiv, 33, 427428, 437, 439,

441443, 445

33422 (MFA 33.1017.1, 33.1017.2): xxxivxxxv, 428,

441444, 447449

351250: xxvi, 240, 250

3612: xvi, 50, 55

3613: xvixvii, 50, 56, 65

36122 (MFA 31.780): 152

36123: xxi, 152, 167

3832 (MFA 06.1894): 210

3833 (MFA 06.1894): 210

Harvard UniversityBoston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Object Register numbers:

264206: 379

32460: 50, 71

32461: 50, 71

3291: xxvi, 260, 262, 266

3292: xxvi, 259260, 266

3293: xxvi, 260, 266

3294: xxvi, 260, 266

3295: xxvi, 260, 266

3296: xxvixxvii, 259260, 266

3297: xxvii, 260, 267

3298: xxvii, 260, 267

3299: xxvii, 260, 267

32101: 260

32102: 260

32103: xxvii, 260, 267

32104: 260

32105: 260

32106: 260

32107: 260

32108: 260

32109: 260

321010: 261
321011: xxvii, 261, 267

321012: 261
321013: 261
321014: 261
32121: xxxiii, 421, 424
32122: xxx, 308, 310, 330
32123: xxx, 42, 310, 330
32124: xxvi, 240, 249
32125: xxvi, 240, 249
32126: xxvi, 31, 240, 249
32127: 308309
32128: xxix, 308309, 313, 323
32129: xxix, xxxi, 309, 324, 349
321210: xxix, xxxi, 309, 313, 323, 344345, 421
321211: xxix, xxxi, 309, 318, 324, 362
321212.12: xxix, 309, 324
321213: xxxiii, 421, 425
321214: 421
321215a: 421
321215b: 421
321217: 421
321216: xxiv, 211, 226
321218: xxviii, 293, 299
321219: xxiv, 211, 226
321220: xxviii, 294, 305
3311: xxx, 42, 310, 330
3312: xxx, 42, 310, 330
3313: xxiv, 211, 226227
3314: xxix, 42, 309, 324
3315: xxiv, 211, 226227
3316: xxiv, 211, 226227
3317: xxiv, 211, 222, 227
3318: xxxiii, 415, 419
3319: xxiv, 211, 226227
33110: xxiv, 211, 226228
33111ab: 211
33112: xxiv, 211, 226, 228
33113: xxiv, 211, 228
33114: xxiv, 211, 226, 228
33115: xxiv, 211, 226, 228
33116: xxiv, 211, 226, 228, 230
33117: xxiv, 211, 229
33118: xxiv, 211, 229
33119: xxiv, 211, 230
33120: xxiv, 211, 230
33123 to 26: 211212
33121: xxiv, 211, 230
33122: xxiv, 211, 230
33123: xxiv, 211212, 230
33124: xxiv, 212, 230
33125: xxiv, 212, 230
33126: xxiv, 212, 231
33127: xxiv, 212, 231
33128: xxv, 212, 231
33129: 212
33130: xxivxxv, 210, 212, 222, 231
33134: xxix, 309, 324
33135: xxix, 309, 325
33136: xxix, 309, 325
33137: 309
33138: xxix, 309, 325326
33139: xxix, 309, 325326
33140: xxix, 309, 325326
33141: xxix, 309, 325326
33142: xxix, 309, 325326
33144: xxix, 309, 326
33145: xxix, 309, 326
33146: xxix, 309, 326
33147+33166: xxix, 309, 326
33148: xxix, 309, 327
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I. GENERAL

33149: xxix, 309, 327

33150: xxix, 309, 326327

33151: xxix, 310, 327

33152: xxix, 310, 327

33157: xxx, 310, 328

33162: xxx, 310, 328

33163: xxx, 310, 328

33164: xxx, 310, 328

33183: xxxiv, 428, 438

332183: xvi, 50, 58

332184: xvi, 50, 58

332187: 52, 210

332189: xvi, 50, 58, 71, 124

33420: xxx, 45, 307308, 310, 329, 333

33421: xxxiv, 33, 427428, 437, 439, 441443, 445

33422: xxxivxxxv, 428, 441444, 447449

351239: 153

351250: xxvi, 240, 250

3612: xvi, 50, 55

3613: xvixvii, 50, 56, 65

3614: xvixvii, 50, 56, 65

3615: xxvi, 32, 240, 242, 250, 319

3629: 153

36122: 152

36123: xxi, 152, 167

3771: 428

3772: xxxiv, 428, 437

3773: xxxiv, 428, 437

3774: xxxiv, 428, 437

3775: xxxiv, 428, 437

3776: xxxiv, 428, 437

3777: xxxiv, 428, 437

3778: xxxiv, 428, 437

3779: xxxiv, 428, 437

37710: xxxiv, 428, 437

37711: xxxiv, 428, 437

37712: xxxiv, 428, 437

37713: 428

3821: xxi, 152, 167, 172

3822: xxi, 151152, 162, 169, 172

3823: xxi, 30, 152153, 155, 167, 172173

3832: 210

3833: 210

38311: xxiv, 210, 225

38316: xxv, 212, 231

38317: xxv, 212, 231

38320: xxviii, 294, 299

Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim

2158: 160

2390: 313

2431: 367

2502: 367

3051: xxviii, 45, 281, 288

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology

and Anthropology, Philadelphia
E13531: xiii, xxii, 155, 177
Museum of Antiquities, Leiden: xlvii
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: iiiiv, xi, xiii, xvxvi, xxixxxi, xxxiiixxxiv,
xxxvii, xxxixxlii, xlvil, liiiliv, 34, 79, 1519, 49, 55, 71, 154155,
158, 160, 167, 172, 176, 178, 201202, 205, 212, 215, 227, 236, 250,
266, 299, 311313, 316, 323325, 327330, 338, 340, 342, 344345,
349, 365, 369, 424425, 431432, 439, 447
Naga-ed-Deir: 431
Napolon: 156, 312
Naqada III: li, 18
National Geographic Society: xliii
necklace: 313
Neferirkare: 14, 72, 120, 311, 368

Nelson: xiii
New Giza Tomb Numbers: 18
New Haven: xlii, xlvi, xlix
New York: xii, xxxvii, xxxix, xlixlvii, l, 3, 9
Newman, Richard: 212
niche: vii, xvixvii, xix, xxixxii, xxvxxvii, xxx, xxxii, xlvi, 5, 78, 23, 28,
3133, 35, 37, 3943, 45, 5152, 55, 69, 72, 75, 79, 90, 117118, 132,
151154, 173, 196, 209, 211212, 239242, 244245, 257, 261, 268,
294, 307308, 310312, 318, 332, 367368, 386, 427428, 433
Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists: xliii
Niuserre (Horus Isetibtawy): 121, 311, 316, 367, 368
Nolan, John: xii, xlvii, 35
north false door: xixxx, xxix, xxxi, xxxiiixxxiv, 39, 7983, 114115, 119,
122124, 145149, 239, 307, 309311, 318, 324, 362, 364, 380381,
413, 433, 438
Nota, Maresita: xiii, xlviii, 158
Nour el-Din, Abdel Halim: xii
Nubia: xl, 15, 17, 312, 427
Nubian: liii
Nucleus Cemeteries: vii, xv, liii, 23, 25, 28, 3335, 43, 4546, 52, 72, 120,
153154, 213, 241, 261, 282, 294, 311, 368, 416, 422, 429, 433
nucleus cemetery concept: xlvi, 23
Nuzzolo, Massimiliano: xlvii, 161
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: xii, xxii, xliv, xlvii, 157158, 183, 193
Object Register: xvi, xxi, xxvixxvii, 1718, 51, 58, 153, 167, 172, 210, 266267
sterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften: xlii
offering-basin: xix, xxi, xxx, 118, 128, 151152, 162, 169, 172, 212, 310, 332
offering bearer: xxii, 76, 78, 80, 152, 157, 183, 309, 314, 316, 372373, 375,
380, 433
offering list/menu list: 314, 368, 375
offerings: 78, 33, 40, 50, 73, 7578, 8082, 117, 120, 122, 153, 156, 158159,
162, 240, 282283, 312, 314316, 371372, 375, 380382
Old Kingdom: xiii, xxxixl, liiiliv, 18, 23, 28, 35, 39, 41, 70, 7375, 7782,
117118, 155156, 159, 161162, 209, 213216, 241, 260, 307, 312313,
317, 370372, 378379, 416, 431
Oppenheim, Adela: 3
Oregon: xiii
Oriental Insitute, University of Chicago: xliii, xlvi, xlviii
orientation: xxv, xlii, liv, 39, 76, 80, 119, 121, 123, 156, 233, 241, 318, 368, 429, 433
oryx: 7475, 7982, 157, 159, 214, 312313, 317, 371
Osiris: xlv, 51, 310
Osman, Abul Hasan: 50
sterreich: xliv, liv, 369
overseer: xliii, 30, 32, 7480, 83, 117, 152, 155158, 160162, 312313, 316318,
379, 381383
Oxford: xii, xxxvii, xxxixxliv, xlviil, 161, 307
paint: xvii, xx, 50, 64, 75, 82, 119, 147, 209, 213, 283, 375, 378
painting: xx, xlvii, xlix, 15, 143, 293
palace: xxxix, xlviii, liii, 16, 30, 3233, 7475, 7778, 83, 121, 158, 162, 317,
373, 379, 382
panel: 3940, 7273, 153, 313, 370
paper: xlii, xlvii, liii, 161
papyrus: xlvxlvi, 7375, 78, 80, 215, 310, 312, 317, 371372, 378380
Paris: xiixiii, xxiixxiii, xxx, xxxvii, xlixliii, xlvixlviii, lli, 3, 19, 156, 180
181, 201, 336
Parisi, Paul: xiii
Pate, Catherine: xi
Peabody Museum: xlvi, 15
Pelizaeus, Wilhelm: liv
Pelizaeus-Museum: xii, xxviii, xlii, xlv, xlvixlviii, liv, 45, 281, 288, 312, 368
Pendlebury, David: xiii
Penmeru: xlix, 75, 153
Pennsylvania: xiii, xxii, xl, xlii, xlvi, xlix, 11, 155, 177, 312
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Petrie, W.M. Flinders: xli, xlvii, 3, 28, 119, 214, 307, 311312, 314, 317, 432
pharaoh: xlv, l, 9, 75, 372
Philadelphia: xiixiii, xxii, xl, xlii, xlvi, liii, 18, 155, 177
Photographic Register: 17, 294
photographs: xviiixix, xxii, xxvi, xxxi, liv, 35, 7, 11, 1518, 4950, 52, 72,
94, 96, 98, 100, 103, 106, 110, 112, 114, 120, 152155, 160, 187, 193,
210211, 215, 249, 293, 308, 313, 316, 354, 358, 361, 415, 429430, 432
Piacentini, Patrizia: xlvii, 30, 39, 83, 153, 155, 158, 162, 311, 313, 318, 367368, 382
Picardo, Nicholas: xi, xlvii, 162
Pieke, Gabriele: xlvii, 313
pillar: xixxx, 117122, 135136, 138, 371
Place, Meghan: xi
plaster: xviiixix, xxv, liv, 3, 45, 4950, 72, 79, 8182, 102, 104, 107, 109, 112,
114115, 117, 119120, 151, 160161, 210, 212, 215, 231, 233, 239, 241,
260261, 293294, 307308, 310311, 313, 371, 430
pleat: 78, 378, 380, 433
political systems: xlvii, liii
Polizzotti, Mark: xi
Polz, Daniel: xlvi, xlix
portcullis: xv, xvii, xxiv, xl, 12, 14, 23, 25, 28, 30, 34, 37, 4344, 49, 52, 63, 69,
151, 153155, 209213, 222, 239, 241, 259, 261, 281, 294, 310, 368,
416, 422, 429
portcullis stones: xl, 28, 43
portico: xixxx, 31, 117119, 121, 125, 128, 135, 137138
pose: 7475, 81, 123, 155, 370372, 380, 433
Posener-Kriger, Paule: xlvii, 152, 159, 214, 283, 371
potsherds: 210, 260, 415, 421
pottery: xxiv, xxxiii, xxxixxl, xliii, li, 1718, 50, 71, 211, 222, 226, 260, 415, 419
Prague: xxxvii, xxxixxl, xliiixlix, 44
Priese, Karl-Heinz: xvi, xlvii, liv, 4, 28, 53, 69, 7280, 82
Prunkscheintr: 40
Pulliam, Linda: xi
pygmies: xxxix, xlix, 313
el-Qella: 17
quarry: xxvii, 31, 209, 241, 260261, 275
Queen Hetepheres: xlviii, 52
Quft: 17
Quibell, James: 5
ramp: 15, 117, 119

Ranke, Hermann: xlvii, 216, 242, 313314, 367, 372373, 379
Ransom, Caroline: xlvi, l, 36
Raue, Dietrich: xlix, 28
Raye, Ron: xiii
reconstruction: xiii, xvxxv, xxxxxxiii, xliii, liv, 1920, 2932, 34, 54, 61, 63,
72, 78, 80, 82, 86, 93, 99, 104, 107, 109, 118, 122123, 126, 128, 132,
135, 138139, 144, 158, 166, 174, 176, 185, 190, 197, 211212, 215, 223,
236, 241242, 249, 283, 308, 318, 337338, 340, 342, 344345, 349,
354, 386, 388389, 392, 398, 403, 408, 411, 430, 433
Redford, Donald B.: xlvii, l, liii, 161
redundant determinatives: xlii
reign of Cheops: xlv, 23, 28, 3132, 3437, 52, 154155, 213, 241, 261, 282, 294,
311, 368370, 416, 422, 429
reis: 16, 49, 70, 151152, 210, 239240, 260, 293, 308, 415
Reisner, George Andrew: iii, viiviii, xi, xiii, xvxvi, xxi, xxiv, xxvixxvii,
xlvixlviii, liiiliv, 35, 79, 11, 1519, 23, 26, 2831, 3337, 3945,
4952, 6972, 75, 83, 117120, 151158, 162, 171, 209213, 215, 225,
239242, 259261, 267, 281283, 293294, 307316, 318, 367370,
415416, 421422, 427434
relative chronology: vii, 3435, 37
religion: xlviixlix, 28, 162
reserve head (Ersatzkopf ): iv, xxi, xxiii, xl, xliii, xlvxlvii, l, 9, 17, 23, 30, 34,
45, 152156, 160162, 174175, 202205, 239
reversal: xlii, 7475, 79, 119, 159, 314315, 373375, 380
Rich, Brooks: xi
Richardson, Katharine: 3
Rifeh: 119
Rijksmuseum, Leiden: xxxvii
robbers: 154, 210, 241, 310
Roeder, Gnther: xlviii, 72, 80, 281, 312, 368
Roehrig, Catharine: xlvii, 155156
Rogers, Malcolm: xi
Rome: xiii, xxiixxiii, xxxvii, xli, xlviixlix, 3, 39, 154, 157158, 192, 194195, 201
roof, roofing: 3, 36, 49, 51, 69, 71, 117119, 240, 259, 282, 294, 311, 368, 427, 433
Roth, Ann Macy: xlviii, liiiliv, 3, 16, 23, 35, 121, 312, 373, 427, 431
Rousset Bey: 156
Rowe, Earle: 11
Rudenstine, Angelica Zander: xii
sack: 80, 379

Sadek, Mohamed: xii
Said: iii, xv, xxi, 6, 1617, 154, 173, 239
Said Ahmed: iii, xv, 6, 1617
sailing: 75, 372373
Sainte Fare Garnot: xlviii, 34, 154
Salah, Mohamed: xii
Salam, Magdy Abdel: xii
Saleh, Heidi: xi
Saleh, Mohamed: xii
Samuel, Amal: xii
Sanborn, Ashton: 155
sandal(s): 76
sandstone: xxx, 293, 310, 328
Santi, Maresita Nota: xlviii, 158
Saqqara: xxxixxlii, xlivxlvii, liv, 3, 5, 36, 40, 44, 70, 75, 78, 80, 119, 155, 157,
159, 307, 311, 313, 316, 372
sarcophagus (sarcophagi): xvi, xix, xxi, xxivxxv, xxviii, xxx, xxxii, xli, 15, 30,
42, 45, 50, 117, 119120, 132133, 154, 160, 175, 210211, 223, 240,
249, 281282, 288, 307311, 329, 333, 368, 372, 389, 429430
Sarry el-Din, Azza Mohamed: 52
Satomi, Kay: xi
Satzinger, Helmut: xiii, xlviii, 33, 367, 369, 372, 378
Sawdon of Croydon: 158
Sawyer Printers: iv, xiii
Sayce mss: 3, 307, 317
SCA (Supreme Council of Antiquities): liii, 19
scepter: 72, 7477, 7980, 82, 152, 157, 242, 316318, 378, 380, 433
Scheele, Bernd: xlviii, 79, 82, 158159
Schenkel, Wolfgang: 20, 120
Schiaparelli, Ernesto: 3, 9
Schienerl, Peter W.: xlviii, 378
Schlott, Adelheid: xlviii, 378
Schmidt, Heike: xlviii, 161
Schmitz, Bettina: xii, xliiixliv, xlvi, xlviii, liv, 15, 1819, 23, 52, 7274, 83,
124, 281, 368, 382
Schott, Erika: xlviii, 28
scribe: xxxi, xlii, 30, 76, 78, 80, 152, 155158, 162, 312313, 316319, 365, 368,
378380, 382383, 421
seal: xvii, xxvi, 23, 31, 34, 71, 88, 212, 240241, 249, 367
seal-bearer: 7383, 121, 124, 375, 382
Second Intermediate Period: 28
Secretary General: xii, 17, 19
Seiden, Myron: xi
Seidlmayer, Stephan: xixii, xxxixxl, xlviii, l, 18, 311
Seipel, Wilfried: xlviii, 309
semantic homicide: xlvii, 162
semi-literacy: 215
Senedjemib Complex: xl, liii, 11, 28, 30, 159, 371, 376
Senussi, Ashraf: xliii, 18
Serdab: vii, xix, xxix, xlv, 15, 19, 31, 33, 4142, 69, 75, 119, 135, 241242, 307
308, 310311, 318, 322, 367368, 433434
Serikoff, Nicolas: xiii
Seshat: 216
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Indexes
I. GENERAL
Settgast, Jrgen: xlix, 372

Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists: xl, xlii, xlvii, xlix, 161, 368
Shaddf, Mahmud: 17
Sheikholeslami, Cynthia May: xii
Shepseskaf: 34, 72, 282, 311, 433
Shiha, Mohamed: xii, 17, 19
ship: xlv, 7380, 8283, 121, 124, 210, 372
Shirai, Yayoi: xlix, liv, 23
shoulder strap: 73, 75, 77, 120, 313, 316, 373, 380381
sidelock: 313
Siegal, Matthew: xi
Silverman, David P.: xiixiii, xliii, xlvi, xlviiixlix, 18, 313
Simpson, William Kelly: iii, v, xiii, xxxixxlii, xlvi, xlixl, 9, 15, 23, 7576,
79, 82, 153, 156, 159, 161, 214215, 312313, 316, 368, 370, 378, 433
Sist, Loredana: xlix, 158159
Sixth Dynasty: xxxix, xlii, 28, 74, 155
skeleton (bone[s]): xiixiii, xvixvii, xxi, xxv, xxviixxviii, xlv, liv, 3, 7, 1519,
30, 34, 42, 4952, 56, 65, 69, 71, 117, 120, 151154, 160161, 175, 213,
234, 239, 241, 259261, 278279, 282, 293294, 305, 307308, 311,
368, 422, 430432
slab stela: xi, xvi, xxv, xxviii, xxxii, xlvi, 23, 3031, 3335, 37, 3940, 5152, 59,
72, 8182, 122, 124, 152155, 158, 209216, 232233, 235237, 241,
281283, 289291, 310, 312, 367371, 375, 390, 428
slaughter: xxii, 76, 78, 154, 189, 314, 375
Smith, Corinna Lindon: xlix, 428
Smith, Joseph Lindon: xlix, 215, 293, 428, 430
Smith, Dr. Grafton Elliot: 78, 432
Smith, Leslie: 431432
Smith, William Stevenson: iii, xxvxxvi, xli, xlviiixlix, 3, 1618, 50, 52, 72,
75, 77, 8183, 117, 152, 154159, 209, 211215, 233, 240241, 251,
260261, 293294, 309312, 317318, 370371, 380381, 415, 421,
427, 433
Snyder, Brian: xiii, xxii, xxxi, 183, 349, 361
Sokar: xlii, liii, 18, 74, 120
Sotheby: 313
Spalinger, Anthony: xlix, 73, 77, 120, 153, 209, 213, 240241
Spanel, Donald: xlix, 156
spatial organization of pyramids: xlviii, liv
special report: 9
Speidel, M. Alexander: xlix
Spiekermann, Antje: xii, xliiixliv, xlvi, xlix, 18
Stadelmann, Rainer: xxxix, xli, xliiixlvi, xlix, 28
Staehelin, Elisabeth: xlix, 371372
staff: 32, 70, 7282, 121, 143, 152, 154, 157, 242, 293, 312314, 316318, 372,
378, 433
statue: xxix, xliii, 45, 9, 15, 17, 19, 4142, 117, 119, 156, 161, 260, 293, 308309,
324, 431
statuette: xxx, xliii, 161, 281, 308, 310, 330, 421
steatite: xvi, 50, 58
Steffgen, Ute: xlviii, 7374
Steindorff, Georg: xii, xliv, xlix, liv, 3, 312, 368
Stevenson Smith, William: iii, xxvxxvi, xli, xlviiixlix, 3, 1618, 50, 52, 72,
75, 77, 8183, 117, 152, 154159, 209, 211215, 233, 240241, 251,
260261, 293294, 309312, 317318, 370371, 380381, 415, 421,
427, 433
stick: xvii, xxii, xxv, xlii, 78, 89, 196, 244, 316, 371
stone vessels: xxxix, 17, 50, 369
stool: 52, 7779, 120123, 156157, 215, 317, 371, 379
Strip I: 34, 78
Strip II: 3, 8
Strudwick, Nigel: xlii, xlvii, xlix, 3940, 72, 7475, 83, 120121, 153155, 213, 369
substructures: vii, 42
Sudan: xlvi, xlix, 5, 161
superstructures: vii, 7, 34, 3637
Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA): xii, xliixliii, xlvi, liii, 17, 19
Syria: 294
tab: 155, 157, 317

tablet: xi, xiii, xvi, xviiixx, xxiixxiii, xxx, xlvi, 50, 58, 69, 72, 79, 8182, 112,
114, 119, 122123, 143, 148149, 152156, 158159, 194195, 200201,
211, 241242, 317, 336, 369370, 379381, 415, 433
tablet scene: 119, 242, 369
Tacke, Nikolaus: l, 162
Talbeah, Sayed: xv, 26
Tavares, Ana: xii, xv, 26
Tayoubi, Mehdi: xiii
Tefnin, Roland: l, 160161
temple: xlviixlix, 4, 89, 428
Thebes: 283, 371
theme of decapitation: xlvii, 162
thickness: ii, iv, xii, xv, xviiixix, xxiixxiii, xxvi, xxixxxxii, xxxvii, 3, 20,
70, 7275, 7879, 81, 9699, 112, 114, 119, 152, 155157, 161, 176,
178181, 201, 242, 253, 257, 281, 294, 307309, 312, 323, 337341,
365, 371, 380, 393397, 429432
thieves: 5, 43, 49, 117, 239, 242, 259, 308, 318, 427
Thompson, Stephen E.: xlii, xlvi
Thompson, Beth: l, 313
Thoth: 73, 77, 120, 122, 153, 240
Tiber: xliii, 158
Tiradritti, Francesco: xli, 312
toeholds: xvi, 43, 60
tomb cards: 17, 4950, 71
tomb security: xl, 28
torus molding: 40
Trad, May: xii, xliixliii, xlvi
Trigger, Bruce: l, 2
Tbinger gyptologische Beitrge: xxxvii
Tura(h): 5, 120, 241, 429
Turin: xii, liii, 18, 434
Tutankhamen: 283, 371
Two Lands: 378
Unas: liii, 379

Universitt Heidelberg: xlvi
Universitt Leipzig: xlix
Universitt Wien: xiii, xx, 143
University of Alberta: xii
University of California: xxxix, xlii, xlvi, xlviii, liv, 3, 7, 15
University of Chicago: xxxixxl, xliii, l
University of Leipzig: liv
University of Pennsylvania: xiii, xxii, xl, xlii, xlvi, 155, 177, 312
University of Pennsylvania Museum: xiii, xxii, xlvi, 155, 177
unpublished Reisner manuscripts: 17
Uphill, Eric P.: l, 9
Upper Egypt: 45, 30, 7678, 80, 83, 156, 158, 162
Userkaf: 46, 72, 311, 368
Usui, Emiko: xi
Vandersleyen, Claude: l, 378

Vandier, Jacques: l, 155, 158
Vassilika, Eleni: xii, 18
vessel(s): xvii, xxiv, xxxix, 3, 1719, 4950, 65, 7882, 120, 122123, 157, 159,
210, 213214, 222, 226, 240, 281, 294, 308, 313, 369372, 375, 379
381, 421422
vessel typology: 18
Vienna: xiixiii, xv, xviiixx, xxviixxviii, xxxiixxxiii, xxxviixxxviii, xli
xlviii, l, liiiliv, 1213, 15, 18, 33, 95, 97, 117118, 120, 125, 129130,
133, 136, 141143, 145147, 149, 214, 281282, 284285, 288291,
367369, 384385, 387, 390391, 393410, 412414
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gilian: l, 283, 371, 427, 433
Volkswagen-Stiftung: xii
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Wadi Cemetery: xlvi, 3

wag festival: l, 77
wages: 5
Wainwright, Gerald: xlvii, 28, 432
Waldheim, Sara: xiii
van Walsem, Ren: l, 39
Waters, Donald J.: xii
Weeks, Kent R.: xlii, xlvii, l, liii, 23, 118, 316
Weidenbach, Max and Ernst: 69
Weill, Raymond: l, 158159
Wendrich, Willeke: l, 210
Wepemnefret: 33, 37, 82, 215, 283, 429
West, Louis Coulton: 11
Western Asia: xlii, 294
Western Cemetery: iv, vii, xii, xv, xlix, liiiliv, 3, 6, 9, 11, 1417, 23, 25, 2830,
3435, 4243, 45, 52, 75, 80, 153, 155, 160161, 213, 215, 369, 428
Wheeler, Noel F.: xxxiv, 1516, 4950, 7071, 152, 210, 239240, 259260,
293, 308, 415, 421, 427432, 446
Wiebach, Sylvie: l, 39, 153
wig: 7274, 7680, 82, 120123, 155156, 215, 313, 316317, 371373, 378381,
431, 433
Wilbour Chair of Egyptology: xlii, xlvi
Wildung, Dietrich: xixii, l, liv, 18, 28, 160161
Wilkinson, Gardner: 312
Wilson, John A.: l, 9
wine: 79, 8182, 157, 159, 213, 282, 314, 372, 376377, 379
Winlaw, Sophie: 23
Winlock, Herbert: l, 283, 371
Winter, Erich: l, 77
Wohlgemuth, E.: 120
wood: xxix, xxxii, xxxiv, 42, 49, 7172, 214, 259261, 308, 310, 327, 392, 398,
421, 428429, 439, 441443, 445
World War I: 15, 369
World War II: 7172
wrappings: xii, xxxivxxxv, 427428, 430432, 441444, 447449
Wreszinski, Walter: 156
X-ray: 212
Yale Expedition: xlvi

Yale Gallery: xlii, 307
Yale Giza Project: xlix
Yale University: xiii, xlvi, xlix
Ziegler, Christiane: xiii, li, 3, 79, 156, 312

Zimmermann, Ursula: xlv, 159, 283, 371
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Indexes
II. PRIVATE NAMES
Iymery (g6020): 316

Iynefret (in g2155): 381382
Amenhotep, scribal statue of (CG 590): 156

Ankh (in g2110): 157158, 162
Ankhhaf (in g2155): 371, 382
Ankhaf (g7510): xliii, 16, 33, 155, 161, 241, 429
Ankhi (in g2155): 375, 382
Ankhmahor (Saqqara): xlv, 313
Ankhmare (in g2156b/c): 19, 368
Ankhpakhered(?) (in g2210): 260, 262
Ari (in g2110): 158, 162
Babaef/Khnumbaef (g5230): 311

Bebi (in g2155): 375, 382
Defi (in g2100-11): 123124

Djednefret (in g2136a): 15, 19, 26, 284, 385
Duaenre (g5110): 311, 433
Hemaka (Saqqara): xlii, 159, 213, 282, 372, 377, 379, 381
Hemiunu (g4000): xliv, xlvi, 15, 23, 3334, 37, 154, 156, 161, 241, 429
Henutsen (queen): 52
Herib (in g2155): 375, 382
Hernefer (in g2150): 313, 319
Herymeru (in g2155): 372, 379, 382
Hesi (in g2155): 375, 382
Hesi (Saqqara): xlv
Hetep (in g2155): 371, 382
Hetep (in g2155, page, recruit): 379, 383
Hetepheres: xlviii, 16, 18, 52, 240, 432
Hetepsepit (in g2155): 372, 383
Horwer (in g2155): 33, 378, 380, 382
Ibkaptah (in g2155): 381382

Ikhet-[] (in g2150): 309, 318
Imysekher (in g2155): 371, 375, 381382
Ini-ishetef (in g2155): 375, 382
Inti (Deshasha): xlv
Inti (g2370): 40, 159
Iperi (in g2110): 158, 162
Ipi (Lepsius 19): 80
Irienre (in g2156b): 15, 19, 367368
Ishi (in g2100-1): 7475, 83
Isi (in g2155): 375, 382
Itjef (in g2155): 380, 382
Ity (in g2155): 380, 382
Iymery (in g2110): 157, 162
Iymery (in g2150): 314315, 318
Kaemheset (in g2155): 373, 383

Kaemked (in g2155): 372, 383
Kaemnefret (in g2155): 378, 383
Kaemwehem (in g2155): 380, 383
Kahif (g2136): liv, 15, 19, 31, 39, 42, 118, 294, 371
Kairer (in g2110): 158, 162
Kairi (in g2155): 375, 381, 383
Kanefer (g2150): viii, xiii, xvi, xxviii, xxxxxxi, 3, 15, 3032, 34, 37, 3946, 72,
75, 118, 162, 212, 240, 261, 307318, 336, 361, 364365, 368, 371373,
380, 415, 421, 433
Kanefer (g1203): 82, 283
Kanegi (in g2155): 375, 383
Kaninisut I (g 2155): viii, xiii, xvi, xxxii, xli, xliv, liv, 12, 15, 3134, 3637,
3942, 4446, 72, 75, 81, 117118, 156, 158, 215, 240, 261, 281282,
312, 314, 367369, 370374, 375, 378382
Kaninisut II (g2156): xvi, 15, 19, 3233, 119, 294, 367369, 380
Kaninisut III (g2156a and in g2156): xvi, 15, 19, 3233, 367368
Kaninisut Junior (in g2155): 380, 382
Kapunisut (Merib, g2100-1; in g2100-11): 83, 121, 124
Kapunisut (in g1741): 370
Kasewedja (g5340, and in g2150): 15, 32, 36, 72, 117, 240, 311313, 317318,
371, 421
Kawab (g71107120): xlix, 7576, 214, 313, 370, 433
Kayemnofret (Saqqara; MFA 04.1761): xlix, 76, 159
Khamerernebty (in g2091): 121
Khemten (g5210): 72, 117, 311, 371
Khentika (Saqqara): xliv
Khentka (g2130): vii, xvi, xxv, 9, 31, 34, 37, 39, 4146, 153, 212, 239, 241242,
261, 294, 310, 368, 415
Khentykauef (in g2110): xxii, 156, 162, 179
Khnumbaef/Babaef (g5230): 311
Khnumhetep (in g2155): 378, 383
Khnumhotep (Lisht): 310
Khnumnefer (in g2175): 39, 42
Khuenptah (in g2110): 157, 162
Khuenre (mq 1): 313, 316
Khufumernetjeru (in g2100-1): 7274, 83, 120
Khufumernetjeru (in g2155): 375, 381, 383
Khufuseneb (in g2155): 383
Medu (in g2155): 375, 382

Menkhka (in g2155): 378, 382
Meresankh (in g2150): xlviii, 30, 32, 52, 158, 162, 309, 313314, 318, 421
Meresankh (g7530-7540): xliii, 45, 75, 316
Meretites (in g2150): 32, 310, 316, 318
Meretites (g7650): xliii, 155, 241
Meretites (g4140): 37, 214216
Merib (g2100-1): vii, xii, xvixvii, xix, xlvii, liv, 35, 89, 14, 2832, 3436,
3946, 4955, 6983, 86, 117121, 124, 126, 212, 240, 310, 314, 368,
371373, 375, 378, 429, 433
Merib Junior (in g2100-1): 7275, 83, 120
Mery (in g2100-11): 123124
Mery ( not from Giza; Louvre B 49): xxx, 312, 336
Mesi (in g2110): 157, 162
Mesy (in g2155): 380, 382
Muti (in g2110): xxi, 152153, 162, 169, 172
Nakhtka(i) (in g2150): 318

Nedjem(?) (in g2150): 313314, 318
Nedju (g2175): 39, 42
Nefer (g1207): 283
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Nefer (in g1461): xxii, 176

Nefer (g2110): ii, iv, vii, xiixiii, xvxvii, xlvi, 3, 5, 89, 15, 3031, 3435, 37,
3946, 74, 86, 119, 151158, 160162, 174, 177, 182, 192, 201205,
210, 212, 239, 241, 261, 282, 310, 313, 316, 368369, 371, 373, 378,
386
Nefer (in g3015): xiii, xxii, 177
NeferIII (Junker): 15, 282
Nefer[her]enptah (in g2150): 32, 313, 318
Neferherenptah (east of g2130): xxvi, 240, 242, 250
Neferirtenef (Saqqara): l
Nefermaat (Meidum): xliii, 28
Nefermeket (in g2110): 158, 162
Nefershemem (in g2110): 158, 162
Nefertjentet (g2352/53): xlix
Nefre(t)hanisut (in g2155): 33, 380382
Nefri (east of g2100, near g2102): xvi, 51, 58, 160
Nefru (in g2110): 156157, 162
Nefru Junior (in g2110): 157, 162
Nemedj? (in g2150): 318
Nensedjerkai (g2100-11, and in g2100-1): vii, xvixvii, xix, 15, 29, 31, 3536,
39, 4243, 4546, 49, 5354, 70, 7274, 83, 8586, 117124, 132,
212, 294, 308, 310, 371
Nenteni (in g2110): 158, 162
Niankhhathor (in g2155): 371, 375, 381382
Niankhkhnum (in g2100-11): 123124
Niankhkhufu (in g2155): 381382
Nikare (in g2150): 314, 318
Nimaatre (g2136b): 15, 19
Nimeret (in g2155): 375, 382
Niptah (in g2100-11): 117, 124
Nyhetep-Ptah (g2430): xxxix
Pehenptah (g5280): xlvi, 15

Pehernefer (in g2155): 378, 382
Pekher (in g2155, offering list): 374
Penu (in g2155): 372, 380382
Perneb (Saqqara): xlvi, l, 36, 156
Pernedju (in g2155): 372, 379, 382
Persen (in g2110): 157, 162
Persen (in g2155): 375, 382
Ptahhetep (Saqqara): xli, 36, 313
Ptahshepses (Abusir): xlix
Ptahwer (g2151): 32, 39, 310, 313, 317318, 421
Qar (g7101): xlix

Qedfy (g2135a): 15, 19, 36, 118119, 310
Qedmerer (in g2155): 378, 383
Rahetep (in g2155): 378, 382

Rahotep (in g2100-11): 122, 124
Rahotep (Meidum): xliii, 28
Rawer (north of g2210): 259, 262
Redjienptah (in g2150): 313, 319
Reri (in g2110): 158, 162
Sahi (in g2155): 378, 383

Sedit (g2100 and in g2100-1): vii, xvixvii, xix, 9, 2830, 34, 3637, 4246,
4950, 5254, 70, 7577, 83, 86, 117, 126, 156, 212, 282, 310
Sednet (in g2100-1): 70, 7374, 83, 120
Sekhem-Ankh-Ptah (Saqqara; MFA 04.1760): xlix
Semerka (in g2155): 375, 383
Seneb (in g2150): 313314, 318319
Seneb (in g2155): 375, 381, 383
Seneb (Junker, Giza dwarf tomb): 79
Senebdjisu (in g2155): 383
Senedjemib (Inti): xl, liii, 11, 14, 28, 30, 40, 159, 371, 376
Senenuka Keki (g2041): xxii, 4, 8, 30, 39, 154, 156, 162, 179, 310, 375, 433
Seniwehem (g2132): 9
Seshatsekhentiu (g2120): vii, xxiii, xxv, 9, 3031, 3435, 37, 39, 4246, 52, 118,
209210, 212213, 215216, 235237, 282, 310
Seshemu (in g2110): 158, 162
Seshemu (in g2155, wdpw): 375, 383
Seshemu (in g2155, my-r sr): 381, 383
Seteb (in g2155): 373, 383
She(n)dju (in g2155): 381, 383
Shepseskafankh (g6040): 118
Shepsetkau (in g2150): xxix, xxxi, 32, 309310, 316, 318, 324, 365
Ti (Saqqara): l, 78
Tjenti (g2051): 152, 154
Tjenti (in g2113): xlvi, 154, 159
Tjenti (in g2155, ty mt): 378, 383
Tjenti (in g2155, rp s): 375, 383
Tjenti (in g2155, rt, s): 375, 383
Tjenti (in g2155, s): 380, 383
Tjenti (in g2175): xlvi, 72, 117, 152, 154, 159, 371, 375, 378, 380, 383
Tjenti (g4920): 72, 117, 371
Tjeset (in g2155): 378, 383
Tjetu (g2001): xlix, 9
Wadjethetep (in g2155): 33, 380, 382

Wahib (in g2155): 372373, 380, 382
Wehemka (in g2150): 312, 318
Wehemka (in g2155): 368, 378380, 382
Wehemka/Uhemka (d 117): xlv, xlviii
Wenankhes (in g 2110): xxiixxiii, 30, 152, 154, 157158, 161162, 182, 192,
205, 313
Weni (in g2110): xxii, 156, 162, 178
Wenkaef (in g2110): 158, 162
Wenkhu (in g2155): 375, 382
Wenshet (in g2136): 370
Wenu (in g2110): 158, 162
Werbauptah (in g2100-11): 124
Werka (in g2100-11): 123124
Za-ib (g2092+2093?): 373
Uncertain Readings
ni (in g2102): 51, 380

[]-ankh (in g2100-11): 122, 124
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III. PRIVATE NAMES IN

TRANSLITERATION
Prsn (in g2155): 375, 382

P-r-nfr (in g2155): 378, 382
Ptwr (g2151): 32, 39, 310, 313, 317318, 421
Mwt (in g2110): xxi, 152153, 162, 169, 172

Mn-k (in g2155): 378, 382
Mrb (g2100-1 and in g2100-11): vii, xii, xvixvii, xix, xlvii, liv, 35, 89, 14,
2832, 3436, 3946, 4955, 6983, 86, 117121, 124, 126, 212, 240,
310, 314, 368, 371373, 375, 378, 429, 433
Mrb-ns (in g2100-1): 7275, 83, 120
Mry (in g2100-11): 123124
Mrsn (in g2150): xlviii, 30, 32, 52, 158, 162, 309, 313314, 318, 421
Mrtts (in g2150): 32, 310, 316, 318
Ms (in g2110): 157, 162
Msy (in g2155): 380, 382
Mdw (in g2155): 375, 382
r (in g2110): 158, 162
y-mry (in g2110): 157, 162

y-mry (in g2150): 314315, 318
y-mry (g6020): 316
-nfrt (in g2155): 381382
b-k-pt (in g2155): 381382
pr (in g2110): 158, 162
n-tf (in g2155): 375, 382
t-[] (in g2150): 309, 318
s (in g2155): 375, 382
(in g2155): 7475, 83
ty (in g2155): 380, 382
f (in g2155): 380, 382
n (in g2110): 157158, 162

n (in g2155): 375, 382
n-p-rd (in g2210): 260, 262
n-f (in g2155): 371, 382
W-b (in g2155): 372373, 380, 382

Wt-tp (in g2155): 33, 380, 382
Wn (in g2110): xxii, 156, 162, 178
Wnw (in g2110): 158, 162
Wn-ns (in g2110): xxixxiii, 30, 152, 154, 157158, 161162, 182, 192, 205,
213
Wnw (in g2155): 375, 382
Wn-kf (in g2110): 158, 162
Wr-bw-pt (in g2100-11): 124
Wr-k() (in g2100-11): 123124
Wm-k (in g2150): 312, 318
Wm-k (in g2155): 368, 378380, 382
Bb (in g2155): 375, 382
Pnw (in g2155): 372, 380382

Pr-nw (in g2155): 372, 379, 382
Prsn (in g2110): 157, 162
N(y)-n-wt-r (in g2155): 371, 375, 381382

N(y)-n-wfw (in g2155): 381382
N-n-nm (in g2100-11): 123124
N-pt (in g2100-11): 117, 124
N(y)-mrt (in g2155): 375, 382
N-k-r (in g2150): 314, 318
Nfr (g1207): 283
Nfr (in g1461): xxii, 176
Nfr (in g2110): ii, iv, vii, xiixiii, xvxvii, xlvi, 3, 5, 89, 15, 3031, 3435, 37,
3946, 74, 86, 119, 151158, 160162, 174, 177, 182, 192, 201205,
210, 212, 239, 241, 261, 282, 310, 313, 316, 368369, 371, 373, 378,
386
Nfr (in g3015): xiii, xxii, 177
Nfr (Nefer III): 15, 282
Nfr(t)--nswt (in g2155): 33, 380382
Nfrw (in g2110): 156157, 162
Nfrw-n (in g2110): 157, 162
Nfrmkt (in g2110): 158, 162
Nfr-r-n-pt (east of g2130): xxvi, 240, 242, 250
Nfr-[r]-n-pt (in g2150): 32, 313, 318
Nfrmm (in g2110): 158, 162
Nm(?) (in g2150): 318
Nn-sr-k() (g2100-11, and in g2100-1): vii, xvixvii, xix, 15, 29, 31, 3536,
39, 4243, 4546, 49, 5354, 70, 7274, 83, 8586, 117124, 132,
212, 294, 308, 310, 371
Nntn (in g2110): 158, 162
Nt-k() (in g2150): 318
Nm(?) (in g2150): 313314, 318
Rwr (north of g2210): 259, 262

R-tp (in g2155): 378, 382
R-tp (in g2100-11): 122, 124
Rr (in g2110): 158, 162
Rnpt (in g2150): 313, 319
Hr-b (in g2155): 375, 382
r-wr (in g2155): 33, 378, 380, 382

ry-mrw (in g2155): 372, 379, 382
r-nfr(?) (in g2150): 313, 319
s (in g2155): 375, 382
tp (in g2155): 371, 382
tp (in g2155, page, recruit): 379, 383
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tp-spt (in g2155): 372, 383
wfw-mr-nrw (in g2100-1): 7274, 83, 120

wfw-mr-nrw (in g2155): 375, 381, 383
wfw-snb (in g2155): 383
w-n-pt (in g2110): 157, 162
nt-k (g2130): vii, xvi, xxv, 9, 31, 34, 37, 39, 4146, 153, 212, 239, 241242,
261, 294, 310, 368, 415
nty-kwf (in g2110): xxii, 156, 162, 179
nm-tp (in g2155): 378, 383
S (in g2155): 378, 383

Smr-k (in g2155): 375, 383
Snb (in g2150): 313314, 318319
Snb (in g2155): 375, 381, 383
Snb--sw (in g2155): 383
St-sntyw (g 2120): vii, xxiii, xxv, 9, 3031, 3435, 37, 39, 4246, 52, 118,
209210, 212213, 215216, 235237, 282, 310
Smw (in g2110): 158, 1623
Smw (in g2155, wdpw): 375, 383
Smw (in g2155, my-r sr): 381, 383
Stb (in g2155): 373, 383
Sdt (g2100 and in g2100-1): vii, xvixvii, xix, 9, 2830, 34, 3637, 4246,
4950, 5254, 70, 7577, 83, 86, 117, 126, 156, 212, 282, 310
Sdnt (in g2100-1): 70, 7374, 83, 120
pstkw (in g2150): xxix, xxxi, 32, 309310, 316, 318, 324, 365
(n)w (in g2155): 381, 383
K-r (in g2155): 375, 381 383

K()-rr (in g2110): 158, 162
Kp(w)-nswt (Merib; in g2100-1 and in g2100-11): 83, 121, 124
K-m-wm (in g2155): 380, 383
K-m-nfrt (in g2155): 378, 383
K-m-st (in g2155): 373, 383
K()-m-d (in g2155): 372, 383
K-nfr (g2150): viii, xiii, xvi, xxviii, xxxxxxi, 3, 15, 3032, 34, 37, 3946, 72,
75, 118, 162, 212, 240, 261, 307318, 336, 361, 364365, 368, 371373,
380, 415, 421, 433
K-n-nswt (g2155): viii, xiii, xvi, xxxii, xli, xliv, liv, 12, 15, 3134, 3637, 3942,
4446, 72, 75, 81, 117118, 156, 158, 215, 240, 261, 281282, 312, 314,
367369, 370374, 375, 378382
K-n-nswt ns (in g2155): 380, 382
Kng (in g2155): 375, 383
K-sw (g5340, and in g2150): 15, 32, 36, 72, 117, 240, 311313, 317318, 371,
421
nt (g2051): 152, 154

nt (in g2113): xlvi, 154, 159
nt (in g2155, ty mt): 378, 383
nt (in g2155, rp s): 375, 383
nt (in g2155, rt, s): 375, 383
nt (in g2155, s): 380, 383
nt (in g2175): xlvi, 72, 117, 152, 154, 159, 371, 375, 378, 380, 383
nt (g4920): 72, 117, 371
st (in g2155): 383
Df (in g2100-11): 123124
Uncertain Readings
-n (in g2102): 51, 380

[]-n (in g2100-11): 122, 124
d-mrr (in g2155): 378, 383
472
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Indexes
IV. TITLES AND EPITHETS
mr(y)f, whom he loves, 242

mry nbf, beloved of his lord, 7678, 80, 83, 158, 162
mry [Sk]r, beloved of [So]kar, 367
mrytf, beloved of him, 83, 124
mrr nbf, whom his lord loves, 73, 7678, 80, 83, 158, 162
mdw ryt, staff of the subjects, 314, 318
mdw k-, herdsman of the white bull, 313, 316, 318
m(w) r nbf (r nb), revered under his lord (every day), 156, 162
my-b n nrf, favorite of his god, 314, 318
my-r wpwt, overseer of commissions, 312313, 316318
my-r pr, steward, 79, 155158, 160, 162, 312, 368, 378, 380, 382383
my-r pr-, overseer of the weapons house (armory?), 79, 155158, 160, 162,
312, 368, 378, 380, 382383
my-r pr-, overseer of the treasury, 79, 155158, 160, 162, 312, 368, 378,
380, 382383
my-r prwy-, overseer of the double treasury, 156, 158, 162
my-r pw, overseer of the marshlands, 318
my-r flkrt-nswt nb, overseer of every royal ornamented, 156, 162
my-r s nswt, overseer of royal document scribes, 158, 162
my-r s prw, overseer of regiment scribes, 155, 162
my-[r] s prw, overseer of regiment scribes, 160
my-r s flry- nswt, overseer of scribes of the portfolios of the king, 156,
158, 162
my-r sr, overseer of the bag, 381
my-r srw, overseer of linen, 379, 382
my-r st f(w), overseer of the double storehouse of provisions, 156158,
162
(my)-t , follower of Ha, 382
ry t nswt, royal acquaintance (keeper of the kings property), 30, 80, 83,
162
ry mt, archivist, 378, 383
[rr?] mrr nbf, [who does what] his lord loves, 158, 162
dw, page, 7380, 8283, 240, 315316, 378380, 382383
mr w, administrator of the fleet, 74, 78, 83, 373

-mr Dp, district administrator of Dep, 380, 382
wb nswt, royal wab-priest, 162, 259, 262

w (m) wrw b, one (among) the great ones of the festival, 380, 382
wr m wnw, greatest of seers of Heliopolis, 83
wr mw mw, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt, 7678, 80, 83, 156,
158, 162
wt, embalmer, 7778, 8083, 120, 156157, 159, 162, 314316, 371382
wt npw, embalmer of Anubis, 7778, 80, 83
wdpw, butler, 81, 371372, 374375, 381383
wdpw nty wr, butler of the great hall, 371372, 382
fsw, cook, 375, 382
mtrt, miteret, 30, 80, 157, 162
nb m, possessor of veneration, revered one, 73, 76, 79, 81, 83, 155, 260,
317, 379, 381382
nb m r nbf, possessor of veneration/revered before his lord, 155
nb m (r nr ), possessor of veneration/revered before/under the great
god, 73, 76, 81, 317, 379, 382
nbt m r nr , possessor of veneration/revered before/under the great
god, 83, 121124
nfr, recruit, 51, 73, 77, 120123, 155158, 160, 162, 240, 242, 282, 313, 315317,
319, 369370, 372373, 379383
[nswt-bt], [kingof Upper and Lower Egypt], 367
r P nb, mouth of all the people of Pe, 78, 83
r pyw nbw, mouth of all the people of Pe, 378, 380, 382
r nswt, royal acquaintance, 30, 73, 7678, 80, 83, 152153, 156158, 162, 314,
318319, 378, 380, 382
rt nswt, royal acquaintance, 158, 162, 313314, 316, 319, 381382
rt, baker, 122, 159, 374375, 382383
m-nr nb mt, priest of the lord of Buto, 380, 382

m-nr Nt, priestess of Neith, 318
m(t)-nr Nt mtt nbw, priestess of Neith, north of the wall, 52, 83
m-nr wt-r, priestess of Hathor, 83, 122, 124, 318
m-nr wfw, priest of Khufu, 78, 83, 122, 124
m-nr Sbk dt, priest of Sobek of Crocodilopolis, 312, 318
m-k, funerary priest, 83, 117, 122124, 157158, 162, 312314, 318319,
371372, 375, 378383, 421
mtf, his wife, 316, 318
ry wb wt-n, chief of reversion offerings of the house of life, 380, 382
ry st, master of secrets, 155, 312, 378, 380, 382
ry-st n st nb, master of secrets of every foreign land, 318
ry st (n) pr dwt, master of secrets of the robingroom, 382
ry-st nswt m swt nb, keeper of the secrets of the kingin every place, 158,
162
ry tp, chief, 210, 216, 380, 382
ry tp Nb, overlord of el-Kab, 210, 380, 382
bt, ruler of Bat, 76, 79, 367, 380, 382
wt, chief of the estate, 7778, 8083, 120, 156157, 159, 162, 314316,
371382
rp st, controller of the crew, 381, 383

rp w, controller of interpreters, 162, 312, 316, 318
rp pr(w) nfr(w), controller of regiments of recruits, 155157, 162
rp , controller of the palace, 50, 75, 7783, 122123, 155159, 162, 211, 213,
260, 282, 309, 312, 316318, 371, 375377, 379383, 415, 421
rp mrwy nswt, controller of the two banks of the king, 318
rp hs km, controller of the black jar, 380, 382
rp s, controller of the kitchen, 158159, 371, 375, 382383
rp nwt, controller of kilts, 375, 379382
rp tmtyw, controller of bowcase bearers, 316, 318
tmty, seal-bearer, 7383, 121, 124, 375, 382
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tmty nr w, seal-bearer of the god of the barque, 75, 7879, 8183, 121,
124
tmty nr b nrw, seal-bearer of the god of the (ship) Ba-netjeru, 7380,
8283, 121
tmty nr b nrw, seal-bearer of the god of (the ships) Ba/ab-netjeru,
7380, 8283, 121
tmty nr w, seal-bearer of the god of the fleet, 75, 7879, 8183, 121, 124
tmty nr nb ryt, seal-bearer of the god of the (ship) Neb-rekhyt, 7375,
83
tmty nr dw twy, seal-bearer of the god of the (ship) Duwa-tawy, 73,
7980, 83
flry-b, lector priest, 7677, 80, 83, 216, 367, 380, 382
flry-[b], lector [priest], 7677, 80, 83, 216, 367, 380, 382
flry-b [], lector priest [], 7677, 80, 83, 216, 367, 380, 382
flkrt nswt, royal ornamented, 83, 120124, 158, 318
sf, his son, 7375, 83, 313, 318, 378, 380, 382
sf n fltf, his son of his body, 73, 83, 378, 380, 382
sf smsw, his eldest son, 74, 83, 313
s mtt, son of the north, 380, 382
s nswt, kings son, 31, 7380, 8283, 121, 122, 124, 242, 312313, 318, 372, 375,
378379, 381382
s nswt n fltf, kings son of his body, 7380, 8283, 242, 375, 379, 382
sb nt rw, tally man of the judiciary, 157, 162
stf, his daughter, 74, 83, 121, 124, 317318, 380, 382
stf n fltf, his daughter of his body, 380, 382
sbty nswt, royal instructor, 32, 240, 242
sm, sem priest, 372373, 375, 379382
sm r, stolist of Horus, 375, 379382
smr, companion, 31, 7480, 8283, 121, 124, 242, 312, 314, 316318, 378382
smr wty, sole companion, 31, 79, 83, 121, 124, 242, 312, 316318, 378382
smsw s m pr.wy, elder of the chamber in the double administrations, 318
snwt(y) npw, who belongs to the snwt-utensil of Anubis, 7680, 83
s b nrw, inspector of the (ships) Might of the gods,83, 121, 124
s, scribe, 75, 78, 152, 155158, 160, 162, 210, 213, 312, 318319, 368, 378380,
382383
s nswt, overseer of royal document scribes, 155, 158, 162, 312, 318
s mt, archive scribe, 378, 383
s pr-, scribe of the palace, 156, 158, 162, 312, 368, 379380, 382
s pr mt, library scribe, 312, 368, 379380, 382
s pr ry-wb, scribe of the house of reversion offerings, 156, 162
sm, butcher, 158, 162, 374, 381382
msw, retainer, 309, 318319

[] flry-[]b, [] lector [priest], 7677, 80, 83, 216, 367, 380, 382
474
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Indexes
V. EGYPTIAN WORDS
AND PHRASES
m, cubit, 119
mst, mesit-geese, 81 (instead of st)
mnt, half-month festival, 73. 120
nb, lord, 7677

nbt m r, possessor (fem.) of veneration under, 121
nfr recruit, 379
ns, junior, 157
rnpt zp, regnal year, 213, 241
This index is not all inclusive, but lists merely those words discussed
or cited in the text or footnotes. Most common words and titles are
omitted, as are individual entries from the various offering lists.
b m, panther/leopard skin mantle, 214, 370

mst, mantle of wild cow skin, 214, 370
()(ww), interpreters, 312
nt, weaver, 79
ryt, weaver, 79
rp mw, Lower Egyptian wine, 379
t mw, Upper Egyptian barley, 214
dw, page, 379
dmy idemy linen, 214, 282
()(ww), interpreters, 312

(wy), production, 79
bw r, repast, 159
wg, wag-festival, 77
wp rnpt, new years festival (instead of wpt rnpt), 120
wrs, headrest, 214
wt, wt-priest, 371
r nswt, misspelled r nswt, royal acquaintance, 153
, type of linen width, 283

ry st, master of secrets, 380
tp-nswt, royal offering, 159
ts(w)t, weavers, 79
s, hetjes-bread, 159
st, foreign land, 312, 318

rp , controller of the palace, 77
rp mrwy nswt, controller of the two canals of the king, 317318
rp s, controller of the dining hall(?), 157
rp tmtyw, conroller of bowcase bearers, 318
t nb(t) nfr(t) rnpw(t) nb(t), everything good and all kinds of vegetables,
370
tmty sealed valuables, treasure, 74
tmty, seal-bearer, 73
b nrw, Ba/ab-netjeru ship, or possibly horn of the gods, 74

b, malt, 160
smdt, half-month festival, 73, 120

snwty npw, he of the snt-utensil, 76
snmt, to supply, 81
szf, sezef width, 159, 214, 215
st, secret, 380
Skr, Sokar (spelled Srk), 120
st-(n)-t, bed, 214
swty, seal-bearer, 73
pr- treasury, 155

pr t, funerary estate, 371
prt-rw, invocation offerings, 79
mt feather on Anubis jackal, 79

mnt cloth, 215, 283
nw, shenu-collar, 317

sp p rmw, list of the census people, 378
ryt, djeryt-mourner, 316317
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Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery g2100

Chapter 4. The Tomb of Merib:

Mastaba g2100-1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69116

Section 1: Interpretive Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 1: Excavation History and Sources. . . . . . . . . 322

Cemetery g2100: General Remarks . . . . . . . . . . . .

Section 2: Catalogue of the Major Mastabas . . .

Chapter 3. The Tomb of Sedit, Mother of Merib:

Summary of Reisners Description . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summary of Reisners Description . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 5. The Tomb of Nensedjerkai:

Summary of Reisners Description . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 6. The Tomb of Nefer: Mastaba g2110 . . . . .

Chapter 7. The Tomb of Seshatsekhentiu:

Summary of Reisners Description . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 8. The Tomb of Khentka: Mastaba g2130

Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery g2100

Chapter 9. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2210 . . . . .

Chapter 10. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2135

Chapter 11. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2140 . . . .

Chapter 12. The Tomb of Kanefer: Mastaba g2150 . .

Chapter 13. The Tomb of Kaninisut (I): Mastaba

Summary of Reisners Description . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 14. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2160 . . . .

Chapter 15. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2170 . . . .

Chapter 16. Anonymous Tomb: Mastaba g2220 . . . .

III. Private Names in Transliteration . . . . . . . . . . . . .

IV. Titles and Epithets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

V. Egyptian Words and Phrases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery g2100

Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery g2100

hile some publication projects proceed uninterrupted

Archives). The Project is currently affiliated with the Conservation

Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery g2100

In Cairo, Egyptian Museum directors Mohamed Saleh and