Vol.35.p.014

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G 2440
Filled stone mastaba, retaining walls and stepped (2) masonry. In the filling there are preserved inner retaining walls of rubble bound with mud plaster. There are two such inner retaining walls preserved on both the east and the south. One such wall is preserved on the west and one on the north. In the outer retaining wall on east are two stelae, one to north and one to south. Both uninscribed. Seven shafts and one secondary shaft A, B, C, D, E, F, G, X. [margin note: pages 877, 883, 940, 942, 944]

G 2440 A: Lined above with masonry topped with crude brick and cut in rock below. Total 13.75 meters deep. Chamber on south, cut in rock. No blocking. In chamber, a limestone coffin running north-south, with lid displaced. Canopic pit in southeast corner, cut in rock. In debris east of coffin, beside the door three complete alabaster dishes, one alabaster jar, three fragments of alabaster table, on limestone cup (burnt?), lid of limestone canopic jar, round limestone object, pottery fragments. [margin note: 940, 942, objects page 942]

G 2440 B: Lined above with masonry topped with crude brick. Chamber on west, cut in bad rock. No blocking. In chamber, white limestone coffin running north-south, broken lid fallen to east. In chamber debris, pot fragments, dishes (page 942) pots

G 2440 C: Ends at rock. Lined with rubble. No chamber.

Shaft D [G 2440 D]: Lined with rubble. Ends at rock. No chamber. Total depth 4.2 meters.

Shaft E [G 2440 E]: Ends at rock. Lined with rubble. Chamber is cut in rock. Chamber on west. No blocking. Cleared. [margin note: 944]

Shaft F [G 2440 F]: Lined with rubble, cut in rock below. Chamber on north, small, cut in rock, unfinished. No blocking. Empty, never used? [margin note: 944]

Shaft G [G 2440 G]: Lined with rubble. Chamber I on north and built of rubble and roofed with slabs. No blocking. Cleared. Empty. Shaft continues on down past chamber I, but ends at rock. No second chamber cut. [margin note: 944, 945]

G 2441
Filled stone mastaba on independent site. Retaining walls of masonry except at northwest corner where there are walls of rubble. Three interior and two subsidiary shafts. [margin note: 896, 911]

Shaft A [G 2441 A]: Lined above with masonry, cut in rock below. Chamber on west, small, cut in rock. No blocking.

Shaft B [G 2441 B]: Lined with rubble. Chamber I on west, built of rubble. Chamber II on west, blocked with rubble and built of rubble. Body, head west.

Shaft X [G 2441 X]: Lined with masonry. Ends in limestone debris. Chamber on south, built of masonry. No blocking. Cleared.

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