Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4122, G 4121
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- Tomb Owner
- Ankhmare (G 4121)
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- Excavator
- Ernesto Schiaparelli, Italian, 1856–1928
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Attested
- Kawab (in G 4121)
- Seshseshet (in G 4121)
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- PorterMoss Date
- Dynasty 5-6
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 4121 A; G 4121 B; G 4121 C; G 4121 D; G 4121 E; G 4121 F; G 4121 G; G 4121 H; G 4121 I; G 4121 J; G 4121 K; G 4121 X; G 4121 Serdab; G 4121 Chapel a; G 4121 Chapel b
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- Remarks
- Mastaba is built against west side of G 4220, north of G 4122. Reisner reexcavated this mastaba.
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- HUMFA_38-6-1
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- HUMFA_38-6-38
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- HUMFA_38-6-39
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Copper tool: adze blade fragments
- HUMFA_38-5-19
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- HUMFA_38-5-18
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- HUMFA_38-5-16
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Copper tool: rectangular razors
- HUMFA_38-5-17
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- HUMFA_38-5-15
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Jewelry element: faience beads
- HUMFA_38-5-22a
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Jewelry element: faience beads
- HUMFA_38-5-22b
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Jewelry element: faience spacers
- HUMFA_38-5-21
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Jewelry element: faience terminal
- HUMFA_38-5-20
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- Diary page dates 05/09/1938; 05/10/1938; 05/11/1938
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- Diary page dates 05/12/1938; 05/13/1938
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- Diary page dates 05/14/1938; 05/15/1938
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- Diary page dates 05/16/1938; 05/17/1938; 05/18/1938; 05/19/1938
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- Diary page dates 05/19/1938 through 05/26/1938
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- Diary page dates 05/25/1938
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- Diary page dates 05/27/1938; 05/28/1938
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- Diary page dates 05/28/1938
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- Diary page dates 05/29/1938; 05/30/1938; 05/31/1938; 06/01/1938
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- Diary page dates 06/01/1938; 06/02/1938
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- Diary page dates 06/06/1938; 06/07/1938; 06/08/1938
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_Contents1
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000mm_p121
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000mm_p123
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000mm_p124
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000mm_p125
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- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.29
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- ID: HUMFA_EG014224
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- ID: HUMFA_EG014227
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- ID: HUMFA_EG014228
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- ID: HUMFA_EG014230
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- ID: HUMFA_PL538
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1059
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1066
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- ID: HUMFA_PL1496
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Ballerini, Notizia, pp. 63-64 [top], with notes.
Curto, Silvio. Gli Scavi Italiani a el-Ghiza (1903). Rome: Centro Per Le Antichitá E La Storia Dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1993, pp. 83-85, figs. 34-35, 37b.
Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G170.
Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 123, plan 15.
Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L 13, Description of Cemetery G 4000, pp. 123-125.
Ancient People
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of G 4121. South false door inscribed for Ankhmare, identified as [sHD sSw a nswt Snwt] inspector of royal document scribes of the granary; also appears in chapel relief (west and south walls, figure only partially preserved on south wall); in situ in G 4121.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Probable son of Ankhmare (owner of G 4121). North false door inscribed for Kawab, idenitifed as [sS a nswt Snwt] royal document scribe of the granary; in situ in G 4121.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Daughter [sAt=f] of Ankhmare (owner of G 4121). Appears on north side of south false door inscribed for Ankhmare; in situ in G 4121.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates Italian, 1856–1928
- Remarks Turin University; Egyptologist. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
- Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121, chapel, false doors inscribed for Ankhmare and Kawab in situ, looking WSW from G 4220
ID: HUMFA_C14238_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4121
Description: Copper model implements from G 4121 A, Akhmare: 38-5-16 (three razors with rounded end and tang), 38-5-17 (three rectangular razors), 38-5-18 (two axe heads), 38-5-19 (one adze blade and fragments of others)
ID: HUMFA_B8973_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4122, G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4122 and G 4121, looking NE
ID: HUMFA_C14170_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121 X, door block, looking S
ID: HUMFA_C14171_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121 K, door block, looking S
ID: HUMFA_C14172_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121 K, burial (skeleton, 38-6-38) in chamber, looking S
ID: HUMFA_C14173_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121 X, burial (skeleton, 38-6-39) in chamber, looking S
ID: HUMFA_A2105_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121, chapel, false doors inscribed for Ankhmare and Kawab in situ, looking WSW from G 4220
ID: HUMFA_C5571_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121, G 4122
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121 A, three roofing stones over burial, looking S
ID: HUMFA_C5573_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121, W of G 4220, looking S
ID: HUMFA_A7287_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121, Ankhmare, chapel, W wall, S false door inscribed for Ankhmare, and relief to S (standing figure of Ankhmare), looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7288_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121, Ankhmare, chapel, W wall N of S false door, relief (registers of offering bearers and butchering), looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7289_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4121
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4121, Ankhmare, chapel, S wall, relief (remains of standing figure of Ankhmare, and son [?], and registers of agricultural scenes), looking S
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