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G 4340

Western Cemetery

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4340

Details

  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Alternate Reisner No
    IV 3
  • PorterMoss Date
    Middle or late Dynasty 4
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 4340 A; 4340 Chapel a
  • Remarks
    Major mastaba in field east of G 4000, east of G 4240 and west of G 4440. Reisner originally called this mastaba IV 3.

Finds 69

Excavation Diary Pages 24

Maps & Plans 18

Drawings 28

Published Documents 5

Unpublished Documents 81

Full Bibliography

  • Jánosi, Peter. "The Tombs of Officials. Houses of Eternity." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 38, note 39.

    Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven & Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University & University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, pp. 118, 123, 131, 164, figs. 189- 191, 210, 250.

    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. 126, plan 15.

    Reisner, George A. "Accessions to the Egyptian Department During 1914." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 13, No. 76 (April 1915), pp. 29-31, 32, figs. 1-2, 13.

    Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 201 [6], 471-475, figs. 284, pls. 48 [d, e, f], 49 [a, b], 53 [b]

    Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pp. 227-252, pl. 6 [a].

People 1

Modern People

  • George Andrew Reisner

    • 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.