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G 4733

Western Cemetery

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4733

Details

  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • PorterMoss Date
    Late Dynasty 5 or Dynasty 6
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 4733 A; G 4733 B; G 4733 C; G 4733 D; G 4733 E; G 4733 F; G 4733 G; G 4733 Serdab; G 4733 Chapel a; G 4733 Chapel b

Finds 147

Excavation Diary Pages 7

  • Vol.07.p.011[4]

    • Diary page dates 02/17/1914; 02/18/1914; 02/19/1914; 02/20/1914; 02/21/1914; 02/22/1914

  • Vol.07.p.012[4]

    • Diary page dates 02/23/1914; 02/24/1914; 02/25/1914

  • Vol.07.p.013[4]

    • Diary page dates 02/25/1914; 02/26/1914; 02/27/1914

  • Vol.07.p.014[4]

    • Diary page dates 02/27/1914; 02/28/1914

  • Vol.07.p.015[4]

    • Diary page dates 02/28/1914

  • Vol.08.p.016

    • Diary page dates 03/01/1914; 03/02/1914; 03/03/1914; 03/04/1914; 03/05/1914; 03/06/1914

  • Vol.27.p.088

    • Diary page dates 07/29/1935; 07/30/1935; 07/31/1935; 08/01/1935

Maps & Plans 12

Drawings 71

Published Documents 5

Unpublished Documents 122

Full Bibliography

  • Brovarski, Edward. "A Second Style in Egyptian Relief of the Old Kingdom." In Stephen E. Thomson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond. Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005, Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, p. 72, note 122.

    Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G188.

    Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, pp. 136-137.

    Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 53, fig. 57.

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.