Digital Giza | G 4764

Maps and plans: Plan 3: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian Excavation Concession (Central Strip)

Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
Junker No

S 2082/2087
Site Type

Stone-built mastaba
Shafts

S 2082; S 2085; S 2087; S 2081; S 2084; S 2086; S 2088
Remarks

Junker plan in Giza 6 not labeled as G 4766. Junker's three shafts (S 2082, 2087 & 2088) are surrounded by four shafts that might be intrusive: S 2081, 2084, 2086, & 2088. Porter-Moss plan draws but does not label tomb.

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 6. Die Mastabas des Nfr (Nefer), Kdfjj (Kedfi), Kahjf (Kahjef) und die westlich anschließenden Grabanlagen. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 72, Abhandlung 1. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1943, pp. 78, 231, fig. 19, plan after p. 273.

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, plan 15.

Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L 13, Description of Mastabas in Cemetery G 4000, page 25.

Hermann Junker
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
- Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.

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