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Menib

Western Cemetery

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Menib

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Menib (Menib)
  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • PorterMoss Date
    Late Old Kingdom
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    S 4215; S 4314; chapel
  • Remarks
    Mastaba built southwest of Nebetpedju, northwest of Hepetweser and east of S4326/4330. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on plan EG002029.

Maps & Plans 2

Published Documents 5

Full Bibliography

  • Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950, pp. 216-218, fig. 99, pl. 4[a], plan 3 after pl. 20.

    Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G318.

    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. 104, plan 13.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Menib (Menib)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Possible owner of Menib (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Upper part of false door inscribed for Menib, identified as [rxt nswt Hm-nTr HwtHr] royal acquaintance, priestess of Hathor; found displaced in shaft S 4314 in mastaba of Menib.

Modern People

  • 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.