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Mensutitnisut

Western Cemetery

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza: View: Mensutitnisut

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Mensutitnisut (Mensutitnisut)
  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • PorterMoss Date
    Late Dynasty 6
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    S 4513
  • Remarks
    Mastaba is against east wall of Itju and off northwest corner of Demeg.

Finds 1

Maps & Plans 1

Published Documents 3

Full Bibliography

  • Junker, Hermann. Gîza 5. Die Mastaba des Snb (Seneb) und die umliegenden Gräber. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 71, Abhandlung 2. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1941. pp. 188-192, figs. 59-60, pl. 12 [a], plan after p. 213.

    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, plan 3.

    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

  • Mensutitnisut (Mensutitnisut)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of Mensutitnisut (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Offering basin (KHM Vienna ÄS 8185) inscribed for Mensutitnisut, identified as [smsw pr n jrj-pat] elder of the house of the hereditary prince; found in situ in front of niche in east face of mastaba of Mensutitnisut.

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.