Digital Giza | Meshetj

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Meshetj

Tomb Owner

Meshetj (Meshetj)
Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
PorterMoss Date

Dynasty 6
Site Type

Stone-casing mastaba
Shafts

S 4396; S 4397; S 4398; S 4403
Remarks

Mastaba built against west side of G 1351 at its south end, and against north side of S 4370/4378. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on plan EG002029.

Bolshakov, Andrey. "Osiris in the Fourth Dynasty Again? The False Door of Jntj, MFA 31.781." In Hedvig Györy, ed. Mélanges offerts à Edith Varga. Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément-2001, Budapest: Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 2001, pp. 71, 72, n. 60.

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. 233-236, figs. 105-106, pls. 2 [c], 18 [a, c], plan 3 after pl. 20.

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. 105, plan 13.

Meshetj (Meshetj)
- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of Meshetj (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Chapel entrance drum lintel inscribed for Meshetj, identified as [sHD wabw Axt-xwfw] inspector of wab-priests of the pyramid of Khufu; in situ in mastaba of Meshetj.

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.

Meshetj