G 7721

Eastern Cemetery

Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7721

Tomb Owner

Kakherptah (G 7721)
Excavator

George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942

Sir William Flinders Petrie, British, 1853–1942
PorterMoss Date

Dynasty 5
Site Type

Rock-cut tomb
Shafts

G 7721 Chapel
Remarks

Rock-cut tomb south of G 7716 and on the same level.

G 7721, Elevation of N wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025716
G 7721, Elevation of S wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025718
G 7721, Elevation of antechamber, W wall and columns
- ID HUMFA_EG025714
G 7721, Elevation of offering chamber, W wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025717
G 7721: relief from N column, N side
- ID HUMFA_EG025320
G 7721: relief from S column, S side
- ID HUMFA_EG025408
G 7721: relief from S drum
- ID HUMFA_EG025410
G 7721: relief from S side of W wall, false door
- ID HUMFA_EG025411
G 7721: relief from W wall, S false door, tablet
- ID HUMFA_EG025412
G 7721: relief from W wall, false door
- ID HUMFA_EG025407
G 7721: relief from middle column, N
- ID HUMFA_EG025406
G 7721: relief from outer chamber, W wall, S end
- ID HUMFA_EG025315
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, N door, S jamb
- ID HUMFA_EG025364
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, N door, drum
- ID HUMFA_EG025318
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, N door, jamb
- ID HUMFA_EG025313
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, N pillar
- ID HUMFA_EG025367
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, S door, S jamb
- ID HUMFA_EG025363
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, S pillar
- ID HUMFA_EG025314
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, S pillar, N face
- ID HUMFA_EG025369
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, middle pillar
- ID HUMFA_EG025319
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, middle pillar, S face
- ID HUMFA_EG025316
G 7721: relief from outer room, W wall, pillars
- ID HUMFA_EG025368
G 7721: relief from second drum from N
- ID HUMFA_EG025405

A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 1, page 234
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M02_p234
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 438a
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p438a
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 447
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p447
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 449d
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p449d
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 449e
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p449e
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 449f
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p449f
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 449g
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p449g
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 15: Chronological Order of Finished Mastabas in the Giza Necropolis, page 080
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_K15_p080
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 15: Chronological Order of Finished Mastabas in the Giza Necropolis, page 082
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_K15_p082
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 15: Chronological Order of Finished Mastabas in the Giza Necropolis, page 086
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_K15_p086

Bolshakov, Andrey. "Hinting as a Method of Old Kingdom Tomb Decoration I. The Offering-Stone and the False Door of the Dwarf Snb." Göttinger Miszellen 139 (1994), p. 15, note 8.

Fischer, Henry G. Varia Nova. Egyptian Studies 3. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996, p. 228, n. 412 #25.

Jánosi, Peter. "The Tombs of Officials. Houses of Eternity." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 38, note 54.

Kendall, Timothy. "An Unusual Rock-Cut Tomb at Giza." In William Kelly Simpson and Whitney M. David, eds. Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, pp. 104-114, figs. 1-12.

Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G259a.

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. 203.

Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box M 3, Description of Cemetery G 7000, pp. 449d-449g.

Ancient People

Kakherptah (G 7721)
- Type Tomb Owner

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.
Sir William Flinders Petrie
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates British, 1853–1942
- Remarks Father of British Egyptology.