Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Nikaukhnum
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- Tomb Owner
- Nikaukhnum (Nikaukhnum)
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- Excavator
- Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
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- Attested
- Neferseres (in Nikaukhnum)
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- Harpur Date
- Niuserre - Teti
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- PorterMoss Date
- Late Dyn 5 or early Dyn 6
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- S 2236; S 2238; S 2243; S 2256; serdab; chapel
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- Remarks
- Mastaba is south of G 2000 and east of Meruka (2). Possibly should be called by name of husband and wife: Nikaukhnum & Neferesris.
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Hornemann, Types, v, pl. 1163.
Junker in Anzeiger, Wien, 63 (1926), pp. 98-99, 101, pl. 8 [a, b].
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. 59-66, figs. 23-26, pls. 7(c), 12(b), plan 1 after pl. 20.
Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G368.
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. 119, plan 11.
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Chapel entrance drum lintel inscribed for Neferesres, identified as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; in situ in mastaba of Nikaukhnum (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker).
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of Nikaukhnum (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Appears in chapel relief, south wall of chapel recess (seated at offering table); in situ in mastaba of Nikaukhnum.
Modern People
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- 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.