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Nu(?)

Western Cemetery

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Nu(?) (Nu(?))
  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • PorterMoss Date
    Dynasty 5-6
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Remarks
    Mastaba is against northeast corner of G 4360 and against south side of D 116. Fragments of false-doors with text left of doorway of D 117.

Maps & Plans 1

Published Documents 2

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. 40-41, 47-50, figs. 14, 17-18, plan 1 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. 114, plans 11, 15.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Nu(?) (Nu(?))

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Appears on fragments of upper part of false door (one of two figures seated at offering table, false door incomplete, name perhaps only partially preserved); found in mastaba of Nu(?) (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker).

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.