Digital Giza | G 9400

Maps and plans: General Plan of Central Field

Tomb Owner

Ptahardais (G 9400)
Excavator

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, British, 1797–1875
Hassan No.

Rock Cut Tomb
Other No

Ptahardais
PorterMoss Date

Dynasty 26
Site Type

Rock-cut tomb
Shafts

2-columned court
Remarks

Rock cut tomb built off northwest corner of Sphinx, southwest of G 9210 (Kawehem), south of G 9440 (Uninscribed rock cut tomb) and north of G 9410 (Pedubaste). Seen by Wilkinson in 1821.

Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 9: 1936-37-38. The Mastabas of the Eighth Season and their Description. Cairo: General Organisation for Government Printing Offices, 1960.
- Date: 1960
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.
- Date: 1974

Birch in The Museum of Classical Antiquities, ii [i] (1852), position on plan facing p. 34 [E, middle].

Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 9: 1936-37-38. The Mastabas of the Eighth Season and their Description. Cairo: General Organisation for Government Printing Offices, 1960, folded plan, U-4.

Mariette, Auguste. Les mastabas de l'ancien empire. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1889, fig. on p. 551 [top, middle].

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. 291, plans 6, 35.

Wilkinson MSS. iv. 30 [right], 31, plan on 30 [lower right].

Ancient People

Ptahardais (G 9400)
- Type Tomb Owner

Modern People

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates British, 1797–1875