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G 6010

Western Cemetery

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 6010

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Neferbauptah (in G 6010)
  • Excavator
    (Karl) Richard Lepsius, German, 1810–1884
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Attested
    Iymery (G 6020)
    Khenut (in G 6010)
    Neferseshemptah (in G 6010)
    Nikauhathor (in G 6020)
  • Lepsius No
    LG 15
    L.15
    Lepsius 15
  • PorterMoss Date
    Middle to end of Dynasty 5
  • Baer Date
    Mid Dynasty 5 to late Dynasty 5
  • Harpur Date
    Niuserre
  • Reisner Date
    Niuserre
  • idem Date
    After Niuserre
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 6010 Serdab; G 6010 A; G 6010 X; G 6010 Chapel a; G 6010 Chapel b; G 6010 Chapel c; G 6010 Chapel d; G 6010 Chapel e; G 6010 Chapel f; G 6010 Chapel g

Finds 53

Excavation Diary Pages 32

Maps & Plans 22

Drawings 37

Published Documents 13

Unpublished Documents 69

Full Bibliography

  • Baud, Michel. "The Tombs of Khamerernebty I and II at Giza." Göttinger Miszellen 164 (1998), p. 13, unnumbered figure.

    Callender, Vivienne G. "A Contribution to the Burial of Women in the Old Kingdom." In Filip Coppens, ed. Abusir and Saqqara in the year 2001. Proceedings of the Symposium (Prague, September 25th-27th, 2001). Archiv Orientální 70, No. 3 (August 2002). Prague: Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, p. 304.

    Chauvet, Violaine. “Decoration and Architecture: The Definition of Private Tomb Environment.” Servant of Mut. Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente. Leiden: Brill, 2008, p. 46 note 22.

    Junker, Hermann. Gîza 3. Die Mastabas der vorgeschrittenen V. Dynastie auf dem Westfriedhof. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1938, pp. 42-43 [32].

    Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G227.

    Manuelian, Peter Der. "Hemiunu, Pehenptah, and German/American Collaboration at the Giza Necropolis (Giza Archives Project Gleanings: II)." In Antje Spiekermann, ed. Zur Zierde gereicht. . . Festschrift Bettina Schmitz zum 60. Geburtstag am 24. Juli 2008, HIldesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 50. Hildesheim: Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg, 2008, p. 32.

    Manuelian, Peter. "An Approach to Archaeological Information Management: The Giza Archives Project." In Filip Coppens, ed. Abusir and Saqqara in the year 2001. Proceedings of the Symposium (Prague, September 25th-27th, 2001). Archiv Orientální 70, No. 3 (August 2002). Prague: Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, p. 72, fig. 4.15.

    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, pp. 169-70, plan 13.

    Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 217, 290, 314, fig. 188.

    Reisner, George A. "A Family of Royal Estate Stewards of Dynasty V." Reprinted in Kent R. Weeks. Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000. Giza Mastabas 5. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, pp. 4-6.

    Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L14.

    Roth, Ann Macy. "Little Women: Gender and Hierarchic Proportion in Old Kingdom Mastaba Chapels." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, pp. 286-287, table 2.

    Strudwick, Nigel. "Three Monuments of Old Kingdom Treasury Officials." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 71 (1985), p. 50.

    Weeks, Kent R. Mastabas of Cemetery G 6000. Giza Mastabas 5. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, pp. 21-9, 63-7, figs. 58-60, pls. 3, 6, 9-24.

Photos 80

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People 7

Ancient People

Modern People

  • (Karl) Richard Lepsius

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates German, 1810–1884
    • Remarks Egyptologist. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.

  • 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.