Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7820
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- Tomb Owner
- Nefretkau (G 7820)
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- Excavator
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
- Tewfik Boulos (Effendi)
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- Attested
- Iynefer (G 7820)
- Meresankh II (G 7410-7420)
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- Alternate Reisner No
- G 7590
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- PorterMoss Date
- End of Dyn 4 or early Dyn 5
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 7820 A; G 7820 B
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- HUMFA_36-2-3
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- HUMFA_36-2-5
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- HUMFA_36-2-6
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Fragment of faience amulet of deity
- HUMFA_36-2-2
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- HUMFA_36-2-4
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- HUMFA_31-1-198
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- HUMFA_36-2-25
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- HUMFA_36-2-1
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- HUMFA_36-2-8
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Stone tool: sandstone whetstone
- HUMFA_36-2-9
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- HUMFA_31-1-162
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- Diary page dates 01/16/1931; 01/17/1931
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- Diary page dates 01/17/1931
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- Diary page dates 01/17/1931; 01/18/1931
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- Diary page dates 01/18/1931; 01/19/1931
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- Diary page dates 01/19/1931; 01/20/1931; 01/21/1931
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- Diary page dates 01/21/1931; 01/22/1931
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- Diary page dates 01/19/1936
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- Diary page dates 01/19/1936
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- Diary page dates 01/20/1936; 01/21/1936; 01/22/1936; 01/23/1936; 01/24/1936
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- Diary page dates 01/30/1936; 01/31/1936; 02/01/1936; 02/02/1936
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- Diary page dates 02/03/1936 through 02/12/1936
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- Diary page dates 02/13/1936 through 02/19/1936
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- Diary page dates 02/19/1936
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- Diary page dates 11/19/1936 through 11/25/1936
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- Diary page dates 03/07/1937 through 03/16/1937
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- ID HUMFA_EG022508
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G 7820, Schematic drawing of chapel
- ID HUMFA_EG022501
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- ID HUMFA_EG025409
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G 7820: relief from N chapel, W wall, false door, N jamb
- ID HUMFA_EG025317
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G 7820: relief from W wall, N of chapel, lintel over false door
- ID HUMFA_EG025370
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G 7820: relief from chapel, N wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025416
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G 7820: relief from chapel, N wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025371
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G 7820: relief from chapel, W wall, false door panel
- ID HUMFA_EG025323
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G 7820: relief from chapel, entrance, N wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025415
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G 7820: relief from chapel, entrance, S wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025366
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G 7820: relief from chapel, entrance, S wall, reveal, door hole
- ID HUMFA_EG025414
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G 7820: relief from chapel, false door, drum lintel
- ID HUMFA_EG025322
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G 7820: relief from facade, N of entrance
- ID HUMFA_EG025372
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G 7820: relief from facade, S of entrance
- ID HUMFA_EG025324
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G 7820: relief from false door
- ID HUMFA_EG022507
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G 7820: schematic drawing of chapel
- ID HUMFA_EG022506
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G 7820: schematic drawing of chapel
- ID HUMFA_EG022509
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reliefs from G 7391, G 7652, G 7753, G 7759, G 7820
- ID HUMFA_EG020445
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K11_ApxB1_mastabaheight
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K13_ApxB2_p107&108part1
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K13_ApxB2_p107&108part2
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K11_ApxB1_Corrections2
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- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.23
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- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.28
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Flentye, Laurel. "The Development of Art in the Eastern and GIS Cemeteries at Giza during the Fourth Dynasty: Iconography and Style." In Jean-Claude Goyon and Christine Cardin, eds. Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists, Grenoble, 6-12 septembre 2004, vol. I. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 150. Leuven: Uitgeveru Peeters en Departement Oosterse Studies, 2007, pp. 723, 729, 733, notes 10, 42, fig. 1.
Jánosi, Peter. "Bemerkungen zur Entstehung, Lage und Datierung der Nekropolenfelder von Giza unter Cheops." Sokar 4 (1. Halbjahr 2002), p. 9, note 16.
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. 205.
Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis, Volume I, pp. 60, 116 [30], 209 [33].
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Husband of Princess Nefretkau (G 7820), possibly the daughter of Queen Meresankh II.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Meresankh buried in G 7410.
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- Type Tomb Owner
Modern People
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- 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.
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks Antiquities inspector. After 1924, Chief Inspector of the Department of Antiquities in Egypt.
ID: HUMFA_EG010029
Subjects: Maps and plans: Plan of cemetery G 7000: G 7810 (= G 7580) and G 7820 (= G 7590) and surrounding area
ID: HUMFA_B8233_NS
Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7820
Description: G 7820, false door
ID: HUMFA_C13698_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1157, G 4341, G 7820, G 7810, G 2337, G 1204
Description: Beads and other jewelry elements and amulets: top row: [G 1157 C] 35-5-26 (sample of faience ring beads), [G 7820] 36-2-3 (faience udjat), [G 7810 B] 36-1-9 (faience udjat); middle row: [G 4341 B] three samples of faience necklace elements: 34-8-4c (spacer, upper), 34-8-4b (spacer, lower), 34-8-4d (pendant), [G 2337 V] 35-10-2 (faience amulet); bottom row: [G 4341 B] 34-8-4a (faience terminal), [G 7820] 36-2-2 (faience amulet), [G 1204 X] 35-6-3 (bone button seal), [G 7810 B] 36-1-8 (faience amulet of Thoth)
ID: HUMFA_A6945_NS
Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7820
Description: Rock-cut tombs in E edge of pyramid plateau: G 7820, Iynefer, E wall, S end, damaged relief
ID: PDM_1993.069.05
Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7820
Description: G 7820, Iynefer, entrance, looking W
ID: PDM_00608
Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7510, G 7820 G 7810
Description: Cemetery G 7000: street between G 7810 (to W) and G 7820 (to E), looking S to N face of G 7510
ID: PDM_00612
Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7820
Description: G 7820, Iynefer, area in front of chapel, looking NE from SE corner of mastaba
ID: PDM_00613
Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7820
Description: G 7820, Iynefer, chapel, looking NW
ID: PDM_00614
Subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 7820
Description: G 7820, Iynefer, chapel, looking W
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