G I-South Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Mastaba VIII, Mastaba IX
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- Excavator
- Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
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- Junker No
- M. VIII
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- Reisner No
- G VII S
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- Reisner No., alternate spelling
- G I S No.7
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- PorterMoss Date
- Menkaure
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- Shaft North; Shaft South; chapel
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- Remarks
- Mastaba is one of nine major tombs (as well as two "potential" ones) built in a line along south side of Khufu Pyramid, east of Mastaba VII and west of Mastaba IX. Junker assigned numbers I to XI for this row of mastabas. Mastaba II was not assigned as the space where II would have been was filled with collection of smaller mastabas. Reisner assigned numbers I to X sequentially to the nine major mastabas that were actually built (and Lepsius 52 = Junker's Mastaba V = Reisner's G IV S).
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K03_ChapX_p155
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K03_ChapX_p175
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Jánosi, Peter. "Aspects of Mastaba Development: The Position of Shafts and the Identification of Tomb Owners." 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. 349, fig. 5.
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 10. Der Friedhof südlich der Cheopspyramide: Westteil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 74, Abhandlung 1. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1951, pp. 83-90, figs. 5, 14, 36, pls. 4, 5, 12, plan 2 of 2 after p. 211.
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. 220, plan 19.
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.
ID: HUMFA_A6977_NS
Subjects: G I-South Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Mastaba, VI, Mastaba VII, Mastaba VIII, Mastaba IX, Mastaba X, Nisusankh, Nisuhenu, Sehetepu Tepu, Heneni, Khenut, Lepsius 53, Lepsius 54, Lepsius 55, Seshemnefer-tjeti, Ptahhetep
Description: G I-South Cemetery (mastabas S of Khufu pyramid), E end, including Mastaba, VI, Mastaba VII, Mastaba VIII, Mastaba IX, Mastaba X, and mastabas of Nisusankh, Nisuhenu, Sehetepu Tepu, Heneni, Khenut, and Seshemnefer [IV] complex, looking SSE to Sphinx and beyond from top of Khufu pyramid
ID: HUMFA_EG019923
Subjects: Maps and plans: Plan 6: Cemetery G I-South of German-Austrian Excavation Concession (East Half)
Description: Partial plan of the German-Austrian concession: G I-South Cemetery, south of the Khufu pyramid, eastern half, published in H. Junker, Giza 10
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5030
Subjects: G I-South Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Mastaba VIII, Mastaba IX
Description: G I-South Cemetery: space between Mastaba VIII (to W) and Mastaba IX (to E), looking S
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5031
Subjects: G I-South Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Mastaba VII, Mastaba VIII
Description: G I-South Cemetery: space between Mastaba VII (to W) and Mastaba VIII (to E), looking S
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5047
Subjects: G I-South Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Mastaba VII, Mastaba VIII
Description: G I-South Cemetery: space between Mastaba VII (to W) and Mastaba VIII (to E), looking N
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5060
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Mastaba VIII
Description: Fragments of alabaster statues found near (to N of) Mastaba VIII
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5061
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Mastaba VIII
Description: Fragments of alabaster statues found near (to N of) Mastaba VIII
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5062
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Mastaba VIII
Description: Damaged head of alabaster statue of woman found near (to N of) Mastaba VIII
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5063
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Mastaba VIII
Description: Damaged head of alabaster statue of woman found near (to N of) Mastaba VIII
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5246
Subjects: Khufu Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Mastaba VIII, Khufu Pyramid Enclosure Wall
Description: G I-South Cemetery: sloping passage cut in bedrock adjacent to Khufu pyramid S enclosure wall at NW corner of Mastaba VIII (possibly intended for planned but never built subsidiary pyramid), looking E
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5251
Subjects: Khufu Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Mastaba VIII
Description: G I-South Cemetery: sloping passage cut in bedrock adjacent to Khufu pyramid S enclosure wall at NW corner of Mastaba VIII (possibly intended for planned but never built subsidiary pyramid), looking S
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_5264
Subjects: G I-South Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Mastaba VIII
Description: G I-South Cemetery: Mastaba VIII, S shaft, burial chamber, sarcophagus, looking SSE
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