Digital Giza | Lepsius 63

Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Lepsius 63

Tomb Owner

Kaemnefret (Lepsius 63)
Excavator

(Karl) Richard Lepsius, German, 1810–1884
Attested

Hetetu (in Lepsius 63)

Kaemnefret (in Lepsius 63)
Lepsius No

LG 63

L.63

Lepsius 63 x
PorterMoss Date

Dynasty 5-6
Site Type

Rock-cut tomb
Shafts

1 shaft; chapel with 2 rooms; Lepsius 63 x
Remarks

Rock-cut tomb south of Cheops causeway, well northeast of G 7510. Doorway facing East.

Lepsius 63: relief from E wall, above, N, and S of entrance
- ID HUMFA_EG025594
Relief from Lepsius 55, W wall, false door, and Lepius 63, S wall and S jamb
- ID HUMFA_EG025511
Relief from Lepsius 63, N wall, and G 2370, Room III, W wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025572

A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 428a
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p428a
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 429
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p429
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 491a
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p491a
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page Contents 12
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_Contents12
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 15: Chronological Order of Finished Mastabas in the Giza Necropolis, page 080
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_K15_p080
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 15: Chronological Order of Finished Mastabas in the Giza Necropolis, page 082
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_K15_p082
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 15: Chronological Order of Finished Mastabas in the Giza Necropolis, page 086
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_K15_p086

Badawy, Alexander. The Tombs of Iteti, Sekhem'ankh-Ptah, and Kaemnofert at Giza. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976, pp. 25-33, pls. 25-36

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, p. 48 [43].

Kendall, Timothy. "An Unusual Rock-Cut Tomb at Giza." In William Kelly Simpson and Whitney M. David, eds. Studies in Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham on the Occasion of his 90th Birthday, June 1, 1980. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1981, p. 107, n. 11.

Lepsius, Denkmaeler Text 1, p. 87.

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. 208-209, plan 18.

Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box M 3, Description of Cemetery G 7000, p. 429.

Ancient People

Hetetu (in Lepsius 63)
- Type Attested
Kaemnefret (Lepsius 63)
- Type Tomb Owner
Kaemnefret (in Lepsius 63)
- Type Attested
- Remarks Small son of Kaemnefret

Modern People

(Karl) Richard Lepsius
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1810–1884
- Remarks Egyptologist. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.