Digital Giza | Lepsius 71

Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza, View: Lepsius 71

Excavator

(Karl) Richard Lepsius, German, 1810–1884
Lepsius No

LG 71

L.71
PorterMoss Date

Dynasty 5-6
Site Type

Rock-cut tomb
Shafts

chapel; 1 shaft; other shafts not recorded
Remarks

Rock-cut tomb north of G 7710 and partly under G 7523, on west side of courtyard with doorway facing go east.

Fragment of limestone vessel (?)
- HUMFA_40-6-2
Limestone canopic jars and lids
- HUMFA_40-6-1

Vol.36.p.1004
- Diary page dates 05/20/1940; 05/29/1940
Vol.36.p.1005
- Diary page dates 05/29/1940; 05/30/1940; 05/31/1940
Vol.36.p.1006
- Diary page dates 06/04/1940; 06/05/1940; 06/06/1940; 06/07/1940; 06/08/1940; 06/09/1940
Vol.36.p.1007
- Diary page dates 06/10/1940 through 06/17/1940
Vol.36.p.1009
- Diary page dates 08/31/1940 through 11/02/1940
Vol.36.p.1010
- Diary page dates 11/03/1940 through 12/12/1940

Lepsius 71, Shaft A: canopic jars and lids, limestone
- ID HUMFA_EG025106
Lepsius 71: lintel inscribed for Itisen and Nefret from court, N side
- ID HUMFA_EG021503
Objects from G 7710, Shaft A and Lepsius 71
- ID HUMFA_EG024926

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

A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 1, page 233
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M02_p233
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 428a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A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 432
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p432
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 438a
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p438a
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 438b
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p438b
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 449g
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p449g
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 491a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A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 491f
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p491f
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

Bothmer, Bernard V. Egypt 1950: My First Visit. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003, p. 140.

Lepsius, Denkmaeler 1, fig. 26.

Lepsius, Denkmaeler Text 1, p. 90.

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. 211, plan 18.

Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 233-234, fig. 139 [bottom].

Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box M 3, Description of Cemetery G 7000, p. 432.

Modern People

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