Digital Giza | Lepsius 78

Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Lepsius 78

Tomb Owner

Perseneb (Lepsius 78)
Attested

Hetephernefret (Lepsius 78)
Excavator

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

L.78

LG 78
PorterMoss Date

Middle Dynasty 5 or Dynasty 6
Site Type

Rock-cut tomb

Drawing of relief from W walls from G 8091 and Lepsius 79
- ID HUMFA_EG025510
Relief from Lepsius 69, Lepsius 76, Lepsius 77, Lepsius 78, G 8080
- ID HUMFA_EG025525

Kendall, Timothy. "An Unusual Rock-Cut Tomb at Giza." In William Kelly Simpson and Whitney M. Davis, 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, pp. 104-114.
- Date: 1981
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A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 428a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A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 435
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p435
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page 436
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_M03_p436
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix P: Cemetery G 7000: Part 2, page Contents 12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

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 (mistakenly referred to as LG 75).

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. 212, plan 18.

Ancient People

Hetephernefret (Lepsius 78)
- Type Attested
Perseneb (Lepsius 78)
- Type Tomb Owner

Modern People

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