Digital Giza | G 9550

Maps and plans: General Plan of Central Field

Tomb Owner

Ahmose (G 9550)

Nakhtbasteru (G 9550)
Attested

Amasis (in G 9550)

Tashentihet (in G 9550)
Excavator

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

L.83

LG 83

Lepsius 83
PorterMoss Date

Dynasty 26
Site Type

Rock-cut tomb
Remarks

Mastaba is on north side of and along Khafre's Causeway, northwest of the Sphinx, east of G 9600 (Lepsius 82) and west of G 9500 (Lepsius 84). Excavated by Lepsius.

Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 9: 1936-37-38. The Mastabas of the Eighth Season and their Description. Cairo: General Organisation for Government Printing Offices, 1960, folded plan, O/R-4/5, not drawn.

Hawass, Zahi. "The Khufu Statuette: Is it an Old Kingdom Sculpture?" In Paule Posener-Kriéger, ed. Mélanges Gamal Eddin Mokhtar, vol. I. Cairo: Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1985, p. 391.

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. 289-290, plan 3.

Ahmose (G 9550)
- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Son of Queen Nakhtbasteru & King Amasis.
Amasis (in G 9550)
- Type Attested
- Remarks Twenty-Sixth Dynasty Pharaoh, husband of Queen Nakhtbasteru, and father of Ahmose (G 9550).
Nakhtbasteru (G 9550)
- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Wife of Pharaoh Amasis and mother of Ahmose (G 9550).
Tashentihet (in G 9550)
- Type Attested
- Remarks Daughter of Desnub & ?

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

G 9550