Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Shepsi
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- Tomb Owner
- Shepsi (Shepsi)
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- Excavator
- Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
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- Attested
- Djefaibka (in Shepsi)
- Hui (in Shepsi)
- Kaemmerut (in Shepsi)
- Neferwates (in Shepsi)
- Suk (in Shepsi)
- Werkaptah (in Shepsi)
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- PorterMoss Date
- Dynasty 6
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- S 73; S 75; S 76; S 77; S 92; chapel
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- Remarks
- Mastaba is in field north of G 4460, west of Maethep. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on plan EG002029.
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Limestone false door tablet of Shepsi
- KHM_ÄS_8519
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Essen, 5000 Jahre, No. 44 with figure.
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 6. Die Mastabas des Nfr (Nefer), Kdfjj (Kedfi), Kahjf (Kahjef) und die westlich anschließenden Grabanlagen. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 72, Abhandlung 1. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1943, pp. 174-180, figs. 51, 59, 61-62, pl. 16 [c], plan after p. 273.
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. 121, plan 11.
Vienna, 5000 Jahre, No. 49.
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Daughter of Shepsi (owner of Shepsi, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Appears on false door tablet (KHM Vienna ÄS 8519) (lower register, last figure on left); found in mastaba of Shepsi.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Daughter of Shepsi (owner of Shepsi, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Appears on false door tablet (KHM Vienna ÄS 8519) (lower register, last figure on right); found in mastaba of Shepsi. Name uncertain.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Daughter of Shepsi (owner of Shepsi, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Appears on false door tablet (KHM Vienna ÄS 8519) (lower register, second figure from left); found in mastaba of Shepsi.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Wife (Hmt=f mrt=f] his beloved wife) of Shepsi (owner of Shepsi, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). False door tablet (KHM Vienna ÄS 8519) depicting Shepsi and his wife Neferwates seated at offering table, identified as [mjtrt] mitret; found in mastaba of Shepsi.
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of Shepsi (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). False door tablet (KHM Vienna ÄS 8519), depicting Shepsi and his wife seated at offering table, identified as [sHD jqdw] inspector of builders; found in mastaba of Shepsi.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Son of Shepsi (owner of Shepsi, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Appears on false door tablet (KHM Vienna ÄS 8519) (lower register, second figure from right); found in mastaba of Shepsi. Name uncertain.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Son of Shepsi (owner of Shepsi, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Appears on false door tablet (KHM Vienna ÄS 8519) (lower register, third figure from left); found in mastaba of Shepsi.
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: KHM_AEOS_I_5299
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Maathep, S 60/103, S 57, S 53/86, S 72/79, S 63, S 70, Shepsi
Description: Junker Cemetery (east): mastaba of Maathep (foreground right) with mastaba S 60/103 (to N, middle ground right), mastaba S 57 (foreground center left) with mastabas S 53/86 and S 72/79 (to N), and intrusive shafts S 63 and S 70 (to E of S 72/79), mastaba of Shepsi (W of S 72/79, middle ground left), looking N toward G 2100-II and S end of G 2120
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5266
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 51/56, S 97, Shepsi, S 53/86, S 72/79, S 63, S 70
Description: Junker Cemetery (east): top of N end of mastaba S 51/56 (foreground center) with mastabas S 97 and Shepsi (to N), mastaba S 53/86 (foreground right) with mastaba S 72/79 (to N) and intrusive shafts S 63 and S 70 (to E of S 72/79, not labeled), looking N toward G 2100-II and S end of G 2120
ID: HUMFA_EG019920
Subjects: Maps and plans: Plan 3: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian Excavation Concession (Central Strip)
Description: Tombs appearing on this map: D 103, D 105, D 106, D 107, D 108, D 109, D 110, D 111, D 112, D 220, G 2000, G 2100-I, G 2100-II, G 2120, G 2135, G 2136, G 2140, G 2155, G 2156, G 2160, G 4000, G 4140, G 4150, G 4160, G 4240, G 4241, G 4250, G 4260, G 4340, G 4350, G 4351, G 4360, G 4361, G 4440, G 4442, G 4450, G 4451, G 4452, G 4453, G 4460, G 4461, G 4462, G 4540, G 4544, G 4550, G 4551, G 4552, G 4560, G 4561, G 4640, G 4644, G 4645, G 4646, G 4650, G 4651, G 4660, G 4740, G 4750, G 4751, G 4752, G 4760, G 4761, G 4762, G 4763, G 4764, G 4765, G 4840, G 4850, G 4851, G 4860, G 4940, G 4941, G 4950, G 4960, Block Mastaba, Djednefret, Hesy, Ibinezem, Iuf, Kaninisut [III], Kedfy, Kednes [I], Khenu, Khnemu, Kheptjet, Khuy, Maet-hep, Mastaba of Companion, Mastaba X, Medunefer (1), Meruka, Minu, Nefer [II], Neferen, Neferihi, Niankh-hathor, Nikaukhnum & Neferesris, Nimaatre, Nisu, Nu, Ptahwer, Sensen, Shepsi, User, Weri, Werkai, S 1, S 2, S 3, S 4/13, S 5/18, S 8/82, S 17, S 18/84, S 20/24, S 27, S 28, S 29, S 51/56, S 53/86, S 57, S 60/103, S 67/90, S 68/78, S 72/79, S 80a, S 83, S 85, S 87, S 91/93, S 95/112, S 97, S 100a, S 104, S 106/117, S 108, S 109, S 111/115, S 114, S 116, S 118, S 119, S 120/666, S 122, S 128, S 129, S 137, S 174, S 179, S 219, S 262, S 292/294, S 296/876, S 299/303, S 304, S 406, S 984, S 1011, S 1013, S 1016, S 1020, S 1023/1024, S 2000/2005, S 2006, S 2007, S 2033, S 2034, S 2035, S 2040/2043, S 2065, S 2071/2145, S 2083, S 2090, S 2109, S 2110/2111, S 2112/2115, S 2120/2126, S 2153, S 2155, S 2171/2176, S 2174, S 2177, S 2181/2260, S 2191/2199, S 2192/2213, S 2195/2196, S 2203/2207, S 2205/2212, S 2208/2232, S 2225/2227, S 2393/2427, S 2390, S 2391, S 2404, S 2405, S 2407/2413, S 2411, S 2414, S 2416, S 2417, S 2419/2428, S 2420/2421, S 2422/2423, S 2426, S 2430, S 2433/2439, S 2435, S 2443, S 2441, S 2446
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Shepsi
Description: False door tablet inscribed for Shepsi from mastaba of Shepsi, N false door (Shepsi and his wife Neferwates seated at offering table, and his children below: Djefaibka, Kaemmerut, Werkaptah, Suk, Hui): Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 8519
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5196
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Shepsi
Description: Junker Cemetery (east): mastaba of Shepsi, shaft S 76, looking __
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5260
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 67/90, S 97, S 95/112, Shepsi, S 72/79
Description: Junker Cemetery (east): mastaba S 67/90 (foreground center) with mastaba S 97 (to E) and mastaba S 95/112 (to W), mastaba of Shepsi (N of S 97) and mastaba S 72/79 (to E of Shepsi), looking N toward G 2100-II
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5443
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Maathep, S 60/103, S 53/86, S 72/79, S 63, S 70, Shepsi
Description: Junker Cemetery (east): mastaba of Maathep (foreground, offering stone inscribed for Maathep visible on top of mastaba near N end) with mastaba S 60/103 (to N) and mastabas S 53/86 and S 72/79 (to W and NW), and instrusive shafts S 63 and S 70 (to E of S 72/79), mastaba of Shepsi (W of S 72/79, middle ground center left), looking NW toward G 2100-II and S end of G 2120
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Shepsi
Description: False door tablet inscribed for Shepsi from mastaba of Shepsi, N false door (Shepsi and his wife Neferwates seated at offering table, and his children below: Djefaibka, Kaemmerut, Werkaptah, Suk, Hui): Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 8519
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5244
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Shepsi
Description: Junker Cemetery (east): mastaba of Shepsi, shaft S 77, looking S
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5223
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Shepsi
Description: Junker Cemetery (east): mastaba of Shepsi, shaft S 92, looking __
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_2798
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Shepsi, Kednes [I]
Description: Inscribed lintel, block of relief, false door tablet: top: block of inscribed lintel found in street S of G 4761 (see Junker, Giza 6, p. 80); bottom left: block of relief depicting Merykhufu from mastaba of Kednes [I]: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 8548; bottom right: false door tablet of Shepsi from mastaba of Shepsi: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 8519
![Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Shepsi, Kednes [I]](http://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/images/MFA-images/Giza/GizaImage/full/KHM/AEOS_II_2798.jpg)