Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
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- Tomb Owner
- Ptahhetep (G 1156)
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- Excavator
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- PorterMoss Date
- Late Dynasty 5
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 1156 A; G 1156 B; G 1156 C; G 1156 D; G 1156 U; G 1156 V; G 1156 X; G 1156 Y; G 1156 Serdab
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- Diary page dates 05/24/1935; 05/25/1935
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G 1156, Shaft Y: relief from tablet (damaged) from false door (?)
- ID HUMFA_EG020778
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L04_G1000TombPlans_p005
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- ID: HUMFA_EG010875
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- ID: HUMFA_EG010878
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- ID: HUMFA_EG010882
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- ID: HUMFA_EG010884
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- ID: HUMFA_EG010886
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- ID: HUMFA_EG010888
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- ID: HUMFA_EG010890
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- ID: HUMFA_EG010893
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Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G69.
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, pencil margin notes of added finds on page 56.
Ancient People
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of G 1156. Lintel (above false door) inscribed for Ptahhetep, identified as [sAb jmj-r sSw sAb aD-mr nj-nst-xntt wr mDw Sma] juridicial overseer of scribes, judge and administrator, preeminent of place, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt; in situ in G 1156 chapel.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
- Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1156
Description: Displaced damaged (false door ?) tablet (seated couple at offering table) from G 1156 Y (found in debris of pit)
ID: HUMFA_C12699_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156, x (= exterior) pits behind (to W of) mastaba (pits U and V), looking N
ID: HUMFA_C12519_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 C II, paving in pit below upper chamber, looking __
ID: HUMFA_C12520_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 C II, paving in pit below upper chamber, looking __
ID: HUMFA_C12167_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 C II, burial (skeleton), looking __
ID: HUMFA_C12163_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 B, door block, looking __
ID: HUMFA_C12164_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 B, burial (skeleton), looking __
ID: HUMFA_C12165_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 D, door block, looking __
ID: HUMFA_C11289_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 C, first burial, door block, looking __ [photo sequence I]
ID: HUMFA_C11290_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 C, first burial (skeleton), looking __ [photo sequence II]
ID: HUMFA_C11406_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 Y, roofing stones and false door, looking NW
ID: HUMFA_C11086_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1152, G 1153, G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: space between G 1152 (to W) and G 1153 (to E), looking NNW to S end of G 1156
ID: HUMFA_C10488_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 X, roofing of burial chamber
ID: HUMFA_C12475_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 U, burial (skeleton), looking __
ID: HUMFA_B11755_OS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1156
Description: Displaced damaged (false door ?) tablet (seated couple at offering table) from G 1156 Y (found in debris of pit)
ID: HUMFA_B7619_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156, chapel, W wall, lintel inscribed for Ptahhetep above false door, looking W
ID: HUMFA_C12166_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 D, burial (skeleton), looking __
ID: HUMFA_C12474_OS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1156
Description: Cemetery G 1100: G 1156 V, burial (skeleton), looking __
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