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G 1203

Western Cemetery

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1203

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Kanefer (G 1203)
  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • PorterMoss Date
    Khufu
  • Baer Date
    Middle of Dynasty 4
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 1203 A; G 1203 Chapel

Finds 11

Excavation Diary Pages 8

Maps & Plans 18

Drawings 2

Published Documents 9

Unpublished Documents 70

Full Bibliography

  • Fitzenreiter, Martin. "Zum Phänomen der Isolierten Speisetischtafel in der 4. Dynastie." Göttinger Miszellen 208, p. 28, fig. 3.

    Jánosi, Peter. "The Tombs of Officials. Houses of Eternity." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 32.

    Lutz, Henry F. Egyptian Statues and Statuettes in the Museum of Anthropology of the University of California. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology 5. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1930, p. 26.

    Manuelian, Peter Der. Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt 7. New Haven & Philadelphia: Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University & University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2003, pp. 4, 5, 37- 39, 42- 45, 47, 1, 52, 55, 61, 68, 85, 96, 105, 109, 115, 129, 142, 144, 146, 147, 149- 151, 155- 157, 164, 166, figs. 23- 33, 210, 213, 217, 219, 223, 230, 235, 250, 251.

    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. 57.

    Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pp. 227-252, pl. 4 [a].

    Smith, William Stevenson. "The Old Kingdom Linen List." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 71 (1935), pp. 135, 143.

    Smith, William Stevenson. "The Origin of Some Unidentified Old Kingdom Reliefs." American Journal of Archaeology 46 (1942), p. 523.

    Smith, William Stevenson. "Inscriptional Evidence for the History of the Fourth Dynasty." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 11 (1952), pp. 118, 127, fig. 6.

    Verner, Miroslav. "Contemporaneous Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Dyns. 4 and 5." In Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss & David A. Warburton, eds. Ancient Egyptian Chronology, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006, p. 131.

Photos 131

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People 2

Ancient People

  • Kanefer (G 1203)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of G 1203. Limestone slab stela (Hearst 6-19807) inscribed for Kanefer, identified as [jmj-r wpwt xrp tmAtjw] overseer of commissions, director of bowcase bearers; pieces found in G 1203 chapel and displaced in walls of pit in G 1235 chapel.

Modern People

  • George Andrew Reisner

    • 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.