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  • Tomb Owner
    Setjihekenet (G 1227)
  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Alternate Reisner No (Fisher Cemetery)
    G 2080
  • PorterMoss Date
    Middle or late Dynasty 4
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 1227 A; G 1227 Chapel
  • Remarks
    Fisher, Minor Cemetery, mistakenly refers to G 1227 as G 1223.

Finds 2

Excavation Diary Pages 23

Maps & Plans 19

Published Documents 6

Unpublished Documents 64

Full Bibliography

  • Jánosi, Peter. "Aspects of Mastaba Development: The Position of Shafts and the Identification of Tomb Owners." In Filip Coppens, ed. Abusir and Saqqara in the year 2001. Proceedings of the Symposium (Prague, September 25th-27th, 2001). Archiv Orientální 70, No. 3 (August 2002). Prague: Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, p. 339.

    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. 38, note 36.

    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. 14, 15, 43, 59, 64- 68, 80, 81, 93, 95, 99, 101, 110, 115, 130, 142, 144, 146, 148, 149, 150, 154, 155, 157- 159, 163, 166, figs. 73- 82, 210, 213, 217, 219, 220, 230, 235, 239, 241, 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. 60.

    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.

    Smith, William Stevenson. "The Old Kingdom Linen List." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 71 (1935), pp. 135-136, 138, 142-143, 146, 148, pl. IV.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Setjihekenet (G 1227)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of G 1227. Limestone slab stela (Cairo JE 37726 = CG 57127 = Port Said National Museum P 4082) inscribed for Setjihekenet, identified as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; found in situ on east face of G 1227.

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.