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S 4438

Western Cemetery

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 4438 (aka S 4437)

Details

  • Excavator
    Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
  • Junker Date
    Beginning Dynasty 5
  • Site Type
    Mud-brick mastaba
  • Shafts
    S 4423; S 4436; S 4437; S 4438; serdab; chapel
  • Remarks
    Junker calls this S 4438 in the text and S 4437 on fig. 55 and on the plan. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on Porter-Moss III plan XIII west of mastaba Sinekhen.

Maps & Plans 1

Published Documents 2

Full Bibliography

  • Junker, Hermann. Gîza 5. Die Mastaba des Snb (Seneb) und die umliegenden Gräber. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 71, Abhandlung 2. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1941. pp. 180-182, fig. 55, plan after p. 213.

    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, plan 13 (drawn but not labeled).

People 1

Modern People

  • Hermann Junker

    • 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.