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Minnefer

Western Cemetery

Abu Bakr Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Minnefer

A single stone-built mastaba extends above the rock-cut chapel of Minnefer and the anonymous adjacent chapel ABC 834-850. Exterior rooms associated with both chapels are enclosed within the mastaba on top of the scarp on the northwest slope of the Giza plateau.

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Minnefer (Minnefer)
  • Attested
    Iretnub (in Minnefer)
    Nihetepptah (in Minnefer)
  • Excavator
    Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr, 1907–1976
    Edward Brovarski
  • CBE (Brovarski) No.
    Minnefer Complex
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    4 shafts; 1 chapel
  • Remarks
    This mastaba was excavated by Abu-Bakr and recleared as part of the 2000 Cairo Univ - Brown Univ Expedition. Both the anonymous rock-cut chapel and the one belonging to Minnefer have associated anterooms within the stone-built mastaba, and the anonymous complex (ABC 834-850) also contains a small vestibule. Built against Minnefer’s anteroom, the anonymous anteroom and vestibule (as well as the associated chapel) are clearly later in date, but how much later is impossible to tell.

Full Bibliography

  • Brovarski 2018

    Handoussa & Brovarski, Preliminary Report on the 2000 Field Season of the Cairo University - Brown University Expedition, pp. 5-6.

People 5

Ancient People

  • Iretnub (in Minnefer)

    • Type Attested
    • Remarks Wife ([Hmt=f] his wife) of Minnefer, owner of mastaba and rock-cut chapel on top of the scarp on the northwest slope of the Giza plateau. Appears on entrance thicknesses (ABC 828 and 829) with her husband. East thickness (ABC 829) in situ in mastaba of Minnefer; west thickness in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (E.SS.77).

  • Minnefer (Minnefer)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of mastaba and rock-cut chapel on top of the scarp on the northwest slope of the Giza plateau. Entrance thicknesses (ABC 828 and 829) and drum (ABC 830) inscribed for Minnefer, identified as [rh nswt xntj-S pr-aA] royal acquaintance, palace attendant of the Great House. Drum and east thickness (ABC 829) in situ in mastaba of Minnefer; west thickness in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (E.SS.77).

  • Nihetepptah (in Minnefer)

    • Type Attested
    • Remarks Son ([sA=f smsw] his eldest son) of Minnefer, owner of mastaba and rock-cut chapel on top of the scarp on the northwest slope of the Giza plateau. Appears on west entrance thickness (ABC 828) with his parents; in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (E.SS.77), formerly in situ in mastaba of Minnefer.

Modern People

  • Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates 1907–1976
    • Remarks Egyptian Egyptologist.

  • Edward Brovarski

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates
    • Remarks Egyptologist and co-director of the Cairo University-Brown University Excavations (CBE) in the Abu Bakr Cemetery.