Maps and plans: Plan 4: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian Excavation Concession (Central Strip - Cemetery en Echelon)
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- Tomb Owner
- Nemutef (S 939/955)
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- Excavator
- Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- S 939; S S 939 a; S 940; S 955; S 955 a
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- Remarks
- Mastaba with 5 shafts is in street off northeast corner of G 5050 north of S 994/953 and off west wall of S 5150.
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- Problems/Questions
- Problem; Where is this mastaba?
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Junker, Hermann. Gîza 7. Der Ostabschnitt des Westfriedhofs, Erster Teil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 72, Abhandlung 3. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1944, p. 32, fig. 10, plan after pl. 40.
Ancient People
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Probable owner of S 939/955. Offering stone inscribed for Nemutef, identified as [jmj-r Hmw-kA] overseer of ka-priests; found against east face of mastaba S 939/955, just north of shaft S 935.
Modern People
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- 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.
