Digital Giza | S 936

Maps and plans: Plan 4: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian Excavation Concession (Central Strip - Cemetery en Echelon)

Excavator

Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
Site Type

Stone-built mastaba
Shafts

S 936
Remarks

Stone-built mastaba with single shaft is in street east of G 5060 at its southern end, south of S 411/413. Plan in figure 10 on page 30 incorrectly labels this S 916 while plan after plate 40 correctly labels it S 936. Not to be confused with S 936a/936h just to its west.
Problems/Questions

Problem; Where is this mastaba?

Plan 4: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian excavation concession (central strip, Cemetery en Echelon)

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 7. Der Ostabschnitt des Westfriedhofs, Erster Teil. Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Giza. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 72, Abhandlung 3. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1943.
- Date: 1944

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.

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.