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4 of 4 • Junker Cemetery (west): mastaba S 2451/2455 (foreground), mastaba S 2453/2456 (middle ground right), mastabas S 2457/2458 and S 2459 (middle ground center), mastaba S 2403/2466 with false door in situ in chapel (background right), looking SW
General plan of Western Cemetery
Partial plan of the German-Austrian concession: Steindorff Cemetery (far Western Cemetery, central strip), published in H. Junker, Giza 9
Junker Cemetery (west): mastaba S 2451/2455 (foreground left), mastaba S 2453/2456 (foreground right), mastabas S 2457/2458 and S 2459 (to S of S 2453/2456, middle ground left), looking S
Junker Cemetery (west): mastaba S 2451/2455 (foreground), mastaba S 2453/2456 (middle ground right), mastabas S 2457/2458 and S 2459 (middle ground center), mastaba S 2403/2466 with false door in situ in chapel (background right), looking SW
Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 2451/2455, S 2453/2456, S 2457/2458, S 2459, S 2403/2466
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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 2451; S 2454; S 2455
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- Remarks
- Mastaba is against south wall of D 16 at its west end, east of S 2457/2458. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on Junker's Giza 9 plan 2 and Porter-Moss III plan XIII.
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Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950, p. 119, fig. 51, plan 2 after pl. 20.
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.
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.
