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3 of 6 • Steindorff Cemetery / Junker Cemetery (west): area W of D 25, mastaba S 2560/2562, corridor chapel, two false doors in E face with offering basin in situ in front of S false door, and one false door at S end of corridor (facing N), looking SSW
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
Steindorff Cemetery / Junker Cemetery (west): area W of D 25, mastaba S 2560/2562, corridor chapel, two false doors in E face with offering basin in situ in front of S false door, and one false door at S end of corridor (facing N), looking SSW
Steindorff Cemetery / Junker Cemetery (west): area W of D 25, mastaba S 2551/2558 (foreground left), with mastaba S 2560/2562 (to W, middle ground left), mastaba S 2570 (foreground right), looking W to area of D 22 and D 20
Steindorff Cemetery / Junker Cemetery (west): area W of D 25, mastaba S 2560/2562 (middle ground left), mastaba of Wemtetka and mastaba S 2563 (middle ground center), G 6037 (middle ground right), looking S to G 6042 (background center) (G 6040, background right)
Steindorff Cemetery / Junker Cemetery (west): area W of D 25, mastaba S 2570 (foreground center and left), mastaba S 2551/2558 (middle ground left), mastaba S 2560/2562 (middle ground right), looking S
Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 2560/2562
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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 2560; S 2560a; S 2561; S 2562; serdab (?); chapel
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- Remarks
- Mastaba is east of Wemtetka and west of S 2551/2558, well west of G 4000. Unlabeled shaft at southern end of chapel might be a serdab. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on Junker Giza 9 plan 2 and plan EG019919. Plan EG002029 has only a blank space where this mastaba resides.
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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. 124, fig. 55, 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.
