Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 2494 (S 2494/2514), S 2539/2541
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- Excavator
- Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
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- Site Type
- Stone+Brick-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- S 2494; S 2514; chapel
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- Remarks
- Mastaba is west of D 100 and east of S 2539/2541, built against north side of S 2490/24929. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on plans. Junker sometimes refers to these two shafts as separate structures.
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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, pp. 135-138, figs. 62-63, pl. 13a-b, plans 2-3 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.
ID: HUMFA_EG019918
Subjects: Maps and plans: Plan 1: Steindorff Cemetery
Description: Partial plan of the German-Austrian concession: Steindorff Cemetery (far Western Cemetery, central strip), published in H. Junker, Giza 5 and Giza 9
ID: HUMFA_EG019919
Subjects: Maps and plans: Plan 2: Steindorff Cemetery
Description: Partial plan of the German-Austrian concession: Steindorff Cemetery (far Western Cemetery, central strip), published in H. Junker, Giza 9
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_2762
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: S 2494/2514
Description: Stone hammers from Junker Cemetery (west), one hammer from mastaba S 2494/2514, shaft S 2514, burial chamber
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_2834
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 2494 (S 2494/2514), S 2539/2541
Description: Junker Cemetery (west): mastaba S 2494 (foreground left), mastaba S 2539/2541 (immediately to W), looking W (mastaba of Inpuhetep and surrounding mastabas, background left)
ID: KHM_AEOS_II_2835
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: S 2494 (S 2494/2514), S 2490/2492, Sinefer
Description: Junker Cemetery (west): street W of D 100, mastaba S 2494 (foreground right), mastaba S 2490/2492 (middle ground right), looking S to Sinefer chapel entrance
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1201, S 2539/2541, S 2494/2514, Khafre Pyramid
Description: N wall of S 2539/2541, with SW corner of G 1201 (foreground left) and W wall of S 2494/2514 (midground left), looking S towards Khafre Pyramid
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