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G 1700

Western Cemetery

Maps and plans: General plan of Western Cemetery

Tomb is west of G 1457 and north of the mastaba of Seneb.

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Perniankh (G 1700)
  • Excavator
    Zahi Hawass, Egyptian

Finds 1

Maps & Plans 1

Published Documents 4

Full Bibliography

  • Bolshakov, Andrey. "Hinting as a Method of Old Kingdom Tomb Decoration I. The Offering-Stone and the False Door of the Dwarf Snb." Göttinger Miszellen 139 (1994), pp. 10, 29, note 1.

    Hawass, Zahi. "Unique Statues at Giza V: The Exceptional Statue of the Priest Kai and His Family." In Khaled Daoud, Shafia Bedier & Sawsan Abd el-Fatah, eds. Studies in Honor of Ali Radwan. Supplément aux Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, no. 34. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2005, p. 26.

    Hawass, Zahi. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Egyptian Archaeologists." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 163-164, fig. 101.

    Hawass, Zahi. "Zahi Hawass talks to KMT about matters on the Giza Plateau (Interview)." KMT 8, no. 2 (Summer 1997), p. 22.

    Hawass, Zahi. "The Statue of the Dwarf Pr-n(j)-anx(w) Recently Discovered at Giza." Festschrift für Werner Kaiser. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 47 (1991), pp. 157-162, pl. 12.

    Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G48.

    Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 150.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Perniankh (G 1700)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of G 1700. Two false doors with drum lintels inscribed for Perniankh, and serdab lintel inscribed for Perniankh, identified as [rx nswt nmjw(?) pr-aA] royal acquaintance, dwarf(?) of the Great House; found in situ in G 1700 serdab. Basalt seated statue (Cairo JE 98944) inscribed for Perniankh, identified as [sxmx-jb nb=f (ra) nb nmjw nswt n pr(-aA)] he who delights the heart of his lord every (day), king's dwarf of the (Great) House; found in situ in G 1700 serdab.

Modern People

  • Zahi Hawass

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates Egyptian
    • Remarks Former Minister of State for Antiquities and Secretary General of Supreme Council of Antiquities