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Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Niseper (G 2005)
  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 2005 A; G 2005 B; B 2005 C; G 2005 D; G 2005 E; G 2005 F; G 2005 G; G 2005 H; G 2005 X; G 2005 Y; G 2005 Z; G 2005 serdab; G 2005 chapel
  • Remarks
    Mastaba built around south end of G 2007, west of G 2009.

Finds 5

Excavation Diary Pages 20

Maps & Plans 20

Drawings 2

Published Documents 4

Unpublished Documents 22

Full Bibliography

  • Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G92.

    Manuelian, Peter Der. "Hemiunu, Pehenptah, and German/American Collaboration at the Giza Necropolis (Giza Archives Project Gleanings: II)." In Antje Spiekermann, ed. Zur Zierde gereicht. . . Festschrift Bettina Schmitz zum 60. Geburtstag am 24. Juli 2008, HIldesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 50. Hildesheim: Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg, 2008, p. 35.

    Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L 11, Description of Mastabas in Cemetery G 2000, pp. 37-40.

    Spiekermann, Antje. "Steindorff und Mastaba G 2005." In Antje Spiekermann, ed. Zur Zierde gereicht. . . Festschrift Bettina Schmitz zum 60. Geburtstag am 24. Juli 2008, HIldesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 50. Hildesheim: Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg, pp. 241, 244, 245, figs. 2, 3.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Niseper (G 2005)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Probable owner of G 2005. North false door inscribed for Niseper, identified as [rx nswt] royal acquaintance; in situ in G 2005. South (primary) false door uninscribed, attribution of tomb ownership uncertain.

Modern People

  • George Andrew Reisner

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
    • Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.