Digital Giza | ABC 270

Abu Bakr Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: ABC 270

Easternmost of two enigmatic domed brick structures built directly against the south side of Lepsius 19, thought by the excavators to be animal pens or “hyena cages.”

Excavator

Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr, 1907–1976

Edward Brovarski
Site Type
Remarks

Lepsius 19, Mastaba X, and Lepsius 20-21 were probably roughly contemporaneous and may have formed a family complex within a brick-built palace-facade enclosure wall, along with a double row of small, contiguous mud-brick mastabas just east of Lepsius 19 and Mastaba X (ABC 2 - ABC 4, ABC 7 - ABC 19).

Phillips, Steven R. "Two Enigmatic Circular Mud Brick Structures in the Western Field at Giza. A Preliminary Report." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, pp. 239-258.
- Date: 2006

Brovarski 2018

Phillips, Steven R. "Two Enigmatic Circular Mud Brick Structures in the Western Field at Giza. A Preliminary Report." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, pp. 239-258.

Modern People

Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates 1907–1976
- Remarks Egyptian Egyptologist.
Edward Brovarski
- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks Egyptologist and co-director of the Cairo University-Brown University Excavations (CBE) in the Abu Bakr Cemetery.