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ABC 78-80

Western Cemetery

Abu Bakr Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: ABC 78-80

Small stone and mud-brick mastaba west of ABC 41/84/76/77 near the northeast corner of Mastaba Y in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery.

Details

  • Excavator
    Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr, 1907–1976
    Edward Brovarski
  • CBE (Brovarski) No.
    ABC 78/79/80
  • Site Type
    Stone+Brick-built mastaba
  • Remarks
    ABC 78-80 is aligned with, and thus seems to postdate, Mastaba Y. It is built against the south wall of the mastaba of Itji and Neferseshemes and is therefore later than that complex as well.

Full Bibliography

  • Brovarski 2018

People 2

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.