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Kairi

Western Cemetery

Small mud-brick mastaba located east of mastaba of Hetepu Ipu and north of ABC 230 in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery.

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Kairi (Kairi)
  • Excavator
    Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr, 1907–1976
    Edward Brovarski
  • Site Type
    Mud-brick mastaba
  • Remarks
    The mastaba of Kairi (ABC 912) has surviving traces that show it was once covered all over with yellow-white gypsum plaster.

Full Bibliography

  • Brovarski 2018

People 3

Ancient People

  • Kairi (Kairi)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of small mastaba in the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. Drum lintel inscribed for Kairi, identified as [Smsw (?)] retainer; originally from mastaba of Kairi, later removed.

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.