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Hetepu Ipu

Western Cemetery

Abu Bakr Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Hetepu Ipu

Mud-brick mastaba located to the east of ABC 800 near the northwestern edge of the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery.

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Hetepu Ipu (Hetepu Ipu)
  • Excavator
    Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr, 1907–1976
    Edward Brovarski
  • CBE (Brovarski) No.
    Hetepu: Ipu
  • Site Type
    Mud-brick mastaba
  • Remarks
    The core of Hetepu’s tomb is the mastaba ABC 811, containing two shafts and an open-air corridor chapel. Built against the north end of the core mastaba was another two-niched mastaba (ABC 819), with Hetepu’s inscribed false door (ABC 821) inserted in its southern niche.

Published Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Brovarski 2018

    Handoussa, Tohfa. "The False Door of Hetepu from Giza." In Zahi Hawass, Peter Der Manuelian, and Ramadan B. Hussein, eds. Perspectives on Ancient Egypt: Studies in Honor of Edward Brovarski. Supplément aux Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 40. Cairo: Imprimerie du Conseil Suprême des Antiquités, 2010, pp. 137-152.

People 3

Ancient People

  • Hetepu Ipu (Hetepu Ipu)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of mastaba located near the northwestern edge of the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. False door (ABC 821) inscribed for Hetepu (also called Ipu), identified as [Hm nswt smsw pr] royal servant, elder of the house; in situ in mastaba of Hetepu Ipu. Loose limestone lintel and drum also inscribed for Hetepu; found in the corridor behind the mastaba of Hetepu Ipu.

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.