G 2061

Western Cemetery

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2242, G 2061

Excavator

George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
Attested

Airu (in G 2061)

Irukakhufu (in G 2061)
Alternate Reisner No

G 2061a
Site Type

Stone+rubble-built mastaba
Shafts

G 2061 A; G 2061 B; G 2061 C; G 2061a A
Remarks

Packing list PL1428 lists a skeleton from tomb G 2064 that could be a typographical error for G 2061.

Bones of human skeleton
- HUMFA_39-5-4
Bones of human skeleton
- HUMFA_39-5-3
Limestone seated pair statue of man and woman
- GEM_1201

Vol.33.p.777
- Diary page dates 03/27/1939; 03/28/1939; 03/30/1939
Vol.33.p.778
- Diary page dates 03/30/1939; 03/31/1939; 04/01/1939; 04/02/1939
Vol.33.p.796
- Diary page dates 04/29/1939; 04/30/1939
Vol.33.p.809
- Diary page dates 05/05/1939; 05/06/1939
Vol.34.p.810
- Diary page dates 05/06/1939; 05/07/1939
Vol.34.p.820
- Diary page dates 05/28/1939

Archaeology 56 (May/June 2003), pp. 40-44, "Mixed Messages"
- Date: May/June 2003
Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings III. Memphis (Giza pages only)
- Date: 1974

A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 1: G 2001–G 2087, page 010
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L11_p010
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 1: G 2001–G 2087, page 010
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L11_p010
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 1: G 2001–G 2087, page 011
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L11_p011
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 1: G 2001–G 2087, page 013
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L11_p013
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 1: G 2001–G 2087, page 155
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L11_p155
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 1: G 2001–G 2087, page 156
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L11_p156
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 1: G 2001–G 2087, page 157
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L11_p157
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 1: G 2001–G 2087, page 168
- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L11_p168
Entries: 39-1-1 to 40-6-5
- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.30
G 2061, Shaft C
- ID: HUMFA_EG011961
G 2061a, Shaft A
- ID: HUMFA_EG011958
Packing List
- ID: HUMFA_PL145
Packing List
- ID: HUMFA_PL96
Packing List
- ID: HUMFA_PL138
Packing List
- ID: HUMFA_PL1051
Packing List
- ID: HUMFA_PL139

Hafford, W.B. "Mixed Messages: A tomb on the Giza Plateau yields chewing-gum wrappers, Cairo tram tickets, a 1944 newspaper, and a 4,500-year-old burial." Archaeology 56 (May/June 2003), pp. 40-44.

Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 69.

Ancient People

Airu (in G 2061)
- Type Attested
- Remarks Son ([sA=f] his son) of unidentified owner of G 2061. Appears on chapel entrance north door jamb; in situ in G 2061.
Irukakhufu (in G 2061)
- Type Attested
- Remarks Son ([sA=f] his son) of unidentified owner of G 2061. Appears on chapel entrance north door jamb; in situ in G 2061.

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.