Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2100-I
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- Tomb Owner
- Merib Kapunisut (G 2100-I)
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- Attested
- Ishi (in G 2100-I)
- Khufumernetjeru (in G 2100-I)
- Merib-nedjes (in G 2100-I)
- Nensedjerkai [I] (G 2100-II)
- Sedit (G 2100)
- Sednet (in G 2100-I)
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- Excavator
- (Karl) Richard Lepsius, German, 1810–1884
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Junker No
- VIII 1
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- Alternate Reisner No
- G 2100-I Annex
- G 2100 I Annex
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- Lepsius No
- LG 24
- Lepsius 24
- L.24
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- Baud Date
- Djedefre - Khafre
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- Harpur Date
- Menkaure - Userkaf
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- Jacquet-Gordon Date
- Late Dynasty 4 - early Dynasty 5
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- Kanawati Date
- Early Dynasty 5
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- Schmitz Date
- Early Dynasty 5
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- Priese Date
- End of Dynasty 4 to begin Dyn. 5
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- Barta Date
- Dynasty 4: Pre-Menkaure
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- Harpur Date
- Dynasty 4-5: Shepseskaf-Userkaf
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- Cherpion Date
- Dyn 4: Khufu
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- Begelsbacher-Fischer Date
- Early Dynasty 5
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- Strudwick Date
- Menkaure to the end of Dynasty 4
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- Baer Date
- Early Dynasty 5
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- Junker Date
- Early Dynasty 5
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- Reisner Date
- Late Menkaure- post-Neferirkare
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- PorterMoss Date
- Cites Reisner & Junker dates
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 2100-I B; G 2100-I C
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- Remarks
- Junker originally called this mastaba VIII 1.
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Chapel of Merib Kapunisut (G 2100-I)
- BÄM_1107
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- BÄM_8634-2
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- BÄM_8634-3
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G 2100-I (= Lepsius 24): relief from W wall, N and S false doors
- ID HUMFA_EG025561
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G 2100-I (= Lepsius 24): relief from chapel, E wall
- ID HUMFA_EG025560
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G 2100-I (= Lepsius 24): relief from facade
- ID HUMFA_EG025531
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- ID HUMFA_EG025499
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K03_ChapX_p226
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G 2100-I, Notes 1 (G 2500 = G 2100-I Merib)
- ID: HUMFA_EG014935
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G 2100-I, Notes 2 (G 2500 = G 2100-I Merib)
- ID: HUMFA_EG014934
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G 2100-I, Notes 3 (G 2500 = G 2100-I Merib)
- ID: HUMFA_EG014936
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G 2100-I, Notes 4 (G 2500 = G 2100-I Merib)
- ID: HUMFA_EG014937
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G 2100-I, Notes 5 on G 2100-I (Merib), G 2041, G 2501, G 2502, G 2504
- ID: HUMFA_EG014938
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Altenmüller, Hartwig. "Funerary Boats and Boat Pits of the Old Kingdom." Archiv Orientální 70, No. 3 (August 2002), pp. 276, 284, n. 64.
Altenmüller, Hartwig. "Presenting the nDt-Hr Offerings to the Tomb Owner." 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. 30-32, fig. 4.
Brovarski, Edward. "An Inventory List from 'Covington's Tomb' and Nomenclature for Furniture in the Old Kingdom." In Peter Der Manuelian, ed. Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1996, pp. 124-125, 128 [16], 155.
Faulkner, Raymond O. "Review of 'Giza II' and 'Giza III'." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 27 (1941), pp. 166-167.
Jacquet-Gordon, Domaines funéraires, p. 229, figs. 35-36.
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 2: Die Mastabas der beginnenden V. Dynastie auf dem Westfriedhof. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1934, pp. 121-135, fig. 11, pl. 1.
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 3: Die Mastabas der Vorgeschrittenen V. Dynastie auf dem Westfriedhof. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1938, pp. 36-37 [18].
Junker, Hermann. Gîza 6. Die Mastabas des Nfr (Nefer), Kdfjj (Kedfi), Kahjf (Kahjef) und die westlich anschließenden Grabanlagen. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 72, Abhandlung 1. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1943. plan after p. 273.
Lepsius, Denkmaeler Text 1, pp. 46-49; Lepsius, Denkmaeler I, pl. 22; Denkmaeler vol. 2, pls.18-22.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "Eight Years at the Giza Archives Project: Past Experiences and Future Plans for the Giza Digital Archive." Egyptian and Egyptological Documents, Archives, and Libraries, An Annual 1 (Milan, 2009), p. 151, note 6.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "Hemiunu, Pehenptah, and German/American Collaboration at the Giza Necropolis (Giza Archives Project Gleanings: II)." In Antje Spiekermann, ed. Zur Zierde gereicht. . . Festschrift Bettina Schmitz zum 60. Geburtstag am 24. Juli 2008, HIldesheimer Ägyptologische Beiträge 50. Hildesheim: Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg, 2008, p. 32, note 22.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "A 'New' Slab Stela for Nefer from G 2100? (Giza Archives Project Gleanings: I)." In Stephen E. Thompson and Peter Der Manuelian, eds. Egypt and Beyond: Essays Presented to Leonard H. Lesko upon his Retirement from the Wilbour Chair of Egyptology at Brown University June 2005. Providence: Department of Egyptology and Ancient Western Asian Studies, 2008, p. 236, note 16.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "A Re-examination of Reisner's Nucleus Cemetery Concept at Giza. Preliminary Remarks on Cemetery G 2100." 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. 222, 224, 226-229, fig. 2.
Manuelian, Peter Der. "Presenting the Scroll: Papyrus Documents in Tombs Scenes of the Old Kingdom." In Peter Der Manuelian, ed. Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson 2. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996, pp. 561, 586, fig. 1.
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, pp. 71-72, plan 11.
Priese, Karl-Heinz. Die Opferkammer des Merib. Berlin: Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin, 1984, passim.
Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 216, 311, 419-21, pl. 26(d).
Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pp. 227-252.
Smith, William Stevenson. "The Old Kingdom Linen List." Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 71 (1935), pp. 135-136, 138, 141, 143-144, 147.
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Appears in chapel relief in tomb of Merib (owner of G 2100-I), chapel entrance north door jamb (reveal, bottom register, figure on right, offering length of linen to Merib), identified as [Hrj-tp sSr] supervisor of linen; chapel (ÄMP Berlin 1107) found in situ in G 2100-I.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Son ([sA=f smsw] his eldest son) of Merib (owner of G 2100-I). Appears in chapel relief, chapel entrance south door jamb (reveal and facade faces), identified as [rx nswt] royal acquaintance; chapel (ÄMP Berlin 1107) found in situ in G 2100-I.
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of G 2100-I. Merib, also known as Kapunisut. Chapel entrance lintel, drum and door jambs inscribed for Merib, identified as [sA nswt n Xt=f smr xtmtj-nTr bA-nTrw dwA-tAwj xtmw-nTr Nb-rxjjt ab-nTrw jmj-r kAt nt nswt] king's son of his body, companion, god's sealer of (the ships) 'Ba-netjeru' and 'Dua-tawy', god's sealer of (the ships) 'Neb-rekhyt' and 'Ab-netjeru', overseer of royal works. North and south false doors inscribed for Merib, identified as [xtmw-nTr wjA jmj-r kAt nbt nswt Hts(?) jnpw smr watj wr mDw Sma rx nswt Xrj-Hb wt jnpw] god's sealer of the ship, overseer of all royal works, staff(?) of Anubis, sole companion, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt, royal acquaintance, lector-priest, embalmer of Anubis. Also appears in chapel relief (north, west, south, and east walls), identified as [jmj-r mSa xrp aH aD-mr Haw r p nb wr mAAw jwnw Hm-nTr xwfw] expedition leader, director of the palace, administrator of the fleet, mouth of every Butite, greatest of seers in Iunu, priest of Khufu; chapel (ÄMP Berlin 1107) found in situ in G 2100-I. Also appears in tomb of his daughter Nensedjerkai (owner of G 2100-II), chapel, pillared portico, west faces of north and south pillars, identified as [sA nswt xtmw-nTr wjA smr watj sHD bA-nTrw] king's son, god's sealer of the ship, sole companion, inspector of (the ship) 'Ba-netjeru'; in situ in G 2100-II.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Son ([sA=f n Xt=f] his son of his body) of Merib (owner of G 2100-II). Appears in chapel relief, chapel entrance north door jamb (reveal and facade faces), identified as [rx nswt] royal acquaintance; chapel (ÄMP Berlin 1107) found in situ in G 2100-II.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Owner of G 2100-II. Daughter ([sAt=f] his daughter) of Merib (owner of G 2100-I). Architectural elements, including archtrave over pillared portico, chapel entrance lintel and drum lintel, and north and south false doors inscribed for Nensedjerkai; also appears on east and west faces of pillars of pillared portico; identified as [sAt nswt Xkrt nswt Hm-nTr HwtHr Hm-nTr xwfw] king's daughter, royal ornament, priestess of Hathor, priestess of Khufu; in situ in G 2100-II. Also appears in chapel relief in tomb of her father Merib, chapel entrance south door jamb (reveal); chapel (ÄMP Berlin 1107) found in situ in G 2100-I.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Probable owner of G 2100. Mother ([mwt=f] his mother) of Merib (owner of G 2100-I). Appears in chapel relief in tomb of her son Merib, south and east walls, identified as [sAt nswt n Xt=f Hm-nTr Nt mHtt jnb=s] king's daughter of his body, priestess of Neith north of her wall; chapel (ÄMP Berlin 1107) found in situ in G 2100-I.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Daughter ([sAt=f] his daughter) of Merib (owner of G 2100-I). Appears in chapel relief, chapel entrance south door jamb (reveal); chapel (ÄMP Berlin 1107) found in situ in G 2100-I.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1810–1884
- Remarks Egyptologist. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- 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.