G 5552
Western Cemetery
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- Excavator
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Alternate Reisner No
- G 2359
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- PorterMoss Date
- Dynasty 6
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 5552 A
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- Remarks
- Renamed. Originally G 2359 A
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- HUMFA_33-3-43
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- Diary page dates 03/22/1933; 03/24/1933
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- Diary page dates 03/25/1933; 03/26/1933; 03/27/1933
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- Diary page dates 03/27/1933; 03/28/1933; 03/29/1933; 03/30/1933
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- Diary page dates 12/03/1935; 12/04/1935
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- Diary page dates 12/05/1935; 12/06/1935
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- Diary page dates 12/07/1935
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- Diary page dates 12/07/1935
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- Diary page dates 12/07/1935
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- Diary page dates 04/01/1936
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- Diary page dates 04/02/1936; 04/03/1936; 04/04/1936
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- Diary page dates 04/04/1936; 04/04/1936
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Cylinder jars from G 5552 and G 7145+7147: G 7147, Shaft B
- ID HUMFA_EG021998
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- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.25
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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. 84.
Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box K 10, Description of Additions to Cemetery en Eschelon, p. 56 z.
Smith, William Stevenson. "Inscriptional Evidence for the History of the Fourth Dynasty." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 11 (1952), pp. 118, 127, fig. 6.
Verner, Miroslav. "Contemporaneous Evidence for the Relative Chronology of Dyns. 4 and 5." In Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss & David A. Warburton, eds. Ancient Egyptian Chronology, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2006, p. 136.
Modern People
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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.