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Wentjet

Western Cemetery

Mud-brick mastaba located north of the mastaba of Neferhetepes & Menu at the northwestern edge of the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. The mastaba incorporates a number of later shafts and was probably a family burial place that grew organically as more and more individuals were interred there.

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Wentjet (Wentjet)
  • Excavator
    Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr, 1907–1976
    Edward Brovarski
  • Attested
    Ity (in Wentjet)
  • Other No
    Kebenwenthet & Ity
  • PorterMoss Date
    Dynasty 5-6
  • Site Type
    Mud-brick mastaba
  • Shafts
    11 shafts
  • Remarks
    Abu-Bakr Excavation (1953). False-doors found in mud-brick mastaba north and west of Lepsius 19. The mastaba of Wentjet was built up against the northwestern corner of the mastaba of Neferhetepes & Menu with an unfinished wall of limestone rubble, and thus must postdate Neferhetepes & Menu.

Published Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Brovarski 2018

    Cairo University - Brown University Expedition, 2004 season plans.

    Leclant, in Orientalia, N.S. 23 (1954), p. 73 [2, d].

    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. 48, plan 7.

People 4

Ancient People

  • Ity (in Wentjet)

    • Type Attested
    • Remarks Father or son (?) of Wentjet mentioned on no longer extant false door found in tomb (see Leclant, Orientalia N.S. 23, 1954, p. 72).

  • Wentjet (Wentjet)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of mastaba located at the northwestern edge of the central sector of the Abu Bakr Cemetery. Southern false door insctibed for Wentjet, identified as [rx nswt wAt nswt kbn] royal custodian of the royal road of Byblos; in situ in mastaba of Wentjet. Small broken lintel insctibed for Wentjet, identified as [rx nswt wAt nswt] royal custodian of the royal road; found reused in a pit of mastaba ABC 212.

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.