Sensen
Western Cemetery
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- Tomb Owner
- Sensen (Sensen)
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- Attested
- Pepi (in Sensen)
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- Excavator
- Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
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- PorterMoss Date
- Late Old Kingdom
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- S 2187; S 2188, S 2189; S 2190
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- Remarks
- Mastaba is south of G 2000 and north of D 107.
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Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950, pp. 83-90, figs. 34-37, plan 1 after pl. 20.
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. 118, plan 11.
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Wife ([Hmt=f] his wife) of Sensen (owner of Sensen, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). False door tablet depicting Sensen and his wife Pepi seated at offering table, identified as [Hm-nTr HwtHr rxt nswt] priestess of Hathor, royal acquaintance; found displaced in front of mastaba of Sensen.
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of Sensen (unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). False door tablet depicting Sensen and his wife seated at offering table, identified as [rx nswt jmj-r js] royal acquaintance, overseer of the is-chamber; found displaced in front of mastaba of Sensen.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
- Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.