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G 2089

Western Cemetery

Details

  • Tomb Owner
    Neferked (G 2089)
  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Alternate Reisner No
    G 2089a
  • Roth Date
    Niuserre - Djedkare
  • PorterMoss Date
    Dynasty 4-5
  • Reisner Date
    Niuserre to Izezi
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 2089 A; G 2089 B; G 2089 C; G 2089 D; G 2089 E; G 2089 X; G 2089a A; G 2089a B; G 2089 Serdab

Finds 7

Excavation Diary Pages 19

  • Vol.32.p.636

    • Diary page dates 03/27/1938 through 04/02/1938

  • Vol.32.p.637

    • Diary page dates 04/02/1938; 04/03/1938

  • Vol.32.p.638

    • Diary page dates 04/03/1938; 04/04/1938; 04/05/1938; 04/06/1938; 04/07/1938

  • Vol.32.p.641

    • Diary page dates 04/11/1938; 04/12/1938; 04/13/1938; 04/14/1938

  • Vol.32.p.642

    • Diary page dates 04/14/1938

  • Vol.32.p.645

    • Diary page dates 04/25/1938; 04/26/1938; 04/27/1938

  • Vol.32.p.646

    • Diary page dates 04/27/1938; 04/28/1938

  • Vol.32.p.648

    • Diary page dates 04/29/1938; 04/30/1938

  • Vol.32.p.649

    • Diary page dates 04/30/1938

  • Vol.32.p.725

    • Diary page dates 08/25/1938

  • Vol.33.p.742

    • Diary page dates 01/07/1939; 01/08/1939; 01/09/1939; 01/10/1939; 01/11/1939; 01/12/1939

  • Vol.33.p.744

    • Diary page dates 01/19/1939

  • Vol.33.p.762

    • Diary page dates 03/03/1939; 03/04/1939; 03/05/1939; 03/06/1939

  • Vol.33.p.764

    • Diary page dates 03/11/1939; 03/12/1939; 03/13/1939; 03/14/1939; 03/15/1939

  • Vol.33.p.765

    • Diary page dates 03/15/1939; 03/16/1939

  • Vol.33.p.766

    • Diary page dates 03/16/1939; 03/17/1939; 03/18/1939; 03/19/1939

  • Vol.33.p.780

    • Diary page dates 04/03/1939; 04/04/1939; 04/05/1939

  • Vol.33.p.787

    • Diary page dates 04/21/1939

  • Vol.33.p.789

    • Diary page dates 04/21/1939

Maps & Plans 27

Drawings 10

Published Documents 6

Unpublished Documents 26

Full Bibliography

  • Bolshakov, Andrey. "Osiris in the Fourth Dynasty Again? The False Door of Jntj, MFA 31.781." In Hedvig Györy, ed. Mélanges offerts à Edith Varga. Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément-2001, Budapest: Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, 2001, p. 79.

    Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G103.

    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.

    Roth, Ann Macy. A Cemetery of Palace Attendants: Including G 2084-2099, G 2230+2231, and G 2240. Giza Mastabas 6. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, pp. 93-95, fig. 58, pls. 38b-39(b, c), 134.

    Shirai, Yayoi. "Ideal and Reality in Old Kingdom Private Funerary Cults." 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. 332-333.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Neferked (G 2089)

    • Type Tomb Owner
    • Remarks Owner of G 2089. Alabaster cylinder jar (38-4-32) inscribed for Neferked, identified as [sHD xntjw-S pr-aA] inspector of palace attendants of the Great House; found in coffin in G 2089 A.

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.