Container owner
name | Nefer |
title | jmj-r prwj-HD |
sex | male |
Container properties
number | |
material | limestone |
present location | |
state of preservation | |
period | OK |
dynasty | 4 (core of the mastaba – Khufu, decoration – Khafre) |
type | rectangular – Reisner type d |
updated typology | |
shape | cuboid with sharp edges (Reisner type d) |
lid | |
length | – |
width | – |
height | – |
inscription | |
decoration | undecorated |
inner decoration | no |
description | |
notes | – |
Container findspot
locality | Giza |
site | Western Cemetery |
location | Cemetery G 2100, W half, W row |
tomb type | mastaba |
code of tomb | G 2110, Junker originally named this mastaba VIII 1 |
material of tomb | limestone |
dating | 4 |
tomb owner | Nefer |
social position | higher |
title | jmj-r prwj-HD – overseer of the two treasuries (Jones 2000: 209, no. 780) |
shaft | A |
burial apartment | burial chamber |
body inside | |
archaeological context | secondary |
remarks on archaeological context | fragments of sarcophagus found in BCH and shaft |
Bibliography
Manuelian, Peter der
2009. Mastabas of nucleus cemetery G 2100, part 1: major mastabas G2100-G2220. Giza Mastabas 8. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts.
Junker, Hermann
1934. Gîza II: Bericht über die von der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien auf gemeinsame Kosten mit Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus unternommenen Grabungen auf dem Friedhof des Alten Reiches bei den Pyramiden von Gîza. Die Maṣṭabas der beginnenden V. Dynastie auf dem Westfriedhof. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 70 (3). Wien; Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, p. 106, fig. 6.
Reisner, George Andrew
1942. A history of the Giza necropolis, volume I. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, pp. 422-425.
Porter, Bertha – Moss, Rosalind L. B.
1981. Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs and paintings III2: Memphis. Part 2: Ṣaqqâra to Dahshûr, 2nd, revised and augmented ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Griffith Institute, pp. 72-74, figs. 5, 17, 5.20-5.23, 6.38.