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G 4341

Western Cemetery

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9 of 24 • Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4340 (to W) and G 4440 (to E), G 4341 (abutting E face of G 4340), looking N
Flints (scale at top): [G 7330-7340: G 7330 A]: 34-6-13, 34-6-15, 34-6-12, [G 4341 B] 34-8-3
Fragments of limestone relief: middle (top) and left: [G 2040 X, originally from G 2041] 37-11-20c, 37-11-20a, 37-11-20b; right, upper: [G 2111 A] 37-12-2; middle (bottom) and right, lower: [G 4341, originally from G 4311] 37-7-21b, 37-7-21a (fragments of standing figure of Neferherenptah)
Flints (reverse) (scale at top): [G 7330-7340: G 7330 A]: 34-6-13, 34-6-15, 34-6-12, [G 4341 B] 34-8-3
Beads and other jewelry elements and amulets: top row: [G 1157 C] 35-5-26 (sample of faience ring beads), [G 7820] 36-2-3 (faience udjat), [G 7810 B] 36-1-9 (faience udjat); middle row: [G 4341 B] three samples of faience necklace elements: 34-8-4c (spacer, upper), 34-8-4b (spacer, lower), 34-8-4d (pendant), [G 2337 V] 35-10-2 (faience amulet); bottom row: [G 4341 B] 34-8-4a (faience terminal), [G 7820] 36-2-2 (faience amulet), [G 1204 X] 35-6-3 (bone button seal), [G 7810 B] 36-1-8 (faience amulet of Thoth)
Jewelry elements and beads from G 4341 B: 34-8-4: a) five terminals, b) eleven spacers (ridged), c) five spacers (plain), d) four pendants, e) cylinder beads, f) ring beads; upper center: button seal from G 1204 X: 35-6-3; upper right: necklace of disc beads from G 1157 C: 35-5-26
Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4340 (to W) and G 4440 (to E), G 4341 (abutting E face of G 4340), looking S to Khafre pyramid
Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4340 (to W) and G 4440 (to E), G 4341 (abutting E face of G 4340), looking N
Cemetery G 4000: G 4341 A, burial chamber, burial (skeleton) in situ, looking S
Pottery: neckless shoulder jars (mended, incomplete) from G 4341 A: 14-1-91
Pottery: fragmentary jars from G 4341 A: 14-1-94 (neckless shoulder jar), 14-1-96 (fragment of shoulder jar)
Pottery bowls (mended, incomplete) and alabaster vessel from G 4341 A: top row: 14-1-90 (= MFA 14.1031, alabaster jar), 14-1-92 (pottery flaring bowl); bottom row: 14-1-97 (pottery bowl with recurved rim), 14-1-93 (pottery carinated bowl)
Pottery: dishes and bowls (mended, incomplete) from G 4341 A: top row: 14-1-101, 14-1-98; bottom row: 14-1-100, 14-1-99
Flints: [G 4341 A] 14-1-86, [G 4630 A] 14-1-12 (= MFA 14.972), [S of G 4241 A] 14-1-85, [G 4630 A] 14-1-13

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4340, G 4440, G 4341

Details

  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 4341 A; G 4341 B; G 4341 C; G 4341 Chapel a
  • Remarks
    Mastaba in field east of G 4000, against east side of G 4340.

Finds 36

Excavation Diary Pages 7

Maps & Plans 10

Drawings 26

Published Documents 1

Unpublished Documents 72

Full Bibliography

  • 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, plan 15.

    Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L 13, Description of Mastabas in Cemetery G 4000, p. 12.

    Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pp. 227-252, pl. 6 [a].

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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.