Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4640, G 4630, G 4633+4634
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- Tomb Owner
- Medunefer (G 4630)
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- Attested
- Ankhiris (in G 4630)
- Hetep (in G 4630)
- Iti (in G 4630)
- Kairef (in G 4630)
- Medunefer (in G 4630)
- Nebuka (in G 4630)
- Sekhentiu (in G 4630)
- Seneb (in G 4630)
- Shepsesnisut (in G 4630)
- Tiu (in G 4630)
- Tjentet (in G 4630)
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- Excavator
- Ernesto Schiaparelli, Italian, 1856–1928
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- PorterMoss Date
- Dynasty 5
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- Baer Date
- End Dynasty 5 or later
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 4630 A; G 4630 Chapel a; G 4630 Chapel b; G 4630 chapel c
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Fragmentary pottery basin with tubular spout
- HUMFA_14-1-9
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Fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim
- HUMFA_14-1-3
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Fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim
- HUMFA_14-1-5
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Fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim
- HUMFA_14-1-6
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Fragmentary pottery bowl with recurved rim
- HUMFA_14-1-2
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Fragmentary pottery bowls with recurved rims
- HUMFA_14-1-4
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Fragmentary pottery bowls with recurved rims
- HUMFA_14-1-1
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Fragmentary pottery combed ware jar
- HUMFA_14-1-14
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- HUMFA_14-1-11
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- HUMFA_14-1-15
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- HUMFA_14-1-18
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- HUMFA_14-1-19
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- HUMFA_14-1-20
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- HUMFA_14-1-22
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- HUMFA_14-1-23
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- HUMFA_14-1-26
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- HUMFA_14-1-17
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Fragments of limestone statue of man
- HUMFA_14-1-27
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- HUMFA_14-1-16
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- HUMFA_14-1-25
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- EMC_JE_36191
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- EMC_JE_36192
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- HUMFA_14-1-10
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- HUMFA_14-1-7
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- HUMFA_14-1-8
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- HUMFA_14-1-24
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- HUMFA_14-1-21
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- HUMFA_14-1-12
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- HUMFA_14-1-13
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- Diary page dates 04/25/1912; 04/26/1912
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- Diary page dates 01/01/1914; 01/02/1914; 01/03/1914; 01/04/1914; 01/05/1914
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- Diary page dates 01/06/1914; 01/07/1914; 01/08/1914
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- Diary page dates 01/09/1914; 01/10/1914; 01/11/1914
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- Diary page dates 01/11/1914; 01/12/1914; 01/13/1914; 01/14/1914
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- Diary page dates 01/15/1914; 01/16/1914
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- Diary page dates 01/17/1914; 01/18/1914; 01/19/1914; 01/20/1914; 01/21/1914; 01/22/1914
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- Diary page dates 02/23/1914; 02/24/1914; 02/25/1914
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- Diary page dates 02/25/1914; 02/26/1914; 02/27/1914
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- Diary page dates 12/13/1913; 12/14/1913; 12/15/1913; 12/16/1913; 12/17/1913
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- Diary page dates 12/27/1913; 12/28/1913; 12/29/1913; 12/30/1913; 12/31/1913
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- Diary page dates 03/24/1914; 03/25/1914; 03/26/1914; 03/27/1914; 03/28/1914
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- Diary page dates 06/27/1938
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F. Ballerini, Notebook 1903, p. 34
- ID TUR_Ballerini_Notebook_1903_p34
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Fragments of pottery pans from G 4440, G 4630, G 5032
- ID HUMFA_EG022141
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- ID HUMFA_EG024361
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- ID HUMFA_EG024362
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- ID HUMFA_EG024367
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, basin with spout
- ID HUMFA_EG024356
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, basin with spout
- ID HUMFA_EG024363
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, bowls with recurved rim
- ID HUMFA_EG024355
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, bowls with recurved rim
- ID HUMFA_EG024365
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, bowls with recurved rims
- ID HUMFA_EG024357
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, dish
- ID HUMFA_EG024353
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- ID HUMFA_EG024354
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- ID HUMFA_EG024358
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- ID HUMFA_EG024368
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, jars
- ID HUMFA_EG024301
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, jars
- ID HUMFA_EG024366
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, model dish
- ID HUMFA_EG024360
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G 4630, Shaft A: pottery, model jar
- ID HUMFA_EG024364
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- ID HUMFA_EG024359
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G 4630: pottery vessels and flints
- ID HUMFA_EG022376
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Pottery jars from G 1201, G 4440, G 4630
- ID HUMFA_EG022158
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Pottery jars from G 1201, G 4440, G 4630
- ID HUMFA_EG022222
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Pottery jars from G 1457, G 4140, G 4530, G 4630
- ID HUMFA_EG022201
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Pottery jars from G 1457, G 4140, G 4530, G 4630, G 5080
- ID HUMFA_EG022130
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K11_ApxA1_p037
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- ID: HUMFA_GN2_K03_ChapX_p147
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p020
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p023a
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p034
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p035
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p036
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p038
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_Contents2
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000mm_p039
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000mm_p058
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000mm_p068
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- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.02
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- ID: HUMFA_EG016052
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- ID: HUMFA_EG016056
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- ID: HUMFA_PL668
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- ID: HUMFA_PL682
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- ID: HUMFA_PL812
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- ID: HUMFA_PL844
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- ID: HUMFA_PL848
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- ID: HUMFA_PL876
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Curto, Silvio. Gli Scavi Italiani a el-Ghiza (1903). Rome: Centro Per Le Antichitá E La Storia Dell'Arte del Vicino Oriente, 1993, pp. 78-83, figs. 27b, 29, 32, pls. XXIII, XXIVa, XXV.
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, pp. 133-134, plan 15.
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.
Sethe, Kurt. Urkunden des Alten Reichs. Erster Band. Urkunden des Ägyptischen Altertums Abteilung 1, Hft. 1-4. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1903/1933, p.229 [5 (145) M).
Smith, William Stevenson. "The Origin of Some Unidentified Old Kingdom Reliefs." American Journal of Archaeology 46 (1942), p. 531.
Ancient People
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Son ([sA=f smsw] his eldest son) of Medunefer (owner of G 4630). Appears on south false door tablet, standing before his parents Medunefer and Nebuka seated at offering table; south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) dedicated by Ankhiris; found in situ in G 4630. North false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36192) inscribed for Ankhiris (dedicated by his son Medunefer), identified as [sS pr-mDAt nTr smA jnpw xt wr Tntt] scribe of the library of the god, smA-priest of Anubis, khet-priest of the Great One and of Tjentet; found in situ in G 4630. Also appears on false door (north jamb) inscribed for Nensedjerkai (owner of G 4631), identified as [Xrj-Hb smA jnpw xt wr] lector-priest, smA-priest of Anubis, khet-priest of the Great One; in situ in G 4361.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer (owner of G 4630), north outer jamb (middle register, carrying ewer), identified as [sS pr-mDAt nTr] scribe of the library of the god; also listed as one of Medunefer's [msw=f nw Dt] children of the funerary estate; found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer (owner of G 4630), south outer jamb (middle register, censing), identified as [sS pr-mDAt nTr] scribe of the library of the god; also listed as one of Medunefer's [msw=f nw Dt] children of the funerary estate; found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Son ([sA=f] his son) of Medunefer (owner of G 4630). Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer, right flange of tablet (bottom register, carrying bird); found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of G 4630. South false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer (dedicated by his son Ankhiris), identified as [Xrj-Hb Hrj-tp sS mDAt-nTr smA jnpw] chief lector-priest, scribe of the divine book, smA-priest of Anubis; found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Son ([sA=f smsw] his eldest son) of Ankhiris and grandson of Medunefer (owner of G 4630). Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for his grandfather Medunefer (dedicated by his father Ankhiris), south outer jamb (top register), identified as [Xrj-Hb] lector-priest; also listed as one of Medunefer's [msw=f nw Dt] children of the funerary estate; found in situ in G 4630. North false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36192) inscribed for Ankhiris, dedicated by his son Medunefer, identified as [Xrj-Hb] lector-priest; found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Wife ([Hmt=f] his wife) of Medunefer (owner of G 4630). Appears seated with her husband on tablet of south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191), identified as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer (owner of G 4630), south outer jamb (bottom register, carrying bird), identified as [sS pr-mDAt nTr] scribe of the library of the god; also listed as one of Medunefer's [msw=f nw Dt] children of the funerary estate; found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Son ([sA=f] his son) of Medunefer (owner of G 4630). Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer, right flange of tablet (top register, offering linen); found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer (owner of G 4630), north outer jamb (bottom register, carrying bird), identified as [sS pr-mDAt nTr] scribe of the library of the god; also listed as one of Medunefer's [msw=f nw Dt] children of the funerary estate; found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer (owner of G 4630), north outer jamb (top register, carrying tray of unguent jars), identified as [sS pr-mDAt nTr] scribe of the library of the god; also listed as one of Medunefer's [msw=f nw Dt] children of the funerary estate; found in situ in G 4630.
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- Type Attested
- Remarks Wife ([Hmt=f] his wife) of Medunefer (owner of G 4630) or, more probably, of his son Ankhiris. Appears on south false door (Cairo EMC_JE_36191) inscribed for Medunefer (dedicated by his son Ankhiris), left flange of tablet, identified as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; found in situ in G 4630.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates Italian, 1856–1928
- Remarks Turin University; Egyptologist. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- 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.