Menkaure Quarry Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: MQ 120
Menkaure quarry mastaba D
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- Tomb Owner
- Serehu (MQ 120)
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- Excavator
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Site Type
- Rock-cut tomb
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- Diary page dates 01/07/1913
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- Diary page dates 01/07/1913; 01/08/1913
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- Diary page dates 01/08/1913; 01/09/1913
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- Diary page dates 01/09/1913; 01/10/1913; 01/11/1913
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- Diary page dates 01/11/1913; 01/12/1913
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- Diary page dates 01/15/1913
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- Diary page dates 01/15/1913
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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. 294 (misidentified as MQ 2).
Ancient People
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- Type Tomb Owner
- Remarks Owner of MQ 120. Chapel entrance lintel inscribed for Serehu, identified as [rx nswt sHd wabw Hrj-sStA nTrj-MnkAwra jmj-r DADAt nTrj-MnkAwra] royal acquaintance, inspector of wab-priests, secretary of the pyramid of Menkaure, overseer of the jury of the pyramid of Menkaure; in situ in Menkaure quarry cemetery MQ 120.
Modern People
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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.
