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G 4414

Western Cemetery

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3 of 5 • Cemetery G 4000: G 4413 (foreground), G 4414a and G 4414b, looking SW
General plan of Western Cemetery
Plan of cemetery G 4000
Cemetery G 4000: G 4413 (foreground), G 4414a and G 4414b, looking SW
G 4414a, Shaft A
G 4414b, Shaft B

Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4414, G 4413

Details

  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Alternate Reisner No
    G 4414a
    G 4414b
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 4414a A; G 4414b B; G 4414 Chapel.
  • Remarks
    Mastaba is in field southeast of G 4000 off southern end of G 4410, west of G 4413 and east of G 4416 (aka G 4314). Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on Porter-Moss III plan XV.

Excavation Diary Pages 9

  • Vol.10.p.016

    • Diary page dates 12/25/1915; 12/26/1915; 12/27/1915

  • Vol.10.p.018

    • Diary page dates 12/29/1915; 12/30/1915; 12/31/1915

  • Vol.10.p.019

    • Diary page dates 01/01/1916; 01/02/1916; 01/03/1916

  • Vol.30.p.508

    • Diary page dates 09/10/1937; 09/11/1937; 09/12/1937; 09/13/1937; 09/14/1937; 09/15/1937

  • Vol.32.p.676

    • Diary page dates 06/09/1938; 06/10/1938; 06/11/1938; 06/12/1938

  • Vol.32.p.677

    • Diary page dates 06/12/1938; 06/13/1938

  • Vol.32.p.678

    • Diary page dates 06/13/1938; 06/14/1938; 06/15/1938; 06/16/1938; 06/17/1938

  • Vol.32.p.679

    • Diary page dates 06/17/1938; 06/18/1938

  • Vol.32.p.686

    • Diary page dates 06/21/1938; 06/22/1938

Maps & Plans 6

Published Documents 1

Unpublished Documents 4

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    Reisner, unpublished manuscript, Box L 13, Description of Cemetery G 4000, p. 85 a.

People 1

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.