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G 2097'

Western Cemetery

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Plan of cemetery G 2000
Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2085, G 2086, G 2099, G 2098, G 2097, G 2087, G 2088, G 2089, G 2091, men at work, looking SW to G 2000 (= Lepsius 23) (background right)
Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2092+2093: G 2092, G 2097, G 2091, G 2089, G 2098, G 2088, G 2099, G 2087, men at work removing great dump heap over G 2230+2231: G 2230, looking NE to Pyramids Road (Sharia el-Haram) from G 2000 (= Lepsius 23)
Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2097' F, door block and roofing, looking S
Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2097', small false door of [GLYPHS] Tjeset, tablet, looking W
Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2097 C, door block, looking S
Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2097', small false door of [GLYPHS] Tjeset, tablet, looking W
Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2097' F, burial chamber, leg-contracted burial (skeleton), looking S

Maps and plans: Plan of cemetery G 2000

Details

  • Attested
    Tjeset (in G 2097')
  • Excavator
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Site Type
    Stone-built mastaba
  • Shafts
    G 2097' B; G 2097' C; G 2097' D; G 2097' E; G 2097' F; G 2097' Serdab 1

Finds 1

Excavation Diary Pages 8

  • Vol.33.p.735

    • Diary page dates 01/02/1939; 01/03/1939; 01/04/1939; 01/05/1939

  • Vol.33.p.736

    • Diary page dates 01/05/1939

  • Vol.33.p.740

    • Diary page dates 01/05/1939; 01/06/1939; 01/07/1939

  • Vol.33.p.741

    • Diary page dates 01/07/1939

  • Vol.33.p.742

    • Diary page dates 01/07/1939; 01/08/1939; 01/09/1939; 01/10/1939; 01/11/1939; 01/12/1939

  • Vol.33.p.744

    • Diary page dates 01/19/1939

  • Vol.33.p.745

    • Diary page dates 01/19/1939; 01/20/1939

  • Vol.33.p.751

    • Diary page dates 01/25/1939; 01/26/1939; 01/27/1939; 01/28/1939

Maps & Plans 12

Published Documents 1

Unpublished Documents 16

Full Bibliography

  • Chauvet, Violaine. “Decoration and Architecture: The Definition of Private Tomb Environment.” Servant of Mut. Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente. Leiden: Brill, 2008, p. 49 note 54.

    Roth, Ann Macy. A Cemetery of Palace Attendants. Giza Mastabas 6. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, pp. 135-137, fig. 74, pls. 98a-b, 190.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Tjeset (in G 2097')

    • Type Attested
    • Remarks Wife (?) of unidentified owner of G 2097'. False door tablet inscribed for Tjeset, identified as [rxt nswt] royal acquaintance; found in situ on north part of east facade of G 2097'. Possibly daughter of Kapi (owner of G 2091).

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.