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Photo ID number: A6956_NS

Photo subjects: Eastern Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Service tomb 6

Description: Rock-cut tombs in E edge of pyramid plateau: Service des Antiquites excavations (near village at foot of cliff): tomb 6, rock-cut tomb of Merkhufu, chapel, W wall (because of tomb orientation actually NW wall), three false doors, S false door inscribed for Merkhufu, central false door inscribed for his father Djat, N false door uninscribed, looking NW

Photo date: 05/30/1932

Literature reference: see Fakhry, Ahmed. Sept tombeaux à l'est de la Grande Pyramide de Guizeh. Cairo: Imprimerie de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, 1935, pp. 19-25. Henri Gauthier, "A travers la Basse-Egypte," Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte (ASAE) 22 (1922), pp. 205-208.