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Site: Giza; View: Service tomb 6

Photo ID number: A6957_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 entrance, drum lintel inscribed for Merkhufu, looking __
Photo date: 05/28/1932
Remarks: Service tomb 6 (Reisner numbering system) = Service tomb 6 (Fahkry numbering system)
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.
Problems/Questions: name arbitrarily standardized to Merkhufu from alternate Khufu-mer; description expanded and corrected based on comparison with previous photos
MET 05 : Non organic / Rock: Limestone
MET 02 : Architecture / Architectural unit / Tomb/mastaba/pyramide, etc.: Chapel
MET 02 : Architecture / Architectural element / Door: Drum
MET 02 : Architecture / Architectural element / Door: Entrance
MET 02 : Architecture / Architectural element / Wall: Facade
MET 06 : General technique / Relief: Low relief