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General plan of Western Cemetery

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  • Site: Giza; View: D 9, D 11, D11A, D 12, D 46, D 65
  • General plan of Western Cemetery
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Western Cemetery: D 12
Other No: D 12 b
Other No: D 12 d
Other No: D 12 c
Other No: D 12 a
Stone-built mastaba complex
PorterMoss Date: Dynasty 5
Attested: Hehi (in D 12)

Attested: Senetites (in D 12)

Attested: Rudjka (in D 12)

Excavator: Georg Steindorff
German, 1861–1951

Attested: […]u (in D 12)

Tomb Owner: Kherhat (D 12)
 
Shafts: D 12 a,1; D 12 a,2; D 12 a,chapel; D 12 b,1; D 12 b,2; D 12 b,3; D 12 b,serdab; D 12 b,chapel; D 12 c,1; D 12 c,2; D 12 c,3; D 12 d,1; D 12 d,chapel
Remarks: Mastaba is south of D 9, west of D 11, and northeast of D 13. Mastaba is drawn but not labeled on plan EG002029.
Selected bibliographical references:
Hornemann, Types 6, pl.1483.

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 9. Das Mittelfeld des Westfriedhofs. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 73, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1950, plan 2 after pl. 20.

Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G3.

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. 109, plan 14.

Ranke, Personennamen 1, pp. 277 [1], 221 [21].

Steindorff, Georg, and Uvo Hölscher. Die Mastabas westlich der Cheopspyramide 1-2. Edited by Alfred Grimm. Münchner Ägyptologische Untersuchungen 2. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1991, pp. 21-22, pl. 3.
Problems/Questions: Problem; There are tombs 12 a,b,c,d. To which do these names and dynasty relate?