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General plan of Western Cemetery

Western Cemetery: D 15 B
Mud-brick mastaba
PorterMoss Date: Dynasty 5-6
Tomb Owner: Mereru (D 15 B)

Excavator: Georg Steindorff
German, 1861–1951
 
Shafts: D 15 B,1; D 15 B,serdab; D 15 B,chapel; 4 intrusive shafts to west
Remarks: Mastaba is built against north end of D 15 at the west side, south of D 85 and east of D 16. Steindorff mentions and draws four intrusive shafts against outside of west wall of D 15 B and D 15 (at north end).
Selected bibliographical references:
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. G5.

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.

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. 25-26, pl. 5.