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General plan of Western Cemetery

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Western Cemetery: D 215
Mud-brick mastaba
PorterMoss Date: Middle Dynasty 5
Tomb Owner: Imhetep (D 215)

Excavator: Georg Steindorff
German, 1861–1951

Attested: Ankhhathor (in D 215)
 
Shafts: D 215,1; D 215,2; D 215,3
Remarks: Mastaba is in field north of G 4000, southeast of D 213, west of D 216, east of D 104 and north of D 107. Mastaba not drawn on any plan, though it may be a piece of its southern wall just north of D 107 & D108 on Steindorff's Lagerplan for 1903.
Selected bibliographical references:
Hornemann, Types 5, pl. 1181.

Ippel and roeder, Denkmaler...Hildesheim, fig. 10, p. 50, pl. 11 (names).

Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G47.

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. 117, plan 14.

G. Steindorff and U. Hoelscher, Die Mastabas westlich der Cheopspyramide, Muenchener Aegyptologische Untersuchungen 2 (Frankfurt am Main, 1991), edited by A. Grimm, p. 110.
Problems/Questions: Problem; Location unknown. What is tomb type?