LMP no.
081
Code
G6040 = LG18
Location
Giza
Owner
SpsskAfanx
P&M ref.
IIIČ-175
Tomb type Mastaba
Gender Male
Most likely date Neferirkare-Kakai
Dating P&M Neferirkare-Kakai
Dating Harpur Neferirkare-Kakai Harpur no. 242-WF
Dating Cherpion -
Dating Kanawati Neferirkare-Kakai Kanawati no. 320
Other dating Neferirkare-Kakai (or a bit earlier in dyn. 5) (Baud, no. 40, p. 432)
King -
Literature Reisner, in: Boston Mus. Bull. XXXVII (1939), p. 30.
Smith, Hist. Eg. Sculpt., fig. 139, 141.
Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, Boston 1994, p. 61-62, fig. 53.
Remarks -
Summary2 rooms (I, II)
5 walls (01, 02, 03, 04, 05)

Plan remarks Plan: P&M XXVII.

 

Room  I Wall  01 Orientation  W          

Sources Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, p. 61, fig. 53.
Remarks False door with an architrave with text.

Room  I Wall  02 Orientation  W          

Sources Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, p. 61, fig. 54.
Remarks Stela and drum above doorway.

Room  II Wall  03 Orientation  E          

Sources Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, p. 61-62, fig. 55.
Remarks Unfinished scene. Regsiters are only in paint.

Register  03/1 K from above:  1 K from below:  3 Text: ?  
   N:  3 Wpi:  U  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     Prd=Procession of desert cattle
   Description: Only a man bringing a long horned animal is still visible.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 55.

Register  03/2 K from above:  2 K from below:  2 Text: ?  
   N:  3 Wpi:  M  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     Prd=Procession of desert cattle
   Description: At the right side a man holding a stick is visible. He seems to be driving animals towards the owner.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 55.

Register  03/3 K from above:  3 K from below:  1 Text: N  
   N:  3 Wpi:  L  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     E=Estates
   Description: Four estates facing left (F-M-F-M).
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 55.

Other categories
Register  - K from above:  - K from below:  - Text: N  
   N:  - Wpi:  -  
   Themes: A> - Owner (looking right), incl. family members
    
   Description: Owner standing.
   Literature: -

Room  II Wall  04 Orientation  S          

Sources Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, p. 62, fig. 56.
Remarks -

Register  04/1 K from above:  1 K from below:  6 Text: N  
   N:  6 Wpi:  U  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     O=Offerings on display
   Description: Offerings on display.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 56.

Register  04/2 K from above:  2 K from below:  5 Text: N  
   N:  6 Wpi:  U  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     O=Offerings on display
   Description: Offerings on display.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 56.

Register  04/3 K from above:  3 K from below:  4 Text: N  
   N:  6 Wpi:  M  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     O=Offerings on display
   Description: Offerings on display.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 56.

Register  04/4 K from above:  4 K from below:  3 Text: N  
   N:  6 Wpi:  M  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     O=Offerings on display
   Description: Offerings on display.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 56.

Register  04/5 K from above:  5 K from below:  2 Text: N  
   N:  6 Wpi:  L  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     Sr=Sacrificial ritual
   Description: Two offering bearers facing left and standing behind an ewer and a basin on a tall stand.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 56.

Register  04/6 K from above:  1 K from below:  6 Text: N  
   N:  6 Wpi:  L  
   Themes: GA - Games / Music
     M=Musical group / orchestra, incl. singing
   Description: From left to right: a harpist, a singer and two flutists.
   Literature: cf. the mastaba of Iymry (L.no. 113).
Weeks,
Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 56.

Register  04/6a K from above:  1 K from below:  6 Text: Y  
   N:  6 Wpi:  L  
   Themes: SL - Slaughtering
     C=Domestic cattle
   Description: Two men slaughtering an ox.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 56.
   
 

Texts:

Row(s)   <   Damaged
Translit: <st>p ng<A>
Translat:  Cutting up a bull.
LitRef:  Weeks, Mastabas, p. 62.
Remarks: -

Other categories
Register  - K from above:  - K from below:  - Text: N  
   N:  - Wpi:  -  
   Themes: A> - Owner (looking right), incl. family members
    
   Description: Owner seated inside a pavilion.
   Literature: -

Room  II Wall  05 Orientation  W          

Sources Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, p. 62, fig. 57.
Remarks -

Register  05/1 K from above:  1 K from below:  4 Text: N  
   N:  4 Wpi:  U  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     Ob=Offering bearers, incl. ka-servants & servants with attributes
   Description: Two offering bearers facing left.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 57.

Register  05/1a K from above:  1 K from below:  ? Text: N  
   N:  ? Wpi:  U  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     O=Offerings on display
   Description: Offerings on display.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 57.

Register  05/2 K from above:  2 K from below:  3 Text: N  
   N:  4 Wpi:  M  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     Ob=Offering bearers, incl. ka-servants & servants with attributes
   Description: Several offering bearers facing left.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 57.

Register  05/2a K from above:  2 K from below:  ? Text: N  
   N:  ? Wpi:  U  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     O=Offerings on display
   Description: Offerings on display.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 57.

Register  05/3 K from above:  3 K from below:  2 Text: N  
   N:  4 Wpi:  M  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     Ob=Offering bearers, incl. ka-servants & servants with attributes
   Description: Several offering bearers facing left.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 57.

Register  05/4 K from above:  4 K from below:  1 Text: N  
   N:  4 Wpi:  L  
   Themes: OF - Offerings
     Ob=Offering bearers, incl. ka-servants & servants with attributes
   Description: Three kneeling figures holding objects facing left. Now destroyed.
   Literature: Weeks, Mastabas of Cemetery G6000, fig. 57.

Other categories
Register  - K from above:  - K from below:  - Text: N  
   N:  - Wpi:  -  
   Themes: A> - Owner (looking right), incl. family members
    
   Description: Owner seated with wife behind an offering table.
   Literature: -


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