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West of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu laid out scores of mastaba tombs for the elite members of ancient Egyptian society. Specific clusters of tombs seem to form architectural and archaeological units, prompting the modern division of the Giza Necropolis into discrete nucleus cemeteries. This book interprets the complete archaeological record of the mastabas of Cemetery G 2100, one of the six nucleus cemeteries at Giza. As a key to understanding Old Kingdom mortuary development at Giza, it explores the distinguishing features of such a grouping of tombs and tomb owners: relative chronology and individual artistic styles; common administrative titles, possible familial connections to the king; and, the relationship of the earlier, major mastabas to the subsequent, minor burials surrounding them. More than a century has elapsed since the fourteen major mastabas and about sixty-two smaller subsidiary tombs of Cemetery G 2100 were first excavated by the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition at Giza under George A. Reisner (1867-1842). In addition, the southern edge of Cemetery G 2100 fell within the excavation concession granted to the G

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Author

Peter Der Manuelian

Publisher

Museum Of Fine Arts, Boston

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780878467549

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Humanities