Giza Mastabas VI: A Cemetery of Palace Attendants

by Peter Der Manuelian and Ann MacY Roth

In the latter part of the Fifth Dynasty the necropolis that surrounded the Fourth Dynasty pyramids of Giza again became a popular site for the tombs of Memphite officials. A particular cluster of these mastaba tombs was excavated between 1936 and 1939 by George Andrew Reisner. Some of the tomb chapels were found to be decorated; others had anterooms with courtyards and porticoes. All of the inscribed tombs bore a title which Roth translates as "palace...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0878463852
• ISBN13: 9780878463855
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
• Length: 175 Pages