Background information for mastaba V at Gizeh

Excavators:

• Daressy (1904)
• Petrie (December 1906 - January 1907)

Petrie 1907: 2 on mastaba V in Gizeh:

"In 1904 M. Barsanti found, and M. Daressy excavated, for the Cairo Museum, a tomb of the 1st dynasty, in the plain about a mile and a half SSE. of the Great Pyramid. The account of the work is published in the Annales du Service vi.99."

Publications:

• Daressy 1905: passim (the excavation report of Daressy)
• Petrie 1907: 1-6, pl. VI.

Petrie did not publish a plan of the site, the exact position of the mastaba is today unknown. It must be in the area of the monument known in Egyptology as "Covington's Tomb". (see map)

Further reading:

• Kaplony 1963: 84 (on the seal impressions found in the tomb)
• Lehner 1985: 111, fig. 2; 113, fig. 3A (maps of Gizeh)

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