Lepsius No: L.53
Junker No: Seshemnefer [IV]
Lepsius No: LG 53

Stone-built mastaba

Baer Date: Very end of Dynasty 5 or later
Harpur Date: Unis - Teti
Jacquet-Gordon Date: Dynasty 6
Junker Date: Beginning of Dynasty 6
PorterMoss Date: End of Dynasty 5 or Dynasty 6

Shafts: S 341; serdab 1; serdab 2; serdab 3; chapel

Remarks: Mastaba is in the cemetery along the south side of Khufu's pyramid, linked to Lepsius 54, south of Lepsius 55, east of Heneni and north of Ptah-hetep.

Selected bibliographical references:
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Arnold, Dieter. "Old Kingdom Statues in their Architectural Setting." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 44, fig. 22.

Delvaux, Luc and Eugène Warmenbol. "Trois Seshemnefer et Trente-Six Domaines." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 84 (1998), pp. 64, 68, note 47.

Gamer-Wallert, Ingrid."Die bewegte Geschichte der Mastaba Seschemnofers III. (G 5170)." Sokar 9 (2. Halbjahr, 2004), p. 30.

Grdseloff, ASAE 42 (), 58-61.

Jacquet-Gordon, Domaines funéraires, 306-9 (43G6), figs. 92-3.

Jánosi, Peter. "The Tombs of Officials. Houses of Eternity." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 39, note 73.

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 3. Die Mastabas der vorgeschrittenen V. Dynastie auf dem Westfriedhof. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften. Vienna & Leipzig: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1938, pp. 10, 34-5.

Junker, Hermann. Gîza 11. Der Friedhof südlich der Cheopspyramide: Ostteil. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-historische Klasse Denkschriften 74, Abhandlung 2. Vienna: Rudolph M. Rohrer, 1953, pp. 92-96, 100-119, 126-131, 137-241, figs. 49-53, 60-87, 89-95, pls. 1, 5, 7, 11-23, 24a-b, 26, plan after p. 298.

Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G284.

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C. R. Lepsius, Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Vol. 2 (Berlin), fig. 80-81.

C. R. Lepsius, Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Abteilung 1, Vol 1 (Berlin), pl. 25.

Mariette, Auguste. Les mastabas de l'ancien empire. Paris: F. Vieweg, 1889, pp. 529-30.

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, pp. 223-226, plan 19.

Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, p. 271, fig. 189.

Sethe, Kurt. Urkunden des Alten Reichs. Erster Band. Urkunden des Ägyptischen Altertums Abteilung 1, Hft. 1-4. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1903-1933, pp. 57 [39], 178 [22 (113)].

Smith, William Stevenson. A History of Egyptian Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom. London: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press on behalf of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1946, p. 247, fig. 95

Woods, Alexandra. "Contribution to a Controversy: A Date For the Tomb of kA(=j)-m-anx at Giza." Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 95 (2009), pp. 168, 169, note 64.