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General plan of Western Cemetery

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Western Cemetery: Lepsius 20-21
Lepsius No: Lepsius 21
Lepsius No: Lepsius 20
Lepsius No: L.21
Lepsius No: L.20
Lepsius No: LG 21
Lepsius No: LG 20
Lepsius No: LG 20-21
Stone-built mastaba
Baer Date: Early Dynasty 5.
PorterMoss Date: Probably early Dynasty 5
Reisner Date: late Menkaure - post-Neferirkare
Strudwick Date: Early Dynasty 5
Harpur Date: Userkaf - Sahure
Kanawati Date: Djedkare - Unis
Attested: Meret (in Lepsius 20)

Attested: Kheni (in Lepsius 20)

Attested: Neshut (in Lepsius 20)

Excavator: (Karl) Richard Lepsius
German, 1810–1884

Tomb Owner: Persen (Lepsius 20)

Attested: Tjentet (in Lepsius 20)

Excavator: Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr
1907–1976

Tomb Owner: Irukakhufu (Lepsius 21)
 
Shafts: 2 shafts; 2 serdabs; chapel
Remarks: Abu-Bakr Excavation (1950-51). Recleared in 2000 by Cairo Univ - Brown Univ Expedition.
Selected bibliographical references:
Handoussa & Brovarski, Preliminary Report on the 2000 Field Season of the Cairo University - Brown University Expedition, pp. 1-4

Leclant, in Orientalia, N.S. 21 (1952), p. 240, fig. 12.

Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G281-G282.

Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Text 1: Unteraegypten und Memphis. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1897, pp. 44-5.

Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Plates 2, Band 3. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1849-1859, fig. 17d.

Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Plates 2, Band 4. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1849-1859, fig. 83a-b.

Lepsius, Carl Richard. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Ergänzungsband. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, 1913, fig. 8.

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. 48-9, plans 17, 24.

Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 217, 311.