Mastabet el-Fara'un
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 19, 2020 04:06 PM
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History
tags:
pyramid,
extant remains
The site of the burial of Shepseskaf, the last known pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/945930914
29.8351588, 31.215421
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Mastabet el-Fara'un (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- مصطبة الفرعون (Mastabat al-Fir’aun: Egyptian Arabic, modern)
- Mastabet el-Fara'un located at Saqqarah (unspecified date range)
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None
tomb
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John Perring first described the pyramid in the middle of the nineteenth century. Auguste Mariette carried out some excavations in 1858 and the pyramid was fully excavated by Gustave Jéquier in 1924/5.
Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Mastabet el-Fara'un: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/945930914> [accessed: 23 November 2024]
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