Queen Hetepheres I’s sarcophaghus. Hetepheres I was, probably, Snefru’s wife because we know she was Khufu’s mother. We don’t know where she was actually buried: her funerary equipment was found in a deep unfinished shaft (G7000x) on the East side of Khufu’s pyramid, by George Reisner in 1925. The shaft led to a small chamber, that contained a number of objects inscribed with the name of Hetepheres: a big and beautifully carved calcite sarcophagus, 8-10 wooden boxes, a sealed calcite box for canopic jars, jewelry, copper tools, stone vessels, over 280 crushed pots and many others. The tomb seemed to be unplundered: the sarcophagus was found completely closed, but empty and it has been supposed that it was never used for burial like the whole structure (as Jánosi has suggested). Reisner argued that Hetepheres’ tomb was in Dahshur, near Snefru’s pyramid. After the burial and maybe the tomb’s violation, it was decided to transfer the Queen’s furniture in a more safety place, in order to prevent the looting of it. We have no archaeological proof of this hypothesis, as we cannot say if Hetepheres was buried in Giza before the Great Pyramid’s construction (according to Lehner’s vue). For references: G.A. Reisner, The tomb of Hetep-heres, in Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Supplement to vol. 25), 1927, pp. 2-36 (online: gizapyramids.org/pdf%20library/bmfa_pdfs/bmfa25_1927_01to36.pdf); G.A. Reisner, The empty sarcophagus of the mother of Cheops, in Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston 26, 1928, pp. 76-88; M. Lehner, The pyramid tomb of Hetep-heres and the satellite pyramid of Khufu, Mainz-Zabern, 1985; H.-H. Münch, Categorizing archaeological finds: the funerary material of Queen Hetepheres I at Giza, in Antiquity 74, 2000, pp. 898-908. For more photos: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grab_der_Hetepheres_I.
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