The false door is situated just north of Unas causeway and south east of Djosers temenos wall, displayed on map LXII Porter & Moss iii part ii mentioned on page 632. Excavated but only briefly published by Prof Dr Selim Hassan PhD in Excavations at Saqqara 1937 /1938- Volume iii, Mastabas of Princess Hemet-Re and others pages 49/51.

The mudbrick mastaba and false door face east as is usual, the walls display clear signs of mud layers plastered and finally whitewashed although today only minimal remains can be viewed. The false door made from two blocks of white limestone measures 2.06 x 0.98 x 0.18 m the cornice and part of the upper panel are missing, the limestone patinated with salt becoming a threat. The false door originally coated with a whitewash this being removed by Hassan during excavations, no sarcophagus was present in the burial chamber another unsolved mystery.

The hieroglyphs read : Starting top right hand panel.

" the Judge & Inspector of the Scribes, Akhet-Hotep. ( offering burning incense to Pehnefer ).

Below the lintel reads :

" Judge, Nome Administrator, Director of the Broad hall, Pehnefer "

The left & right hand outer jambs are indentical and read as follows :

Royal Chamberlain, the staff of the people, Iun-Kenmut Priest, Judge , Nome Administrator, Belonging to the foremost seat, Greatest of the ten of Upper Egypt, Pehnefer.

The right hand inner jamb :

A voice offering which the King gives, to him in the opening of the year feast, at every feast of every day, eternaly the Judge the Nome Administrator [ Pehnefer ]

The left hand inner jamb : May Osiris give voice offerings , to him in the opening day of the year feast, at every feast of every day, eternaly, [ the Judge the Nome Administrator ] [ Pehnefer ].

Hassan reports red colour was discovered at the top of the false door proving beyond doubt it had originally been painted non is present today.

Alan M Fildes.