Abstract
During the archaeological season at Abusir South in the autumn of 2010, the Old Kingdom stone mastaba (AS 65) from the 5th Dynasty was unearthed. Its superstructure (18.0 x 8.8 m) consists of six rooms with their upper parts destroyed.
A chapel with a limestone, badly eroded and uninscribed false-door was found situated in the northern part of the tomb. Hieratic masons'' marks on some of the stone blocks of the mastaba revealed the name and main title of its owner, the chief physician (wr swnw) Neferherptah.
The substructure of the tomb comprises two shafts, orientated in the north-south direction and roughly hewn in bedrock. The body of the tomb owner was discovered placed in a burial pit and covered with a layer of Nile mud, which was once meant to symbolise the renewal of life after reaching the realm of afterlife.
Both the burial chamber of Neferherptah (shaft 2) and the one of his wife (shaft 1) had been robbed already in antiquity.