on 10 january 1913, hermann junker and his colleagues discovered the mastaba of kaninisut. shortly thereafter it was decided that that cult chamber would be sold to the kunsthistorisches museum in vienna, so that it could be displayed there as a typical example of old kingdom funerary architecture. hermann junker remarked that "the entire chamber is in every respect so beautiful and instructive that i consider it pre-eminently suitable for being transferred to vienna."