Vol.36.p.942

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Thursday, April 4, 1940 (continued)

(2) G 2444
G 2444 A: In shaft. Ends at rock. Lined with rubble and plastered with mud. It is south of C. Total depth 2.05 meters, limestone debris, dirty debris and rubble. Chamber on south blocked with rubble and bound with mud, intact, left for photo.

G 2444 B: In shaft. Ends at rock. Lined with rubble and plastered with mud, only on east above a masonry course. It is east of C. Total depth 1.38 meters, limestone debris, rubble and dirty debris. Chamber on south blocked with one vertical slab and rubble and bound with mud, intact, left for photo.

G 2444 C: In shaft. Ends at rock. Lined with rubble and bound with mud. It is west of B and north of A. Total depth 1.6 meters, sand, limestone debris and dirty debris. Chamber on north blocked with rubble resting on limestone debris and bound with mud, left for photo.

(3) G 2444a
G 2444a A: In shaft. Ends at rock. Lined with rubble. It is south of B. Total depth 1.35 meters, sand, limestone debris and rubble. Chamber on west blocked with rubble, not bound, left for photo.

G 2444a B: In shaft. Ends at rock. Lined with rubble. It is north of A. Total depth 1.55 meters, limestone debris, rubble and dirty debris. Chamber on north blocked with crude brick and bound with mud, intact, leveled with the shaft, left for photo.

Friday, April 5, 1940

work on
(1) G 2440 A, B, D, E

(1) G 2440
G 2440 A: In shaft. Total depth 13.75 meters, sand, limestone debris, rubble and dirty debris. Chamber on south cut in rock. No blocking. Reached the rock in shaft and not started in the chamber.

G 2440 B: In shaft, down 4.7 meters, limestone debris and stones. Removed the debris on north and west. The lining of the shaft on north and west fallen. Not reached the rock in shaft and not reached the chamber.

G 2440 D: In shaft, down 3.5 meters, drift sand, and some limestone debris. Not reached the rock in shaft and not reached the chamber.

G 2440 E: In shaft. Ends at rock. Lined with rubble. It is north of D, down 4.0
meters, drift sand, limestone debris and rubble. Not reached the rock in shaft and not reached the chamber.

Saturday, April 6, 1940

work on
(1) G 2440 A, B, D, E, F, G

(1) G 2440
G 2440 A: In chamber: dirty debris, limestone debris and sand. In the chamber a limestone coffin running north-south with lid displaced, uninscribed.
Also exposed a canopic pit at the southeast corner, cut in rock. Only one course built above the floor of the chamber on north and west. Found in debris east of the coffin beside the door of the chamber inside: three complete alabaster dishes, one complete alabaster jar, three fragments of alabaster table, burnt limestone cup, lid of a limestone canopic jar, round limestone object, part of a lid of a limestone canopic jar, fragments of pottery (perhaps of two different kinds of jars). Cleared. Drawing on page 943.

G 2440 B: In shaft and chamber. Total depth 6.0 meters, sand, limestone debris, rubble and dirty debris. Chamber on west (facing to south) cut in bad rock. No blocking. In the chamber a white limestone coffin running north-south with broken lid thrown east. Found in chamber debris: fragments of pottery bowls, eight small pottery dishes, six pottery jars, three small jars (pottery), one of them not complete. Cleared, drawing on page 943.

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