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Diary Transcription:

microfilm: West diary, begin page 8

January 5, 1913 (continued)

[Menkuare quarry cemetery (continued)]
a = finely built mastaba [MQ 105], five courses of whose casing is left, apparently set in recess in the rock, but the sand still covering all except the face of the mastaba makes it uncertain.
b, b = the rock face of the quarry.
c = a narrow passage in the rock which apparently joins the similar passage leading west from Room 101 [MQ 101]. The passage is 30 or 35 cm wide, and about 250 or 275 high.
The only object found was a broken slab, [ILLUSTRATION/GLYPHS] [[Hm-nTr mnkAwra anxnbf] "priest of Menkaure Ankhnebef"]. [B1630]
The cartouche is evidently to be filled in: [GLYPHS] [Menkaure]

Sunday, January 5, 1913

There were five or six visitors at the works, on of whom, Prof. Cobern of Allegheny College, took up my entire afternoon.

Monday, January 6, 1913

Day of rest for the men.

Tuesday, January 7, 1913

[Menkaure quarry cemetery]
Work as on Sunday. The quarry cut mentioned at "c" in previous map is as follows: [ILLUSTRATION]
In section the cut is interesting, there being a small chamber apparently across the cut: [ILLUSTRATION]

microfilm: West diary, end page 8

Details

  • Classification
    Documentation-Expedition diary pages
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Credit Line
    Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Display Page Dates
    01/05/1913; 01/06/1913; 01/07/1913
  • Mentioned on page
    Professor Coburn
    Ankhnebef (MQ 130)
    Menkaure
  • Author
    Louis Caulton West, American, 1882–1972

Tombs and Monuments 4

  • MQ 101

    • Site Name Menkaure Quarry Cemetery

  • MQ 105

    • Site Name Menkaure Quarry Cemetery

  • MQ 130

    • Site Name Menkaure Quarry Cemetery

  • Menkaure Quarry

    • Site Name Menkaure Quarry Cemetery

People 4

Ancient People

  • Ankhnebef (MQ 130)

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Remarks Owner of MQ 130. Chapel entrance lintel and drum lintel inscribed for Ankhnebef, identified as [sqd n wjA sS wxrt nswt jrj-xt pr-aA jmj-r (...) pr-aA jmj-xt pr-aA sHD pr-aA jmj-r wabw xAstjw nTrj-mnkAwra wab nswt Hm-nTr mnkAwra rx nswt] oarsman of a boat, scribe of the royal dockyard, custodian of property of the Great House, overseer of (...) of the Great House, under-supervisor of the Great House, inspector of the Great House, overseer of wab-priests and foreigners(?) of the pyramid of Menkaure, royal wab-priest, priest of Menkaure, royal acquaintance; in situ in Menkaure quarry cemetery MQ 130. Displaced block inscribed for Ankhnebef, identified as [Hm-nTr mnkAwra rx nswt] priest of Menkaure, royal acquaintance; found in quarry cut in second terrace of Menkaure quarry above entrance of MQ 130.

  • Menkaure

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Remarks Fifth king of Dynasty 4. Son of Khafre. Husband of Khamerernebti II. Builder of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Known two thousand years later by the Greeks as King Mycerinus.

Modern People

  • Louis Caulton West

    • Type Author
    • Nationality & Dates American, 1882–1972
    • Remarks Worked on the MFA-Harvard expedition from 1912-1914 according to the preface of George A. Reisner's, "A History of the Giza Necropolis, Vol I." Harvard graduate, c.1912.

  • Professor Coburn

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Nationality & Dates
    • Remarks Allegheny College