Vol.28.p.248

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Friday, February 28, 1936 (continued)

(3) G 2045 (continued)
G 2045 F [= G 2045a F]: In shaft and chamber. Lined with mud brick above and red rock mixed with pebble below. On north side destroyed. It is north of A and east of G. Total depth 1.45 meters. Pebble and red debris. Chamber on north, cut in red rock mixed with pebble. Roof gone. No blocking. Body, head on north, and near his head we found a mud brick used as a headrest. Body left for photo.

G 2045 G [= G 2045a G]: In shaft. Lined with dubsh and mud brick above and rock below. It is west of shaft F. Total depth 1.8 meters. Pebble and red debris. Ended at rock. No chamber.

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G 2045 X [= G 2045c X]: In shaft. Lined with mud brick above and red rock mixed with pebble below. On west the stone building of mastaba G 2045. It is east of this mastaba, on south and west of shaft Y. Total depth 2.05 meters. Pebble, red debris, dubsh and mud brick underneath. Ended at rock. No chamber.

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G 2045 Y [= G 2045c Y]: In shaft. Lined with mud brick, dubsh and bound with mud. It is east of X. Total depth 1.3 meters. Pebble, and red debris. Chamber on north roofed with stones. Blocked with stones, dubsh and bound with mud. Blocking left for photo.

Saturday, February 29, 1936

Work on
(1) G 2004
(2) G 2044 A, B, X
(3) G 2045 F
(4) G 2132 B

(1) G 2004
On the top of the mastaba. Lined with stones. It is lie[lying?] in the southeast corner of G 2000, south of G 2001, G 2003, west of G 2005 and north of Professor Junker's excavations. Limestone debris, dubsh, stones, sand, black debris and some potsherds. One shaft, not numbered before and half of it excavated, appears.

(2) G 2044
West of this mastaba. Pebble, red debris and dubsh, exposed shaft X.

G 2044 A: In shaft and chamber. Red rock mixed with pebble below. Total depth 2.1 meters. Pebble and rock debris. Chamber on west, cut in red rock mixed with pebble. No blocking. Body, head on north. Left for photo.

G 2044 B: In shaft. Red rock mixed with pebble below and underneath native rock. Total depth 4.6 meters. Pebble and red debris. Chamber on south, cut in rock. Blocked with dubsh and removed above. Left for photo.

G 2044 X: In shaft. Small shaft, lined with dubsh. It is west of this mastaba and south of G 2045. Total depth 1.05 meters. Pebble mixed with red debris, limestone debris and potsherds. Chamber on north, roofed and blocked with dubsh and bound with mud. Blocking left for photo.

(3) G 2045
G 2045 F [= G 2045a F]: Removed the body from chamber and cleared it. Drawing.

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(4) G 2132
G 2132 B: Removed the remains of chamber II blocking. Mud brick from blocking and white limestone debris underneath. A wooden coffin [36-4-28] appears in chamber (decayed) and broken, and scattered bones [36-4-29] near the broken coffin.

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