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Friday, March 4, 1910

In the afternoon Mr. and Mrs. W.S. Spaulding visited the excavations.

Saturday, March 5, 1910

Clearing the space between the temple and the pyramid as now preserved.

Sunday, March 6, 1910

Finished space between temple and pyramid revealing foundation course of pyramid with line of first course of casing. The foundation course of the casing was built of granite. Spaces between granite casing and limestone core carefully packed with plaster (pinkish white).

[ILLUSTRATION]

Under this foundation course is another foundation coarse of limestone blocks. It appears as if
P. course 2 was intended to be the first course to the pyramid.
P. course 3 casing was of limestone (dressed).
In the temple the top of T.1 was to have been the floor level.
P.2 space has been filled in by T.2 = course of limestone, filling of limestone chips and mud plastered floor.

Twenty visitors to see statue and excavations.

Monday, March 7, 1910

Day of rest. Worked steadily all day on stone vessels.

Tuesday, March 8, 1910

Sand storm (blizzard) from southwest came up in the night. Work impossible. The men went down, but as I came out for breakfast they were straggling back to barracks. The noise and the dust make even office work a misery.

Today was to have been a day of visitors - Borchardt and the

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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
    03/04/1910; 03/05/1910; 03/06/1910; 03/07/1910; 03/08/1910
  • Mentioned on page
    Artin (Pasha)
    Ludwig Borchardt, German, 1863–1938
    Mr. Eddings
    Mrs. W. S. Spaulding
    Nuber (Pasha)
    Professor Sayce
    Menkaure
    Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Crane
  • Author
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942

Tombs and Monuments 2

People 8

Ancient People

  • 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

  • Artin (Pasha)

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Nationality & Dates
  • George Andrew Reisner

    • Type Author
    • Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
    • Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
  • Ludwig Borchardt

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Nationality & Dates German, 1863–1938
    • Remarks Egyptologist. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology. (1863-1938) German Egyptologist; he was bom in Berlin, 5 Oct. 1863, son of Herman B. and Bertha Levin; he trained as an architect at the Technische Hochschule, 1883-7; he assisted in the Egyptian section of Berlin Museum 1887-8; between 1890 and 1897 he was in charge of building works at Konigsberg; Doctor hon. c. 1897; he studied Egyptology under Erman (q.v.) and first visited Egypt in 1895, working at Philae under Capt. Lyons(q.v.); following de Morgan's great project to catalogue the standing monuments of Egypt ,he inaugurated a less grandiose scheme in conjunction with Maspero (q.v.) for the great (Catalogue Général of Cairo Museum; he became attaché to the German Consulate in Cairo; Borchardt founded and directed the German Institute of Archaeology, 1907-28, on his retirement, he founded his own institute which later became the Swiss Institute; he also contributed a great many texts and much useful information to the Berlin Dictionary; using methods partly derived from Dorpfeld he excavated the sun temple of King Nyuserre at Abu Gurab, 1898-1901, and the pyramids of Abusir; he also excavated and established reconstructions of Amarna houses, 1913-14; Borchardt was the first person to make an intensive study of Egyptian architecture as a subject on its own; he also discovered the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose at Amarna and enriched Berlin Museum with many fine objects from this excavation; another interest of his was chronology; he was a member of the German Arch. Institute, 1898, and a bibliography of his writings, 214 nos., was issued in 1933 to celebrate his 70th birthday; he published, Die aegyptischen,.-, Pflanzensaule1897; Denkmaeler des Alten Reiches (ausser den Statuen) im Museum von Kairo, pt. 1, Cat. Gén., 1901; Das Re- Heiligtum des Konigs Ne-woser-re (Rathures), pt. 1, Der Bau, 1905; Zur Baugeschichte des Amonstempels von Karnak, 1905; Nilmesser und Nilstandsmarken, 1906; Das Grabenkmal des Konigs Ne-user-rec , 1907; Works of Art from the Egyptian Museum at Cairo. With explanations by L. Borchardt, 1908; Das Grabenkmal des Koenig Nefer-ir-ke3-rec, 1909; Das Grabdenkmal des Konigs S'a3hu-rec, 3pts, 1910, 1913; Statuen und Statuetten von Koenigen und Privatleuten im Museum von Kairo, Cat. Gén., 1911-36; Die Annalen und die zeitliche Festlegung des Alten Reiches der Aegyptischen Geschichte, 1917; Quellen und Forschungen zur Zeitbestimmung der Aegyptischen Geschichte, 3pts. 1917, 1935, 1938; Die Altaegyptische Zeitmessung 1920; altaegyptische Festungen an der zweiten Nilschnelle, 1923; Portraets der Koenigin Nofret-ete aus den Grabungen 1912/13 in Tell el-Amarna, 1923; Agypten. Landschaft, Volksleben, Baukunst, with H Ricke, 1930; Allerhand Kleinigkeiten ... zu seinem 70. Geburtstage am 3. Oktober 1933, 1933 Beitraege zur Aegyptischen Bauforschung und Altertumskunde, with Ricke, 1937; Die Entstehung des Generalkatalogs und seine Entwicklung in den Jahren 1897-1899, 1937; Aegyptische Tempel mit Umgang, 1938; he died in Paris, 12 Aug. 1938, and was buried in Cairo. ASAE 39 (1939), 43-7 (portr.) U. Leibovitch); Chron. d .Eg. 14 (1939), 141-3 U. Capart) JEA 24 (1938), 248 (G. Steindorff); NDB 2, 455 (H. Ricke).
  • Mr. Eddings

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Nationality & Dates
  • Mrs. W. S. Spaulding

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Nationality & Dates
    • Remarks Visitor
  • Nuber (Pasha)

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Nationality & Dates
    • Remarks Visitor
  • Professor Sayce

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Nationality & Dates

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