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Diary Transcription:
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Friday, November 12, 1915
day 19
Work on
(1) pit G 4940 A and on new area as follows
(2) south of G 4710 and serdab G 4611
(3) G 4810
(4) north of Great Wall
(1) G 4940
Continued clearing chamber (lower) in pit G 4940 A.
(2) South of G 4710, G 4611 serdab
Clearing sand south of G 4710 arrived at face of G 4611.
In northeast corner of G 4611 serdab with three roofing blocks (two broken). Cleared out sand and found plundered.
[ILLUSTRATION]
(3) G 4810
Work on G 4810 clearing sand from chambers and pits. In hole east of pit A, a fragment of smoothed squared alabaster thus [ILLUSTRATION]. In pit C a fragment of alabaster, inscribed, and a flint flake thus [ILLUSTRATION].
[ILLUSTRATION]
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- Classification
- Documentation-Expedition diary pages
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Display Page Dates
- 11/11/1915; 11/12/1915
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- Author
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
Modern People
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- 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.
