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Diary Transcription:
microfilm: West diary, begin page 4
December 30, 1912 (continued)
[G 2381 A (continued)]
something that is now a brown powder.
Tuesday, December 31, 1912
On a closer examination of G 2000 (Lepsius 23), the following masons' marks were observed. All are in red paint, except those noted.
(1) [ILLUSTRATION] On next to top stone in niche. a, a, very indistinct.
(2) [ILLUSTRATION] On stone under above.
(3) [ILLUSTRATION] On stone which was to have been top of niche. X = too indistinct to read.
On top of stones forming niche are very clear signs [SIGN] to mark point to which the blocks were to have been trimmed.
(4) [ILLUSTRATION] North end of No. 1.
(5) [ILLUSTRATION] South side of No. 3. Indistinct.
(6) [ILLUSTRATION] Small broken bock. a, a, = black.
microfilm: West diary, end page 4
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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
- 12/30/1912; 12/31/1912
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- Author
- Louis Caulton West, American, 1882–1972
Modern People
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- 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.
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