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Diary Transcription:
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Friday, November 20, 1914 (continued)
[G 5232 (continued)]
destroyed by insects. In this dirt one small model saucer of pottery [ILLUSTRATION].
[ILLUSTRATION]
G 5230
Clearing serdabs in G 5230 S (see page 48).
S1 - [Base] of standing statue was high up in sand, inscribed [GLYPHS] [14-11-78]. The sand was hard - not recently disturbed. On the floor were three other similar bases [14-11-79, 14-11-80. 14-11-81].
S2 - Six standing statues mostly life-sized, mostly tilted over to east. Heads all broken off and missing [14-11-92, 14-11-93, 14-11-94, 14-11-95, 14-11-96, 14-11-97]. Sand hard. Among these were a number of fragments of broken statuettes of red granite, etc.
S3 and S4 contained only a few fragments of alabaster and granite.
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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
- 11/20/1914
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- Author
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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.
Name of this image
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- Heather ONeill heather@pixelsforhumans.com
- Nicholas Picardo npicardo@fas.harvard.edu
- Luke Hollis luke@archimedes.digital