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Diary Transcription:
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Tuesday, February 8, 1927
Day of rest.
Wednesday, February 9, 1927
twenty-first day of work
cars emptied:
line IX 6:30 am - 8:00 am: 66, 8:30 am - 12:00: 184, 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm: 157
Total 407
Work on:
(1) Street G 7300
(2) Pit G 7143 B
(3) Pit G 7249 A
(4) Pit G 7340 mastaba
(5) Pit G 7430 B
(6) G 7440 X
(1) Street G 7300
Clearing street to southward between G 7340 and G 7440.
(2) G 7143
G 7143 B: Cleared bronze and gold crown(?) from chamber, and sent up in box; parts of bronze broken away and much of the thin gold covering fallen off.
[ILLUSTRATION]
(3) G 7249
G 7249 A: Removed four limestone canopic jars and three lids (fourth lid later seen inside rock-cut coffin). One pottery jar, broken, and mud seal with impression(?) Lifted lid of sarcophagus. Skeleton, head north, with large skull fracture; signs of having been flooded with water at some time.
(4) G 7340
Clearing debris from top of mastaba; found in debris: faience ushabti and amulet fragments, faience beads and udjat amulets, glass and copper fragments, lapis scarab.
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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
- 02/08/1927; 02/09/1927
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- Author
- Noel F. Wheeler, British
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
Modern People
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- Type Author
- Nationality & Dates British
- Remarks Wheeler was a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy according to George A. Reisner's, "A HIstory of the Giza Necropolis, Vol. I."