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Saturday, September 4, 1926 (continued)

(1) G 7000 X (continued)
No. 1020(60): (continued)
and decayed in place. No further advance can be made until the cloth is cleared from top of pile of pottery. The latter must be approached from south.

*A4143: pottery along south wall, looking east

Wheeler added details plan page 945.

Group 1200: See A4143 and page 965.
The pottery along the south wall.

No. 1201: Red ware shoulder jar with rim collar, bottom slightly convex.
[ILLUSTRATION]

No. 1202: a and b two halves of same red brown ware bowl with spout. Both loaded with fragments wood and cloth.
[ILLUSTRATION]

No. 1203: Red ware small shoulder jar with rim collar like 1201 but smaller.

No. 1204: Large bowl and stand (one piece). Inside smaller vessels and potsherds.
(1)-(19) bearing a good deal of wood and some crumbled "gray muck" (cloth). Overall lay part of 1019c (see above).
(1) and (10) and (11) red ware pot like 1207 (q.v.) incomplete.
(2) and (6) red ware like 1201, incomplete.
(3) small red ware jar like 1203.
(4), (9), (12)-(16) fragments of jar like 1207.

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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
    09/04/1926
  • Author
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
  • Mentioned on page
    Noel F. Wheeler, British

Tombs and Monuments 1

Published Documents 2

People 2

Modern People

  • 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.

  • Noel F. Wheeler

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • 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."