Vol.13.p.277

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Friday, March 6, 1925 (continued)

(1) Street G 7000
A party of men is breaking up and removing the boulders strewn over the temple floor of G I-a.

(2) Street G 7100
Clearing the north end of street of debris and dumping into pits G 7111 D and E.

(3) Avenue G 0
Clearing debris over the facade of G 7102, and to the north of G 7214 F. Several new tombs were found yesterday and today.
G 7215 D2: A rock cut tomb chamber adjoining that hitherto known as G 7215 D and now as D1. This has now been cleared. Men are now clearing out G 7215 D1.
[G 7215 D2 is a small chamberless pit over G 7215 D.]

(4) Street G 7500
G 7522 X: Clearing western chamber. Robbers' debris.
G 7710 A: Clearing pit.
G 7710 B: Clearing chamber. Black debris. A number of quartzite or alabaster offering vessels are part of a fine alabaster headrest came from pit A during the last two days, also most of a table top.

(5) Tops of mastabas
Work on top of G 7210 this morning.

(6) G 7000 X
From about 2200 cm downwards came great masses of Dynasty 4 pottery, of many kinds of ware and form. One basin with flat bottom and three or four squat legs, one very coarse red ware [ILLUSTRATION] and several with fine purple polish.
From about 2250 cm came about a dozen fragments of limestone coffin lid(?)

[ILLUSTRATION]

Between 2200 and 2450 came seven or eight curious limestone objects, varying in size but constant in form to the sketch overleaf. Two of these had [GLYPHS] scratched on upper surface, two had [GLYPHS] and one had [GLYPHS] and one [GLYPHS]. The round holes in the top

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