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Vol.13.p.257

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Monday, February 23, 1925 (continued)

(1) Street G 7500 (continued)
[G 7521 (continued)]

[ILLUSTRATION/GLYPHS]
[in situ south false door, false door tablet fragment 25-2-1003, relief fragment 25-2-1004, lintel 25-2-1002]

Under coarse roofing slabs at the south end of the chapel of G 7521 there is a Ptolemaic-Roman burial G 7509 H.

Work in the pits is detailed thus:
G 7509 E: Clearing pit. Down 800 in dirty debris.
G 7510 I: Cleared. 820 deep.
G 7519 D: Pit cleared. 613 deep. Chamber on north broken through by G 7509 C.
G 7521 A: Down 450 in dirty robbers' debris. Chamber on north.
G 7521 B: Down 400 in robbers' debris.
G 7521 D: Down 440 in disturbed debris.
G 7521 X: Disturbed debris.
G 7610 A: Clearing robbers' debris from chamber.
G 7610 W: Clearing robbers' debris from chamber.
G 7620 A: Cleared.
G 7620 O: Pit clear. 945 deep. Chambers on south, east, and north.
G 7620 R: Clearing chamber of fairly clean sand.
G 7632 A: Still clearing chambers.
G 7641 C: Down 480. Many pots in robbers' debris mixed with sand.

(2) G 7000 X

[ILLUSTRATION]

The limits of [the pit // GAR] are now clear. [The limestone packing seen at the end of the tunnel was the packing of the pit. // GAR] [Directly over this packing // GAR] there were found this morning the rectangular outlines of a pit [seen in the rock surface // GAR]. [The mouth of // GAR] this pit was cleverly concealed by being blocked with large rough pieces of rock cemented together to imitate the natural surface of the "gebel" [nummulitic limestone]. It was through this pit [mouth // GAR] that the blocks [of the packing observed at the end of the tunnel // GAR] were lowered and cemented into position course by course. [(N. B. Corrections by GAR in brackets [] )]

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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
    02/23/1925
  • Mentioned on page
    Imti (in G 7521)
    Nihetep-ptah Hepi (G 7521)
  • Author
    Thomas Richard Duncan Greenlees, British, 1899–

Tombs and Monuments 9

People 3

Ancient People

  • Imti (in G 7521)

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Remarks Wife ([Hmt=f] his wife) of Nihetep-ptah Hepi (owner of G 7521). Appears on south false door inscribed for Nihetep-ptah, tablet (name on displaced fitting fragment 25-2-1003), and in chapel relief, entrance of chapel vestibule (= room b), west door jamb inscribed for Imti; false door and door jamb in situ in G 7521, false door fragment found in G 7521 A.

  • Nihetep-ptah Hepi (G 7521)

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Remarks Owner of G 7521. Nihetep-ptah, [rn=f nfr] his good name Hepi. South false door (including displaced fitting fragment of tablet 25-2-1003) inscribed for Nihetep-ptah Hepi, identified as [sHD xntjw-S pr-aA sHD pr-aA] inspector of palace attendants of the Great House, inspector of the Great House; false door in situ in G 7521, fragment found displaced in G 7521 A. Also appears in chapel relief, entrance of chapel vestibule (= room b), east door jamb; in situ in G 7521. Limestone drum lintel (25-2-1036) inscribed for Nihetep-ptah Hepi, identified as [sHD xntjw-S pr-aA] inspector of palace attendants of the Great House; found displaced in G 7521 A.

Modern People

  • Thomas Richard Duncan Greenlees

    • Type Author
    • Nationality & Dates British, 1899–
    • Remarks Thomas Richard Duncan Greenlees, born South Africa, Sivaratri, March 10, 1899. British subject with a Scottish father and an English mother. For a brief period during 1925 he was a staff member of Harvard University--Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition, who later joined the Theosophist movement in India. Greenlees received his MA degree in 1922 from Oxford, where he studied Egyptian, Coptic and Arabic. April 2,1925, Greenlees appointed Assistant Curator of Egyptian Art at MFA.