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Sunday, November 22, 1925
Fifth day of work.

Workmen:
Quftis: 100
(four men who came, taken on)

Work on:
(1) Front of G 6010
(2) G 6010 rooms a, b, d, e and f
(3) G 6010 pit A
(4) G 6020 room b and serdab
(5) G 6030 pit B
(6) G 6011
(7) G 6012
(8) G 6013

(1) G 6010
Continued clearing front of G 6010 and reached southeast corner, exposing G 6011, G 6012 and G 6013 (see below)

(2) G 6010
G 6010 rooms a, b, d, e and f: One gang cleared G 6010 a and worked on b through the outer doorway. The thieves retaining wall was removed (see yesterday) and more than half the drift sand in b. The top of the west wall of b, which is an open court was exposed and in the middle about a meter below the top appeared the top of a niche in which stands a life-size figure of a man emerging from the back of the niche and half engaged in stone (like very high relief but en face). The head and shoulders only have been seen.
A second gang was clearing drift sand from room e and having reached the floor on the north and west went on into rooms d and f. The sand is going out over the south wall.

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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
    11/22/1925
  • Author
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942

Tombs and Monuments 6

  • G 6010

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 6011

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 6012

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 6013

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 6020

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 6030

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

People 1

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.