H. Junker Diary, Vol.4, p.34

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Wednesday, March 3, 1926

Near the underneath of the 2/3 mentioned, large brick mastaba, one of the false door niches was again carefully walled with brick, the exterior received a smooth grout do that the false door was only visible from the tomb stone and another stain on the wall. Today the site will be precisely photographed, because we want to remove the brickwork. The debris in the road behind D 100 is deposited in part in a long ago worked basin in the east. In the afternoon H.J. has a meeting with Professor Steindorff and Professor Borchardt in Cairo.

Thursday, March 4, 1926

To the north of the large brick mastaba an enclosure is laid bare, as it has not yet emerged on our field. A fairly wide stone mastaba appears in the south being a place of worship merely a very deep niche with a false door in the background, in the east a narrow passage, the bottom portion being made of stone, the upper portion out of brick with the entrance from the east at the north end. A very similar enclosure to the east of these mastabas. A similar type I actually know only from the fields in the east of the Khufu pyramid. After the removal of the brickwork of the false door in the brick mastaba only a small roofed room appears, which was partially filled with sand. At half the height there appears here a small statue that is photographed in the evening in situ.

Friday, March 5, 1926

The sand storm, which made our work difficult yesterday, has grown today to such a strength, that the people had to be dismissed at 9 o’clock. In the afternoon our Coptos people attempted again to resume work, but it was soon discontinued. The statue of Sa-Nefer was brought out before evening. It turns out, that originally next to the statue of Sa-Nefer, the…

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