Arabic Diary, Vol.1, p.46

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Monday, December 1, 1924 (continued)

3 pottery jars, with handles, broken
1 limestone fragment
1 limestone door socket
1 fragment of an alabaster statuette
1 limestone fragment, inscribed with a scene of water
1 alabaster fragment, decorated with a scene
1 granite chisel [i.e. hammer]

(2) Mastaba 7110

And also excavation was progressing on the area around Mastaba 7110. The debris is sand, limestone chips, and rubble. They found in the debris:
1 complete pottery bowl
1 handle of a copper vessel
1 fragment of an alabaster cup
1 faience eye-shaped amulet
4 small pottery plates
1 small pottery cup

Then we uncovered two shafts to the north of this mastaba. These are shafts 7111 and 7112. [Unclear which shafts are actually meant; according to the accompanying illustration, these are perhaps shafts 7101 D and E.]

Here is a drawing of this mastaba.

ILLUSTRATION

(3) Shaft 7101 E

Abd Al-Karim went down shaft 7101 E. The fill of the shaft is limestone chips and rubble. He dug down a total of 3 meters. They uncovered the burial chamber. It is on the west. The burial chamber is ca. 1 m wide. The walls of the shaft are built with mud brick on top and cut into the Gebel on the bottom.

(4) Shaft 7101 D

And also Abd Al-Karim also started working on shaft 7101 D. Its fill is sand and limestone chips. This shaft is 1 meter wide.
Then today, we divided up the workmen into two groups. The first group was working on the area to the north of Pyramid [G] I-a, while the second group was working on the area to the north of mastaba 7110. Each group was moving the debris on the railway car, and Mubarak Moauad was counting the cars.

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