Arabic Diary, Vol.21, p.1527

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Diary Translation: begin page 1527
Wednesday, March 16, 1932, the Pyramids (continued)

(2) Shafts 1611 B, C and D

Shaft 1611 B

Ahmed el-Mizlef and Ali Ibraheim removed the blockage from the burial chamber. The debris is stone fragments and sand. They found a skeleton in the burial chamber. His head is toward the west. We left it for photography. This is a drawing:

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Shaft 1611 C

The abovementioned workmen removed the blockage from the burial chamber of shaft C. The fill is stone fragments and sand. They found in the burial chamber a skeleton, whose head is toward the north [looking] west. Under it [his head] is a broken stone. We left it for photography. This is its drawing:

ILLUSTRATION

Shaft 1611 D

Ahmed el-Mizlef and Ali Ibraheim removed the blockage from the burial chamber of shaft D. The fill is stone fragments and sand. They found in the burial chamber a skeleton, whose head is toward the north. Under it [his head] is a broken stone. We left it for photography. This is its drawing:

ILLUSTRATION

(3) Shaft 1612 A

Ahmed el-Mizlef and Ali Ibraheim removed the blockage from the burial chambers I and II. The fill is stone fragments and sand. They found in each burial chamber a skeleton, whose head is toward the west. We left it [the skeleton] for photography. This is its drawing:

ILLUSTRATION

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