Arabic Diary, Vol.23, p.1714

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Saturday, February 4, 1933, the Pyramids (continued)

(7) On Top of Mastaba 5020 and Shafts [5020] A and B (continued)

Shaft [5020] B

Othman Youness and some of the workmen are in this shaft. It is stone blocks on top and cut into the Gebel on [the] bottom. They dug down a total of 180 cm. The debris is sand and some limestone chips. They have not yet found the burial chamber.
Sayyed Bedair went to [the] hospital today because he is a little sick.

Sunday, [February] 5, [1933, the Pyramids]

Excavation started at 6:30 am and ended at 4:30 pm. Excavation was progressing in (1) shaft 2100 C; (2) shaft 2200 B; (3) shaft 2342 Y; (4) shaft 2347 X; and (5) Mastaba 5020 shafts A and B.

(1) Shaft 2100 C

Mohamed Awad Samman and some of the workmen are in this shaft. They dug down a total of 19 m. The debris is sand, rubble, limestone chips, and fallen blocks. The burial chamber is to [the] south. They have not yet reached the rock bottom of the shaft.

(2) Shaft 2200 B

Moussa Khalil and some of the workmen are in burial chamber I and II. The debris is sand, rubble, and limestone chips. They found loose in the debris of chamber I:
1 alabaster jar lid, complete
1 alabaster cup
1 fragment of a small alabaster cup
1 pottery plate
2 fragments of mud sealings, with remains of inscriptions
The coffins, the statuette, and the alabaster slab are in situ, and here is its drawing:

ILLUSTRATION

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