Arabic Diary, Vol.2, p.107

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Saturday, January 3, 1925 (continued)

(10) [Shaft] 7102 F

Hasan Eid was working on this shaft. He was removing debris of limestone chips, rubble and stone blocks. He cleared it to a depth of 128 cm. The south and west walls of the shaft are built with mud brick, whereas the north and east walls are built with stone blocks. They found in the debris:
1 fragment of an alabaster jug
3 fragments of an alabaster statuette

(11) [Shaft] 7111 A

Attitu and Abd Es-Salam Abd El-Aziim were working on this shaft. They were removing debris of limestone chips, sand, limestone chips and stone blocks. They cleared the shaft and entered the burial chamber. There is debris of sand, limestone chips and stone blocks in the burial chamber. There is also a cutting in the floor of the burial chamber. There is a recess in the east wall of the burial chamber. Here is a drawing of the shaft and the burial chamber:

ILLUSTRATION

(12) [Shaft] 7111 C

Ramadan was in this shaft, removing debris of limestone chips, mud brick and stone blocks. The debris is mixed up because of plundering activities. They cleared this shaft to a depth of 116 cm. This shaft is located to the north of shaft 7111 B.

(13) [Shaft] 7111 D

Darwish was in this shaft. He was removing debris of limestone chips, rubble, stone blocks and mud brick. The debris is mixed up because of plundering activities. They cleared this shaft to a depth of 87 cm. This shaft is located to the north of shaft 7111 C.

(14) [Shaft] 7111 E

Mahmud Yousef was in this shaft. He was removing debris of limestone chips, rubble, stone blocks and mud brick. The debris is mixed up because of plundering activities. They cleared this shaft to a depth of 89 cm. This shaft is located to the north of shaft 7111 D.

(15) [Mastaba] 7212

A crew of workmen was on Mastaba 7212. They were clearing debris of sand, limestone chips, rubble and stone blocks. The chapel of this mastaba is inscribed. There is a large number of inscribed stone blocks fallen on the floor of the chapel. The chapel also has two inscribed false doors. The inscriptions of the false doors include the cartouche of one of the kings of Dynasty 5. The bases of two seated statues are found against the east wall. It seems that these statues were originally deposited against the wall of the mastaba. This mastaba is on Street [G] 7200.

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