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Wednesday, February 17, 1915

In the mixed limestone and dark debris in the shaft A of 2097 [= G 3097] was a rough flint flake, G34. B is also filled with similar debris. Shafts C-E and F of 2097 [= G 3097] are cleared and D is partly finished. All are filled with sand and limestone, dirty debris. Four shafts, A to D, of mastaba 2096 [= G 3096] are now cleared. This is a rectangular mastaba, built between 2095 [= G 3095] and 2097 [= G 3097], a small space being left between it and the latter. In mastaba 2095 [= G 3095] shafts C and D are being cleared of sand and dirty debris; this mastaba is built wholly of mud bricks, and lie due west of 2093 [= G 3093]. Its east face is decorated with a series of alternate single and double niches. West of 2096 [= G 3096] is another almost square mastaba 3003; this has two offering chambers, the outer one, X, is formed partly by the rear wall of 2096 [= G 2096], and the front wall of its own mastaba; the second chamber, Y, which is connected with X by a vaulted passage, is built within the body of the mastaba. Both are filled with sand, underneath which is a mass of hard packed dirty debris. The space between 2093 [= G 3093] and 2095 [= G 3095] is filled with sand with the underlying hard packed dark debris. All the shafts of 2093 [= G 3093] have now been cleared. When I speak of a shaft being cleared it…

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Details

  • Classification
    Documentation-Expedition diary pages
  • Department
    University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
  • Credit Line
    University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
  • Display Page Dates
    Modern
  • Display Page Dates
    02/17/1915
  • Author
    Clarence Stanley Fisher, American, 1876–1941

Tombs and Monuments 5

  • G 3003

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 3093

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 3095

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 3096

    • Site Name Western Cemetery
  • G 3097

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

People 1

Modern People

  • Clarence Stanley Fisher

    • Type Author
    • Nationality & Dates American, 1876–1941
    • Remarks Archaeologist and architect. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.