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C. Fisher Diary, p.078

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Friday, February 26, 1915 (continued)

…gazelles being led to sacrifice (?), women bearing offerings, harvesters, rams trampling in the seed, sacrifices of oxen, etc., also three portraits of the owner, Snefru-hetep. There were two inscribed niches with the cartouches of Snefru which form part of Snefru-hetep’s name. North of the entrance to this chamber is a small space roofed in with stone slabs and filled with sand, in which is a skeleton. In the south-west corner of 3008 and high up is a large rectangular room which is filled with hard packed dark rubble debris. A mud wall which is built across the serdab was taken down. The shafts of 3005 being cleared of sand and dark debris.
Today received a telegram from Mr. Fisher stating that excavations at Mit-Rahineh would begin soon.
C62 is a general view over the cemetery so far as cleared, looking east of south.

Saturday, February 27, 1915

Shafts A to E of 3025 are bing cleared of sand. From C-D-E came one nearly complete bowl and many fragments of the other bowls and dishes. Clearing sand and debris from 3008. Shafts A to C of 3005, which are in a row just west of the painted offering chamber, are being cleared of sand and…

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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
    02/26/1915; 02/27/1915
  • Author
    Clarence Stanley Fisher, American, 1876–1941
  • Mentioned on page
    Clarence Stanley Fisher, American, 1876–1941
    Sneferuhetep (G 3008)

Tombs and Monuments 3

  • G 3005

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 3008

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

  • G 3025

    • Site Name Western Cemetery

People 3

Ancient People

  • Sneferuhetep (G 3008)

    • Type Mentioned on page
    • Remarks Owner of G 3008. South false door inscribed for Sneferuhetep, also appears in chapel wall painting, east, south, and west walls, identified as [rx nswt sS nswt sHD wabw xa-snfrw wr mDw Sma Hrj-sStA n nTr=f Hrj-sStA m kAt sxt] royal acquaintance, royal scribe, inspector of wab-priests of the pyramid of Snefru, great one of the tens of Upper Egypt, secretary of his god, secretary of works in the field; in situ in G 3008. Fragment of door jamb (UPM_E13543) inscribed for Sneferuhetep, identified as [rx nswt] royal acquaintance; found in debris of shaft G 3008 C, originally from door to offering room.

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.

  • Clarence Stanley Fisher

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