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Saturday, February 20, 1915
Finished cleaning pits A and B of mastaba 3013.
Clearing Pit B of mastaba 3014 of sand and limestone debris.
Clearing sand from top of mastaba 3015, and from roofed-over burial chamber. In sand above this chamber a fragment of an inscribed limestone stela which fits onto the large fragment found yesterday in sand between mastabas 3003 and stone mastaba. Across the roofed-in burial chamber, south end, an inscribed limestone log. G 35
Clearing sand from between mastabas 3014 and 3022, 3021 and 3022, 3023 and 3024.
Clearing pits A, B, C of mastaba 3022 of sand and underlying dark limestone debris.
Finished clearing Pit A of mastaba 3004.
Clearing around mastaba 3024.
Clearing vaulted chamber of mastaba 3024 of sand and mud debris. Part of the red-painted mud arch is still in place.
Telegram from Dr. Resiner at 2:30 that Fisher is returning, but that the Reisners are staying…
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- Documentation-Expedition diary pages
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- Department
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
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- Credit Line
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
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- Display Page Dates
- Modern
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- Display Page Dates
- 02/20/1915
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- Mentioned on page
- Clarence Stanley Fisher, American, 1876–1941
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Author
- Mr. H. Lyman Story
Modern People
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- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates American, 1876–1941
- Remarks Archaeologist and architect. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
- Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- Type Author
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks MFA
