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Saturday, January 23, 1915
Work on Pits A, B, C of mastaba G 5021 [actually G 5012]. In Pit B were found a number of large fragments of pottery dishes.
Cleaning street, offering chambers, and burial puts X and Y of mastaba G 5021 [actually G 5020], east side. Dirt debris. In S.W. corner of offering chamber was found an inscribed limestone sacrificial blood basin, (name of [Imhetep, HUMFA_15-1-35]). In front of limestone ceremonial door, about the center of the mastaba, another inscribed limestone blood basin was found.
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Clearing street north of mastaba G 5120. Debris of sand mixed with limestone fragments.
Work on burial pits A and B of mastaba G 5131, and along south side of G 5131. Dirt debris and sand.
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- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
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- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
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- 01/23/1915
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- Mr. H. Lyman Story
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