Wadi Cemetery: GW 1 (foreground right), GW 3 (middle ground right), GW 4 and GW 5 (middle ground center and center right), GW 6 (background left), GW 7 and GW 8 (background center), looking WNW
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- ID
- HUMFA_A10935P_OS
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Subjects
- Wadi Cemetery (Reisner; north of W. Cem): Site: Giza; View: GW 1, GW 3, GW 4, GW 5, GW 6, GW 7, GW 8
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- Date
- August 1904
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- Remarks
- Two tombs appear to have been numbered GW 1; one "in trial pit in path of upper dump heap" with burial excavated in January 1904 (the exact location of which is unknown), one small mud and rough stone mastaba, apparently with burial unexcavated, that appears with wood marker numbered "1" in photos of eastern edge of wadi cemetery.
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- Problems/Questions
- view from E changed to looking WNW; description expanded to include specific tomb numbers based on wood markers visible in image
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- Photographer
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Site Name Wadi Cemetery (Reisner; north of W. Cem)
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- Site Name Wadi Cemetery (Reisner; north of W. Cem)
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- Site Name Wadi Cemetery (Reisner; north of W. Cem)
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- Site Name Wadi Cemetery (Reisner; north of W. Cem)
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- Site Name Wadi Cemetery (Reisner; north of W. Cem)
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- Site Name Wadi Cemetery (Reisner; north of W. Cem)
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- Site Name Wadi Cemetery (Reisner; north of W. Cem)
Modern People
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- Type Photographer
- 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.
Name of this image
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- Heather ONeill heather@pixelsforhumans.com
- Nicholas Picardo npicardo@fas.harvard.edu
- Luke Hollis luke@archimedes.digital