Menkaure quarry cemetery: N side of quarry, third terrace, top of MQ 102, back of serdab hole, looking NNE
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- ID
- HUMFA_C78_NS
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Subjects
- Menkaure Quarry Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: MQ 102
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- Date
- December 1906
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- Remarks
- see C76
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- Problems/Questions
- unconfirmed identification of tomb E of MQ 133 as MQ 102 based on cemetery map (EG010039); description corrected and expanded based on image content
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- Photographer
- Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)
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- Site Name Menkaure Quarry Cemetery
Modern People
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Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)
- Type Photographer
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks Head Reis for the Harvard-MFA expedition, 1908–1926. In his "A History of the Giza Necropolis I," George A Reisner described Said Ahmed Said as "the most gifted foreman who ever worked for the expedition." Father of Mohammed Said Ahmed [Diraz] (Head Reis 1936–1939), Mahmud Said Ahmed [Diraz] (Translator), Ahmed Said Ahmed [Diraz]. Family name, Diraz, was supplied by Said Ahmed Said's grandsons in 2006.
Name of this image
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