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Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple

Amulets (lot a) from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27), all from near feet of mummy 56: top row: 07-2-55 (= MFA 11.1099, sow), 07-2-58 (Bes); bottom row: 07-2-53 (udjat), 07-2-54 (= MFA 11.1101, Sekhmet), 07-2-57 (= MFA 11.1098, Bes), 07-2-56 (= MFA 11.1100, fragment of Isis and Horus)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C406_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
  • Date
    05/10/1907
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: mounted print archive card identifies these as 07-2-53 to 58 (no registration records from this date); specific identifications based on publication p. 260; MFA accession numbers verified; re: "lot a" here, and initials and lots elsewhere, apparently represent groups of object and "initials" of Egyptian workers who found these batches of objects
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

Tombs and Monuments 1

Finds 4

People 1

Modern People

  • 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.