Amulets, beads, and shells from Menkaure pyramid temple, room J2 (= sloping corridor 28): 07-2-135 (= MFA 11.1102, Pataikos), 07-2-136 (= MFA 11.1104, upper half of Sekhmet amulet), 07-2-137 (three Bes amulets, left = MFA 11.1105, middle = MFA 11.1106, right = MFA 11.1108), 07-2-138 (= MFA 11.1110, cat amulet), 07-2-139 (= MFA 11.1103, openwork pendant), 07-2-140 (four crudely made udjat amulets, MFA 11.1114, MFA 11.1115, MFA 11.1117, MFA 11.1119), 07-2-141 (= MFA 11.1111, udjat/wadj plaque), 07-2-142 (= MFA 11.1109, menat amulet), 07-2-143 (= MFA 11.1113, double lion amulet), 07-2-144 (= MFA 11.1116, carnelian fruit pendant), 07-4-145 (five faience imitation split cowrie shell beads, MFA 11.1051), 07-2-146 (three shell imitation split cowrie shell beads, MFA 11.993)
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- ID
- HUMFA_C408_NS
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Subjects
- Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
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- Date
- 05/10/1907
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- Problems/Questions
- VERIFIED: mounted print archive card identifies these as 07-2-135 to 07-2-146 (no registration records from this date); specific identifications based on publication p. 21; MFA accession numbers verified
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- Photographer
- Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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- MFAB_11.1105
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- MFAB_11.1106
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- MFAB_11.1108
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Faience amulet of Ptah-Sokar (Pataikos)
- MFAB_11.1102
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- MFAB_11.1110
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- MFAB_11.1109
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1114
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1115
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1117
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1119
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1111
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Fragment of faience amulet of Sekhmet
- MFAB_11.1104
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- MFAB_11.1113
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Jewelry element: carnelian fruit pendant
- MFAB_11.1116
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Jewelry element: faience pendant
- MFAB_11.1103
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Jewelry element: faience pendant fragment
- MFAB_11.1120
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Jewelry: strand of imitation cowrie shell beads
- MFAB_11.993
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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