Roman coin, scarabs, shells, beads, and small metal object (lot b) from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27): 07-2-50 (two udjat plaques, lower amulet = MFA 11.964, upper amulet = MFA 11.965), 07-2-51 (cowrie shells and beads), __-__-__ (= MFA 11.968, coin), 07-2-97 (= MFA 11.959, lower scarab), 07-2-98 (= MFA. 11.960, upper scarab), 07-2-99 (= MFA 11.969, unidentified object)
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- ID
- HUMFA_C409_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
- 1907
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- Problems/Questions
- VERIFIED: mounted print archive card identifies these as 07-2-50, 51, 07-2-96 to 100 (no registration records from this date); 07-2-96 does not appear in this photo, see C419; specific identification based on publication pp. 260-261; MFA accession numbers verified; re: name M.Kh. (deleted from description) and lot b here, and initials and lots elsewhere, apparently represent groups of object and "initials" of Egyptian workers who found these batches of objects; Reisner reference 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_11.968
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.964
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.965
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- MFAB_11.959
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- MFAB_11.960
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- MFAB_11.969
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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- Heather ONeill heather@pixelsforhumans.com
- Nicholas Picardo npicardo@fas.harvard.edu
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