Amulets and beads (lot c) from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27): 07-2-65 (seated cat-headed goddess), 07-2-66 (two udjat/wadj plaques = MFA 11.1001, MFA 11.1049), 07-2-74 (barrel beads), 07-2-75 (cylinder beads = part of MFA 11.977), 07-2-80 (cat = MFA 11.1048), 07-2-81 (miscellaneous beads, ball bead = MFA 11.1096), __-__-__ (possibly 07-2-71, fragment of udjat = MFA 11.1050)
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- ID
- HUMFA_C410_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 07-2-65 to 81; registration numbers based on publication pp. 260-261 (no registration records from this date); apparently some beads from lot a and lot c combined under one assigned registration number in published list; specific identifications based on publication; 11.1050: this object may be an extra unrecorded (in publication) udjat belonging to group of 5 udjats with assigned registration number 07-2-71 (others attributed to lot a); MFA accession numbers verified; room J2 corrected to read J1; re: name M.Kh. (deleted from description) and lot c here, and initials and lots elsewhere, apparently represent groups of object and "initials" of Egyptian workers who found these batches of objects
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- Photographer
- Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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- MFAB_11.1048
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1049
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1001
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Fragment of faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1050
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Jewelry element: carnelian and faience beads
- MFAB_11.997
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- MFAB_11.1096
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Jewelry element: faience beads
- MFAB_11.977
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.
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