Miscellaneous objects from Menkaure pyramid temple, court: left: MFA 11.1037 (arrow head); center, top: MFA 11.1039 (coin), MFA 11.1038 (coin); center, bottom: MFA 11.1040 (coin), MFA 11.1041 (coin); right: top row: MFA 11.1044 (ring beads, only one of three MFA owned, top right), second row: MFA 11.1045 (two cylinder beads, two of four), third row: MFA 11.1043 (cylinder bead), MFA 11.1042 (ball bead), bottom row: MFA 11.1045 (two cylinder beads, two of four)
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- ID
- HUMFA_C413_NS
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Subjects
- Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
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- Date
- 1907
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- Problems/Questions
- VERIFIED: V (Abul Hasan) deleted from description; name probably of worker who found this batch of small objects; for those identified: identifications verified based on comparison with objects themselves; objects not registered (no registration records from this date); MFA accession numbers verified; provenance based on accession card notation, GMT room 5 = court
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- Photographer
- Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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- MFAB_11.1037
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- MFAB_11.1038
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- MFAB_11.1039
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- MFAB_11.1040
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- MFAB_11.1041
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- MFAB_11.1042
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- MFAB_11.1043
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- MFAB_11.1044
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Jewelry element: faience beads
- MFAB_11.1045
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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