Amulets, beads, and scarab (lot c) from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27), debris between second and third pillars: 07-2-102 (= MFA 11.1064, scarab), 07-2-103 (cat-headed goddess), 07-2-104 (three udjats, lower amulet = MFA 11.1065, upper amulet = MFA 11.1066, small amulet to right = MFA 11.1067), 07-2-105 (cylinder beads)
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- ID
- HUMFA_C415_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 07-2-102 to 105 (no registration records from this date); specific identifications based on publication p. 261; MFA accession numbers verified; 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_11.1064
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1065
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1066
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Faience udjat (eye of Horus) amulet
- MFAB_11.1067
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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- Nicholas Picardo npicardo@fas.harvard.edu
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