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Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple

Beads and shells from Menkaure pyramid temple, room J2 (= sloping corridor 28): 07-2-147

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C416_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
  • Date
    1907
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: mounted print archive card identifies these as 07-2-147 (no registration records from this date); identification verified based on publication p. 21; no udjat eye amulet included in list of items for 07-2-147, this udjat similar to those designated 07-2-140 from same provenance, but all four of those included in C408 and C2881 (however lists of items for specific "registration" numbers in publication have proved on occasion NOT to be inclusive of all items actually found)
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

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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.