Amulets, beads, and shells from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27), between third and fourth pillars, all probably associated with mummy 58: left: 07-2-106 (cat-headed goddess), 07-2-107 (= MFA 11.1070, Pataikos); right: 07-2-63 (faience beads and cowrie shells)
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- ID
- HUMFA_C422_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 07-2-63, 106, 107 (no registration records from this date); specific identifications based on publication pp. 260-261; MFA accession number verified; re: name Hasan (deleted from description) 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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Faience amulet of Ptah-Sokar (Pataikos)
- MFAB_11.1070
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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