Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440, G 4540, G 4441, G 4450, G 4550
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- Excavator
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- PorterMoss Date
- Middle or late Dynasty 4
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- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
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- Shafts
- G 4540 A; G 4540 Chapel a; G 4540 Chapel b; G 4540 Chapel c
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- HUMFA_13-12-16g
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- HUMFA_13-12-31
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Fragmentary pottery basin with tubular spout
- HUMFA_13-12-30a
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- HUMFA_13-12-28
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- HUMFA_13-12-29
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Fragments of pottery and alabaster vessels
- HUMFA_13-12-22f
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Fragments of pottery basin with tubular spout
- HUMFA_13-12-30b
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Fragments of pottery basin with tubular spout
- HUMFA_13-12-16d
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- HUMFA_13-12-16f
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Fragments of pottery bowls with tubular spouts
- HUMFA_13-12-16e
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- HUMFA_13-12-16a
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Fragments of pottery model jars
- HUMFA_13-12-16b
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Fragments of pottery neckless shoulder jars
- HUMFA_13-12-16c
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- HUMFA_13-12-20
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- HUMFA_13-12-11
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- HUMFA_13-12-33
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- HUMFA_13-12-21
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- HUMFA_13-12-19
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- HUMFA_13-12-18
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- HUMFA_13-12-22b
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- PMAE_5882
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- HUMFA_13-12-22d
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- HUMFA_13-12-22e
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- HUMFA_13-12-22a
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- HUMFA_13-12-22c
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- Diary page dates 01/09/1914; 01/10/1914; 01/11/1914
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- Diary page dates 01/11/1914; 01/12/1914; 01/13/1914; 01/14/1914
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- Diary page dates 01/15/1914; 01/16/1914
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- Diary page dates 11/21/1913; 11/22/1913; 11/23/1913; 11/24/1913
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- Diary page dates 11/24/1913; 11/25/1913; 11/26/1913; 11/27/1913; 11/28/1913
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- Diary page dates 11/29/1913; 11/30/1913; 12/01/1913; 12/02/1913; 12/03/1913; 12/04/1913
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- Diary page dates 12/05/1913; 12/06/1913; 12/07/1913; 12/08/1913
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- Diary page dates 12/08/1913; 12/09/1913
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- Diary page dates 12/10/1913; 12/11/1913; 12/12/1913
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- Diary page dates 12/13/1913; 12/14/1913; 12/15/1913; 12/16/1913; 12/17/1913
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- Diary page dates 12/20/1913 through 12/26/1913
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- Diary page dates 07/06/l938
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G 4540, Shaft A, chamber: pottery, model jars
- ID HUMFA_EG024280
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- ID HUMFA_EG024277
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- ID HUMFA_EG024281
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G 4540, Shaft A: pottery, model jar
- ID HUMFA_EG024278
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- ID HUMFA_EG024279
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- ID HUMFA_EG023941
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p014
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p015
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p016
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p017
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_p018
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- ID: HUMFA_GN3_L13_4000_Contents2
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- ID: HUMFA_OR.Vol.02
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- ID: HUMFA_PL876
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- ID: HUMFA_PL682
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- ID: HUMFA_PL709
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- ID: HUMFA_PL849
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- ID: HUMFA_PL844
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- ID: HUMFA_PL848
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- ID: HUMFA_PL812
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- ID: HUMFA_PL668
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- ID: HUMFA_PL877
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- ID: HUMFA_PL701
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- ID: HUMFA_PL629
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- ID: HUMFA_PL845
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Jánosi, Peter. "The Tombs of Officials. Houses of Eternity." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 38, note 39.
Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, pp. 130-131.
Reisner, George A. "Accessions to the Egyptian Department During 1914." Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 13, No. 76 (April 1915), pp. 29-31, figs 1-2.
Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pp. 227-252.
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
- Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
ID: MFAB_AAW720
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper right): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5442_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4540, G 4340, G 4240, G 4140, G 4440
Description: Eight limestone reserve heads: [G 4640] 13-12-7 (= Cairo JE 46216), [G 4540] 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328), [G 4340] 13-10-69 (= Cairo JE 46218), [G 4240] 13-11-60 (= Cairo JE 46215), [G 4140] 13-10-70 (= MFA 14.717), [G 4140] 13-11-1 (= Cairo JE 46217), [G 4440] 13-11-91 (= MFA 14.719), [G 4440] 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718) (photographed in Harvard Camp workroom)
ID: MFAB_AAW695
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (profile proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW596
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (front), 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW2034
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (front), 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5451_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4330, G 4540
Description: Pottery: top row: [G 4640 A] 13-12-15c (= MFA 13.5825.3, one of three model basins), [G 4540 A] 13-12-19b (= MFA 13.5826.2, one of two model basins), [G 4640 A] 13-12-14 (one of twelve model dishes), [G 4540 A] 13-12-19a (= MFA 13.5826.1, one of two model basins); bottom row: [G 4330 A] 13-12-3d (= MFA 20.1925, small jar), [G 23__] __-__-__ (unregistered = MFA 20.1942, concave-sided cylinder jar)
ID: HUMFA_C5421_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4540 A, limestone reserve head (13-12-11 = MFA 21.328) in situ in pit, looking __
ID: MFAB_AAW1726
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (back): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW710
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5438_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (profile proper right): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW674
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (profile proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW1812
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (front): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5446_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540, G 4640, G 4543, G 4542, G 4541
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4540 (to E) and G 4640 (to E), remains of mud brick chapel of G 4540 and G 4543 (foreground), pits of G 4542 and G 4541 in street, looking N
ID: HUMFA_A2083_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440, G 4540, G 4441, G 4450, G 4550
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4440 (to W) and G 4540 (to E), G 4441 (near W face of G 4540), looking S to Khafre pyramid from between G 4450 and G 4550
ID: HUMFA_C5443_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4540, G 4340, G 4240, G 4140, G 4440
Description: Eight limestone reserve heads: [G 4640] 13-12-7 (= Cairo JE 46216), [G 4540] 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328), [G 4340] 13-10-69 (= Cairo JE 46218), [G 4240] 13-11-60 (= Cairo JE 46215), [G 4140] 13-10-70 (= MFA 14.717), [G 4140] 13-11-1 (= Cairo JE 46217), [G 4440] 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718), [G 4440] 13-11-91 (= MFA 14.719) (photographed in Harvard Camp workroom)
ID: HUMFA_A1098_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540, G 4530
Description: Cemetery G 4000: men at work clearing sand from between G 4540 and G 4530, Raymond Howe on horse in middle ground, looking ESE
ID: HUMFA_C5391_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440, G 4540, G 4441
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4440 (to W) and G 4540 (to E), pits of G 4441 in street, looking SE
ID: MFAB_AAW668
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (front): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW690
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (back): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW1727
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (profile proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW672
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (profile proper right): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW670
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (back): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5437_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper right): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5458_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4740, G 4540
Description: Pottery: top row: [G 4740 A] 13-12-32a (= MFA 13.5694, shallow bowl); bottom row: [G 4540 A] 13-12-22e (fragmentary jar, in two pieces, mended, incomplete)
ID: MFAB_AAW701
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5439_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5440_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (profile proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5417_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540, G 4640
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4540 (to W) and G 4640 (to E), looking SSW
ID: HUMFA_C5418_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4540 A, burial chamber, burial (skeleton) in remains of cloth (mummy) wrappings, looking NW
ID: HUMFA_C5441_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4540, G 4340, G 4240, G 4140, G 4440
Description: Eight limestone reserve heads: [G 4640] 13-12-7 (= Cairo JE 46216), [G 4540] 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328), [G 4340] 13-10-69 (= Cairo JE 46218), [G 4240] 13-11-60 (= Cairo JE 46215), [G 4140] 13-11-1 (= Cairo JE 46217), [G 4140] 13-10-70 (= MFA 14.717), [G 4440] 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718), [G 4440] 13-11-91 (= MFA 14.719) (photographed in Harvard Camp workroom)
ID: HUMFA_EG019920
Subjects: Maps and plans: Plan 3: Western Cemetery of German-Austrian Excavation Concession (Central Strip)
Description: Tombs appearing on this map: D 103, D 105, D 106, D 107, D 108, D 109, D 110, D 111, D 112, D 220, G 2000, G 2100-I, G 2100-II, G 2120, G 2135, G 2136, G 2140, G 2155, G 2156, G 2160, G 4000, G 4140, G 4150, G 4160, G 4240, G 4241, G 4250, G 4260, G 4340, G 4350, G 4351, G 4360, G 4361, G 4440, G 4442, G 4450, G 4451, G 4452, G 4453, G 4460, G 4461, G 4462, G 4540, G 4544, G 4550, G 4551, G 4552, G 4560, G 4561, G 4640, G 4644, G 4645, G 4646, G 4650, G 4651, G 4660, G 4740, G 4750, G 4751, G 4752, G 4760, G 4761, G 4762, G 4763, G 4764, G 4765, G 4840, G 4850, G 4851, G 4860, G 4940, G 4941, G 4950, G 4960, Block Mastaba, Djednefret, Hesy, Ibinezem, Iuf, Kaninisut [III], Kedfy, Kednes [I], Khenu, Khnemu, Kheptjet, Khuy, Maet-hep, Mastaba of Companion, Mastaba X, Medunefer (1), Meruka, Minu, Nefer [II], Neferen, Neferihi, Niankh-hathor, Nikaukhnum & Neferesris, Nimaatre, Nisu, Nu, Ptahwer, Sensen, Shepsi, User, Weri, Werkai, S 1, S 2, S 3, S 4/13, S 5/18, S 8/82, S 17, S 18/84, S 20/24, S 27, S 28, S 29, S 51/56, S 53/86, S 57, S 60/103, S 67/90, S 68/78, S 72/79, S 80a, S 83, S 85, S 87, S 91/93, S 95/112, S 97, S 100a, S 104, S 106/117, S 108, S 109, S 111/115, S 114, S 116, S 118, S 119, S 120/666, S 122, S 128, S 129, S 137, S 174, S 179, S 219, S 262, S 292/294, S 296/876, S 299/303, S 304, S 406, S 984, S 1011, S 1013, S 1016, S 1020, S 1023/1024, S 2000/2005, S 2006, S 2007, S 2033, S 2034, S 2035, S 2040/2043, S 2065, S 2071/2145, S 2083, S 2090, S 2109, S 2110/2111, S 2112/2115, S 2120/2126, S 2153, S 2155, S 2171/2176, S 2174, S 2177, S 2181/2260, S 2191/2199, S 2192/2213, S 2195/2196, S 2203/2207, S 2205/2212, S 2208/2232, S 2225/2227, S 2393/2427, S 2390, S 2391, S 2404, S 2405, S 2407/2413, S 2411, S 2414, S 2416, S 2417, S 2419/2428, S 2420/2421, S 2422/2423, S 2426, S 2430, S 2433/2439, S 2435, S 2443, S 2441, S 2446
ID: HUMFA_C5398_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440, G 4540, G 4441
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4440 (to W) and G 4540 (to E), pits of G 4441 in street, looking S
ID: HUMFA_C5397_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440, G 4540
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4440 (to W) and G 4540 (to E), looking N
ID: HUMFA_A2085_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540, G 4560, G 4541, G 4542
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4540 (to W) and G 4560 (to E), remains of mud brick chapel of G 4540, pits of G 4541 and G 4542 in street, looking S to Khafre pyramid
ID: MFAB_AAW718
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper right): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5445_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540, G 4640, G 4541, G 4542
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4640 (to E) and G 4540 (to W), remains of mud brick chapel of G 4540, pits of G 4541 and G 4542 in street, looking S
ID: HUMFA_C5444_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4640, G 4540, G 4340, G 4240, G 4140, G 4440
Description: Eight limestone reserve heads: [G 4640] 13-12-7 (= Cairo JE 46216), [G 4540] 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328), [G 4340] 13-10-69 (= Cairo JE 46218), [G 4240] 13-11-60 (= Cairo JE 46215), [G 4140] 13-10-70 (= MFA 14.717), [G 4140] 13-11-1 (= Cairo JE 46217), [G 4440] 13-11-91 (= MFA 14.719), [G 440] 13-11-90 (= MFA 14.718) (photographed in Harvard Camp workroom)
ID: MFAB_AAW1728
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW624
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (profile proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5436_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (front): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5389_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440, G 4540, G 4441
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4440 (to W) and G 4540 (to E), pits of G 4441 in street, looking S
ID: HUMFA_C5419_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4540 A, burial chamber, SE corner, looking SE
ID: HUMFA_A1098P_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540, G 4530
Description: Cemetery G 4000: men at work clearing sand from between G 4540 and G 4530, Raymond Howe on horse in middle ground, looking ESE
ID: MFAB_AAW692
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (front): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW1991
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper left), 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328).
ID: HUMFA_C5453_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Pottery: model basins from G 4540 A: 13-12-21 (fourteen of fifty-seven model basins)
ID: HUMFA_C5429_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4540 A, entrance of burial chamber, door block, looking S into passage
ID: MFAB_AAW2035
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper left), 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: MFAB_AAW621
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (quarter view proper left): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5426_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4540
Description: Cemetery G 4000: G 4540 A, portcullis slab in situ, looking S
ID: MFAB_AAW1725
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540
Description: Limestone reserve head from G 4540 A (profile proper right): 13-12-11 (= MFA 21.328)
ID: HUMFA_C5390_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 4440, G 4540
Description: Cemetery G 4000: street between G 4440 (to W) and G 4540 (to E), looking N
ID: HUMFA_C5454_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 4540, G 4640
Description: Pottery: model jars: top row: [G 4640 A] 13-12-12 (= Peabody 5880, jar), [G 4540 A] 13-12-22b (= MFA 20.1929, jar), 13-12-22d (= MFA 20.1931, bag-shaped jar), 13-12-22c (one of three neckless shoulder jars), 13-12-22c (= MFA 20.1930, one of three neckless shoulder jars); bottom row: [G 4540 A] 13-12-22a (= MFA 20.1927, one of two jars), 13-12-17 (= Peabody 5882, jar), [] __-__-__, [G 4640 A] 13-12-13 (= MFA 13.5823), [G 4540 A] 13-12-22a (= MFA 20.1928, one of two jars)
