Vol.11.p.021
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Friday, November 14, 1924 (continued)
(General continued)
This afternoon Dr. Coleman of the C.M.S. Hospital sent a note today that Ali Mahmud Ahmed the boy hurt on November 8 was not expected to live. Sent Mahmud el Meyyit and two men in to Hospital. Blood poisoning has intervened.
Saturday, November 15, 1924
Fourteenth day of work.
Quftis: 85
locals: 83
Total: 168
This morning el Meyyit returned at 10 a.m. to say that Ali Mahmud had died in the night. I drove in to attend the inquest at the hospital and returned about 1 o'clock p.m. The body was taken to Qasr el-Aini for post mortem. [We notified the relations in Quft, and shall give him a decent burial. The examination shows that he was himself entirely to blame as he had disobeyed orders in taking over the pushing of the cart - a duty for which he had not been trained. It is very regrettable. We carry him on the paysheet to the end of the year for the benefit of the family.]
Work on
(1) street between G I-b and G I-a, [avenue G 1]
(1) Avenue G 1
Street between G I-b and G I-a. Continued clearing debris between G I-b and G I-a. [ILLUSTRATION] Owing to Vyse's old clearing the gang along G I-b progressed faster while the northern gang were delayed by the mass of debris thrown down from the upper part of pyramid G I-a by the Nas-er-Sisi for whom the right to take stone from this pyramid was prescribed by tradition. The edge sections of Vyse's cut show a semicircular mound of debris around the entrance to sloping passage of G I-b thrown out from that entrance. The pottery in this debris (black with organic decay) is of Ptolemaic-Roman types [ILLUSTRATION] etc. Evidently the late communal burial which Vyse found in burial chambers G I-b have already been plundered. There were also the usual fragments of amulets, etc. found in the black debris further east (cf. communal burial in Menkaure Pyramid Temple 27).
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- Classification
- Documentation-Expedition diary pages
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Display Page Dates
- 11/14/1924; 11/15/1924
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- Mentioned on page
- Ali Mahmud Ahmed
- Dr. Coleman
- Mahmud Ahmed Said 'el-Meyyet' (Reis)
- Richard William Howard Vyse, British, 1784–1853
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- Author
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Khufu Pyramid Complex
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- Site Name Khufu Pyramid Complex
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
Modern People
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- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks Injured expedition worker who later died from his injuries.
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- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks C.M.S. Hospital
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- Type Author
- 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.
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Mahmud Ahmed Said 'el-Meyyet' (Reis)
- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks Head Reis for the Harvard-MFA expedition, 1926–1933. Brother of Said Ahmed Said (Head Reis 1908-1926) and father of Duwy Mahmud Ahmed (Head Reis 1933-1935).
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- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates British, 1784–1853
- Remarks Army officer, excavator, author and benefactor; Drew up plans of Zawiet el-Aryan in 1837. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.