Vol.15.p.127
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Wednesday January 6, 1926 (continued)
(3) Isis Temple
Finished clearing rooms E-M of the Isis Temple and worked on Rooms P, Q. The rough sketch below is intended to show the relative positions of the rooms.
[ILLUSTRATION]
The main entrance is from the east through rooms E, D, C to Q. The side rooms P, A, H, G, and J appear to be small chapels. It is to be noted that these chapels contain Saite (?) burial pits ([DIAGRAM]), one in room I (connects with pit in G), one in room J and one in Room F. The pit G 7140 C appears to have been reused in this same period, while the pits G 7011 A and G 7011 B are part of this temple cemetery.
There are two types of construction visible - the earlier, a banded stone masonry laid in plaster, the later crude brick walls lined with thin slabs of limestone.
The doorway on the east lies in the face of mastaba G 7140. It is obvious that the reconstruction of the offering chamber of G 7140 (Khufukhaf) was part of this temple complex and other rooms may be exposed in Street G 7000 south but at the east doorway of E the carry is too long for economy and we turned back to approach G 7100 street from another direction.
Found fragments of reliefs, inscriptions, statues, ushabtis and amulets, nothing of interest. [including 26-1-191 stela fragment inscribed for Pemi from pit in room F]
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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
- 01/06/1926
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- Author
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Mentioned on page
- Pemi (in Isis Temple)
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Khufu Pyramid Complex
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
Ancient People
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- Type Mentioned on page
- Remarks Fragment of limestone stela (26-1-191) inscribed for Pemi; found displaced in Isis Temple (pit F).
Modern People
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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.
