Vol.06.p.008

Diary Transcription:

microfilm: West diary, begin page 8

January 5, 1913 (continued)

[Menkuare quarry cemetery (continued)]
a = finely built mastaba [MQ 105], five courses of whose casing is left, apparently set in recess in the rock, but the sand still covering all except the face of the mastaba makes it uncertain.
b, b = the rock face of the quarry.
c = a narrow passage in the rock which apparently joins the similar passage leading west from Room 101 [MQ 101]. The passage is 30 or 35 cm wide, and about 250 or 275 high.
The only object found was a broken slab, [ILLUSTRATION/GLYPHS] [[Hm-nTr mnkAwra anxnbf] "priest of Menkaure Ankhnebef"]. [B1630]
The cartouche is evidently to be filled in: [GLYPHS] [Menkaure]

Sunday, January 5, 1913

There were five or six visitors at the works, on of whom, Prof. Cobern of Allegheny College, took up my entire afternoon.

Monday, January 6, 1913

Day of rest for the men.

Tuesday, January 7, 1913

[Menkaure quarry cemetery]
Work as on Sunday. The quarry cut mentioned at "c" in previous map is as follows: [ILLUSTRATION]
In section the cut is interesting, there being a small chamber apparently across the cut: [ILLUSTRATION]

microfilm: West diary, end page 8