Vol.06.p.017

Diary Transcription:

microfilm: West diary, begin page 17

January 15, 1913 (continued)

[Menkaure quarry cemetery (continued)]
further excavation.

Mastaba MQ 106 is a poor affair of rubble.

Thursday, January 16

Work as before.
The chamber of MQ 124 is as follows:
[ILLUSTRATION]
A = deep pit.
B = shallow pit with square chamber to west, and extended burial with head to northeast and feet to southwest.
C = deep pit with chamber under chamber of B. Contains a large sanduq cut out of the rock and half above the floor. The eastern wall is decorated with nine niches. No inscription
D = niche.
E = serdab separated from chamber by a masonry wall which has been broken through.
On the ceiling of this chamber are two red mason's marks, both running from both to south; one in the center of the ceiling, and the other at the eastern corner. The uneven places in the rock of the chamber have been made smooth by the use of pink plaster.

Just south of this mastaba are some quarry trenches; in the bottom of one a nice illustration of the way the trench was cut, by chiseling out a small trench at either side, and knocking out the rock between with a sledge.

MQ 106 is found to be as follows:
[ILLUSTRATION]

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