Skip to main content
Diary Transcription:

microfilm: begin page 44

Sunday, February 25 (continued)

offering dishes [ILLUSTRATION in handwritten diary] apparently from the tomb on the east (e, a, d). This is another indication that c [= G 2180] was never used.

[G 2190 margin note] The pit of d [= G 2190] had been cleared before the small mastabas were covered with sand. The debris had been dumped out over the small mastabas.
[ILLUSTRATION] see photo B
This was evidently done by treasure hunters in the Old Kingdom?

[G 2000 margin note] In the big mastaba (Lepsius 23 [= G 2000]) required whole day to remove six large boulders resting on hard debris.

Monday, February 26, 1912

West of c [= G 2180] and in the debris piled on the later mastabas, a burial, extended nearly on the back (originally on left side head north), in wooden coffin [ILLUSTRATION] (Middle Kingdom to Old Kingdom type) of which only black organic matter and cast remained.

microfilm: end page 44

Details

ID
HUMFA_Vol.03.p.044
Alternate IDs
HUMFA_Vol.03.p.044; Vol.03.p.044
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Documentation-Expedition diary pages
Entry Date
02/25/1912; 02/26/1912
Title
Vol.03.p.044
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Tombs and Monuments 5

Photos 1

Modern People 1