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Saturday, September 11, 1926 (continued)
(1) G 7000 X (continued)
No. 1200: (r) See page 1004 and A4164.
Swept up rubbish over this area, sand over the whole area with some crumbs of wood on west.
No. 1274: See A4164.
Cleaned up this area, mainly decayed pottery dust, but a little cloth and some fragments of decayed wood.
*B6031: no. 1200 as is, looking east
No. 1200: traces of wood of box 3, swept up, see A4164 foreground and B6031, area west of (q).
(q) itself - removed layer of cloth in box 4, found traces of north-south wood on rock under cloth.
(18)-(21) miscellaneous fragments pottery and plaster.
No. 1275: See A4163.
Lump of black mud of the form of a box sealing but no string marks nor any impression.
No. 1200: (q) continued, worked eastward, limestone dust on floor as everywhere, and on this north-south wood.
*B6032: floor under box 4, looking east
No. 1200: (q) continued, removed line of plaster along western side of box 4.
Wheeler added to plan on page 990.
For the following see page 990 and A4161.
No. 1276: Potsherds against base of 1235.
(1)-(5), fragments of jars as 1201 and 1207 and a basin [ILLUSTRATION], red ware.
No. 1277: Red ware jar as 1207 [ILLUSTRATION] H 8.7, D 11.3
No. 1278: Red ware jar as 1201 [ILLUSTRATION] H 13.8, D 13.4
No. 1279: Red ware jar stand [ILLUSTRATION]
No. 1234: Swept up debris between big alabaster 1234 and jar stand to north (mud and dust).
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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
- 09/11/1926
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- Author
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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- Mentioned on page
- Noel F. Wheeler, British
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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.
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- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates British
- Remarks Wheeler was a Lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy according to George A. Reisner's, "A HIstory of the Giza Necropolis, Vol. I."
