Skip to main content
Diary Transcription:

microfilm: begin page 339

Tuesday, May 4, 1926

Dunham and family left today on the 11 a.m. train to Port Said to take the American S.S. Resolute for New York.
el Meyyit was at the house in Maadi at 7:30 with a motor bus and took all the baggage to the Cairo station (eleven trunks and eight small pieces). While he was registering them, the bus returned to Maadi and fetched the Dunhams (six persons).
Mrs. Reisner, Mary, Mrs. Wheeler and I drove in from here at 8:40 and after doing some shopping went to the station at 10:15 then saw the Dunhams off.
I worked on the material from G 7000 X, during the afternoon.
Hot weather.

Wednesday, May 5, 1926.

Very hot weather, minimum night temperatures, 26 centigrade, max day 36 centigrade.

Work on:
(1) G 7000 X
In the pit the temperature is about 25 centigrade.

(1) G 7000 X, Wednesday, May 5, 1926
*A3804
No. 416: (13)-(31) miscellaneous inlays, etc.
Nos. 429 - 432: Miscellaneous fragments gold sheet.
Nos. 433 - 436: Gold sheet from molded plaster (P).
Drew plan of area under 416 436. The intact 2-6 face down below (Y) has at least nine [ILLUSTRATION] feather elements and is adjoined on east by gold flower.
No. 437: (1)-(42) miscellaneous inlays, molded plaster and strips (displaced).
*A3805

microfilm: end page 339

Details

ID
HUMFA_Vol.17.p.339
Alternate IDs
Vol.17.p.339; HUMFA_Vol.17.p.339
Department
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification
Documentation-Expedition diary pages
Entry Date
05/04/1926
Title
Vol.17.p.339
Credit Line
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Tombs and Monuments 1

Photos 1

Modern People 8

Published Documents 1