Vol.11.p.021

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Friday, November 14, 1924 (continued)

(General continued)
This afternoon Dr. Coleman of the C.M.S. Hospital sent a note today that Ali Mahmud Ahmed the boy hurt on November 8 was not expected to live. Sent Mahmud el Meyyit and two men in to Hospital. Blood poisoning has intervened.

Saturday, November 15, 1924
Fourteenth day of work.

Quftis: 85
locals: 83
Total: 168

This morning el Meyyit returned at 10 a.m. to say that Ali Mahmud had died in the night. I drove in to attend the inquest at the hospital and returned about 1 o'clock p.m. The body was taken to Qasr el-Aini for post mortem. [We notified the relations in Quft, and shall give him a decent burial. The examination shows that he was himself entirely to blame as he had disobeyed orders in taking over the pushing of the cart - a duty for which he had not been trained. It is very regrettable. We carry him on the paysheet to the end of the year for the benefit of the family.]

Work on
(1) street between G I-b and G I-a, [avenue G 1]

(1) Avenue G 1
Street between G I-b and G I-a. Continued clearing debris between G I-b and G I-a. [ILLUSTRATION] Owing to Vyse's old clearing the gang along G I-b progressed faster while the northern gang were delayed by the mass of debris thrown down from the upper part of pyramid G I-a by the Nas-er-Sisi for whom the right to take stone from this pyramid was prescribed by tradition. The edge sections of Vyse's cut show a semicircular mound of debris around the entrance to sloping passage of G I-b thrown out from that entrance. The pottery in this debris (black with organic decay) is of Ptolemaic-Roman types [ILLUSTRATION] etc. Evidently the late communal burial which Vyse found in burial chambers G I-b have already been plundered. There were also the usual fragments of amulets, etc. found in the black debris further east (cf. communal burial in Menkaure Pyramid Temple 27).

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