Vol.14.p.008
Diary Transcription:
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Friday, November 20, 1925 (continued)
(1) G 6010 (continued)
The layers of organic matter were higher up than the fragments on floor.
[ILLUSTRATION]
(2) G 6030
Trenched along east face of G 6030 cutting through Old Kingdom floor to rock. The rock from the wall to edge of scarp is covered to a depth of 15-25 cm with mason's debris (clean limestone chips) the trodden surface of which forms the Old Kingdom floor.
[ILLUSTRATION]
There was no trace of any sloping passage. See 5) below.
(3) G 6040
Clearing front of group northwards reached northeast corner of G 6040.
[ILLUSTRATION]
Exposed the back of G 6041 and another rubble mastaba G 6045 built against G 6041 on the north.
G 6041 appears to be the nucleus of this complex G 6041 G 6045 etc. The f.c. of G 6040 has not been dressed. Nevertheless the Old Kingdom floor is on a level near the bottom of this f.c. and G 6041 rises from that floor.
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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
- 11/20/1925
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- Author
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
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.
