Vol.13.p.249

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Friday, February 20, 1925 (continued)

(1) Street G 7500 (continued)
This mastaba [G 7521] will receive a number when it is more completely excavated. The reliefs of the seven girls are well executed, their figures slim and not ungraceful.
Work in the pits today continues. A further large batch received numbers this afternoon and a plan of these is given today.
G 7510 G is now being cleared through the mouth of G 7641 D which its chamber communicates on the south.
G 7508 is a complex of rock cut pits in a straight line east of G 7517. They probably belong to a mastaba of crude brick.
G 7508 A: Cleared. 165 cm deep. Chamber [on south].
G 7508 B: Cleared. 195 cm deep. No chamber.
G 7508 C: Clearing pit. Down 190 cm in robbers' debris.
G 7508 D: Cleared. 130 cm deep. No chamber.
G 7508 E: Pit cleared. 130 cm deep. Clearing chamber on west.
G 7509 A: Yesterday reached depth of 650 cm and was not worked in.
G 7509 B: Clearing pit. Down 600 cm in robbers' debris.
G 7518 A: Clearing pit. Down 420 cm in robbers' debris. Chamber on west.
G 7519 A: Opening top of pit.
G 7620 A: Down 420 cm in dirty Old Kingdom debris.
G 7620 M: Cleared. Shallow pit and chamber.
G 7620 N: Cleared. 220 cm deep. No chamber.
G 7620 O: Down 150 cm in dirty Old Kingdom debris of decay.
G 7620 P: Cleared. 200 cm deep. No chamber.
G 7620 Q: Clearing pit. Chamber on north.
G 7620 R: Down 645 cm. Fragments of Old Kingdom pottery mixed with yellow late human bones in dirty sand.
G 7620 S: Pit clear. Chamber on east with slab roof and blocked door. Inside can be seen traces of smashed burial. Shallow grave.
G 7620 T: Clear. 165 cm deep. No chamber.
G 7620 U: Cleared. Shallow grave. Chamber S.
G 7620 V: Cleared. 150 cm deep. Chamber S with slab roof.
G 7620 W: Deep 245 cm. Clearing chamber on west.
G 7620 X: Pit 1050 cm deep, not worked on today.

Pits G 7620 M - Z are, of course, intrusive in the mastaba G 7620. So also is G 7509 A which is of late date. The plan of this will be found over the page as an addendum to the day's entry in this journal. [The plan of this area will be found on the next page.]
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