C. Fisher Diary, p.019

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Sunday, January 17, 1915 (continued)

I have not yet seen the site, and so will have to depend on Mr. Edgar’s information, as to the part of the mound where he found the evidences of the fine building. I wrote therefore to him at once requesting him to indicate on the enclosed sketch plan which I had copied from Petrie’s Memphis I, the area which he thought would be the best for us. I also sent a letter to the Survey Department asking for the official plan of Mit–Rahineh, from which I intend to make a drawing for the Comité; this will be submitted at their meeting on the 3rd of February.

Monday, January 18, 1915

Dr. Reisner has suggested that I dig a part of his Giza Cemetery site on behalf of our Museum. He suggest an area lying to the NW of the group of large mastabas of the IV Dynasty cleared some years ago by his expedition. It was in this neighborhood that I made some slight excavations for him during his absence in America in the Spring of 1912. Here in the Serdab of a small mastaba I had found a small seated pair in red granite…

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