C. Fisher Diary, p.072

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Tuesday, February 23, 1915 (continued)

…and his wife Mesat. There were also three fragments of a wooden statuette too badly disintegrated to be saved. Photographs C53-54-55 show the little statuette of Mesty. C52 is the relief portrait of Medady, which has now been removed to the house. C51 is the rough figure found near the little statuette of Mesty.
In the surface debris of mastaba 2084 were two parts of a limestone stele with a short inscription. In mastaba 2086 we are clearing shafts A to C and the serdab between B and C of sand and dark debris. In shaft A was a small stone offering slab, uninscribed. The mounted policeman at the works this afternoon suggested that I have the notices carried by our guards, warning visitors off from the works, signed by Captain de Bucy, Provost-Marshall at Mena House. He said that soldiers would pay more attention to official notices. During the afternoon Umberto Vitale di Pontagio, Capitaine d’Etat Major, attaché of the Italian Diplomatic Agency with a friend came to see the works, which I showed them. I walked with them down to the Sphinx where I met a Mr. Cree of Baghdad and another gentleman who were friends of Mr. Fisher. Mr. Cree with other Englishmen was forced by the Turks to leave Baghdad and made to march from one point to another, until…

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