H. Lyman Story Diary, p.009
Diary Transcription:
Diary Transcription: begin page 9
Saturday, January 23, 1915
Work on Pits A, B, C of mastaba G 5021 [actually G 5012]. In Pit B were found a number of large fragments of pottery dishes.
Cleaning street, offering chambers, and burial puts X and Y of mastaba G 5021 [actually G 5020], east side. Dirt debris. In S.W. corner of offering chamber was found an inscribed limestone sacrificial blood basin, (name of [Imhetep, HUMFA_15-1-35]). In front of limestone ceremonial door, about the center of the mastaba, another inscribed limestone blood basin was found.
[ILLUSTRATION]
Clearing street north of mastaba G 5120. Debris of sand mixed with limestone fragments.
Work on burial pits A and B of mastaba G 5131, and along south side of G 5131. Dirt debris and sand.
End of page 9
Details
- ID
- UPM_HLS_diary_p009
- Alternate IDs
- HLS_diary_p009; UPM_HLS_diary_p009
- Department
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
- Classification
- Documentation-Expedition diary pages
- Period
- Modern
- Entry Date
- 01/23/1915
- Title
- H. Lyman Story Diary, p.009
- Medium
- Paper
- Credit Line
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
- Notes
- Number G 5021 not used by Reisner. The shafts Story refers to here belong to two separate tombs: G 5012, with shafts A, B, and C, built at the NE corner of G 5010; and shafts X and Y, built along the E face of G 5020. Reisner mentions "G 5120" on unpublished manuscript page HUMFA_GN3_K14_p057 as being “apparently…destroyed” prior to construction of G 5110. Mentions of "G 5120" in the archives can be interpreted as a reference to a location rather than a specific tomb.