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Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1233-Annex

Cemetery G 1200: G 1233-Annex A, burial chamber, collapsed wood coffin (34-12-2) as found, pottery one-handled pitchers (MFA 20.1904, MFA 20.1905) in situ (to left and right of coffin), looking __

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_A10925_OS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 1233-Annex
  • Date
    April 1904
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: no tomb ID in image; description corrected and expanded based on comparison with other photos of this coffin; coffin identification made based on object register (burial chamber first photographed in 1904, fragments of coffin not registered until 1934); pitchers not registered (no registration records for 1903-1904-1905-1906); MFA accession numbers verified
  • Photographer
    George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942

Tombs and Monuments 1

Finds 3

People 1

Modern People

  • George Andrew Reisner

    • Type Photographer
    • 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.