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Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple

Amulets, beads, shells, and arrowhead from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27), from debris between fourth and fifth pillars: 07-2-111 (arrowhead), 07-2-112 (cat-headed goddess), 07-2-113 (udjat), 07-2-114 (spiral and split cowrie shells and faience beads)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C417_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
  • Date
    1907
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: mounted print archive card identifies these as 07-2-111 to 114 (no registration records from this date); specific identifications based on publication p. 261; re: name Mohammad Ali (deleted from description) here, and initials and lots elsewhere, apparently represent groups of objects and "initials" of Egyptian workers who found these objects
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

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  • Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

    • Type Photographer
    • Nationality & Dates
    • Remarks Head Reis for the Harvard-MFA expedition, 1908–1926. In his "A History of the Giza Necropolis I," George A Reisner described Said Ahmed Said as "the most gifted foreman who ever worked for the expedition." Father of Mohammed Said Ahmed [Diraz] (Head Reis 1936–1939), Mahmud Said Ahmed [Diraz] (Translator), Ahmed Said Ahmed [Diraz]. Family name, Diraz, was supplied by Said Ahmed Said's grandsons in 2006.