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

Flints from Menkaure pyramid temple, room A (= magazine 16) (reverse, see B196): top row: 07-1-28 (one of four), 07-1-26, 07-1-28 (one of four), 07-1-28 (one of four); bottom row: 07-1-28 (one of four), 07-1-30 (two flint blades, two of three), 07-1-30 (upper, one of three), 07-1-29 (lower, = MFA 11.260)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_B197_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
  • Date
    05/27/1907
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: provenance and registration numbers based on publication p. 17 (no registration records from this date); MFA accession number verified
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

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Modern People

  • 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.