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Menkaure Quarry Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: MQ 133

Menkaure quarry cemetery: N side of quarry, third terrace, MQ 133, looking ENE

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C51_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Menkaure Quarry Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: MQ 133
  • Date
    December 1906
  • Problems/Questions
    description corrected and expanded based on image content; for tomb number cf. A34; MQ 133 incorrectly numbered MQ 101 on cemetery map (EG010039)
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • MQ 133

    • Site Name Menkaure Quarry Cemetery

People 1

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.