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

Amulets, scarabs, and beads (lot a) from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27): 07-2-67 (scarab = MFA 11.1013, lower), 07-2-68 (scarab = MFA 11.1000, upper ), 07-2-69 (upper half of amulet of Sekhmet = MFA 11.1012), 07-2-70 (amulet of Sekhmet = MFA 11.991), 07-2-71 (five udjat amulets, top row: 1/1 = MFA 11.988, 1/2 = MFA 11.989, 1/4 = MFA 11.1010, second row: 2/5 = MFA 11.990), 07-2-72 (ivory plaque = MFA 11.1011), 07-2-73 (three fragments of earrings = MFA 11.1007, MFA 11.1008, MFA 11.1009), 07-2-74 (two large barrel beads = part of MFA 11.997), 07-2-75 (cylinder beads = part of MFA 11.977), 07-2-76 (carnelian beads = possibly part of MFA 11.997), 07-2-77 (pebble pendant = part of MFA 11.966), 07-2-78 (three small pendants = part of MFA 11.966), 07-2-79 (headrest amulet = MFA 11.1035), 07-2-81 (miscellaneous beads, knobby barrel bead = part of MFA 11.977), __-__-__ (head of amulet of female deity wearing horns and solar disk = MFA 11.999)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C407_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
  • Date
    05/10/1907
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: mounted print archive card identifies these as 07-2-65 to 81; 07-2-65 and 07-2-66 do not appear in this photo (see C410); registration numbers based on publication pp. 260-261 (no registration records from this date); apparently some beads from lot a and lot c combined under one assigned registration number in published list; specific identifications based on publication; MFA accession numbers verified; re: name M.Kh. (deleted from description) and lot a here, and initials and lots elsewhere, apparently represent groups of object and "initials" of Egyptian workers who found these batches of objects; Reisner reference verified
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

Tombs and Monuments 1

Finds 17

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.