Skip to main content

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

Amulets, beads, and shells from Menkaure pyramid temple, room J2 (= sloping corridor 28): 07-2-135 (= MFA 11.1102, Pataikos), 07-2-136 (= MFA 11.1104, upper half of Sekhmet amulet), 07-2-137 (three Bes amulets, left = MFA 11.1105, middle = MFA 11.1106, right = MFA 11.1108), 07-2-138 (= MFA 11.1110, cat amulet), 07-2-139 (= MFA 11.1103, openwork pendant), 07-2-140 (four crudely made udjat amulets, MFA 11.1114, MFA 11.1115, MFA 11.1117, MFA 11.1119), 07-2-141 (= MFA 11.1111, udjat/wadj plaque), 07-2-142 (= MFA 11.1109, menat amulet), 07-2-143 (= MFA 11.1113, double lion amulet), 07-2-144 (= MFA 11.1116, carnelian fruit pendant), 07-4-145 (five faience imitation split cowrie shell beads, MFA 11.1051), 07-2-146 (three shell imitation split cowrie shell beads, MFA 11.993)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C408_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 07-2-135 to 07-2-146 (no registration records from this date); specific identifications based on publication p. 21; MFA accession numbers verified
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

Tombs and Monuments 1

Finds 18

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.