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

Amulets and beads (lot c) from Menkaure pyramid temple, communal grave in room J1 (= pillared hall 27): 07-2-65 (seated cat-headed goddess), 07-2-66 (two udjat/wadj plaques = MFA 11.1001, MFA 11.1049), 07-2-74 (barrel beads), 07-2-75 (cylinder beads = part of MFA 11.977), 07-2-80 (cat = MFA 11.1048), 07-2-81 (miscellaneous beads, ball bead = MFA 11.1096), __-__-__ (possibly 07-2-71, fragment of udjat = MFA 11.1050)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C410_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 07-2-65 to 81; 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; 11.1050: this object may be an extra unrecorded (in publication) udjat belonging to group of 5 udjats with assigned registration number 07-2-71 (others attributed to lot a); MFA accession numbers verified; room J2 corrected to read J1; re: name M.Kh. (deleted from description) and lot c here, and initials and lots elsewhere, apparently represent groups of object and "initials" of Egyptian workers who found these batches of objects
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

Tombs and Monuments 1

Finds 7

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.