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Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple

Miscellaneous objects from Menkaure pyramid temple, court: left: MFA 11.1037 (arrow head); center, top: MFA 11.1039 (coin), MFA 11.1038 (coin); center, bottom: MFA 11.1040 (coin), MFA 11.1041 (coin); right: top row: MFA 11.1044 (ring beads, only one of three MFA owned, top right), second row: MFA 11.1045 (two cylinder beads, two of four), third row: MFA 11.1043 (cylinder bead), MFA 11.1042 (ball bead), bottom row: MFA 11.1045 (two cylinder beads, two of four)

Details

  • ID
    HUMFA_C413_NS
  • Department
    Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
  • Subjects
    Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure pyramid temple
  • Date
    1907
  • Problems/Questions
    VERIFIED: V (Abul Hasan) deleted from description; name probably of worker who found this batch of small objects; for those identified: identifications verified based on comparison with objects themselves; objects not registered (no registration records from this date); MFA accession numbers verified; provenance based on accession card notation, GMT room 5 = court
  • Photographer
    Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)

Tombs and Monuments 1

Finds 9

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.