Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
Unfinished gneiss seated statuette (1908) no. 14 (= published no. 26) from Menkaure valley temple (back): 08-7-8 (= MFA 11.730)
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- ID
- HUMFA_C601_NS
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- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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- Subjects
- Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Menkaure valley temple
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- Date
- 1908
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- Problems/Questions
- VERIFIED: this is not 1908 no. 13 (cf. C582), description corrected; orientation and identification verified; registration number based on publication p. 112 (no registration records from this date); MFA accession number verified
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- Photographer
- Said Ahmed Said [Diraz] (Reis)
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- Site Name Menkaure Pyramid Complex
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Unfinished gneiss statuette of Menkaure
- MFAB_11.730
Modern People
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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.