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Friday, February 19, 1915 (continued)
Toward the close of the afternoon Dr. Reisner’s guard at the Third Pyramid Temple came running in with Reis Mahmud and said that three soldiers were destroying things there. When he had tried to stop them they had threatened him with a knife. I ran down at once with twelve of our men, but we failed to find them. Not knowing the names of the soldiers, I thought it useless to report the matter to Headquarters.
Photograph C47 shows the work of the past few days looking toward the west.
Saturday, February 20, 1915
Finished clearing mastaba 3013 with its two shafts A and B, which lies west of 3002. The mastaba 3014, containing two shafts, A and B, is an extension of this at the north. Shaft B was filled with sand and limestone debris. The stepped mastaba 3015 is in turn built against 3014 on the north. Over it was a layer of sand, which also filled a slab roofed burial chamber at its southern end. In the sand above the room of the chamber was an inscribed fragment which fits on to the large fragment found yesterday. Across the roofed-in burial chamber at the south end…
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- Classification
- Documentation-Expedition diary pages
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- Department
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
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- Credit Line
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
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- Display Page Dates
- Modern
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- Display Page Dates
- 02/19/1915; 02/20/1915
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- Author
- Clarence Stanley Fisher, American, 1876–1941
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- Mentioned on page
- George Andrew Reisner, American, 1867–1942
- Mahmud Ahmed Said 'el-Meyyet' (Reis)
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
Modern People
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- Type Author
- Nationality & Dates American, 1876–1941
- Remarks Archaeologist and architect. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates American, 1867–1942
- Remarks Egyptologist, archaeologist; Referred to as "the doctor" and "mudir" (Arabic for "director") in the excavation records. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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Mahmud Ahmed Said 'el-Meyyet' (Reis)
- Type Mentioned on page
- Nationality & Dates
- Remarks Head Reis for the Harvard-MFA expedition, 1926–1933. Brother of Said Ahmed Said (Head Reis 1908-1926) and father of Duwy Mahmud Ahmed (Head Reis 1933-1935).
