Photo ID number: B267_NS

Photo subjects: Menkaure Pyramid Complex: Site: Giza; View: Menkaure valley temple

Description: Menkaure valley temple, S magazines, room D (= corridor III 4), greywacke triads (Hare nome = no. 1 = published no. 9 = MFA 09.200; nome of Diospolis Parva/Bat = no. 4 = published no. 12 = MFA 09.201 deaccessioned = Cairo JE 46499) in situ, looking SW

Photo date: 07/10/1908

Literature reference: NB: error in original publication (Reisner, George A. Mycerinus: The Temples of the Third Pyramid at Giza. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931, p. 35) concerning sequence of excavation of the four Menkaure triads (paragraph should read): At about 3:30 PM, in room (4) along the eastern side, the heads were uncovered of a slate triad, No. 10 (see B265), that of the Theban nome. While clearing the mud from around this triad, half an hour later, a second, No. 11, that of the Jackal nome, was discovered about 50 cm. south of the first. About a half an hour later, two more, Nos. 9 and 12 (that of the Hare nome; and that of the nome of Diospolis parva) were found in rapid succession on the other side of the narrow corridor just to the north.