Vol.03.p.035

Display page dates: 02/16/1912; 02/17/1912

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Friday, February 16, 1912 (continued)

[G 2100-II (continued)]
opens a shallow porch with three openings separated by two square vertical piers. The right and left portions of the facade slope like pylons.

[ILLUSTRATION]

Along the top extends a square cornice "a". Below this at "b" is a long inscription. There is also an inscription on the upper inside face of the piers "c". One of these gives name of occupant [Nensedjerkai] as a daughter of a priest of Khufar. The tomb of this priest himself [chapel of G 2100-I] is now in Berlin and claimed by Dr. Sethe to belong to Dynasty V. The door leading into hall "e" has the door sockets in perfect preservation. This hall "e" is lighted by a single sloping window near roof at south end. It has two niches on west (or mastaba) side, one at either end of hall. In debris of court, fragments of the statues, already mentioned, were found.

Saturday, February 17, 1912

Ordered 100 meters of additional rail to be here Monday or Tuesday. This morning Faris, a new boy on works (Said Ahmed family), died of pneumonia at C.M.S. Hospital. I had sent him there early last week and everything possible has been done for him. The

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