Word: giza
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Arriving at Manhattan from Cairo, one Arthur K. Woodley, civil engineer, recounted impressions gleaned during a recent visit to the Great Sphinx of Giza, as follows...
...Reisner '89, Professor of Egyptology and Director of the Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition, for making finished scale drawings of Giza, Egypt, where his research is done, to be used in the preparation of historical material bearing on the history of Ethiopia and the cultural history of the Old Kingdom in Egypt...
...Reisner, who will leave from New York on the S. S. Albania, expects to arrive in Egypt early in July. No plans have yet been made for resuming work on the intact tomb of the Sneferuw period discovered at Giza by the expedition last March and no decision can be reached until Dr. Reisner has arrived at the Harvard Camp at the Pyramids...
...Alan Rowe, who has been in charge of the work at Giza during the absence of Dr. Reisner, has accepted a position with the Eckly B. Coxe Jr. expedition of the University Museum of Philadelphia and expects to take charge of their work at Bersan, Palestine, about August 1. Mr. R. D. Greenlees will take Mr. Rowe's place at Giza...
...Reisner of the Harvard-Boston Egyptian Expedition has been careful to point out that the inscription: "Lord-of-the-Two-Crowns, Sneferuw, the Horns Neb Ma'at," which was discovered on the gold mat of the new tomb at Giza does not apply at all to the person buried there. The point is a nice one and well taken. Sneferuw probably was either a term of endearment or a bill of lading. It is altogether too colloquial and common a word to take its place beside the great unpronounceable of Egyptian anthology...