¹ ‘Workmen must distinguish between fallen stones and walls ; stones struck with the pick in the débris are not to be pulled through the débris, but cleared ; no floor is to be broken except by order, even when it is only a thin layer of hardened earth ; every fresh stratum is to be worked by itself, but only on order ; the objects from each sort of débris are to be kept separate ; the workmen must have enough knowledge to recognize important objects ; such objects (whole pots, inscriptions, statuettes, etc.) must be left in position and reported at once ; no cave or other room is to be entered except by a special order ; no pot, box, or other receptacle is to be emptied except by order’.

² I visited the camp a few months later and inquired after Said : ‘May you live’ was the sad reply ‘but Said is dead’. He was widely mourned; in the same autumn, happening to be in Samaria, I mentioned his death to one of the people there as a sad piece of news, ‘Yes’, he said, ‘I wrote a letter of condolence to the family long ago and have received their answer’.

³ The History of the Giza Necropolis and The Giza Mastabas on which Reisner has been working for years have not yet appeared.