Charles E W Bean, Diaries, AWM38 3DRL 606/285/1 - 1914 - Part 4

Conflict:
First World War, 1914–18
Subject:
  • Documents and letters
  • Shorthand
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Awaiting approval
Accession number:
RCDIG1066727
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Buril & oferi 6r theops of assgned sons & high 15x Oephren also & more rows :1 Other C of Cephs. p C y New or in Mykermosi in Echeton. Cheops & 3 or W. &Co x 1.S. of 2nd P. 3. E o 3rd Pyr. tor queens & o Each S bequeather] priest 15N. toit every fall ne Ifeast day. r pisobeer, kep of y 1oto D F Cown 1 Pr of Cheops 1cn. 91 N& Sodfond tombs in open Spaces scribes, (mayor City)V Cheps0 a Eo funerary prcesthoad w all eonsluments 5 his wife. Friests wd hold on to this JX A8. Edg of the town a 3od Oyr. Thereo modern arabic of over it. Dyn They tI or at Abuser. No + 15 28t & 612 Dyns. Mastabas 14 assyned Town for 300 Stone - Poltery for model pots for offerings. and offered a formely Flettl as 3drox 31o He Exr. ca w 224 1
Frob &w coppen 6Eydit Chisel warks. Stones sharpeners. a stain. Fanite. Copper or I ruster. Finger marks on mid seli Atr6th Dyn. Sandedour. at early Nx a By b8 soon after sanded Great Plundering I in Mostun to $1000, 1500 d when 9 stone & hunted p Dati They drapped 5600 Temple of 30d b ws filled to Sand 562111s arabs &a in. & crawting come 250 we found them o cdust Date 12D A.D. 12 Tradn 1A12 King bari H6,rC Enlarges his plan. 1t Pyr 257 Sotit rock he madeI Mastabas D Each + had & East. in end for o meng it for Masoury. casi b by arals. yr.0 1. b. s usually have. vory causeway for 2S2 I a condor. vi oferi so valley. Here) te 14 a majagines, Slaughter offeriy & Et. Ex c 224 tay
train Rushed by yr V. Stanthony at El Wasta. Raned Cit Approditopolis - just a mound. Now and for3 Gk wances + a few gt columas - 25.in Afora at Roda. Yarra yellow Much same as you your name. fon Klysten & our buildays i C Inhabitants of Minia Stillbary their dear (ferrying thim) across of tancient of antinoupotis (antinat) buitt by Hadrin for his favouriti way these statues were tranporte. p.201. Abu Tig ?-AnBOyky – Swichoursef apothin panite be o. valley bo of the End i vo then n 0. Workmanshing x Aswan by boat. I.Yems y. io the dam. 7179001211 flood up to ix draypd on sledps. Human a.. Shinx Ssh a Sph. o. 1 85175 kin Who I.Sph 2713 6 x. Cephren D. & In other verch v inside the comdor Sph. belonging to the 60 a portrait of Ex5 c 2d Dr 3
4th 5t 1621 Cephren. s wsoit as rubble mad plaster Cauceway OE ea Forms by then I conventionat Statues of Cephren best creative Mx All from mut brick. Clusteris bundles. Wooden logs & stom. hop in roof. of Rock trut. Behind end i somewhat tythen 4th Saving in cost. Rock CD. a mastaba. Mastabns ca faw are timestone Rock cutting for Hole St of 3004r toom by doors. Lands on altars. WT accoss Stone 654 Mokattam. Sphinx- Istore Anevennesses & in w othes store. Never 0& brs ints Causeway 2, i hard to see from 1. Modern or - Mastaba. Romans I inside Sphenx uncovery (inser in Exr 3.29 Sph Memphis 202 bn 90 Later Burials. Si Karn aclis 9E8IE Thotime sed Sp 1 inde AD. i n 02 Stolemai toub in Fran of 5 Ei rudkyr. trave Also Roman 60& piit
Femple ased t of 3rd Byr. 50aD. 150aB. Memphes & capital. fened & 7- 100yrs. Midohe 47 abt 92 t Sunday: Saw from El Gior men congregitiy. Tuesday saw them movny South deroplaces had informed us. Resd. men had got up to Coual -(supers) berd m. Wega se f Strings of cauets, men going part for 2 days (Orders four 10/ 580 50 365 182.10 365)782.10(22 730 52 29 £2.2.10 104 2.2. 104 12 365 2800 9 - fC 0 L Abbas H. V & 680 adheredo 0022 Ce. 65 I. Rhediviate s p of 1 2L0 o S D Hasslin Kamel I Mest n 31 Moh. Ali 5 ✓ Ex Ear. 4 224 nly
on Turkish officers sd to there were few defenders on caual; Egypt we waiteng to reet. Marcheshad b w different & Feb. morning 301. J. Therle had been a trimendoust thick durt storn . Miht sh have bo moonlight but s in dark t abt oot Im. sentry saw boat launched in canal. Orders no bu to fire ind. if saw boat. fire 0 3 men from several ports on W. bank- Officer call up-hell g a noise. Eg. artillery appears to have bu on bank & drosh. 2 case shot. afteneds under of. fire shot verywittly- had 2 t lost (1 killed). Turks drazpedboats down & when checked, supports came up. Streps got range of their reserves & thei yan. (at same time Tarks conancing as seen from Et. Give tire in sood formation & well bed a didn't care twopence for stiolls. Were as Extended & shells I. to mudh danage & but when less deadon pound didnt I seem to worry in laast). Yuns supported it. Put shots into ferry at Ismactia & into dacewhere Eptian battery had been- 69 Rves Nill 44& for 50007. 00b bap x great surveyors E & Astrorowers. Sandy desert is ors CX Delta. Arabn & & hewestone & Sandstone s in vallys. Ex. in Fibyan &. No vegetin Agricultare: Have to be fallowed. tater Colten & suger. Mamure: Ruins of towns - Sabakh Isoon 2.30141 0. Assent Med. now trigated tlou a same as 5000. Cotton, barsim hegari (Clucer Ex Omono. knevive Ismail C i 1869. Trees 90 Lebbatch. Casuarina, Mc., Jacarge do trus acaca Nilotica 12 Cher?srpalm 40 Date is I fruit $6000,000 & in Egypt in 190 27 kn Oranges, grapes. o wine. Wo Lorests

Scene in street. Rush. of Australians 
& a lot others around him in the centre
of excited crowd. rush into
cafe. Mil. police brought in & men
walked off Gaw after tall figure
advising: "Yes go with
'im. If you're right 'e cant do
you no arm. You go with im -
that's my advice." Man went w military policemen. Afterwds tall 
man: Gawd strike me pink I cannot understand you bloody Australians. Think its right that 
arm can come to him ? and if what they says true and he is found with 3 bits of jewellry on him→
(Change wh came over men
when 7th & 8th were
sent to fron .)
→God bless my soul  are you going to get yourselves
into trouble for a man like that? I am not.
It is not that I am an old soldier . . . . .etc."

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M:                       E -
1. Arrival             2. Scene at            
& summary      Pyramids
of voyage.
Horses. splendid
(Col. Owen.)
Speeds of transports.
[*1st.
S.
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Troops in most uncomfortable transports not
least contented
Euripides if any. :
This bit of the world belongs to us.
Melbourne artist
[shorthand] the prisoners
Gen. Birdwood.

Flood from canal.
all time.
Drums of troops arriving at night. Big men.
More troops than ever before.
Foudre
Ghurkas & Indians.
Territorials small Manchester lads but
do us jolly well.
Lights along camp streets 600 men.
To look up: The Road at Pyramids,
The Terrier.
Cheops.
2900
Khephren 2800.
Bricks to protect SPHINX agst sand
quarrying of stone #
Pyr. Pulled down in time of Ramses II
by Mei, architect 1292-1225 B.C.
Plundered long ago
Petrified forest.
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Cent.                in fight.
62                )    28th regiment
63                )    64
65 reserve )    73
66                )    74
67                )    75
68-               )    65
                          68
[*4th AC. 3 bns.
10th division
VIII AC
23 & 25 divisions
2 bns*]
64
73
74
75
8th Eng. bn.
25th Regt FA VIII
13th Camel corps Water
Southern Routes
Nekhl.
Ashraf Beys circa 3000
69th reg reserve 3 bns 23 VIII

N Route El Arish -
Mumtas Beys circa  3000.
86th reg 27 VIII 2 bns.  2000
81st reg 27 VIII. 2nd bn.
Cent. Bir el Saba. Auja: W el Arish
Gifgaffa.
3rd Nishanji reg attached to 8th division
22nd. (Indep. Div. Hedjaz 3 [[Taboar?]]
& mountain battery
26 reg  11. 1V.
28 reg 10. IV.  fighting
29   IV. reserve
30   26 behind
10th artillery reg IV.
10th division 4th A.C. 6 batteries F.A.
34
35
36.
4th Engineer Bn.
78th reg 26. VI reported gone to [shorthand]
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Forest and the existence of man.
Pyr. country same as now. 
Nothing to show that the desert was occupied by habitants or tombs
before Cheops. Cultivatn area and on other side
of the river at Turiah there is a cemetery of the late [[Pridyu?]]. 
buried 3300 B.C.
Dyn: We know of Dyn. relating family. 1st Menes = 7-8 king
who claimed through Menes.
that family was [shorthand]
4th Dyn and their tomb of
Sneferuw. He married the daughter of a king of the 3rd Dyn
& is sometimes connected to the 3rd fam.
Dyn. separation comes from late Eg. times.
Turian papyrus which goes back to Rameses
has already this division into Dynasties.
(1200 B.C.)
Nothing from Egn point to show Israelites there in Eg.
when Eg. ws under Hyksos and [shorthand] 
No evidence.
One mention in stela of Mernephtah.
It mentions them as in Palestine
During 18th dynasty Thothmos II
made annual expedns.
Desert [shorthand] But big bony [shorthand] clothing
worn into valley which are full of sand
Drift sand - Nummulitic limestone.
Rock everywhere.
 

Over Pont des Anglais
about 4 to 4.30.
Cairo
Robbers
Popln. XIVII
Cemetery used for 250 years beginning with the Pyramids
& cont. 150 years after Pyr. were built. Then sanded
up. This is still used for cem. for several generations. People
putting their tombs in the old tombs.
When Ch. built the 1st Pyr. he laid out on the platform a cemet.
in reg streets and rows . He had laid out upon it
big benches Mastabas like benches
which cover the Tomb. 15 to 25 ft high.
Built of blocks of stone filled w rubbish. 
Offerings to the dead still on big feasts.
They talk to the man as if he was alive.
But my husband Hassan I have [shorthand]
I have watered the earth on this account.
Now recite Koran.
Then rich people give bread to poor.
Poor people: Come first my sister let us trade bags
Always women.
Sometimes 150 feet. 250
Never found one not broken into.
Statues: Spirit lived in them.
Mudbrick earlier.
Rounded architrave = wood beam
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Burial & offering place.
Cheops cemetery assigned.
Sons daughters and people high at court. 
Cephren also built more rows
Pharoahs and princes and chief men. 
Other block of Cephr. tombs perhaps to another branch.
Next cemetery in Mykerinos buried
in Echelon.
Cheops built 3 small pyramids
for the queens.  Each to S. of
2nd P.
3 to south of 3rd Pyr.
for queens & princes. 
Each prince bequeathed an estate to
a priest who agrees to bring to my tomb
every foll month for feast day
so many jars of beer, kegs of white beer
[[?]]. 
Sprang up a town  Town of Pyr of 
Cheops in which they lived.
 

The people there died and had to be buried.  & So we find
tombs in open spaces -
scribes, (mayor of city on pyramid
of Cheompps  His son would have to keep up his tomb.
A man bequeathed his funerary priesthood
w all emoluments to another man 
1/5 to go to his wife.
Priests wd hold on to this tooth and nail.
We have just the edge of the town near 3rd
Pyr. There is  a modern arabic
cemetery over it.
5th Dyn. began. They started their royal cemetery
at Abusir. No more princes
buried here.
During 5th & 6th Dyns.
A number of the big Mastabas had never been
assigned
Town for 300 years 
Stone cutting  Pottery for model
pots for offerings.
You brought a bit of beer and offered a formula
& little [shorthand] with 3 drops would do the same.

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Prob boiled w copper as plenty of it
Chisel marks.
Stones sharpeners.  green stain.
Granite.
Copper sometimes not rusted.
Finger marks on mud seceilings
After 6th Dyn. began to be sanded over.
Plundering began at early period.
Big tombs plundered to a certain extent
soon after sanded up.
Great Plundering took place
in Moslem tombs 1600 to 1500
a.d. when stripped of their stone &
hunted high and low for treasure.
Date of plunder.  They dropped things. We find these things. 
Temple of 3rd pyramid ws filled
w sand but then [shorthand] roof when the
Arabs were breaking stone one of them
crawled in under the roof & crawling
about dropped 5 little copper coins
we found them still covered with dust
Dated 12 century A.D.

Diagram - see original document
Tradn had lasted right there.
King starts to make pyramid.
He finds he may live longer.
Enlarges his plan.
1st Pyr. Each chamber dug underground in the
solid rock - that Pyr was altered
he made chamber
Mastabas enlarged.
Each x pyramid had a temple
on the East. in 2nd & 3rd
still visible.
Destroyed by men plundering it for 
Masonry.
Casing taken by arabs.
Pyr. has a feature which the tombs didn't usually
have. Long causeway
for dragging stones.  Outlets for the [shorthand] 
through a corridor toward the pyramid offering
place to the valley - Here was
another temple like a [shorthand] temple
w magazines, slaughter
[shorthand] offering place etc.
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Train Rushed by Australians and New Zealanders. 
St Anthony at El Wasta.
Ruined City Aphroditopolis - just a mound.
Now used for manure 
Gk manus & a few gk columns - e.g. in
Agora at Roda. Yarra River =
Yellow river
Much same as you get our names.
e.g. on Rly Stn - & our buildings in centre of town
Inhabitants of Minia still bury their
dead (ferrying them) across river to ancient cemetery
Antinoupolis (Antinoe) built by Hadrian
for his favourite.
Way these statues were transported. p.201.
Abu Tig ? = ΑΤΤΟθηκη = storehouse/apothecary
 

Granite temple is the valley
temple of the 2nd pyramid.
The remarkable thing about it is the workmanship
on the granite blocks. Aswan by boat.
Where the Nile runs thro a granite range and
forms the dam.
Brought down by boat. Brought across by canal or during
flood up to road. Probably dragged
on sledges. Human labour
we have the representations.
Sphinx
Next to the granite is the Sph.
A Sph. is a representation of a lion
with the head of the reigning King.  King of beasts 

in that day.
Who was the Sph.  The king at the time.
When was it made. It is beside the Cephren
causeway.  In other temples we have
a representation of the king inside the 
corridor.
∴ the Sph. belonging to 
the  and face is probably a portrait of
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Cephren.
Wall all round.
WS & N it ws rubble mud plastered.
Causeway still visible.
4th 5th & 6th dynasty
Forms [shorthand] then became
conventional
Statues of Cephren best
creative buried.
All from mud brick. Plastered 
bundles.
Wooden logs preceded stone.
Logs in roof. of Rock tomb.
Behind 2nd pyramid.
Somewhat later. than 4th.
Saving in Cost.
Rock have been dressed to represent a Mastaba.
Mastabas all except a few
are limestone
Rock cutting for pyramid
Hole SE of 3rd Pyr.
Worn big doors - hands on
altars. 
 

Diagram - see original document
Stone from across river
often hard wood
Mokattam.
from across river
Sphinx cut out of original stone
Unevennesses filled in
w other stone.
Never found a whole tomb not broken into.
Causeway 2 & 3
hard to see from it.
Modern cemetery = Mastaba.
Romans buried inside
Sphinx uncovered
[*(riser in
front of breast of
Sph. -
26th Dyn.
Identified w Harmachis)
Thothmes IV.
Sph told me that
sand lay heavy on his
limbs and Th. should clear
him.
Arabs
barricades destroyed it.*]
Memphis
Later Burials.
7th 8th dynasty
lst 2nd century A.D.
Ptolemaic tombs
in front of
2nd Pyr.
Also Roman tombs.
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Temple
Used chambers of 3rd Pyr.  50 A.D. - 150 A.D.
Memphis would be capital.
Menes + or - 100yrs.
Middle empire + or - abt 4 years.
Kilometre
Cab fares.
Sunday: Saw from El Gist men
congregating. Tuesday saw
them moving south.→
Aeroplanes had informed us.
Tuesd. men had got up to
Canal - (Snipers)
Wed. m.
→Guns of Requin were cd firing
Strings of camels, men going
past for 2 days. (Orders foungd

600   10/-
50 

365) 782.10 (22   2( 365
730                        182.10
52
20
1040
780                 £2.2.10
310
12                 2. 2. 10¼
3720
3650
7 0
His Britannic Majesty’s Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
gives notice that in view of the action of His
Highness Abbas H. Pasha lately Khedive of
Egypt who xx has adhered to the King’s
enemies His Majesty’s Government have seen fit to
depose him from the Khediviate and that
high dignity has been offered with the title of Sultan of Egypt
to His Highness Prince Hussein Kamil
Pasha eldest living prince of the family of
Moh. Ali and has been accepted by him.
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Our Turkish officers sd tt there were
few defenders on canal; Egypt ws waiting
to rise. Marches had bn v. different distances.)
Feb. 3 morning 3 o'c. There had been a tremendously
thick dust storm - Night shd have bn
moonlight but ws v dark. Got Abt
3 a.m. sentry saw boat launched in canal.
Orders hd bn to fire imd. if saw boat.
Heavy fire. NCO & 3 men from several
posts on W. bank. Officer called up - hell
of a noise. Eg. Artillery appears to have
bn dragged on bank & disch. 2 case
shot. Afterwds under heavy fire shot
very wildly - had 2 officers lost (1 killed).
Turks dragged boats down &
when checked, supports came up.
Ships got range of their reserves
& these ran. (At same time
Turks advancing as seen from El Gir
were in good formation & well led
& didn't care twopence for shells. Were
extended & shells didn't do much damage
but when left dead on ground didnt
seem to worry in least). Guns
supported it. Put shots into ferry
at Ismailia & into place where
Egyptian battery had been -
[*69
Aug.
cd see these
cut up & eat mules*]
[*N. 6 o'c.  Friday
Proofs.
Pamphlets*]

Nile - 4 inches a year for 5000 years. Old temples
half covered. 

great surveyors engineers & astronomers.
Sandy desert islands sometimes seen to be in the
Delta.
Arabn desert: Limestone & Sandstone.
plants in valleys. Esp. in
Libyan desert : No vegetn
Agriculture: Have to be fallowed.
Lately Cotton v Sugar.
Manure: Ruins of ancient towns - Sabakh
will soon [shorthand] exist.
2 to 3 crops now raised instead of 1
؞ manuring necessary.
Assiut to Med. now Irrigated in this way.
Plough exactly same as 5000 years ago
Cotton, barsim hegazi (lucerne),
onions.
Trees Khedive Ismail planted in 1869.
Lebbakh.
Casuarina, Euc., Jacaranda
Old trees Acacia Nilotica
(thorn tree, most common after palm).
Date is chief fruit 6,000,000 trees in
Egypt in 1907
27 kinds
Oranges, grapes. would be wine.
No forests.
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