ABSTRACT
General Sarrail liked being photographed by the photograph operators who followed him when he visited an archaeological site or attended an excavation. Leon Rey guided the photographer in taking systematic pictures of the excavation itself, views of the sarcophagi with or without their lids. The tombs – mostly sarcophagi made of stones and few pithoi – were photographed as they appeared in the trench, then carefully described, measured and sometimes drawn. The lids, if they still existed, were then removed and the inside was photographed with the grave goods in place. The document, for example, provides a very detailed description of tomb XXVII with numerous photographs of the burial and the offerings it contained. The photograph taken during the Service Archeologique de l'Armee d'Orient's excavation shows the disk still in place on the tripod, where, due to corrosion, it had fallen after the disappearance of the iron body of the exaleiptron.
