
Abydos
William Matthew Flinders Petrie(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 19. September 2013
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Paperback/Softback
142 pages
978-1-108-06130-8 (ISBN)
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A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. Originally published between 1902 and 1904 for the Egypt Exploration Fund, this three-volume set of reports documents the excavations that Petrie initiated at one of ancient Egypt's most sacred sites, the necropolis at Abydos. These reports follow on from the findings published in The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty (1900) and The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties (1901), both of which are reissued in this series. Volume 2 accounts for the discoveries made during the 1902-3 clearing of the site of ten successive temples, spanning the period from the first dynasty to the twenty-sixth. More than sixty pages of plates illustrate the discoveries, which range from first-dynasty ivory figures to thirteenth-dynasty stelae. A chapter by Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934) sheds light on the inscriptions.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
2 Plates, color; 62 Plates, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
389 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-06130-8 (9781108061308)
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William Matthew Flinders Petrie | Edward Russell Ayrton | C. T. Currelly
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Content
List of plates; Introduction; 1. History of the temples; 2. Objects before the IVth dynasty; 3. Objects of the IVth-XXVIth dynasty; 4. Flint knives and pottery; 5. The inscriptions; 6. Summary of results; Appendix; Index; The plates.