The Rock Tombs of Deir el Gebrâwi
The Rock Tombs of Deir el Gebrâwi
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GBPWhile working as a Congregational minister in England, Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941) developed an interest in Egyptology. In 1897 he joined Flinders Petrie's excavations at Dendera as a copyist of inscriptions and sculptures. He did further work for the Egypt Exploration Fund, producing many volumes of archaeological surveys, which won him the Leibniz medal of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. From 1907 he worked for New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, together with his wife Nina. Highly illustrated, this two-volume 1902 publication covers the tombs of the important Old Kingdom necropolis at Deir el-Gabrawi, where many of the governors of the Upper Egyptian 12th nome were buried. Volume 1 covers the southern groups of tombs, and Volume 2 the northern groups. Davies reproduces the tomb art and hieroglyphic inscriptions, as well as providing archaeological plans. His Rock Tombs of Sheikh Saïd (1901) is also reissued in this series.
Product details
February 2016Multiple copy pack
9781108080262
210 pages
297 × 210 mm
0.55kg
Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: List of the plates
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Description of the tombs
- 3. The nomarch and the nome
- Appendix. The tomb of Aba at Thebes
- Index
- Plates. Volume 2: List of the plates
- 1. The tomb of Zau
- 2. The tombs of the northern group
- 3. Fact and conjecture
- Appendix 1 W. E. Crum
- Appendix 2 G. A. Boulenger
- Index
- List of Coptic proper names
- Plates.
