The Temple of Mut in Asher
The Temple of Mut in Asher
Janet Gourlay
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GBPMargaret Benson (1865–1916), the fourth of six children of the archbishop of Canterbury E. W. Benson, was a brilliant scholar at Oxford who found an escape from the conventional life of housekeeping for her father when she travelled to Egypt for her health in 1895. She obtained permission to excavate a site, of which she candidly admits that the authorities had no expectations (or they would not have entrusted it to such inexperienced amateurs). She and her close friend Janet Gourlay (1863–1912), who had briefly studied archaeology under Flinders Petrie, published this account of their discoveries at the temple of Mut at Karnak in 1899. It contains an overview of the site and its context in Egyptian history, with an account of the three seasons of excavation and a section on Egyptian religion. The highly illustrated book concludes with translations of the many inscriptions found in the temple remains.
Product details
August 2014Paperback
9781108076173
472 pages
216 × 140 × 27 mm
0.6kg
30 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Part I. Introduction:
- 1. Temple of Mut
- 2. Conditions of work
- Part II. History of the Excavation:
- 3. Excavation in 1895
- 4. Excavation in 1896
- 5. Excavation in 1897
- Part III. The Religion of Egypt:
- 6. The gods
- 7. Immortal life
- 8. The temple
- Part IV. History:
- 9. Dynasties XII–XVII
- 10. Eighteenth dynasty, Aahmes to Hapshetsut
- 11. Eighteenth dynasty, Thothmes III to Ay
- 12. Nineteenth dynasty
- 13. Twentieth dynasty
- 14. Twenty-first and twenty-second dynasties
- 15. Twenty-thrid to twenty-fifth dynasties
- 16. Dynasty XXVI
- 17. Conclusion
- Part V. Inscriptions: Statues, etc.
- Inscriptions, plans, etc.
- List of coins
- Index and catalogue.
