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The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty
Paperback / softback
Main Details
Title |
The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) William Matthew Flinders Petrie
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Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology |
Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:136 | Dimensions(mm): Height 297,Width 210 |
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Category/Genre | Egyptian archaeology and Egyptology |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781108066136
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Classifications | Dewey:932 |
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Audience | Professional & Vocational | |
Illustrations |
2 Plates, color; 66 Plates, black and white
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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Publication Date |
19 September 2013 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. His meticulous recording of artefacts and his sequence dating of pottery types found in Egypt and Palestine made Near Eastern archaeology a more rigorous and scientific discipline. This fully illustrated report of 1900 on the royal tombs at Abydos, capital of Upper Egypt, covers the first dynasty (c.3100-c.2900 BCE). Although Petrie acknowledges that it is only a preliminary report of ongoing work, he gives detailed descriptions of six tombs and the associated finds. A chapter on the inscriptions is provided by Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934). Petrie wrote prolifically throughout his long career for both specialists and non-specialists. His follow-up report, The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties (1901), and the three-part Abydos (1902-4) are among those works also reissued in this series.
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