Koptos, Qurneh

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Koptos, Qurneh
Authors and Contributors      By (author) William Matthew Flinders Petrie
SeriesCambridge Library Collection - Archaeology
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:162
Dimensions(mm): Height 297,Width 210
Category/GenreEgyptian archaeology and Egyptology
ISBN/Barcode 9781108066143
ClassificationsDewey:932
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 7 Plates, color; 77 Plates, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 19 September 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Among the leading Egyptologists of his day, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This single-volume reissue brings together two of his well-illustrated excavation reports. The first, originally published in 1896, covers the work undertaken in 1893-4 at Koptos (modern-day Qift), a key settlement in Upper Egypt on the Nile's east bank. This includes a chapter on classical inscriptions by David George Hogarth (1862-1927). The second report, first published in 1909, discusses recent archaeological work around Qurna in the Theban necropolis, including the discovery of an intact royal burial dating from the seventeenth dynasty. The epigraphic material is addressed in a chapter by James Herbert Walker (d.1914). Petrie wrote prolifically throughout his long career, and a great many of his other publications - for both specialists and non-specialists - are also reissued in this series.