Description: Archaeological Survey of Egypt Edited by F. LL. Griffith. Tenth Memoir. The Rock Tombs of Sheikh Saïd by N. de G. Davies. Thirty-Four Plates and Frontispiece. Special Publication of The Egypt Exploration Fund. London: Sold at The Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund, and by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1901. 46 pp, 35 plates (including frontispiece), First Edition, 12.5 x 10", 4to. In fair condition. Paper covered boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Head and tail of spine bumped. Ex-library locator code sticker taped onto tail of spine. General toning around edges of boards, but text remains legible. Top and bottom edges of text-block exhibit black ink ex-library stamps. Ex-library ink stamp found at top edge of front & rear end-pages: "Property of Ambassador College Library, Pasadena, California". Front gutter split at half-title page; binding mesh exposed. Text-block clean; plates and fold-outs intact. Ex-library barcode sticker found at top edge of rear paste-down. Ex-library card catalogue & envelope also found on rear paste-down. Binding intact; front hinge fragile. Please see photos. The Egyptologists Nina M. Davies (1881-1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865-1965) were a married couple of illustrators and copyists who worked in the early and mid-twentieth centuries drawing and recording paintings in Egypt. Their work was often published together, as N. de Garis Davies, and so it is usually difficult to determine who drew which illustration. The burial area Sheikh Saïd contains tombs belonging to officials and governors of the Hare Province interred during the 6th Dynasty. The necropolis of Sheikh Saïd is one of the earliest examples of fully constructed rock-cut tombs. The burial structors were simple in design and included tomb chapels, small interior halls and an offering chamber; most contained shafts that led to subterranean burial chambers. A first edition. All plates clean and intact. FORN-SHELF-0681-BB-0424-HK1476
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
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Author: N. de G. Davies
Publisher: The Egypt Exploration Fund
Topic: Archaeology
Subject: Ancient Egypt
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