The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties

di William Matthew Flinders Petrie (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2013

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 follow-up report of 1901 on the royal tombs at Abydos, capital of Upper Egypt, covers the early dynastic period (c.3100-c.2700 BCE). Petrie gives detailed descriptions of eight 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 preliminary report, The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty (1900), and the three-part Abydos (1902-4) are among those works also reissued in this series.

• Autore: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
• Anno: 2013
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 176 p.
• Dimensioni: 297 x 210 mm
• Peso: 440 gr.
• EAN: 9781108066129

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