Author: Newberry, Percy E.: Fraser, G. Willoughby (illust.):

Title: Beni Hasan: Part II

Publication: London: published under the auspices of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Sold by Kegan Paul, Trench Trubn 1893.

Description: Folio, pp. viii, 85, [i] + 37 consecutively numbered plates, including frontispiece, + plates VIIIA and XXIIA, giving a total of 39. Some plates in colour, some folding. Further tables and illustrations in the text. Loosely inserted, a printed sheet 'The Egyptian Alphabet, with the Current Methods of Transliteration'. Clean and bright within. Publisher's binding, tan cloth spine with title in black, grey paper boards, the upper printed with title etc. Cover paper quite toned, edges worn, several dents to upper board. A very good, sound copy. To ffep, ownership inscription of Olive L. Ager, 1964.

From the Editor's Preface: 'The present volume completes the description of the tombs at Beni Hasan. To this detailed description has been added the report of the Surveyor, Mr Willoughby Fraser, who deals with the plans and measurements of the whole series of tombs and with the objects found in the course of his excavations. The summary accounts contained in the "General Notice" in Part I are also continued and completed; the sections printed in this volume deal with the decoration of the tombs, with the history of the families concerned, and with the geography and the religion as illustrated in the scenes and inscriptions; the situation of the tombs, their purpose, date, and architecture, having been already discussed in Part I.' Part of the Archaeological Survey of Egypt, edited by F.L. Griffith.

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Reference Number: [54792]

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