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    El Kab
    El Kab
    El Kab
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    El Kab

    By James Edward Quibell

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    El Kab is an Upper Egyptian site on the east bank of the Nile at the mouth of the Wadi Hillal, about 80 kilometers south of Luxor. It's been a popular archeological and historical research site since the 19th century. The author of this book, James Edward Quibell, was a British egyptologist who spent a lot of time exploring the ancient city. This book presents the results of his findings and makes one of the first exhaustive materials on the city's sites and value.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 9, 2019
    ISBN4064066239725
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      El Kab - James Edward Quibell

      James Edward Quibell

      El Kab

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066239725

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION.

      CHAPTER I.

      CHAPTER II.

      CHAPTER III.

      CHAPTER IV.

      CHAPTER V.

      INDEX.

      EL KAB. TOMB PLANS. I.

      EL KAB. II.

      EL KAB. III.

      EL KAB. IV.

      EL KAB. V.

      EL KAB. VI.

      EL KAB. MASTABAS. VII.

      EL KAB. MASTABA. VIII.

      EL KAB. STAIRWAY TOMB. IX.

      EL KAB. ALABASTER VESSELS, XII. AND IV. DYN. X.

      EL KAB. LIBYAN AND OLD KINGDOM POTTERY. XI.

      EL KAB. OLD KINGDOM POTTERY. XII.

      EL KAB. POTTERY, EARLY XII. DYN. XIII.

      EL KAB. XII. DYN. WATER JARS. XIV.

      EL KAB. XII. DYN. POTTERY. XV.

      EL KAB. XII. DYN. POTTERY. XVI.

      EL KAB. XII. DYN. POTTERY. XVII.

      EL KAB. MARKS ON OLD KINGDOM POTTERY. XVIII.

      EL KAB. MARKS ON MIDDLE KINGDOM POTS. XIX.

      EL KAB. XX.

      EL KAB. FOUNDATION DEPOSITS. XXI.

      EL KAB. CEMETERY E. OF TOWN. XXII.

      EL KAB. MASTABAS. XXIII.

      EL KAB. GROUP OF TOMBS IN S.E. ANGLE OF THE ENCLOSURE. XXIV.

      EL KAB. GATEWAY IN WALL. XXV.

      EL KAB. TEMPLE OF THOTHMES III. XXVI.

      EL KAB. SMALL LIBYAN TOMBS. XXVII.

      INTRODUCTION.

      Table of Contents

      1. It was on Mr. Somers Clarke’s proposition that El Kab was selected for last winter’s work of the Research Account. Mr. Clarke has for some years been interested in this site, and has published some of the XVIIIth dynasty tombs there. He wished to see the smaller tombs excavated, and the great area inside the town examined, so, with his colleague, Mr. J. J. Tylor, he offered a considerable subscription to the funds, on condition that El Kab should be the selected site. To Mr. Jesse Howarth, equally with these gentlemen, we are indebted for that support without which the excavations could not have been carried out.

      We arrived at El Kab on the 1st of December, and within four days had cleared out several of the uninscribed tombs in the famous hill, and had made them into a most comfortable house. Nothing in Egypt makes so pleasant a dwelling as a rock-tomb. In a house in which window and door are one, and three sides and the roof are of solid rock, there can be no draughts, and the range of temperature night and day is very small. We had a room each, another for a dining-room, and in two more I packed away my forty workmen. These were nearly all men known in previous years at Kuft and Naqada, for the natives of El Kab are few in number and of inferior physical strength, so that their labour at two piastres a day was dearer than that of the picked Kuftis at four. All the conditions of work were very pleasant, much better than I have known in Egypt before. No crowd of loiterers and dealers’ spies haunted the work as at Kuft, no robbery by workmen threatened us as at Thebes. Surveying poles were left out for weeks together; at most villages they would have been stolen the first night for firewood.

      There was some delay in getting the necessary permission for digging; after a fortnight’s waiting we received it, and began to work upon the XIIth dynasty cemetery. Halfway through March the digging was gradually brought to an end, and map-making and packing occupied the time till we left in the beginning of April. Fifty-four boxes of pottery and other objects were brought to England, were exhibited during the month of July at University College, and were then dispersed to various museums, Oxford, Philadelphia, Chicago and Manchester, receiving the largest shares. I have to acknowledge much help received both in Egypt and England. To Mr. Clarke, besides the financial support mentioned already, we owe thanks for help in the work of excavation, in plan-making, drawing, etc., and for his untiring hospitality. To Miss A. A. Pirie, who was with us for the later two-thirds of the season, we are indebted for several coloured drawings of tombs, etc., now at University College, and to her, as also to my sister, for constant aid in the varied daily occupations of the digger, tasks in which their experience makes them most valuable helpers, and which they cheerfully added to the labours of desert housekeeping. In England, several friends have helped in the work of unpacking, exhibiting, drawing plates, etc., notably Miss Griffith, Miss Murray, Mr. Herbert Thompson and Dr. Walker. Few outside the little ring of diggers and their friends know how much drudgery in Egypt and in England is taken off our hands by friendly helpers, working without a thought of reward.

      2. The site of El Kab is a large one. The area inside the town walls alone would have required to clear it five times the money we had at our disposal; and besides that, there was the hill of XVIIIth dynasty tombs, the cemeteries outside the walls, and the temples far up on the desert. It was necessary to make careful choice of such spots as would repay the labour expended on them. The most obvious place to search would be the sandstone hill in which we lived, where the fine inscribed tombs of Paheri and Aahmes are well known. But is there much chance of finding inscribed tombs anywhere in Egypt except at Thebes? We know that the tomb was left open for the visits of relatives, and open it must always have remained, unless it got drifted up with sand, or unless the quarrying of another tomb on a higher level sent down a mass of chips which hid it. At the capital, tombs were often lost for long periods in this way; in less crowded cemeteries the accident would seem to be less likely to happen. Many traces in the

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