Tanis

Reissued together, these two illustrated excavations reports, published 1885-8, focus on Tanis, once the political centre of Lower Egypt.

List of contents

Preface; Part I. Tanis, 1883-4: Introduction; 1. San before the empire; 2. San under the empire; 3. Greek and Roman Tanis, and distribution of finds; 4. Bakakhuiu, the lawyer of San; 5. Measurements and tables; Index; Plates; Part II. Tanis: 1. Altars, shrines, and stelae; 2. Architraves and columns; 3. Fragments of colossus; 4. The later Ramessides; 5. Monuments of Si-Amen; 6. Pylon of Sheshonk; 7. Stela of Taharka; 8. Ptolemaic stelae; 9. Statues now at Bulak; 10. The wells; Translations; Addenda; Index; Part III. Nebesheh and Defenneh: Preface; Introduction; 1. Nebesheh; 2. Defenneh; Plates.

Summary

In the late nineteenth century, pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) began excavations in the ruined city of Tanis, once the political centre of Lower Egypt. Reissued here together, these two illustrated excavation reports, published 1885–8, include material by Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862–1934) and Alexander Stuart Murray (1841–1904).

Product details

• Authors: Francis Llewellyn Griffith, Alexander Stuart Murray, Sir William Matthew Flinders Murray Petrie, William Matthew Flinders Petrie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.09.2013
• EAN: 9781108065856
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06585-6
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Egyptology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient Egypt, Egyptian Archaeology / Egyptology