| [INTRODUCTION.] |
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| 1. | Course of work | 1 |
| 2. | Chance of inscribed tombs | 2 |
| 3. | Description of site | 2 |
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| [CHAPTER I.] |
| The Earliest Tombs. |
| 4. | Mastabas and stairway tombs | 3 |
| 5. | Ka-mena mastaba | 3 |
| 6. | A mastaba | 4 |
| 7. | Compound mastaba | 4 |
| 8. | Nefer-shem-em | 5 |
| 9. | Early black cylinder | 5 |
| 10. | Smaller mastabas | 5 |
| 11. | Stairway tomb with inscribed cylinder | 7 |
| 12. | Open graves | 8 |
| 13. | Majūr and cist burials | 9 |
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| [CHAPTER II.] |
| Date of the “New Race” Remains. |
| 14. | Variety of names | 11 |
| 15. | First dating erroneous | 11 |
| 16. | Evidence from El Kab | 12 |
| 17. | From other sites | 12 |
| 18. | Doubtful points | 13 |
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| [CHAPTER III.] |
| Middle Kingdom Cemetery. |
| 19. | Early XIIth dynasty tombs and the wall | 13 |
| 20. | Tombs in detail | 14 |
| 21. | Later XIIth dynasty tombs | 14 |
| 22. | Beads | 15 |
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| [CHAPTER IV.] |
| New Empire Monuments. |
| 23. | Few XVIIIth dynasty remains | 15 |
| 24. | Temple of Amenhotep III. | 16 |
| 25. | Foundation deposits | 16 |
| 26. | Temple near the east gate | 17 |
| 27. | The date of the wall | 17 |
| 28. | Bronzes | 17 |
| 29. | Pigeon-house | 17 |
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| [CHAPTER V.] |
| Description of the Plates. |
| 30. | Plate I. | 17 |
| 31. | Plates II-VI. Photographs | 17 |
| 32. | ” VII-IX. Mastabas and tombs | 19 |
| 33. | Plate X. Alabaster vessels | 19 |
| 34. | Plates XI-XII. Libyan and early pottery | 19 |
| 35. | ” XIII-XVII. XIIth dynasty pottery | 19 |
| 36. | ” XVIII-XIX. Marks on pottery | 20 |
| 37. | Plate XX. Pottery, scarabs, and cylinders | 20 |
| 38. | ” XXI. Foundation deposits | 20 |
| 39. | Plates XXII-XXVI. Plans | 21 |
| 40. | Plate XXVII. Contents of tombs | 21 |