LONDON:
BERNARD QUARITCH, 15, PICCADILLY, W.
1898.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, Limited,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.

CONTENTS.

[INTRODUCTION.]
sect. page
1. Course of work 1
2. Chance of inscribed tombs 2
3. Description of site 2
[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
[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
[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
[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
[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

LIST OF PLATES.

[I.]Tomb plans.
[II.]Old Empire stone vases, etc. (photographs).
[III.]Sandstone statue of Nefer-shem-em, and group of objects
from the tomb of Ka-mena (photographs).
[IV.]Sandstone table of offerings and two stelæ (photographs).
[V.]XIIth dynasty statuette and ushabti, a late bronze, etc. (photographs).
[VI.]Diorite, alabaster and pottery vessels of Old Empire (photographs).
[VII.]Sketches of mastabas.
[VIII.]Sketch of a mastaba, and box of ivory and glaze veneer.
[IX.]Views of a stairway tomb.
[X.]Alabaster vessels, XIIth and IVth dynasties.
[XI.]Libyan and Old Kingdom pottery.
[XII.]Old Kingdom pottery.
[XIII.]Pottery, early XIIth dynasty.
[XIV.]XIIth dynasty water-jars.
[XV.]”” pottery.
[XVI.]”” ”
[XVII.]”” ”
[XVIII.]Marks on Old Kingdom pottery.
[XIX.]” Middle Kingdom pots.
[XX.]Pottery, scarabs and inscribed cylinders.
[XXI.]Foundation deposits.
[XXII.]Plan of cemetery E. of town.
[XXIII.]” mastabas N. of town.
[XXIV.]” tombs in S.E. angle of the enclosure.
[XXV.]Plan of gateway in wall.
[XXVI.]” temple of Thothmes III.
[XXVII.]Catalogue of small Libyan tombs.