W. M. Flinders Petrie
Ten years digging in Egypt
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Table of contents
PREFACE
KINGS AND DYNASTIES NAMED IN THIS VOLUME
CHAPTER I.THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH.1881-2.
CHAPTER II.TANIS.1884.
CHAPTER III.NAUKRATIS.1885.
CHAPTER IV.DAPHNAE—TAHPANHES.1886.
CHAPTER V.NEBESHEH.1886.
CHAPTER VI.UP THE NILE.1887.
CHAPTER VII.HAWARA.1888.
CHAPTER VIII.ILLAHUN.1889-90.
CHAPTER IX.GUROB.1889-90.
CHAPTER X.MEDUM.1891.
CHAPTER XI.THE FRESH LIGHT ON THE PAST.
CHAPTER XII.THE ART OF EXCAVATING.
CHAPTER XIII.THE FELLAH.
CHAPTER XIV.THE ACTIVE TRIPPER IN EGYPT.
ADDENDA TO BAEDECKER’S VOCABULARY
PREFACE
Although
the discoveries which are related in this volume have been already
published, yet there is to be considered the large number of readers
who feed in the intermediate regions between the arid highlands and
mountain ascents of scientific memoirs, and the lush—not to say
rank—marsh-meadows of the novel and literature of amusement.Those,
then, who wish to grasp the substance of the results, without the
precision of the details, are the public for whom this is written;
and I trust that, out of consideration for their feelings, hardly a
single measurement or rigid statement can be found here from cover to
cover. Any one who wants detail can find it in the various annual
volumes which have already appeared. Several of the finest objects
found appear here, however, for the first time in illustration; for
having been kept in Egypt I only had photographs to work from, which
were, as yet, unused.The
work described here is not by any means all that has occupied my time
in these years; much exploring has also been done, and dozens of
ancient towns have been visited, and their remains examined; but such
work is rather a basis for further results than a source of interest
in itself to the public. Besides this I have been occupied in
Palestine.I
may as well remark that the first two years’ work were done
entirely as a private matter; though the Royal Society afterwards
made a grant to cover the greater part of the cost of its
publication. The three following years’ work was carried on for the
Egypt Exploration Fund; but as the management of that society was not
what I had expected, I preferred to withdraw, without personal
unpleasantness; in fact, some promoters of it have been more my
friends since then than they were before. For a year I rather
explored than excavated, having indeed no prospect of funds at my
disposal for the purpose. But to my surprise, two supporters of the
subject appeared independently, Mr. Jesse Haworth, and then Mr.
Martyn Kennard; all expenses of excavation and transport in the last
four years’ work, have been at their charge; and the objects found,
and not kept for the Egyptian Museum, or retained for private
friends, have been presented by them to various public collections.
Thus three years have been private work, three years with the Fund,
and four years with other friends.One
of the pleasantest results of my work has been the number of
co-operators who have appeared, and the friendships that have
resulted. In fact an informal body of workers have come together, all
attracted by a real love of work, and not by publicity or the
buttering and log-rolling of societies. Without any parade of empty
names, or speechifying, we each know where to turn for co-operation,
and how to join hands to help in the work.To
many the interest of these researches will be the solidity and
reality which they give to what we only knew as yet on paper. When we
read of ‘Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes,’ and then see Defenneh
explaining the narrative,—when Ezekiel wrote of Javan being
‘merchants,’ and ‘going to and fro, occupied in the fairs’ of
Tyre, and we see the widespread trade of the Ionians as early as
Gurob,—when we read in Homer of the prehistoric civilization, and
see the actual products of those races brought to light,—we feel
how real was the life of which the outlines have come down to us
across the ages.I
hope that among my readers there may be some who are not of the
superficial class, for whom the tender-foot directions of guide-books
are written, and the luxuries of hotels are provided as attractions;
so I have given some hints as to how a traveller may go about in
Egypt without the usual routine of coddling, and being led by the
nose by a dragoman. If the active tripper is thereby induced to take
an active trip in Egypt, and—contrary to the custom of most
tourists—subordinate the stomach to the intellect, I shall be very
glad to make his acquaintance there.
KINGS AND DYNASTIES NAMED IN THIS VOLUME
Dynasty.Approximatedate
B.C.IV.Seneferu,
Khufu, Khafra, Menkaura4000-3800V.Ra-kha-nefer,
Unas3700-3500VI.Rameri-Pepi3400XI.Antef-aa
II, Mentuhotep IV, Antef V, Sankhkara2800XII.Amenemhat
I, II, Usertesen II, III, Amenemhat III2700-2500XIV.Nehesi-Ra2300XVI.Apepi1900XVIII.Tahutmes
III, Amenhotep III, IV, Khuenaten1450-1350XIX.Ramessu
II, Merenptah I1250-1150XX.Ramessu
III1100XXII.Usarkon
I950XXV.Tirhaka,
Amenardus700XXVI.Psamtik
(Psammetikhos) I, II; Uahabra (Apries); Aahmes II (Amasis)666-526Ptolemaic.
Ptolemy II (Philadelphos)286-247Roman
period30
B.C.-400 A.D.Coptic
periodabout
400-700 A.D.Cufic
periodabout
700-1000 A.D.Arabic
period1000 A.D.
to presentPosition
of Places in Egypt named in this Volume.1.
The Pyramids of Gizeh.
CHAPTER I.THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH.1881-2.
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