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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
II.—Of the methods used in making and ornamenting an Egyptian Rock Tomb
Contributor:
Clarke, Somers
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1896
Published in:Archaeologia
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0261340900014259
ISSN:
0261-3409;
2051-3186
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:p>Although in his invaluable work on the Ancient Egyptians, Sir Gardner Wilkinson tells us a great deal about the sculpture, the painting, and the furniture of the tomb, and although Lepsius, Prisse d'Avennes, and others give us much information, I have nowhere found that any writer has followed the subject through from the time the order was given to make the tomb until it was completed ready to receive the mummy of the owner. The few notes I now lay before the Society were always made on the spot. My effort has been to draw the evidence from the excavations themselves.</jats:p>