Hierakonpolis
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the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 Excerpt: ...seal of
yellow clay. These, with other objects, lay all together, and the wall
had to be undermined to obtain them. Another pit was made on the N.
side of the wall, and more than twenty objects, all of archaic types,
were found lying together; a green glaze monkey, a large quartz mace,
and some pieces of inscribed ivory. Two other trenches skirting this
same group of rooms, and approaching from the N. and E., ran into
similar groups of archaic objects. In the middle of these different
groups the objects were really heaped one on another: at one point
limestone maces lay in scores, and, stained by the clay, looked much
like a heap of potatoes. There was also a great heap made up entirely
of objects in ivory, chiefly statuettes. We at last realised that we
had found a great heap of archaic objects, not distributed in separate
chambers, as Amelineau's finds in the royal tombs made us expect, but
carelessly thrown together. The heap was approached from every side
till its boundaries were known, and the objects were gradually removed.
This was a month's work, and for more than half this time we were
working with penknife and steel ruler, instead of adze and basket,
extricating the delicate objects from the sandy clay in which they were
embedded. It is impossible to give a detailed plan of so confused and
close packed a heap of objects; and as the order in which they were
taken out was largely accidental, it will be simpler to give a general
account of their relative positions, following this by a complete list
of all the objects found in the group, but leaving details of
measurement, &c, to the catalogue in the plates. This will involve
some repetition, but the fault is hard to avoid. 72. The best point to
begin will be from one of the largest objects,
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RareBooksClub.com (6 marzo 2012)
- ISBN-10 : 1130207978
- ISBN-13 : 978-1130207972
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