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Old Kingdom Tombs at the Causeway of King Unas at Saqqara, Excavated by the Department of Antiquities: Two Tombs of Craftsmen [Archäologische Veröffentlichungen, 9 - Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Abteilung Kairo]

Moussa, Ahmed M.; Friedrich Junge (Text by); Prof. Dr. Gamal Mokhtar (Foreword by); Walter Ruhm (Drawings by); Dieter Johannes (Photographs by); Wolfgang Salzmann (Appendix by)

Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1975. First edition. Hardcover. Folio (14 x 11"). 52pp (Text), 4pp (Photographic plates), [2], 14pp (Illustrated plates). Original brick cloth, with brown lettering to spine and front cover. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Publisher's device on title page.

After the publication of "The Tomb of Nefer and Ka-hay," the series "Old Kingdom Tombs at the Causeway of King Unas at Saqqara" is now continued with this second opus describing the two decorated tombs of Nefer-seshem-ptah/Sekhentyu and Yryen-ka-ptah, both discovered in 1965.

The tombs are typical of middle class officials of the Vth dynasty.

This work is profusely illustrated throughout with 11 in-text figs, 4 full-page b/w photographic reproductions, and 14 full-page illustrated plates (many folding).

Previous owner's Ex-libris on inside of front cover (J. Bisno). Text in English, Appendix in German. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. vg. Item #43364

About the author: Ahmed Mahmoud Moussa (1934-1998) was an Egyptian Egyptologist who received his B.A. in Egyptology in 1959 from Cairo University, and his PhD from the Eötvös Loránd University at Budapest in 1995. He is famous for discovering the tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum at Saqqara in 1964, which became a cause célèbre among the homosexual community. The initiation of the 100 km (62.13mi) Pharaonic Race in Cairo was due to his 1977 discovery of an inscription describing how ancient Egyptian soldiers ran a race of 100 kilometres under king Taharqa. (From Wikipedia).

Price: $200.00