The Mastabas of the Eighth Season and Their Description
Cairo: General Organisation for Government Printing Offices, 1960. First edition. Softcover. Folio. x, 103 (3)pp., 50 plates. Original tan wrap with national emblem of United Arab Republic and black lettering on cover. Excavations at Giza, Season 1936–37–38, Vol. IX. Ministry of Culture and National Orientation, Antiquities Department of Egypt. With the collaboration of Shafik Farid. "The subject of the present volume is a series of rock-cut tombs lying to the north of the Sphinx, and occupying the northern cliff face bounding the rocky amphitheatre in which that great monument of the Old Kingdom lies. With them are published some of the small monuments found in the same vicinity." (Preface). Extensive report with in-text drawings and hieroglyphs, and fifty plates of intriguing b/w offset reproductions taken during the excavations, with captions. Wraps with minor wear. Text pages slightly age-toned. Wraps and interior in very good, plates in fine condition. vg to fine. Item #45292
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