1920-21 Sedment

Type of fieldwork: 
Excavation
Season summary: 

The team excavated between 17 December 1920 and 25 April 1921.

  • Brunton led excavations in Cemetery 2100 with the assistance of Bach and Neilson, which were published in the excavation memoir Sedment I.
  • Brunton also worked in the Mayana cemeteries (Cemetery K), which was published in the excavation memoir Sedment I.
  • Bach conducted worked on Dynasty 19 and 20 burials in Cemetery C, grave numbers 2010-2023, and published in the excavation memoir Sedment II.
Relevant archive holdings: 
London, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, tomb cards

Archive Documents

Distribution Notes: 

Some objects from this season of work (along with Harageh, Lahun, Gurob and Sedment) were distributed after the Second World War in 1948 and 1949 by Hilda Petrie having been stored at University College London. In these cases it is not always clear which tomb the material is from, although the objects were (according to Hilda Petrie) distinguished by site with the use of letters: H, L, G and S, corresponding to the different sites.

Relevant publications: 

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities: found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Lahun and Sedment, 1920 and 1921 ; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, July 4th to July 30th / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1921. London : BSAE.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders and Guy Brunton 1924. Sedment I-II, 2 vols. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account [34-35] (27th year). London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt; Bernard Quaritc.

Additional archive material: 
Oxford, Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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