el-Bersheh

Alternative site names:

Deir el-Barsha

Site description:

The site was the principal necropolis for the nomarchs of the 15th Upper Egyptian Nome in the Middle Kingdom, during the 11th and 12th Dynasties. It was one of the most important elite cemeteries in Middle Egypt.

Type of site:

Quarries; tombs

Timeframe:

Quarries (Middle Kingdom, First Intermidate Period); tombs (Middle Kingdom, First Intermidate Period)

Excavation season:

Relevant publications:

Catalogue of drawings of scenes and hieroglyphs : copied from wall-paintings in ancient Egyptian tombs of B. C. 3800 to B. C. 2500 at Dêr el-Gebrawi, El-Bersheh, and Beni Hasan ; exhibited by the Egypt Exploration Fund at the Art Gallery, Mosley Street, Manchester, September - October, 1893 / Egypt Exploration Fund. 1893. London : Egypt Exploration Fund.

Newberry, Percy E. 1894-1895. El Bersheh. Archaeological survey of Egypt 3-4. London: Egypt Exploration Fund

Smith, Wm. Stevenson 1951. Paintings of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom at Bersheh. American Journal of Archaeology 55 (4), 321-332.