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1887 Abusir

Sponsor: 
Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) [1]
Type of fieldwork: 
Excavation
Director: 
(Henri) Edouard Naville [2]
Participants: 
Francis Llewellyn Griffith [3]
Season summary: 

In his memoir report for 1887-1888 Naville reported on a visit to Abusir and purchasing a small fragment of green basalt "found in the neighbouring tell, and which is now in the Boolak museum [now in Cairo Museum?]".

Relevant archive holdings: 
London, Lucy Gura Archive, Egypt Exploration Society
Relevant publications: 

Naville, Edouard and F. Ll. Griffith 1890. The mound of the Jew and the city of Onias: Belbeis, Samanood, Abusir, Tukh el Karmus. 1887 / The antiquities of Tell el Yahûdîyeh, and miscellaneous work in Lower Egypt during the years 1887-1888. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 7. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner.

Additional archive material: 
Oxford, Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Site guide: 
Abusir [4]
Source URL: https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1887-abusir

Links
[1] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/resources/egypt-exploration-fund-eef
[2] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/henri-edouard-naville
[3] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/francis-llewellyn-griffith
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/site/abusir