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1896-97 el-Kab

Sponsor: 
Egyptian Research Account (ERA), 1893–1905 [1]
Type of fieldwork: 
Excavation
Director: 
James Edward Quibell [2]
Participants: 
Sarah Quibell [3]
Annie Abernethie Pirie [4]
Season summary: 
  • As soon as they arrived, Quibell and his team cleared uninscribed rock tombs to turn them into 'a comfortable house'.
     
  • The excavations (December to April) concentrated on the cemetery to the east of the settlement.
     
  • Other excavated areas include mastabas outside the northern side of the city walls, temple deposits, and selected areas inside the city walls.
     
  • Finds include pottery, stone vases, funerary stelae, soul houses, beads, seals and sealings, paint slabs, and mirrors, dating from the Old Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom.
Relevant publications: 

Catalogue of antiquities from excavations at Deshasheh and Behnesa (Egypt Exploration Fund) and El Kab (Egyptian Research Account) : exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, July 1st to 31st 1897. 1897. London : Egypt Exploration Fund.

Quibell 1897.

Additional archive material: 
Oxford, Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Site guide: 
el-Kab [5]
Source URL: https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1896-97-el-kab

Links
[1] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/resources/egyptian-research-account-era-1893%E2%80%931905
[2] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/james-edward-quibell
[3] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/sarah-quibell
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/annie-abernethie-pirie
[5] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/node/1094