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1903-04 Abydos

Sponsor: 
Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) [1]
Egyptian Research Account (ERA), 1893–1905 [2]
Type of fieldwork: 
Excavation
Director: 
W. M. Flinders Petrie [3]
Participants: 
Charles Trick Currelly [4]
Lina Eckenstein [5]
Winifred Freda Hansard [6]
Margaret A. Murray [7]
Noel Rawnsley [8]
Hugh Stannus [9]
Hilda Petrie [10]
Edward Russell Ayrton [11]
Season summary: 
  • Work this season focussed on ten successive temples superimposed on the temple site at Abydos.
  • Petrie also led work at the 'Shunet el-Zebib' or what was referred to as the 'ancient fort' of Second Dynasty ruler Khasekhemwy. This is in fact the enclosure of Khasekhemwy. A cemetery in and around this was also explored, notably producing a group of Dynasty 12 amulets and  Aegean and Egyptian pottery figures date by Petrie to the New Kingdom.
  • Margaret Murray and Winifred Hansard worked on the Egyptian Research Account explorations of the Osireion.
Relevant archive holdings: 
London, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
Relevant publications: 

Petrie 1903.

Ayrton, E. R., C. T. Currelly, and A. E. Weigall 1904. Abydos. Part III. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. London: Egypt Exploration Fund; Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.

Site guide: 
Abydos [12]
Source URL: https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1903-04-abydos

Links
[1] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/resources/egypt-exploration-fund-eef
[2] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/resources/egyptian-research-account-era-1893%E2%80%931905
[3] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/w-m-flinders-petrie
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/charles-trick-currelly
[5] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/lina-eckenstein
[6] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/winifred-freda-hansard
[7] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/margaret-murray
[8] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/noel-rawnsley
[9] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/hugh-stannus
[10] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/hilda-petrie
[11] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/edward-russell-ayrton
[12] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/site/abydos