1906-07 Giza

Type of fieldwork:

Excavation

Director:

W. M. Flinders Petrie [2]

Season summary:

Exavations started on 1st December; team members were divided between Giza and Rifeh; season closed on 2nd April.
Excavations focused on the cemetery half a mile south of the Great Pyramid, ranging from 1st Dynasty to 19th Dynasty. Petrie's team worked on tombs essentially dating from the Early Dynastic to the 6th Dynasty/late Old Kingdom. They also excavated Late Period Roman burials and, notably, the funeral chapel of Thary (Chief of the House of Provisions) a mile south of the Great Pyramid.
Finds include stone vases, pottery, baskets, writing palettes, one ostracon with numbers, flint jewellery (bracelets and armlets), flint tools, stone 'marbles', copper tools, ivory and gold toilet objects, a sculpted figure of a man, and incense burners, all from the earlier tombs; from the Late Period, excavators retrieved glazed vases, a decorated spoon handle, amulets, coffins, two sets of canopic jars, shabtis, and some tombs full of animals' skeletons.

Relevant archive holdings:

London, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

Relevant publications:

Catalogue of Egyptian antiquities: found by Prof. Flinders Petrie and students at Gizeh and Rifeh, 1907 ; exhibited at University College, Gower St., London, July 1st to 27th / British School of Archaeology in Egypt. 1907. London: BSAE.

Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1907. Gizeh and Rifeh. British School of Archaeology in Egypt and Egyptian Research Account 13 (13th year). London: British School of Archaeology in Egypt; Bernard Quaritch.