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1911-12 Abydos

Sponsor: 
Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) [1]
Type of fieldwork: 
Excavation
Director: 
(Henri) Edouard Naville [2]
Thomas Eric Peet [3]
Participants: 
Thomas Whittemore [4]
R. E. Trefusis [5]
John Percival Droop [6]
Season summary: 
  • Peet began excavations in cemetery C recording 34 tombs.
  • Excavations were also started by Peet's team in cemetery D, although it was mostly excavated in the 1912-13 season, recording 154 tombs. Two of the vaulted brick tombs of the New Kingdom were remodelled as Coptic chapels.
  • Excavations in cemetery S, by the Dynasty 1 enclosure of Mernieth,  found around 153 tombs.
  • Excavations were also conducted in a Predynastic settlement behind the temple of Sety, immediately outside the enclosure wall of the temple itself.
  • Naville led excavations in the Osireion.
Relevant archive holdings: 
London, Lucy Gura Archive, Egypt Exploration Society, tomb cards and photographs
Relevant publications: 

Naville, Édouard and Peet, Eric T. Excavations at Abydos. Archaeological Report (Egypt Exploration Fund) 1 January 1911, pp.1-9.

Peet, T. Eric 1914. The cemeteries of Abydos. Part II: 1911-1912. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 34. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.

Site guide: 
Abydos [7]
Source URL: https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1911-12-abydos

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/thomas-eric-peet
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/thomas-whittemore
[5] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/r-e-trefusis
[6] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/john-percival-droop
[7] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/site/abydos