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1912-13 Abydos

Sponsor: 
Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) [1]
Type of fieldwork: 
Excavation
Director: 
William Leonard Stevenson Loat [2]
(Henri) Edouard Naville [3]
Thomas Eric Peet [4]
Participants: 
William Leonard Stevenson Loat [2]
Thomas Whittemore [5]
C. Wake [6]
Camden M. Cobern [7]
Season summary: 
  • Loat was responsible for excavating an Ibis cemetery in cemetery E. The jars containing the ibis remains were numbered (1000-1091).
  • Peet led work on Old Kingdom mastaba tombs, Middle Kingdom shaft tombs, New Kingdom burials and the Ptolemaic and Roman graves in cemetery D. A list of tomb groups and 'important objects' from this cemetery was published in Peet, T. Eric and Loat, W. L. S 1913. The cemeteries of Abydos. Part III: 1912-1913. [pp. 49-50].
Relevant archive holdings: 
London, Lucy Gura Archive, Egypt Exploration Society, tomb cards, photographs and field notes.
Relevant publications: 

Peet, T. Eric and Loat, W. L. S 1913. The cemeteries of Abydos. Part III: 1912-1913. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund 35. London: Egypt Exploration Fund.

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 [8]
Source URL: https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/excavations/1912-13-abydos

Links
[1] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/resources/egypt-exploration-fund-eef
[2] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/william-leonard-stevenson-loat
[3] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/henri-edouard-naville
[4] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/thomas-eric-peet
[5] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/thomas-whittemore
[6] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/c-wake
[7] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/people/camden-m-cobern
[8] https://egyptartefacts.griffith.ox.ac.uk/site/abydos