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II.—Of the methods used in making and ornamenting an Egyptian Rock Tomb
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 January 2012
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Although in his invaluable work on the Ancient Egyptians, Sir Gardner Wilkinson tells us a great deal about the sculpture, the painting, and the furniture of the tomb, and although Lepsius, Prisse d'Avennes, and others give us much information, I have nowhere found that any writer has followed the subject through from the time the order was given to make the tomb until it was completed ready to receive the mummy of the owner. The few notes I now lay before the Society were always made on the spot. My effort has been to draw the evidence from the excavations themselves.
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page 21 note a Sir Wilkinson, J. Gardner, The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians (New Edition. London, 1878.), iii. 436Google Scholar.
page 23 note a Wilkinson, Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, iii. 433.
page 23 note b Budge, E. A. Wallis, The Mummy. Cambridge University Press. 1893Google Scholar.
page 28 note a The objection may be raised that in referring to these tombs I am travelling outside my subject. They are not rock tombs but mastabas. This is true, and as a further objection it may be said that the sculpture within these mastabas is upon masonry, but as a matter of fact the methods of work are the same whether upon masonry or upon the stone face gained in the solid rock. The sculpture in the rock tomb, the temple, or the mastaba has all its essentials in common.
page 31 note a Perrot, and Chipiez, , A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, ii. 332Google Scholar.
page 31 note b See Plate IV., “Wall drawings and monuments of El Kab.” The Tomb of Paheri. By J. J. Tylor and F Ll. Griffith. 1895.