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THE importance of the series of painted tombs at Thebes for the history of civilisation is at last being adequately met by publication. A “Theban Tombs Series” has been started by Mr. Davies and Dr. Gardiner with the scrupulously accurate copies by Mrs. Davies. The style is adequate to every requirement, without the fastu-osity of luxurious book-making. The pictures of an age that overlaps the most brilliant civilisation of prehistoric Europe, about 1500—1200 B.C., are worthy of the fullest record that can be made.
(1) The Tomb of Amenemhet.
(No. 82.) Copied in line and colour by Nina de Garis Davies., and with explanatory text by Dr. Alan H. Gardiner. (The Theban Tombs Series. First and Introductory Memoir.) Pp. vii + 132 + xlvi plates. (Published under the auspices of the Egypt Exploration Fund.) (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1915.) 2 guineas net.
(2) The Tomb of Antefoker, Vizier of Sesostris I., and of his Wife, Senet.
(No. 60.) By N. de Garis Davies. With a chapter by Dr. Alan H. Gardiner. (The Theban Tombs Series. Second Memoir.) Pp. iii + 40 + xlviii plates. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., 1920.) 2 guineas net.
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PETRIE, W. (1) The Tomb of Amenemhet (2) The Tomb of Antefoker, Vizier of Sesostris I, and of his Wife, Senet. Nature 107, 70 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107070a0
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