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Černý MSS 17.59
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Notebook Černý MSS 17.59
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0.5 cm, 1 notebook with enclosures
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(1898-1970)
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Thebes. Deir el-Medîna Tombs. Description and texts. Tombs listed alongside copies of texts, most copied in 1926, then collated in 1927-8. Most of the material was copied in situ with additional records made in Turin, Museo Egizio.
Also references to:
- Gardiner, A. H. and Weigall, A. E. P., A Topographical Catalogue of the Private Tombs of Thebes (1913) (OEB 140016)
- Engelbach, R., A Supplement to the Topographical Catalogue of the Private Tombs of Thebes (nos. 253-334). With some notes on the necropolis from 1913 to 1924 (1924) (OEB 139039)
- Bruyère, B., 'New Details for Insertion in the Theban 1/1000 scale maps. I. Deir el-Madina', in Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 25 (1925), 174-7 (1925) (OEB 135781)
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Fragile, handle with care.
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A research plan referring to a topographical study and a systematic survey of tombs in the Deir el-Medîna area are presented in a letter from J. Černý to F. Lexa, January 1926. Fonds F. Lexa, correspondence with J. Černý, Archive of the Academy of Sciences, Prague.