File Petrie MSS 5.5 - Album 5 - Egyptian Miniatures Part A. Old Empire

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Petrie MSS 5.5

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Album 5 - Egyptian Miniatures Part A. Old Empire

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  • 1881-1882 (Creation)

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-Album containing photographs of Old (and also some Middle) Kingdom antiquities and monuments.
-Most of the photographs show the Giza pyramids, especially the Great Pyramid, as well as many private tombs.
-This album includes the photograph showing Petrie standing outside the tomb he lived in the early 1880s when surveying the pyramids (Petrie MSS 5.5.23c [upper right]).
-Other sites in this album include pyramids, tombs and other monuments at Saqqara, Meidum, Dahshur, Abusir, Hawara, Zawyet el-Amwat and Biahmu.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

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