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Petrie MSS 5.8.10a [upper]
Title
[953] Kahun, town of XII dynasty, excavated.
Date(s)
- 1890 (Creation)
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1 photograph
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(1853-1942)
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-Part of the ancient town of el-Lahun ("Kahun") under excavation: northern wall of the town.
-Caption:
'Kahun, town of XII dynasty, excavated.'.
-Also label for 'North wall of town'.
This photograph is in a section titled 'Kahun & Gurob Views 1890 953-962'.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
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-Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Ten years' digging in Egypt: 1881-1891 (1892) (OEB 147224), fig. 83 on p. 113 (line drawing from picture).
-'Petrie's Photographs of Egypt: Landscape, monuments, people': http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/ppoe/Petrie_5_8_010upper.html (accessed 14/11/2017).
-See TopBib iv.111.
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953