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A R C H / E O L O G I C AL S U R V EY OF E G Y PT
Edited by F. L. GRIFFITH, B.A., F.S.A.
EL B E R S H EH
P A RT ii.
F. L. GRIFFITH, B.A., F.S.A., and P E R CY E. N E W B E R R Y, M.R.A.S.
11777/ APPENDIX, PLANS AND MEASUREMENTS OF THE TOMBS
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E G Y PT E X P L O B A T I ON F U N D.
ipreslOent.
SIR JOHN FOWLER, Baut., K.C.M.G.
lDice=]pre0(&ent6.
Sir EMaunde Thompson, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D.T he Hon. John Geo. Boubinot, D.C.L.
Chakles Dudley Waenbb, Esq., L.H.D., LL.D. (Canada).
(U.S.A.). PROf. G. Maspeeo, D.C.L. (France).
The Rev. W. C. Winslow, D.D., D.C.L. Prof. Ad. Brman^ Ph.D. (Germany).
{Son. Treas. and Hon. Sec, U.S.A.). Josiah Mullens, Esq. (Australia).
The Hon. Edward G. Mason (U.S.A.). M. Charles Hentsoh (Switzerland).
1bon. Zxesieuvexs.
H. a, Gbdbbbb, Esq., F.S.A. The Rev. W. C. Winslow, D.D., D.C.L. (Boston,' U.S.A.).
Claeenoe H. Clark, Esq. (Penn. U.S.A.).
Members of Committee.
T. H. Baylis, Esq., M.A., Q.C. The Rev. W. MaoGrbgoe, M.A.
Miss Bradbury. J. H. Middlbton, Esq., M.A., Litt.D., D.C.L.
J. S. Cotton, Esq., M.A. A. S. Murray, Esq., LL.D., F.S.A.
W. E. Ceum, Esq., M.A. D. Parribh, Esq. (U.S.A.).
M. J. db Morgan {Directeur Genial des Anti-Feancis Wm. Percival, Esq., F.S.A.
quites de VEgypte). LiEDT.-CoL. J. C. Ross, R.E., C.M.G,
Sib John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D. The Rev. Prop. A. H. Sayce, M.A., LL.D.
Arthur John Evans, Esq., M.A., F.S.A. H. ViLLiERS Stuart, Esq.
W. Fowler, Esq. Mrs. Tirard.
Major - General Sir Francis Grenpell, The Rev. H. G. Tomkins, M.A.
G.O.M.G., KC.B.
The Rt. Rev. The Lord Bishop op Truro.
F. L. Griffith, Esq., B.A., F.S.A.
Prop. B. B. Tylor, D.O.L.
T. Fakmeb Hall, Esq.
Hermann Weber, Esq., M.D.
Prof. T. Hayteb Lewis, F.S.A. Major-Gkneral Sir Charles Wilson, K.C.B.,
Mrs. MoClcre, K.O.M.G., F.R.S.
C O N T E N T S.
PAOE PLATE
Peepaoe i
I. Introduction
II. Detailed Desceiption op the Tombs—
Tomb No. 1 17 I., IV.-IX.
[Tomb No. 2] 27
Tomb No. 3 27 X.
Tomb No. 4 29 X., XI.
Tomb No. 5 30 XII.-XVII.
Tomb No. 6 36
Tomb No. 7 37 XVIII., XIX.
Tomb No. 8 38 XX., XXI,
Tomb No. 9 42 XX.
Tomb No. 10 48 XX,
III. Selected Insobiptions eeom the Quaeet 0"p Hbt-Nu4b7 XXII.-XXIII.
Appendix. Me. G. Willoughby Feaser's Report on the
Stievey of the Wadt dm bn-Nakhleh 55 II.
Index 67
List of Plates (with references to the pages on which they
are described) 71
P E E F A G E.
The present volume completes the survey of the monuments of the Middle
Kingdom at El Bersheh. It contains the description of nine inscribed
tombs, that of Tehutihetep (Tomb No. 2) having formed the subject of
Part I. of the Memoir.
None of the tombs described in this volume approach that of Tehutihetep
either in general elegance or in delicacy of detail; but, to illustrate the style
of painting some fragments from Tomb No. 1 (Tehutinekht) have been
reproduced in colour: for the drawings of these, executed with the greatest
fidelity to the originals, we have to thank Miss Paget. Two samples of
architectural colouring from the same tomb (in pi. v.) are from fac-similes
by Mr. Blackden. The outline plates are the work of Mr. Newberry; the
plans and survey are chiefly due to Mr. Fraser, whose report on the
El Bersheh valley (the Wady Der en-Nakhleh) is printed as an Appendix
to the Memoir.
The scenes and inscriptions from these tombs are almost entirely
unpublished, and the graffiti of Het-nub, dealt with here by way of
illustration, have not before been transliterated or translated. The texts
being extremely difficult, the translations are only tentative. The descriptions
are the joint work of Mr. Griffith and Mr. Newberry; for the Introduction
Mr. Griffith alone is responsible.
EL B E E S H EH
I P ^ I ^T I I.
I. I N T E O D U C T I ON
A OAEEFOL survey of any ancient site in Egypt we omit to mention here the discovery of the
is generally rewarded with plenty of new dis quarries of Het-nub as a direct result of the
coveries, and the work of the Archaeological Society's survey, since their inscriptions have
Survey at El Bersheh has been no exception afforded us the most welcome light on the
to the rule. One painted scene, that of the history of the personages dealt with in the
Colossus on the Sledge/ had made the place following pages.
famous early in the century, but its context Like the tombs at Beni Hasan, those of El
and the remainder of the scenes in the tomb of Bersheh are chiefly of nomarchs who lived
Tehutihetep were almost wholly unknown, while under the Middle Kingdom. Their province
only one of the other inscribed tombs was on
was known as the Hare nome, ^-y" Tint in
record, having been described by Prof. Sayce
Egyptian, and their capital was called Khmenu
in 1890.^ It was even difficult to discover the
ZZ^, Unu ^, or n^ Per-Tehuti (house
situation of the tombs on any map.
We now offer to our subscribers a detailed of Thoth), names that are, however, not quite
map of the tomb-valley at El Bersheh (called convertible.* By the Greeks this city was
by the natives Wady Der en-Nakhleh),^ and a called Hermopolis, from the god Thoth or
complete view of the tombs of the Middle Hermes, whose principal shrine was there.
Kingdom contained in it, while only a few The site of Khmenu is easily recognisable in
less important monuments of other periods the extensive mounds of Eshmunen, lying in
are reserved to accompany similar matter from the middle of the Nile valley, a little north of
various sites in a future volume. Nor must the latitude of El Bersheh. The limits of the
El Bersheh, Pt. I., pi. xv. * Khmenu is the commonest name, being frequently found
^ Prof. Maspero added to this publication some inscrip in the titles of Thoth : Per-Tehuti often occurs in a priestly
tions copied by Nestor de rH6te in a third tomb, but title. Unu is perhaps a " profane " name, as opposed to
believed them to belong to the same. the " sacred " name Khmenu, but the latter is the origin
^ There is no need to change the well-known name of of the Coptic and Arabic names: both occur together in
this group of tombs. El Bersheh being in the immediate the graffiti of Het-nub, i. and viii. (see pi. xxii. and
neighbourhood. pp. 48 and 52).
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