Produced by Steven Giacomelli, Jason Isbell, Anne Storer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Case Western Reserve University Preservation Department Digital Library) Transcriber's Note: 1) Spelling of Sneferu / Snefru left as in the original. 2) [.a] = dot above a * * * * * EGYPTIAN RESEARCH ACCOUNT, 1897. EL KAB. BY J. E. QUIBELL. IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE WORK OF SOMERS CLARKE AND J. J. TYLOR. LONDON: BERNARD QUARITCH, 15, PICCADILLY, W. 1898. LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED, STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS. CONTENTS. INTRODUCTION. SECT. PAGE 1. Course of work 1 2. Chance of inscribed tombs 2 3. Description of site 2 CHAPTER I. THE EARLIEST TOMBS. 4. Mastabas and stairway tombs 3 5. Ka-mena mastaba 3 6. A mastaba 4 7. Compound mastaba 4 8. Nefer-shem-em 5 9. Early black cylinder 5 10. Smaller mastabas 5 11. Stairway tomb with inscribed cylinder 7 12. Open graves 8 13. _Majūr_ and cist burials 9 CHAPTER II. DATE OF THE "NEW RACE" REMAINS. 14. Variety of names 11 15. First dating erroneous 11 16. Evidence from El Kab 12 17. From other sites 12 18. Doubtful points 13 CHAPTER III. MIDDLE KINGDOM CEMETERY. 19. Early XIIth dynasty tombs and the wall 13 20. Tombs in detail 14 21. Later XIIth dynasty tombs 14 22. Beads 15 CHAPTER IV. NEW EMPIRE MONUMENTS. 23. Few XVIIIth dynasty remains 15 24. Temple of Amenhotep III. 16 25. Foundation deposits 16 26. Temple near the east gate 17 27. The date of the wall 17 28. Bronzes 17 29. Pigeon-house 17 CHAPTER V. DESCRIPTION OF THE PLATES.