Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition To Deir El-Ballas eBook

The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Deir el-Ballas: The non-elite cemeteries of the 17th - 19th Dynasties, Volume II: Catalogues complements the analysis of the unpublished Hearst Expedition excavations (1900-1901) at Deir el-Ballas that Victoria Jensen presented in Volume I. In Volume II, Jensen provides a detailed tomb catalogue, synthesizing all available information on each tomb and its contents, and providing scale drawings of the tomb architecture and placement of objects. The excavator, George A. Reisner, was an early adopter of photography in archaeology. The appendices in this volume present all known Hearst Expedition photographs of the tombs and their contents.