A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt
From Abydos to the Sudan Frontier

This 1910 guide describes the less frequented sites of Upper Egypt, descending to the Second Cataract and the Sudanese border.

Arthur E. P. Brome Weigall (Author)

9781108082969, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2015

624 pages, 67 b/w illus. 1 map
21.5 x 14 x 3.6 cm, 0.7 kg

The career of Arthur Weigall (1880–1934) encompassed Egyptology but also stage design, film criticism and journalism, as well as fiction and books about ancient Egypt. After studying in Germany, he worked at Abydos with Flinders Petrie, but in 1905 he was unexpectedly promoted to Chief Inspector of Antiquities for Upper Egypt, when Howard Carter was forced to resign. His work in Egypt, especially in the area of Luxor, focused on the conservation of monuments and the prevention of shipping of artefacts abroad, until 1911, when he returned to London. He did not revisit Egypt until, as a journalist, he covered the opening of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1922. In this 1910 guide, writing 'from careful and prolonged personal observation and thought', Weigall describes the less frequented ancient sites of Upper Egypt, beginning north of Thebes and descending to the Second Cataract and the Sudanese border.

Preface
1. Abydos
2. Hou and Kasr es Sayad
3. Koptos etc.
4. Thebes
5. The temple of Luxor
6. The temples of Karnak
7. Mortuary chapels of the nobles
8. The tombs of the kings
9. The mortuary temples of the kings of dynasties XVIII to XX
10. The two mortuary temples of Der el Bahri
11. Der el Medineh
12. From Thebes to Esneh
13. The history of El Kab
14. The temple of Edfu
15. The cemeteries at Edfu
16. Gebel Silsileh
17. The temple of Kom Ombo
18. The history of Aswan and Elephantine
19. The temple of Aswan
20. The tombs of the princes of Elephantine
21. The history of lower Nubia
22. From Sehel to Philae
23. From Philae to Kalabsheh
24. From Kalabsheh to Maharaka
25. From Maharaka to Kasr Ibrim
26. Kasr Ibrim
Index.

Subject Areas: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]