Tell el Hesy (Lachish), Hyksos and Israelite Cities

Reissued here together, these two illustrated excavation reports, published in 1891 and 1906, cover discoveries in Palestine and Egypt respectively.

William Matthew Flinders Petrie (Author)

9781108067263, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 19 September 2013

188 pages, 95 b/w illus. 1 colour illus.
29.7 x 21 x 1 cm, 0.47 kg

A pioneering Egyptologist, Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) excavated over fifty sites and trained a generation of archaeologists. This reissue brings together two of his well-illustrated excavation reports. The first, originally published in 1891, covers his 1890 dig in Palestine at Tell el-Hesi. Although he identified it incorrectly as the biblical city of Lachish, his work here was significant in Near Eastern archaeology for the stratigraphic method of excavation and use of pottery to establish chronology. The second report, from 1906, records the work carried out at a number of Hyksos and Israelite sites in Egypt, such as Tell el-Yehudiyeh and Tell er-Retabeh. It also includes chapters by John Garrow Duncan (1872–1951) on the cemeteries of Suwa and Goshen. Each report contains a section of photographs and drawings of sites, artefacts and inscriptions. Petrie wrote prolifically throughout his long career, and a great many of his other publications are also reissued in this series.

Part I. Tell el Hesy: 1. Introductory
2. Site of Tell el Hesy
3. Remains at Tell el Hesy
4. Identification of Lachish
5. History of Lachish
6. Structural details
7. The pottery
Note on sites visited
Part II. Hyksos and Israelite Cities: 1. Introduction
2. The Hyksos camp
3. The Hyksos cemetery
4. The later remains
5. The temple of Onias
6. Tell er Retabeh
7. The cemetery of Goshen
8. The cemetery of Suwa
Index
Plates.

Subject Areas: Egyptian archaeology / Egyptology [HDDG]