Portraits Painted in Wax, from Roman Mummies, Hawara.

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TEN YEARS’ DIGGING

IN EGYPT
1881-1891

BY
W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE
AUTHOR OF ‘PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH,’ ‘HAWARA,’ ‘MEDUM,’ ETC.

WITH A MAP
AND ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN ILLUSTRATIONS

SECOND EDITION, REVISED

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY

56 PATERNOSTER ROW, 65 ST. PAUL’S CHURCHYARD
AND 164 PICCADILLY
1893

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PREFACE

Although the discoveries which are related in this volume have beenalready published, yet there is to be considered the large number ofreaders who feed in the intermediate regions between the arid highlandsand mountain ascents of scientific memoirs, and the lush—not to sayrank—marsh-meadows of the novel and literature of amusement.

Those, then, who wish to grasp the substance of the results, without theprecision of the details, are the public for whom this is written; and Itrust that, out of consideration for their feelings, hardly a singlemeasurement or rigid statement can be found here from cover to cover.Any one who wants detail can find it in the various annual volumes whichhave already appeared. Several of the finest objects found appear here,however, for the first time in illustration; for having been kept inEgypt I only had photographs to work from, which were, as yet, unused.

The work described here is not by any means all that has occupied mytime in these years; much exploring has also been done, and dozens ofancient{2}...