The Egypt Exploration Society
No. 26 Spring 2005
PRICE £4.95
Reprint
The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna (Archaeological Survey Memoirs 13-18)
The EES has reprinted all six volumes of Norman de Garis Davies’ The Rock Tombs of el-Amarna, which have been out of print for many years. Each volume includes two of the original series. Between 1902 and 1907 Norman de Garis Davies, working under the auspices of the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society), conducted a comprehensive architectural and epigraphic survey of the tombs of Akhenaten’s courtiers, in the cliffs and wadis around the site of Tell elAmarna in Middle Egypt. This pharaoh’s reign, which began in approximately 1353 BC, was a time of great religious and political upheaval, and saw the foundation, at Amarna, of an entirely new capital city, Akhetaten. It was also a time of great innovation and change in art, not least in the style and content of scenes carved in two dimensions. This change is abundantly evident in the surviving wall decoration in these tombs, which Davies captured so skillfully, and which was then made available to the scholarly world and the wider public through the six-volume publication resulting from his work.
Each of the reprinted volumes includes a new preface by Barry Kemp, Director of the current EES fieldwork and research at Amarna, with colour cover photographs by the expedition photographer, Gwilym Owen.
Full Price: £40 per volume, or £110 for the set of three EES Members’ price: £35 per volume, or £95 for the set of three
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