BOURIANT AT AMARNA: AN ALMOST FORGOTTEN FRENCH MISSION
steward of Queen Tiye is shown facing towards the shrine and accompanied by prayers. By comparison, the drawings of Bouriant and his team give us additional details overlooked by Davies, presumably due to damage and deterioration that occurred between the two missions. Despite some issues with accuracy, these drawings and archival material testify, in so many ways, to a past now irretrievably gone.
• Delphine Driaux is an Affiliated Scholar at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in Cambridge and current member of the Amarna Project directed by Prof. Barry Kemp. The author would like to thank the Egypt Exploration Society for funding this study. Many thanks to Nadine Cherpion, former archive keeper of the Institut français d’archéologie orientale (IFAO) in Cairo for her support, and to her assistant, Mazen Essam. The author is also indebted to Emmanuel Jambon, who brought the existence of the two letters written by Legrain to her attention, and to Anna Stevens. Thanks are finally due to Hélène Carrère d’Encausse, secrétaire perpétuel of the Académie Française and the Committee of Libraries and Archives of the Institut de France for the permission to quote from Legrain’s letter.
Above: watercolour. Detail of the chariot driven by the Queen. Tomb of Meryra (no. 4). Image: IFAO.
Left: folder containing the drawings and one watercolour made in the tomb of Parennefer (no. 4). Photo: Delphine Driaux. EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY ISSUE NO 49 AUTUMN 2016
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