Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones

By Henry Frederick Lutz

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1927.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived

• Language: English
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Release date: Dec 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9780520351783

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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS

EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY. VOLUME IV

EGYPTIAN TOMB STELES

AND

OFFERING STONES

OF THE

MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOLOGY

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

BY

HENRY FREDERICK LUTZ

WITH I ILLUSTRATION AND 49 PLATES (2 COLOURED)

LEIPZIG

J. C. HINRICHS’SCHE BUCHHANDLUNG

1927

Printed in Germany.

Druck von August Pries in Leipzig.

INTRODUCTION.

The importance of the archeological material here presented lies in two facts: first, most of it comes from three distinct sites, Gizeh, Naga ed-Dêr, and Dêr el-Ballâs, and second, the various groups belong to certain definite periods, so that they afford a clear insight into the art anp workmanship of the different places. The Naga ed-Dêr material, which follows the Gizeh material, incidentally brings out more emphatically the beauty of the art of Gizeh. The material represents part of the results of the excavations carried on by the Hearst expedition of the