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An Amarna-period ostracon from the Valley of the Kings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Nicholas Reeves
Nicholas Reeves*
Affiliation:
Myers Museum of Egyptian and Classical Art, Eton College, Windsor SL4 6DW, England, [email protected]
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The Amarna Royal Tombs Project (ARTP) initiated its programme of archaeological survey and excavation in the central part of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings in November 1998, and has now completed three successive seasons of work under the joint field-direction of Nicholas Reeves and Geoffrey T. Martin. The emphasis to date has been on the documentation and investigation of the ancient settlements which once occupied much of the central Valley — those neglected ‘workmen’s huts’ which previous excavators have occasionally noted, sometimes ‘cleared’, and more rarely planned. A particular focus of ARTP’s work has been that area of settlement located between tombs KV 56 (‘The Gold Tomb’) and KV 9 (Ramesses VI), which in the early years of the 20th century was partially explored both by Theodore Davis (who left little record: cf. Davis 1908: 31) and by Howard Carter (Carter & Mace 1923: 87; cf. Reeves 1990a: plate XIV Reeves & Wilkinson 1996: 84). The greater part of this restricted site — a good deal of its archaeology still intact, despite earlier sondages — has now been excavated down to bedrock, with intriguing results.

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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 289 , September 2001 , pp. 501 - 502
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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