Facsimile edition of the 1974 reissue of Flinders Petrie’s 1896 account of the excavation, mainly, of tombs in the area around Ballas and Naqada on the edge of the Egyptian desert, 30 miles north of Thebes. Several areas of the ancient towns of Deir and Nubt, the latter identified as the center of Set worship, and more tombs were investigated. At each cemetery, traditionally furnished Old and Middle Kingdom tombs were examined and many proved to have been plundered and reused in antiquity. Petrie named these later burials as of a New Race and describes them in detail at Ballas and Naqada. A collection of mostly Palaeolithic flint artifacts is also described.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION. (P.)
• i. The site of work
• ii. Organisation of work
• iii. The record of results
• iv. Assistance in England
• CHAPTER I. (Q.) THE CEMETERIES OF BALLAS.
• 1. Around Deir
• 2. Work at Ballas
• 3. The North Town
• 4. Burials in North Town
• 5. Mastabas of IVth–VIth dynasties
• 6. Contracted burials of IVth dynasty
• 7. Staircase tombs
• CHAPTER II. (Q.) SELECTED EGYPTIAN TOMBS, BALLAS.
• 8. Details of staircase tombs, IVth dynasty
• 9. „ „ well tombs, IVth dynasty
• 10. Burials in earth, IVth dynasty
• 11. Façade tombs, XIIth dynasty
• 12. Inscription of Tahuti, XIIIth dynasty
• CHAPTER III. (Q.) PRODUCTS OF THE NEW RACE, BALLAS.
• 13. Discovery of the graves
• 14. The course of excavation
• 15. Mutilation of the bodies
• 16. Arrangement of graves
• 17. Slate palettes
• 18. Toilet objects
• 19. Stone vases
• 20. Pottery making
• 21. Incised marks
• 22. The rough pottery
• 23. Wavy-handled vases
• 24. Red and black pottery
• 25. Decorated pottery
• 26. Late pottery
• 27. Incised and white-painted pottery
• 28. Positions of pottery
• 29. Human figures
• 30. The game
• 31. Ivory and maces
• 32. Copper objects
• 33. Lamps
• CHAPTER IV. (Q.) SELECTED GRAVES OF THE NEW RACE, BALLAS.
• 34. Graves drawn, Pls. III–V
• 35. Graves not drawn
• CHAPTER V. (Q.) SUMMARY OF BALLAS.
• 36. Date of foreign burials
• 37. Summary of burials found
• CHAPTER VI. (P.) CEMETERY OF THE NEW RACE, NAQADA. THE DRAWN GRAVES.
• 38. Nature of Graves
• 39. Graves with coffin, T. 4
• 40. „ „ scooped bones, T. 5
• 41. „ T. 14 to No. I. 263
• 42. Grave 271, ivory figures
• 43. Graves 283–880
• CHAPTER VII. (P.) NOTABLE GRAVES, NAQADA.
• 44. Graves in B. cemetery
• 45. „ „ T. „
• 46. Graves 1 to 286
• 47. „ 326 to 878
• 48. „ 1037 to 1488
• 49. „ 1507 to 1918
• 50. Positions of objects
• CHAPTER VIII. (P.) DETAILS OF BURIALS, NAQADA.
• 51. General system of burials
• 52. Treatment of skulls
• 53. Treatment of bodies
• 54. Anthropophagy indicated
• 55. Untenable suggestions
• CHAPTER IX. (P. & Q.) DESCRIPTION OF PLATES.
• 56. Maps, Pls. I, I A
• 57. Figures and games, Pls. VI, VII
• 58. Stone vases, Pls. VIII–XVII
• 59. Local pottery, Pls. XVIII–XXIX
• 60. Imported pottery, Pls. XXX–XXXVI
• 61. Rough and later pottery, Pls. XXXVII–XLIII
• 62. Egyptian pottery, Pls. XLIV–XLVI
• 63. Slate palettes, Pls. XLVII–L
• 64. Marks on pottery, Pls. LI–LVII
• 65. Beads, etc., Pl. LVIII
• 66. Human figures, Pl. LIX
• 67. Animal figures, Pl. LX
• 68. Ivory carvings, Pls. LXI–LXIV
• 69. Implements of copper, etc., Pl. LXV
• 70. Paintings on pottery, Pls. LXVI, LXVII
• 71. Palaeolithic flints, Pls. LXVIII, LXXVI
• 72. Nile gravel flints, Pls. LXIX, LXXVI
• 73. Ballas desert flints, Pl. LXX
• 74. New Race Town flints, Pl. LXXI
• 75. New Race grave flints, Pl. LXXII–LXXVI
• 76. Stone implements, Pl. LXXV
• 77. Ivory handle, and lintel of Tahutmes I, Pl. LXXVII
• 78. Skulls of New Race, capacities, Pl. LXXXIV
• 79. Female small skulls
• 80. Length and breadth ratio
• 81. Prognathous ratio
• 82. Algerian dolmen skulls
• 83. Relation of New Race to Algerian skulls
• 84. Nubt and Southern Town plan, Pl. LXXXV
• 85. The great cemetery plan, Pl. LXXXVI
• 86. Weights
• CHAPTER X. FLINT IMPLEMENTS OF NAQADA.
• 87. The Palaeoliths
• 88. Implements of Alien Race
• 89. Large flake knives
• 90. Flat-worked knives
• 91. Forked javelin heads
• 92. Rings
• CHAPTER XI. CONCLUSIONS. (P.)
• 93. Extent of foreign invasion
• 94. Separation from Egyptians
• 95. Date of foreign occupation
• 96. Expulsion of Egyptians
• 97. Characteristics of the invaders
• 98. Connections with Syria
• 99. Western connections
• 100. Libyan connections
• 101. The Libyan invasions
• 102. Libyans and Amorites
• 103. Punic settlements
• CHAPTER XII. NUBT, THE TOWN OF SET. (P.)
• 104. Nubt, Ombos
• 105. Pyramid and Tumuli
• 106. IVth dynasty pottery
• 107. XIIth dynasty remains
• 108. Gold measures
• 109. Building of XVIIIth dynasty
• 110. Statue of Sennefer
• 111. XVIIIth dynasty tombs
• 112. XIXth dynasty burial
• 113. XIXth–XXth dynasty building