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W. M. Flinders Petrie. Ten years' digging in Egypt, 1881-1891
Ten years' digging in Egypt, 1881-1891
Table of Contents
PREFACE
KINGS AND DYNASTIES NAMED IN THIS VOLUME
CHAPTER I. THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZEH. 1881–2
CHAPTER II. TANIS. 1884
CHAPTER III. NAUKRATIS. 1885
CHAPTER IV. DAPHNAE—TAHPANHES. 1886
CHAPTER V. NEBESHEH. 1886
CHAPTER VI. UP THE NILE. 1887
CHAPTER VII. HAWARA. 1888
CHAPTER VIII. ILLAHUN. 1889–90
CHAPTER IX. GUROB. 1889–90
CHAPTER X. MEDUM. 1891
CHAPTER XI. THE FRESH LIGHT ON THE PAST
CHAPTER XII. THE ART OF EXCAVATING
CHAPTER XIII. THE FELLAH
CHAPTER XIV. THE ACTIVE TRIPPER IN EGYPT
ADDENDA TO BAEDECKER’S VOCABULARY
INDEX (Including a reference to each Illustration.)
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W. M. Flinders Petrie
Published by Good Press, 2019
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the most usual tools was the tubular drill, and this was also set with fixed cutting points; I have a core from inside a drill hole, broken away in the working, which shows the spiral grooves produced by the cutting points as they sunk down into the material; this is of red granite, and there has been no flinching or jumping of the tool; every crystal, quartz, or felspar, has been cut through in the most equable way, with a clean irresistible cut. An engineer, who knows such work with diamond drills as well as any one, said to me, ‘I should be proud to turn out such a finely cut core now;’ and truth to tell, modern drill cores cannot hold a candle to the Egyptians; by the side of the ancient work they look wretchedly scraped out and irregular. That such hard cutting points were known and used is proved by clean cut fine hieroglyphs on diorite, engraved without a trace of scraping; and by the lathe work, of which I found pieces of turned bowls with the tool lines on them, and positive proof that the surface had not been ground out. The lathe tools were fixed as in modern times, to sweep regular arcs from a centre; and the work is fearless and powerful, as in a flat diorite table with foot, turned in one piece; and also surpassingly delicate, as in a bowl of diorite, which around the body is only as thick as stout card. The great granite sarcophagi were sawn outside, and hollowed by cutting rows of tube drill holes, as may be seen in the great pyramid. No doubt much hammer-dressing was also used, as in all periods; but the fine work shows the marks of just such tools as we have only now re-invented. We can thus understand, far more than before, how the marvellous works of the Egyptians were executed; and further insight only shows plainer the true skill and ability of which they were masters in the earliest times that we can trace.
