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  title info:
    title: Tomb robberies at the end of the New Kingdom
    sub title: the Gurob Burnt Groups reinterpreted
  name:
    name part: Gasperini, Valentina
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: At the end of the 19th century W.M.F. Petrie excavated a series of assemblages at the New Kingdom Fayum site of Gurob. These deposits, known in the Egyptological literature as 'Burnt Groups,' were composed by several and varied materials (mainly Egyptian and imported pottery, faience, stone and wood vessels and jewellery), all deliberately burnt and buried in the harem palace area of the settlement. Since their discovery these deposits have been considered peculiar and unparalleled. Many scholars were challenged by them and different theories were formulated to explain these enigmatic 'Burnt Groups.' The materials excavated from these assemblages are now curated at several museum collections across England, including the Ashmolean Museum, British Museum, Manchester Museum and Petrie Museum. For the first time since their discovery, this book presents these materials all together. Gasperini has studied and visually analyzed all the items. This research sheds new light on the chronology of deposition of these assemblages, additionally a new interpretation of their nature, primary deposition, and function is presented in the conclusive chapter.
  note: Valentina Gasperini.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-318) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ua---
  subject:
    topic: Excavations (Archaeology)
    geographic: Egypt
  subject:
    topic: Grave robbing
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: Antiquities
  subject:
    geographic: Gurob (Extinct city)
  classification: DT73.G85 G37 2018
  classification: 932/.014
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in Egyptian archaeology
  identifier: 9780198818786
  identifier: 0198818785
  identifier: 2017962350
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 180525
    record change date: 20181024084148.0
    record identifier: in00004036249