Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has conducted scientific research in Egypt and the Sudan since the early 1900s, when George A. Reisner began work at the Giza necropolis. The study and publication of the MFA’s excavations continue to this day, with the ongoing Giza Mastaba series.
In addition to the titles listed below, the Museum publishes exhibition catalogues and handbooks that are distributed direct from Boston. More information about these titles may be obtained at the MFA's homepage (www.mfa.org).
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Studies in Ancient Egypt, Aegean and the Sudan: Essays in Honor of Dows Dunham
by William Kelly Simpson and W M Davis
This festschrift contains 29 scholarly articles in honour of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's curator Dows Dunham. Topics range from Egypt, to Nubia, to the Aegean world. 226p, 143 b/w pls, 3 col pls, many b/w illus (Museum of Fine Arts in ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £14.95
Excavations at Kerma, Part VI
by Dows Dunham
This volume includes the subsidiary Nubian graves excavated by George Reisner in 1915-16, not included in Kerma I-III and IV-V. 270p, 225 b/w pls, many b/w illus (Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 1982)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £6.95
Giza Mastabas VII: The Senedjemib Complex Part I
by Edward Brovarski, edited by Peter der Manuelian and William Kelly Simpson
This two-volume study of the Senedjemib Complex at Giza by Edward Borovarski owes a great debt to the work of Richard Lepsius in the mid-19th century and George A Reisner who excavated there in the early 20th century. The tombs of Senedjemib Inti (G2370), Khnumenti (G2374) and Senedjemib Mahi (G2378) which form the focus of this publication are three of the largest tombs in the complex, located at the northwest corner of the Great Pyramid. ...
Hardback. Publisher's Price GB £150.00, Our Price GB £65.00
Giza Mastabas VIII: Mastabas of Nucleus Cemetery G 2100, Part 1: Major Mastabas G 2100-2220
by Peter Der Manuelian
West of the Great Pyramid at Giza, the Fourth Dynasty pharaoh Khufu laid out scores of mastaba tombs for the elite members of ancient Egyptian society. Specific clusters of tombs seem to form architectural and archaeological units, prompting the modern division of the Giza Necropolis into discrete nucleus cemeteries. This book interprets the complete archaeological record of the mastabas of Cemetery G 2100, one of the six nucleus cemeteries at ...
Hardback. Price GB £100.00
Bersheh Reports I
edited by D P Silverman
This cemetery on the east bank of the Nile is a vast site with a long history from the Predynastic Period through the Coptic era. This volume summarises the 1990 season of the Bersheh Expedition. 92p, 40 b/w pls, 17 b/w figs (Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 1992)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £25.00, Our Price GB £6.95
Offering Chapel of Kayemnofret in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by William Kelly Simpson
Publication of a fifth dynasty offering chapel from Saqqara purchased from the Egyptian Government in 1904. 42p, 73 b/w pls, b/w figs (Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 1992)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £7.95
Offering Chapel of Sekhemankhptah in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
by William Kelly Simpson
Publication of a fifth dynasty chapel from Saqqara puchased from the Egyptian Government in 1904. 26p, 37 b/w pls, b/w illus (Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 1976)
Paperback. Price GB £12.95
Papyrus Reisner IV. Personnel Accounts of the Early Twelfth Dynasty
by William Kelly Simpson
The Final volume in the publication of the Middle Kingdom papyri discovered in a tomb at Naga ed-Deir, with transcription and commentary, and indices to all four volumes. 48p, 26 b/w pls, 17 b/w figs (Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 1986)
Hardback. Price GB £55.00
Table of Offerings: 17 years of collecting Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
by William Kelly Simpson
This publication includes fifty-two objects that were acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts' Egyptian Department under the curatorship of William Kelly Simpson. 59 b/w pls, 4 col pls (Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 1987)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £10.00, Our Price GB £3.95
Giza au premier millénaire. Autour du temple d'Isis dame des Pyramides
by Christiane M Zivie-Coche
Publication of the Late Period Isis Temple in the Eastern Cemetery, along with a large number of Late Period objects relating to the history of Giza Necropolis. 362p, 49 b/w pls, 31 b/w figs (Museum of Fine Arts in Boston 1991)
Paperback. Publisher's Price GB £35.00, Our Price GB £6.95
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