Documenting Elkab

Progress Reports

Contributions by W. Vivian Davies

Book cover: Documenting Elkab

Extent: 144 pages

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2024)

ISBN: 9781803278995

7.99 x 10.87 inches

Price: $49.00

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This volume details the Oxford Epigraphic Expedition’s recent work (2017-2020, 2022) on the pharaonic monuments of Elkab, focusing on the main rock-necropolis tombs, and Coptic ostraca from Hagr Edfu. It includes five reports and bibliographies of earlier studies at both sites.


This volume presents a selective account of the Oxford Epigraphic Expedition to Upper Egypt’s progress over recent seasons (largely seasons 2017-2020, 2022). It comprises five reports, the first four devoted to the results of the on-going documentation of the pharaonic monuments of Elkab, especially the tombs of the main rock-necropolis, and the fifth to Coptic ostraca (with unusual content) from the related site of Hagr Edfu, now stored in the Antiquities Magazine at Elkab. The numerous published reports on earlier seasons of work at both sites are listed in the bibliographies within.

Preface - W. Vivian Davies Documenting Elkab: the pharaonic tombs - W. Vivian Davies The visitor-inscription of Reneny in the tomb of Sobeknakht II at Elkab - Robert J. Demaree A corpus of decorated fragments from Elkab - Susanne Woodhouse The late reuse of the tomb of Reneny through its demotic graffiti: a fieldwork report - Luigi Prada Two Coptic ostraca from Hagr Edfu - Anke I. Blobaum Plans - Gunter Heindl Photographs - James Rossiter,

Preface – W. Vivian Davies

Documenting Elkab: the pharaonic tombs – W. Vivian Davies

The visitor-inscription of Reneny in the tomb of Sobeknakht II at Elkab – Robert J. Demarée

A corpus of decorated fragments from Elkab – Susanne Woodhouse

The late reuse of the tomb of Reneny through its demotic graffiti: a fieldwork report – Luigi Prada

Two Coptic ostraca from Hagr Edfu – Anke I. Blöbaum

Plans – Günter Heindl

Photographs – James Rossiter

  • Contributions by W. Vivian Davies