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PBEFACE.
The Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund, taking advantage of the
liberal offer of Mr. J. J. Tylor to place at their disposal a selection of his
drawings from the tombs of El Kab, decided to provide the subscribers with
a complete delineation of that of Paheri, one of the most representative
examples existing of its period (the middle of the XVIIIth Dynasty). Not-
withstanding that numerous details from the tomb have already appeared
in the great works on Egyptian monuments, there has never been any
approach to a complete publication of the scenes and inscriptions.
Mr. Tylor's materials lent to the Society for this purpose were—
(1) An admirable collection of photographs, the negatives of which were
taken for him by Mr. Harold Roller in 1892. They are as follows, all except
the first four being to the scale of one-sixth actual size :—
View of the interior of the tomb, from the entrance.
Two views of the facade, and one of the side wall, scale 1 : 16.
Two photographs of the fragment that remains of the front wall.
A series of fourteen photographs of the left side of the main chamber.
A similar series of the right side.
A series of seven, of the inscriptions on the back wall.
(2) Tracings of the scenes on the sides of the niche, which could not be
photographed.
(3) Annotated copies of the above photographs.
(4) Drawings based on enlargements (to nearly double the scale) of most
of the photographs of the scenes. These enlargements were made in order to
serve as a basis for Mr. Tylor's own edition de luxe.
The plates in the present volume were prepared as follows : —
Pis. vi., vii., and the inscription on the back wall in pi. ix., were first
traced from the original photographs by a draughtsman, and then carefully
corrected and completed. The drawing of the statues on pi. ix. is derived
from that in Lepsius' Denkm'aler.
The Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund, taking advantage of the
liberal offer of Mr. J. J. Tylor to place at their disposal a selection of his
drawings from the tombs of El Kab, decided to provide the subscribers with
a complete delineation of that of Paheri, one of the most representative
examples existing of its period (the middle of the XVIIIth Dynasty). Not-
withstanding that numerous details from the tomb have already appeared
in the great works on Egyptian monuments, there has never been any
approach to a complete publication of the scenes and inscriptions.
Mr. Tylor's materials lent to the Society for this purpose were—
(1) An admirable collection of photographs, the negatives of which were
taken for him by Mr. Harold Roller in 1892. They are as follows, all except
the first four being to the scale of one-sixth actual size :—
View of the interior of the tomb, from the entrance.
Two views of the facade, and one of the side wall, scale 1 : 16.
Two photographs of the fragment that remains of the front wall.
A series of fourteen photographs of the left side of the main chamber.
A similar series of the right side.
A series of seven, of the inscriptions on the back wall.
(2) Tracings of the scenes on the sides of the niche, which could not be
photographed.
(3) Annotated copies of the above photographs.
(4) Drawings based on enlargements (to nearly double the scale) of most
of the photographs of the scenes. These enlargements were made in order to
serve as a basis for Mr. Tylor's own edition de luxe.
The plates in the present volume were prepared as follows : —
Pis. vi., vii., and the inscription on the back wall in pi. ix., were first
traced from the original photographs by a draughtsman, and then carefully
corrected and completed. The drawing of the statues on pi. ix. is derived
from that in Lepsius' Denkm'aler.