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Derry, Douglas Erith: Field notes
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FIELD NOTES.
By Dr. D. E. DERRY.
Between Cemetery 79, which was the last one considered in
Bulletin No. 3, and Cemetery 85, nothing of any importance was
discovered. The only patch of interest, Cemetery 80, contained a
small number of graves directly to the south of Cemetery 79, and in
reality represented a part of the latter. There were only three adult
burials, and these belonged, as in Cemetery 79, to the late predynastic
or early dynastic period. A photographic record of these bodies was
obtained by Dr. Reisner, and also of many in Cemetery 79 which were
too fragile to handle or measure.
Cemetery 85.
This consisted of a large number of graves of Roman and early
Christian date. Only a limited number of the former were opened,
and the bodies in the majority of these were examined.
Nothing of any special interest was revealed. The type was
that styled Nubian hitherto, with definite negroid traits in the case
of the females. Earlier in the season we labelled such types " Negroid
Nubian."
One archaic body, the only complete one of a small group of graves
on the top of the mud knoll, was examined and completely measured.
It conformed in all particulars to the archaic bodies of the early
cemeteries or to the C-group, but, as it was of the orthognathous type
rather than the slightly prognathous, it was recorded as of the pre-
dynastic type. This does not, however, in any way exclude its
association with the Nubian type, amongst which many similar orthog-
nathous faces are found, and which appears to be identical with that
known as predynastic Egyptian.
Cemetery 86.
The bodies were contained in mud maghraras, and were most of
them mummified ; in some cases they were stuffed with linen through
the usual abdominal opening, and had the ethmoid perforation in the
roof of the nose, made for the purpose of removing the brain ; others
FIELD NOTES.
By Dr. D. E. DERRY.
Between Cemetery 79, which was the last one considered in
Bulletin No. 3, and Cemetery 85, nothing of any importance was
discovered. The only patch of interest, Cemetery 80, contained a
small number of graves directly to the south of Cemetery 79, and in
reality represented a part of the latter. There were only three adult
burials, and these belonged, as in Cemetery 79, to the late predynastic
or early dynastic period. A photographic record of these bodies was
obtained by Dr. Reisner, and also of many in Cemetery 79 which were
too fragile to handle or measure.
Cemetery 85.
This consisted of a large number of graves of Roman and early
Christian date. Only a limited number of the former were opened,
and the bodies in the majority of these were examined.
Nothing of any special interest was revealed. The type was
that styled Nubian hitherto, with definite negroid traits in the case
of the females. Earlier in the season we labelled such types " Negroid
Nubian."
One archaic body, the only complete one of a small group of graves
on the top of the mud knoll, was examined and completely measured.
It conformed in all particulars to the archaic bodies of the early
cemeteries or to the C-group, but, as it was of the orthognathous type
rather than the slightly prognathous, it was recorded as of the pre-
dynastic type. This does not, however, in any way exclude its
association with the Nubian type, amongst which many similar orthog-
nathous faces are found, and which appears to be identical with that
known as predynastic Egyptian.
Cemetery 86.
The bodies were contained in mud maghraras, and were most of
them mummified ; in some cases they were stuffed with linen through
the usual abdominal opening, and had the ethmoid perforation in the
roof of the nose, made for the purpose of removing the brain ; others