Rhind, Alexander Henry: Thebes, its tombs and their tenants, ancient and present (London, 1862)

site op the tomb oe a theban dignitary. 77

CHAP. IV.

the tjnrifled tomb of a theban dignitary, and
its contents.

Divided into several working parties, I employed my
men simultaneously in the various distriets of the
Necropolis — one body in the Valley of the Tombs of
the Kings; another at El Drah-aboo-Neggeh, the
western extremity of the vast cemetery of the city;
another in the direction of Goornet Murrawee, the
eastern extremity; another in El Assasseef; and for an-
other, after various imperfect results in the same neigh-
bourhood, I bad selected what appeared a promising
point nearly at the foot of El Shekh Abd-el-Goorneh.
This well known hill, projecting and isolated by deep
ravines from the mountain range of the Desert, rising
steeply and almost pyramidally, as is indeed the typical
geologic outline in that region, and standing centrally
in advance, breaking the sweep of the valley, forms
the most prominent feature in the Necropolis of Thebes.
Its rocky face, from base to summit, is pierced with