The fort cemetery at Hierakonpolis : excavated by John Garstang

In 1905, John Garstang held a concession to dig at Hierakonpolis on behalf of the Liverpool University Excavations Committee. He published a brief report, which described further excavations within the temple and town enclosure of Nekhen, following those of Quibell and Green (1900 and 1902). During his first season the ground had been too hard to continue work in the town site, so he turned his attention to the area of the mud brick "Fort" (on the north side of the entrance to the Great ~'Vadi, or AbulSuffian. Within the Fort he excavated a Predynastic cemetery of some 188 graves, but only illustrated and mentioned a few of the artifacts from them in his preliminary report. In the second season at the site, Harold Jones continued the trench in the temple area at the town site of Nekhen, finding, among other objects, the head of the lapis lazuli figure (Ash.El057) which had been discovered by Quibell in 1898, and Garstang went further south to dig and survey. There are unpublished miscellaneous objects from the work of Garstang and Jones at Nekhen in Liverpool, in both the University and Merseyside collections, the most notable being an ivory tube in the latter museum with the incised depiction of an early shrine, published by a former Keeper. This present work concentrates on the objects from the Predynastic cemetery beneath the Fort. First published in 1988. Following up on a previous visit in the 1970s to the site of Hierakonpolis this publication records the work of the author from the 1980s to 1986 when she was part of the research team. This work concentrates on the cemetery excavated within the mud brick Fort at the opening of the Great Hadi. First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Barbara Adams, With A Contribution By Michael A. Hoffmann. Bibliography: P. 253-258.