Records of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's excavations of the late Roman and early Byzantine sites in the Kharga Oasis, 1907-1989 (bulk 1907-1932)

Format:

Other

Contributor:

Winlock, Herbert E., 1884-1950.

Evelyn-White, Hugh G. (Hugh Gerard), 1884-1924.

Wilkinson, Charles Kyrle, 1897-1986.

Lythgoe, Albert M. (Albert Morton), 1868-1934.

Hauser, Walter.

Davies, Norman de Garis, 1865-1941.

Hayes, William Christopher, 1903-1963.

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916.

Parlasca, Klaus.

Fakhry, Ahmed.

Hill, Marsha, 1949-

Egypt. Maṣlaḥat al-Āthār.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Department of Egyptian Art.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Egyptian Expedition.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Egyptian Expedition.

Temple of Hibis (Egypt).

Inscriptions, Greek--Egypt--Kharga (Oasis).

Kharga (Egypt : Oasis).

Bagawat Site (Egypt).

Genre:

Architectural drawings.

Field notes.

Finding aids.

Glass plate negatives.

Notebooks.

Photographs.

Site plans.

Sketchbooks.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (14.54 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize flat box, 15 custom photoboxes))

Place of Publication:

1907-1989

Language Note:

English and French.

Summary:

The Records of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Excavations of the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Sites in the Kharga Oasis collection comprises administrative paperwork; concession papers; correspondence; field notes; glass plate negatives; large-scale architectural drawings, site plans, and tracings; photographs (attached to boards and loose); and sketches documenting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s excavations of late Roman and early Byzantine sites (primarily the Bagawat necropolis, Ain et-Turba, and later construction at the Temple of Amun at Hibis) in the northern district of the Kharga Oasis.

In 1907, the Antiquities Service of the Egyptian Government granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Egyptian Expedition a concession to survey and excavate in the northern district of the Kharga Oasis, located about 400 miles southwest of Cairo and 120 miles west of Thebes. The Kharga concession included multiple sites of interest —the well-known Hibis and Nadura temples and the Bagawat necropolis as well as numerous Roman and Early Byzantine structures. It was this concentration of sites dating to the later periods of Egyptian history that attracted the MMA. Writing in the May 1908 Bulletin (volume 3, numbers 5), Albert M. Lythgoe (1868–1934), the MMA’s first curator of Egyptian art and director of the Egyptian Expedition, stated that the concession was sought "in order to take advantage of the favorable conditions…for the investigation of the remains of the later period—Greco-Roman and Early Christian" (pages 84).

OCLC:

932391426

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access