Site: Tarkhan
Excavator: W. M. Flinders Petrie
Years of excavation: 1911-12
Publications:
- W M. Flinders Petrie, G.A. Wainwright, B.A., A.H. Gardiner, D. Litt., Tarkhan I and Memphis V, London 1913
- W.M. Flinders Petrie, Tarkhan II, London 1914
- W.M. Flinders Petrie, Heliopolis, Kafr Ammar and Shurafa, London 1915
Further reading:
- Ellis 1992:
passim (tomb size and contents analysis)
- Ellis 1996: passim
(reworked tomb size and contents analysis)
- Ellis 1999:
passim (a short introduction to the site)
- Hendrickx 1996:
59-63, fig. 3 (on the chronology of the cemetery)
- Seidlmayer 1988:
32-33, 38-41 (tomb size analysis, critical review of the methods of Petrie)
- Wilkinson 1996:
32, 43-47, 72-74, 110-112 (pottery seriation analysis of the cemetery)
- Wilkinson 1999: 9, pl.
1.3 (photo of the site today),
On the cemetery after the Early Dynastic period:
- Aston 1996: 35-36 (on the dating
of the Late Period tombs)
- Harvey 2001: 386-387 (A49) (on
an Old Kingdom wooden statue found at Kafr Ammar)
The Finds:
The finds from Tarkhan went to different collections, see the distribution list
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