Titres & collections livres électroniques Revues eCSCO

 

In February 1925, a Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston team, working on the Giza Plateau under the direction of Dr George Andrew Reisner, discovered the tomb of Queen Hetepheres I, the wife of the pharaoh Snefru and the mother of Khufu.
The tomb contained the Queen’s furniture that had been made from wooden parts that were covered with thin sheets of precious metal. During the many centuries of burial, the wood had mostly decayed to a fine dust, leaving the metal coverings and inlays that had been attached to the furniture now scattered on the floor of the tomb.
William Arnold Stewart was employed to reconstruct the furniture and the edited documents in this volume comprise the first draft of a manuscript that Stewart prepared for publication between 1947 and his death in 1953. The manuscript includes an introduction to the project and a series of chapters and drawings that discuss each piece of furniture he rebuilt. A detailed diary from 28 September 1927 to 23 January 1930 provides vivid detail of the execution and progress of the work day-to-day in his small workshop at Giza.