The royal tombs of the first dynasty, 1900-1901
This is an 1900 excavation report by W. M. Flinders Petrie, published in London and Boston by the Egypt Exploration Fund for archaeologists and Egyptologists, documenting first dynasty royal tombs at Abydos. Its plates show line drawings and photographs of seal impressions, ivory tablets and inscribed stone vessels, with hieroglyph-like signs in tidy rows and rectangular frames that a designer could adapt for ancient-script motifs, borders or texture.
