Tombs of the Courties and Oxyrhynkhos
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Tombs of the Courties and Oxyrhynkhos


I have blogged this document before but I think it has been a couple of years. The graves occupants seem to have moved during burial definitely one of my favorites by Sir Flinders Petrie.

http://www.etana.org/coretexts/15142.pdf




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