Habachi Labib. Tell Basta

Institut français d'archéologie orientale, 1957. — 188 p. — (Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte 22).The present volume gives the result of our excavations and stud y made in Tell Basta and the environs during about three months in 1939 and seven months in 1943-1944. During that interval of time we were able to discover a temple of Pepi I dedicated to Bastet with many an interesting object mostly dating hack to later periods. In the Great Temple discovered by Naville in 1887-1889, we studied its different parts, in order to establish its original form and give a description of some of its blocks which were unproperly published by the Swiss Egyptologist or even not published at all. Outside Pepi Temple and the Great Temple we worked for a short time, the result ·was the discovery of some statues and traces of a Roman temple in the area round the Great Temple and a family tomb of the XXth Dynasty in the mound about 200 metres in the north of this latter temple.