The project of surveying, excavating, recording and preserving the site
of El-Hawawish, the cemetery of Akhmim, capital of the ninth province of
Upper Egypt, was completed in 1992. This book complements the published
series on the rock tombs, and attempts to reconsider the chronology of
the officials of UE. 9 and other Upper Egyptian provinces, the dates for
many of which differ from those currrently accepted. Whilst
concentrating on chronology as well as on civil and religious
administration, the book also draws on an analysis of various other
aspects such as art, architecture, colour conventions, palaeography,
stelae, coffins and pottery.