The royal tombs of the first dynasty, 1900-1901
The Royal Tombs of the First Dynasty, 1900-1901 is an archaeological excavation report by W. M. Flinders Petrie, published in London and Boston by Trubner & Co. in 1900, documenting finds at the ancient city of Abydos in Egypt for scholars and specialists. Its plates show grey limestone vessels drawn as flat, evenly shaded silhouettes with numbered labels, and a page of scattered pottery marks, rendered as dense rows of simple linear symbols that a designer could draw on for pattern, glyph-like motifs, or minimal line icons.
