27. Lepsius (1853): 51.
28. Lepsius (1853): 54.
29. Lepsius (1853): 69 (Letter from Saqqara, 13 April 1843).
30. Lepsius (1853): 80 (Letter from Cairo, 22 April 1843).
31. Lepsius (1853): 87 (Letter from the Labyrinth, 31 May 1843).
32. Lepsius (1853): 103.
33. Letter from Memphis, quoted in Ebers (1887): 146.
34. Wilkinson (1843): 264.
35. Reid (2002): 46.
36. Lepsius (1853): 17.
37. Lepsius (1853): 17.
38. Lepsius day book 12°, Nr. VII, 172, quoted in Rainer (1988): 59.
39. Lepsius (1853): 133 (Letter from the Blue Nile, Province of Sennar, Lat. 13°, 2 March 1844).
40. Letter from Thebes, 24 November 1844, quoted in Ebers (1887): 159.
41. Lepsius (1853): 20.
42. Lepsius (1853): 271 (Letter from Thebes, 25 February 1845).
43. Quoted in Freier (1988): 105.
44. The tomb chapels of Merib (Giza), Metjen and Manofer (Saqqara).
45. Lepsius (1853): 26.
46. Lepsius (1853): 28.
47. Lepsius (1853): 29.
48. Lepsius (1853): 32.
49. Bonomi and Arundale (1842–3): 1.
50. Ebers (1887): 189.
51. Lepsius (1853): 7.
52. Quoted in Rainer (1988): 40–1, n.27.
53. Auguste Mariette, quoted in Ebers (1887): 168.
54. Ebers (1887): 171.
55. The very first Egyptological photograph was published by Fox Talbot in 1846.
56. Lepsius (1853): 7.
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French foundations
1. Quoted in Reid (2002): 100.
2. Quoted in Lambert (1997): 43 (‘Le canard égyptien est un animal redoutable. Quand il vous mord, il ne vous lâche plus’).
3. Quoted in Lambert (1997): 79.
4. Reeves (2000): 40; Reid (2002): 99.
5. Strabo, Geography, XVII.1.32 – Strabo (1949): 88–9.
6. Piacentini (2009): 424.
7. Mariette (1857): 5–6, quoted in Tyldesley (2005): 122.
8. There is controversy surrounding the circumstances of the discovery of the Le scribe accroupi, one of the masterpieces of the Louvre’s collection. While Mariette insisted that he excavated it at Saqqara, Prisse d’Avennes (never the most trustworthy source) claimed that it was bought from Salomon Fernandez for 120 francs.
