ABSTRACT
THE city of Thebes was divided by the Nile into two parts, a western and an eastern. The eastern half was the main city, containing the residential and business quarters and the great temples of Luxor and Karnak. The western half, to which was attached the vast Theban necropolis. seems to have been largely occupied by the officials, great and small. who had charge of the necropolis, and by the host of artisans subordinate to them, whose business it was to excavate and decorate the tombs and tomb-chapels and keep them in repair, and to manufacture and supply the elaborate funerary equipment, with which every upper and middleclass Egyptian of the Imperial Age wished to be furnished at death. Here also were the workshops of the embalmers and their residences.
