"This view of pay-day at Balabish is typical of scenes on excavations in Egypt until fairly recent times. The director, Gerald Wainwright, sits behind a table with the workmen gathered before and around him, waiting to be paid. Most of the workmen have the tools of their trade, the hoe and basket, and wear traditional Egyptian dress, in contrast to the rather formal western clothes (including a tie) of Wainwright." – taken from ‘Deshasheh, Dendereh and Balabish’ by Andrew Bednarski in The EES: the early years (http://ift.tt/1K0zwpt).

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