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- 1916-1918 (Production)
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41 pages
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British Egyptologist. Born, Eltham 1879. Died, Oxford 1963. Educated at Charterhouse, then studied Classics, Hebrew and Arabic at The Queen's College, Oxford. Worked with A. Erman on the preparation of material for the Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache and was sub-editor 1906-8. Laycock Studentship, Worcester College, Oxford, 1906-12. Edited many Egyptological publications, including the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. Published extensively in the field of Egyptology. Honorary Secretary of the Egypt Exploration Society, 1917-20, Vice President and then President, 1959-63. He was awarded many distinctions during his career. Specialized in hieratic texts on papyri and ostraca. Gardiner published the 1st edition of his Egyptian Grammar in 1927, which is still one of the essential learning aids for Middle Egyptian. Gardiner was also a member of the Tutankhamun excavation team, recording inscriptions from objects found in the tomb during the first few seasons.
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This material was sent to the Griffith Institute by Mr Walter Hauser from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1955.
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8 letters from Sir Alan Gardiner to Howard Carter, mostly regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, but also mention other subjects.
The first letter is dated 24 August 1916 and the last in the group is dated 13 July 1918.
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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Archived scans in Griffith Institute.
Unités de description associées
- Carter's draft letters to Gardiner, see Carter MSS v.105.
- Carter's draft sketches of details, see Carter MSS v.106.
- Carter's finished drawings of the Festival of Opet scenes, see Gardiner MSS 11.