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4 unusual facts about Alan Gardiner


Griffith Institute

Among some seventy major groups of material the Institute holds the papers of Sir Alan H. Gardiner, Battiscombe Gunn and Jaroslav Černý, records made by Howard Carter during his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, as well as the documentation from the Nubian expeditions of Griffith and Sir Henry Wellcome.

Jabiru

In particular, Gardiner's Egyptian hieroglyph G29, believed to depict an E. senegalensis, is sometimes labeled "Jabiru" in hieroglyph lists.

Nekhbet

Alan Gardiner identified the vulture that was used in divine iconography as a griffon vulture.

T. G. H. James

After the end of the war he attended Exeter College, Oxford and there studied under Sir Alan Gardiner and Battiscombe Gunn, two of the most significant Egyptologists of the twentieth century.


Kurt Heinrich Sethe

Among Sethe's students were Polotsky and Gardiner; Sethe's anthology, Aegyptische Lesestuecke, is still doing sterling service to the beginners in the study of the language.

Warren Royal Dawson

Though Dawson never himself travelled to Egypt, "he talked of it as it he had known it well. Much of his knowledge of the land he had acquired directly from the best guides – the great Egyptologists of the last generation, Budge, Griffith, Gardiner, Petrie, Newberry, Gunn.".


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