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Description : Title: The Island of Meroe and Meroitic Inscriptions Author: Frances Llewellyn Griffith - Francis Llewellyn Griffith (27 May 1862 – 1934) was an eminent British Egyptologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. F. Ll. Griffith was born in Brighton on 27 May 1862 where his father, Rev. Dr. John Griffith, was Principal of Brighton College. After schooling at Brighton College (1871), then privately by his father, he went to Sedbergh School, Yorkshire (1875-8). Griffith was awarded a scholarship to Queen's College and went up to the University of Oxford in 1879, his enthusiasm for Egyptology already apparent: in the absence of an Egyptological department he taught himself ancient Egyptian. Griffith worked as a student for The Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) (later known as the Egypt Exploration Society), a society established in 1882 by Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole. This society funded excavations in Egypt and provided opportunities for student apprentices to learn how to excavate and give aspiring Egyptologists a chance to publish their findings. Griffith was urged by his professor to write to Flinders Petrie, an Egyptologist working for the EEF, to see if he could serve as an assistant. He could not afford to finance himself, and Petrie and Edwards were able to convince the EEF to fund Griffith through a scholarship. Griffith trained under Flinders Petrie at the Fund’s Naukratis excavation. He also presented reports on Tell Nebesheh and Tell Gemayemi during one of the Egypt Exploration Fund early annual meetings. It was in this report that he thanked Petrie, “I cannot conclude without expressing my deep obligations for Mr. Petrie for so freely opening to me the rich stores of method and experience which his unrivaled skill has accumulated.” After Petrie left the Egypt Exploration Fund, Griffith continued to work for the society under the direction of Edouard Naville. Griffith married Kate Bradbury, a good friend of Amelia Edwards, in 1896. Kate died six years later and Griffith eventually inherited his father-in-law’s estate. This allowed him to endow the study of Egyptology at Oxford. After the establishment of a post in Egyptology, Griffith was appointed Reader in 1901. He was Professor of Egyptology at the university from 1924 until 1932 and died in 1934. By the terms of his will the Griffith Institute at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was established in 1939. [Courtesy Wikipedia], John Winter Crowfoot Publisher: The Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund / Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. / B. Quaritch / Henry Frowde City: London Year: 1911 / 1912 Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes Width: 10.25 Height: 12.5 Book Details: This set from the Archaeological Survey of Egypt includes Crowfoot's The Island of Meroe and the first part of Griffith's Meroitic Inscriptions (Soba to Dangel) in the first volume and the second part of Meroitic Inscriptions (Napata to Philae and Miscellaneous) in the second volume. Condition / Notes: This antique set is bound in printed paper covers with tan cloth backstrips. There is black stamped lettering on the spines. The covers show moderate toning and foxing. The first volume has a cracked front hinge. The text blocks are solid. The pages show mild age toning and very occasional light spotting in the margins. The works are profusely illustrated with photographic plates and diagrams, including some fold-out plates. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $9.50
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