Dows Dunham

Dows Dunham (born June 1, 1890 in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York , † January 10, 1984 in Boston , Massachusetts ) was an American Egyptologist .

Dows Dunham is in Irvington-on-Hudson ( New York born). From 1909 to 1913 he studied art history at Harvard University . He was tutored by George Andrew Reisner , who offered him a position and who made him one of his principal assistants. Dunham has been a member of numerous expeditions to Egypt and Sudan since 1914 , mainly working in the team of George Andrew Reisner. In Giza , for example, he worked in the grave of Hetepheres I and was responsible for the precise documentation of its finds. He was curator at the Egyptian department of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston until 1956 and after his retirement he published a large part of George Andrew Reisner's excavations, whose excavation documents are kept in the Museum of Fine Arts.

In 1954 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1979 he was awarded the Gold Medal by the Archaeological Institute of America .

Publications (selection)

• with Oric Bates: Excavations at Gammai (= Harvard African Studies. [HAS] Vol. 8). African Department of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass) 1927, pp. 1–122.
• Naga-ed-Dêr stelae of the first intermediate period. Oxford University Press (for the Museum of fine arts, Boston), London 1937.
• Royal cemeteries of Kush. / I, El Kurru. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (Mass) 1950.
• The Royal cemeteries of Kush. / II, Nuri. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955.
• Royal cemeteries of Kush. / V, The West and South Cemeteries at Meroe. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1963.
• with William Kelly Simpson: The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III. In: Giza Mastabas. Volume 1. Boston 1974, ISBN 0-87846-104-3 , ( [1] PDF; 30.4 MB).
• Zawiyet el-Aryan: the cemeteries adjacent to the Layer Pyramid. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1978, ISBN 0878461191 .
• Recollections of an Egyptologist. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1972, ISBN 0-87846-069-1 , ( Online ; PDF; 7.9 MB) (Memoirs).

literature

• Morris L. Bierbrier: Who was Who in Egyptology , (Fourth Revised Edition), The Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012 ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1 , pp. 165-66.
• William Kelly Simpson, Whitney M. Davies (Eds.): Studies in Ancient Egypt, The Aegean, and the Sudan. Essay in honor of Dows Dunham on the occasion of his 90th birthday, June 1, 1980. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1981, ISBN 0-87846-197-3 .

Web links

• Dows Dunham - 1979 Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement