John Shae Perring

John Shae Perring

John Shae Perring (born January 24, 1813 in Boston , Lincolnshire , † January 16, 1869 in Manchester ) was a British engineer , anthropologist and Egyptologist , who was mainly known for his research and documentation work on numerous Egyptian pyramids .

In 1837 the Egyptologist Richard William Howard Vyse began excavations in Giza with Perring and initially together with Giovanni Battista Caviglia in order to research and document the pyramids. After separating from Caviglia, Perring became Vyses' assistant. When exploring the pyramids, he and Vyse also used dynamite to gain access to locked areas of the tombs.

After Vyses returned to England in 1837, Perring took over the further research with Vyses financial support. As part of his work, Perring created, among other things, maps, plans and internal profiles of the pyramids of Abu Roasch , Gizeh, Abusir , Saqqara and Dahshur .

In 1839 Perring was the first to enter the interior of the Userkaf pyramid in Saqqara through a tomb robber tunnel previously discovered by Orazio Marucchi (1852–1931). Inside the red pyramid in Dahshur, visitor graffiti attached by Perring can still be read today.

The results of his work in the measurement of the pyramids Perring published 1839-1842 in a three-volume work under the title The Pyramids of Gizeh. Vyse also published Perring's sketches in the third volume of his own three-part work under the title Appendix to Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837.

Fonts

• John Shae Perring: The Pyramids of Gizeh , Vol. I-III, London, James Fraser (1839–1842)
• Richard William Howard Vyse, John Shae Perring: Appendix to Operations carried on at the Pyramids of Gizeh in 1837 , London, 1842

literature

• Mark Lehner: Mystery of the pyramids , ECON-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-572-01039-X , p. 50ff blasting instead of digging