Percy Newberry

Percy Edward Newberry (born April 23, 1868 in London, † August 7, 1949 in Godalming ) was a British Egyptologist and botanist .

Life

Percy Newberry was born in Islington , northern London , in 1868, to Caroline Wyatt and warehouse worker Henry James Newberry. Percy Newberry developed a strong passion for botany as a child and was educated first at King's College School ( Wimbledon ) and later at King's College London .

At the suggestion of Reginald Stuart Poole , Head of the Department of Medals and Coins at the British Museum in London, Newberry began administrative work in 1884 for the Egypt Exploration Fund , which had been founded two years earlier .

As a professor in Liverpool and Cairo , Percy Newberry was a mentor to Howard Carter and carried out archaeological excavations in Beni Hassan , el-Bersheh and Thebes-West . Newberry was part of Carter's excavation team in the Valley of the Kings , which discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun ( KV62 ) in the excavation season that began on November 1, 1922 . As a botanist and Egyptologist, he examined the herbal additions found in this grave.

In November 1932 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Works

• Publications (1893–1900) by the Archaeological Survey of Egypt (ASE) of the Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) in 6 volumes about Beni Hassan and El Bersheh ( online ):
  • Volume 1: Percy E. Newberry: Beni Hasan, Part I , London 1893.
  • Volume 2: Percy E. Newberry: Beni Hasan, Part II , London 1893.
  • Volume 3: Percy E. Newberry: El Bersheh, Part I (The Tomb of Tehuti-Hetep). With Plan and Measurement of the Tomb by G. Willoughby Fraser, London 1894 under Heidelberg historical holdings - digital
  • Tape. 4: FL Griffith, Percy E. Newberry: El Bersheh, Part II (Nine Inscribed Tombs). With Appendix, Plans and Measurements of the Tombs by G. Willoughby Fraser, London 1895.
  • Volume 5: F. Ll. Griffith: Beni Hassan, Part III . London 1896.
  • Volume 7: Howard Carter, MW Blackden, Percy Brown, Percy Buckman: Beni Hassan, Part IV : Zoological and Other Details. London. 1900.
• The life of Rekhmara. Archibald Constable, Westminster 1900.
• with John Garstang : A short history of ancient Egypt. Archibald Constable, London 1904
• Egyptian antiquities Scarabs: an introduction to the study of Egyptian seals and signet rings. Archibald Constable, London 1906.
• Scarab-shaped seals (= Catalog général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Volume 32). Archibald Constable, London 1907.
• The Timins collection of ancient Egyptian scarabs and cylinder seals. Archibald Constable, London 1907.
• Egypt as a field for anthropological research. Washington 1925.
• Funerary statuettes and model sarcophagi (= Catalog général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. ). Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO), Cairo (Le Caire) 1930.

literature

• Brian Fagan: Newberry, Percy Edward (1869-1949). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of October 2006

Individual evidence

1. ^ Members of the SAW: Percy Edward Newberry. Saxon Academy of Sciences, accessed on November 18, 2016 . 

Web links

• Works by and about Percy Newberry  in the German Digital Library
• Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies: Percy Edward Newberry (1868-1949), Egyptologist . University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on July 18, 2013. Retrieved February 28, 2009.