12019-05-01T13:56:19-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12332307plain2019-05-10T18:58:51-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12The Swiss archaeologist Henri Naville was an important figure in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Egyptology. His field projects were supported by the Egypt Exploration Fund, for whom he worked after 1882 excavating and publishing on numerous significant sites, all approved by Antiquities Director Gaston Maspero. Naville was succeeded in this position by William Petrie. Items excavated by Naville, including from the famous mortuary site of Deir el-Bahari, came to Stanford thanks to Timothy Hopkins' EEF subscription.
12019-05-01T13:55:34-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12Gaston Camille Charles MasperoEmilia Porubcin8(1846-1916)structured_gallery2019-05-15T03:50:21-07:00
(1846-1916)
Gaston Maspero was among the most powerful figures in early Egyptology. He served as Director of the Egyptian Museum, where Émile Brugsch was his assistant curator. He eventually became Director of the Antiquities Service, authorizing excavations by Bernard Grenfell, Arthur Hunt, William Petrie, Henri Naville, and many others. He also found time to write an encyclopedic history of Egyptian civilization, edited by linguist Archibald Sayce. He was know for his exceptional understanding of ancient Egyptian language and writing, as well as for his efforts to weaken the illegal trade in Egyptian antiquities. In 1901, Maspero authenticated the Stanford Museum's N. D. Kyticas collection, which Jane Stanford had purchased in 1901 in Cairo. Maspero judged them to be “worthy to be exhibited in any Museum of Europe or America."Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12
12019-05-01T13:56:50-07:00Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12William Matthew Flinders PetrieEmilia Porubcin8structured_gallery2019-05-11T16:06:15-07:00William Petrie is best known for advancing professional archaeological methods and championing the value of context and objects of daily life. Petrie is also noted for his early, and at the time unusual, interest in periods both before and after Pharaonic Egypt. He was a remarkably active excavator in Egypt (and elsewhere) over several decades, regularly collaborating with his wife Hilda Mary Isabel Urlin Petrie, a geologist and artist. From 1884-1886 and 1896-1905, William Petrie's field projects were supported by the Egypt Exploration Fund. Timothy Hopkins' generosity to the EEF brought items from Petrie's excavations to Stanford. Petrie's excavations were approved by Gaston Maspero, the influential Director of Egypt's Antiquities Services. From 1884-1886 and 1896-1905, Petrie worked for the Egypt Exploration Fund, following Édouard Naville in that role.Emilia Porubcin63ec028064958b3240cc8e4e010f355faa0c8e12