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Egypt Exploration Society Bibliography 1918-1920: Ancient Egypt Author(s): F. Ll. Griffith Source: The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Oct., 1920), pp. 274-293 Published by: Egypt Exploration Society Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3853805 Accessed: 16-11-2015 11:50 UTC Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at http://www.jstor.org/page/ info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. Egypt Exploration Society is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 159.178.22.27 on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:50:06 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions 274 BIBLIOGRAPHY 1918-1920: ANCIENT EGYPT BY F. LL. GRIFFITH, M.A. THE following pages are intended to record principally the printed output of the last two years; they include however many items which appeared earlier but had escaped note in the Journal owing to the war. Doubtless the record is still far from complete; it would have been more so but for the kindness of the Editor and Prof. ROSTOVTZEFFin lending me books and furnishing references. The British Museum has published a small and very convenient illustrated handbook and written by a group of experts especially for travellers in the Near and Middle East. It is entitled How to observe in Archaeology. Flinders PETRIE contributes the special section on Egypt. Professor BREASTED writing on The place of the near Orient in the career of man and the task of the American Orientalist (Journal Amner.Or. Soc. xxxIx 159) points out the analogy between the bridge uniting North with South America and that joining Europe and Asia as the nidi of civilisation for their respective areas. He urges that the Orientalist should pay attention to material remains and conditions equally with language, and announces the foundation of an Oriental Institute in the Haskell Museum at Chicago for the study and collection of material of all kinds in the Ancient East. In a further article entitled The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (American Journal of Semitic Lang. and Lit. xxxv 196) BREASTED calls on America to do what impoverished Europe cannot so justly be expected to accomplish, namely to explore the perishing records of the mother of our civilisation in lands formerly under Turkish rule now more open to research. Mr ROCKEFELLER has given an endowment of 10,000 dollars annually to the Institute for the object of tracing the rise of man in the Near East from savagery through various degrees of civilisation, and the transmission of this civilisation to Europe. It is earnestly to be desired that Prof. BREASTED'S views may prevail not only in America, but also mutatis mutandis in the British Empire, so that its government may at length range itself with those of European countries in the fostering of historical research in the Near East. A note on the petition to the Treasury for the establishment of a British Institute in Cairo is printed in Journal v 303. The stirring and judicious Presidential Address of Sir Charles Hercules READ to the Society of Antiquaries, 1920, with the subtitle Archaeology after 1Var may be commended to the attention of the British nation; in repro- ducing General Maude's Proclamation regarding antiquities in Mesopotamia as an encouraging sign of the times, WAINWRIGHT makes some apt remarks on the destructive effects of ignorance and treasure-hunting upon historical and artistic remains, Anc. Egypt, 1920, 88. Amongst the British Museum Guides written by Sir E. A. W. BUDGE is one on The Book of the Dead, explaining its name and purpose, with illustrations of deities, vignettes and writing, and another on T/he Rosetta Stone with a sketch of the decipherment of Egyptian and a summary of the contents of the decree of Epiphanes. Mrs Grant WILLIAMS gives an account of the beginnings of American interest in Ancient Egypt, culminating in the acquisition of the Abbott collection after a prolonged effort in 1860. It appears that the designation Amerikani was hardly known in Egypt before 1832, in which year an American consular agent was appointed for the first time. The place of the New York Hist. Soc. in the growth of American interest in Egyptology, 1V.Y. Hist. Soc., Quarterly Bull. Iv 3. Miss W. E. HOWE has written a History of the Metropolitan lMuseum of Art (which was founded in 1869) with an introduction on early institutions for Art in New York. BRECCIA reports on work at the Alexandria Museum during the war; the stone pylons and altar of the temple of Pnepheros were transported from Theadelphia to the Museum where they were re-erected in 1915-16. A large mosaic from Thmuis was transferred from Cairo. Municipalite dAlexandrie, Rapport sur la Marche du Service du Musee 1914-15, 1915-16, 1916-17, 1917-18. The Institut Egyptien, founded in 1859, on 1 Nov. 1918 changed its designation to Institut d'Egypte, the title which had been adopted in 1799 by the savants of Napoleon's expedition. Its Troisieme Livre This content downloaded from 159.178.22.27 on Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:50:06 UTC All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions BIBLIOGRAPHY 1918-1920: ANCIENT EGYPT 275 d'Or has just been published, contaiiling the names of members, list of publications etc. for the period 8 May 1909 to 31 Oct. 1918. A review of Egyptology and Papyrology entitled Aegyptus has been founded at Milan. The editor is Prof. CALDERINIwho is assisted by P. de FRANCISCIand G. FARINA. It is to be published in four parts annually; of the first volume two have already appeared. The publication of Ancient Egypt has now been resumed. Consequent on the absorption of the Society of Biblical Archaeology by the Royal Asiatic Society, LEGGE has contributed a sketch of the history of the former society to the Journ. R. As. Soc. 1919 p. 25. The Revue Aqyptologique, which ceased to appear in 1914 owing to the death of its Editor Eugene REVILLOUT, has made an excellent beginning in a new series edited by MORET and JOUGUET. Bibliographies are numerous:-of Africana for 1916 by ASHENDEN Harvard African Studies II 305; systematic bibliography of Egyptian research during three or four years past including papyrology, CALDE- RINI Aegyptus I 111; of Ancient Egypt 1915-1917 by FARINA in Rivista degli Studi Orientali 1919 vIII pp. 01--011. A General Index to the "Proceedings" of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, vols. XXXI-XL is compiled by W. L. NASH. BRECCIAreviews recent Egyptological events and discoveries, a special feature being a chronicle of the remarkable results of REISNER'S Harvard-Boston expeditions in Egypt and Nubia since 1912, and particulars of the extraordinary find of temple silver-work at Dendereh, of Ptolemaic time; unfortunately the silver is poor in style and in very poor preservation. Aegyptuqs I 83. Of books of travel in Egypt, BRIGGS Through ELqyptin War-time contains some illustrations of archaeological interest on the El 'Arish road, the Siweh Oasis etc. HUBER'S Im Reiche der Pharaonen 600 pp. is condemn1ed by WRESZINSKIas a waste of good paper Or. Lit.-Zeit. xxII 89. The human side of an excavator's life in the Near East is pleasingly portrayed by C. L. WOOLLEYDead Cities and Living Men. In two well-illustrated volumes By Nile and Tigris Sir E. A. W. BUDGErecords his adventures as a collector of Egyptian and other treasures for the British Museum from 1886 -1913; one of the plates figures a column from a papyrus of precepts of Amenophis III, a new delight in store for scholars. LEGRAIN'S Louqsor sans les Pharaons is reviewed by MORETRev. Egyptologique N.S. I 128. Canopus iAenouthis Aboukir by FAIVRE, translated into English by A. GRANVILLE,is a guide to the history and remains of those places. The following contributions to African anthropology etc. have been met with in preparing this Biblio- graphy, and seem of interest in connexion with Egypt: in the Harvard African Studies vol. II p. 105 a detailed account of The Kababish, a Sudan Arab tribe by C. G. and B. Z. SELIGMAN: p. 194 some Bisharin baskets in the Peabody Museum by STERNS: p. 299 Siwan pottery (hand-made, by women) by 0. BATES: p. 316 green pebble in a gold harness said to be from Gebelen (Editorial Notes): p. 317 Nubian belief that certain men can change into crocodiles: p. 320 walking sticks of cane from Senn5r with roots trimmed, making rude head and ears as of the 1 sceptre; the 1 sceptre can be illustrated from Mexican prayer sticks (Editorial Notes). In Sudan Notes and Records ii 8 H. C. JACKSONrefers to the use of a flag that has been offeredat a holy man's grave to protect cultivation and property left by the way-side cf. ]. Hans STUMME,the well-known authority on Berber languages, reviews the state of our knowledge of the Siwan dialect. The materials (vocabularies only) are all very imperfect, owing largely to the lack of consecutive texts and of phonetic precision in the record. He publishes the vocabulary made by Freiherr von GRUNAU in the two winters 1898-1900. Eine Sammlung iiber den berberischen Dialekt der Oase Siwe (Ber.

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