Alan Gardiner
British Egyptologist and author of Egyptian Grammar
- Born
- 1879, Eltham, London
- Died
- 1963, Oxford
- Key works
- Egyptian Grammar (1927); The Royal Canon of Turin (1959)
- Edited
- Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage (Ipuwer), 1909
- Knighted
- 1948
One of the leading Egyptologists of the 20th century, whose grammar is still used and who edited the Turin King List and the Ipuwer papyrus.
What is Alan Gardiner known for?
Sir Alan Gardiner was a British Egyptologist and linguist. His Egyptian Grammar (1927), with its list of hieroglyphic signs still known as 'Gardiner's sign list', remains a standard textbook for learning Middle Egyptian.
He published many of the key literary and historical papyri. In 1909 he edited the Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage, the Ipuwer papyrus in Leiden. In 1959 he published The Royal Canon of Turin, an edition of the fragmentary Turin King List that remained the standard reference for decades. He also worked on the inscriptions from Tutankhamun's tomb after its discovery in 1922.
He was knighted in 1948 and died in 1963. Phrases from his Egyptian Grammar have been traced in the text of the so-called Tulli Papyrus, a 1950s UFO hoax.
Named as one of the scholars who reconstructed the fragments of the Turin King List.
Mentioned on these pages
- Rabbit holeTurin King List
- PersonIpuwer
- PersonThutmose III
Sources
- Wikipedia, 'Alan Gardiner'Reference
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Sir Alan Gardiner'Reference
- Griffith Institute, Oxford, 'Sir Alan H. Gardiner'Reference
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