Society
Egypt Exploration Society
London, United Kingdom
Society in London. 3 people in the register connected with it.
History
- 1895The Fund sent D. G. Hogarth, E. F. Benson and E. R. Bevan to Alexandria to excavate in the city and eastern cemeteries (an Egyptian, not Cypriot, mission; the link to Cyprus is Hogarth, who dug there from 1887).
AlexandriaDavid George HogarthMeyers 1997
- 1904George Jeffery inspected 'duplicates' at Larnaca that C. D. Cobham could provide for a requested exchange with the Egyptian Exploration Fund; the outcome is not stated.
LarnacaGeorge JefferyClaude Delaval CobhamStanley-Price 2025, n. 58
People
3 peopleStaff and members · 3
- David George Hogarthexcavator (1895–1895) · sent to Alexandria 1895Meyers 19971895
- Claude Delaval Cobhamother (1904–1904)Stanley-Price 2025, n. 581904
- William Flinders Petrieother (from 1883)Tatton-Brown 2001
Sources
- 1.Nicholas Stanley-Price (2025). “Illicit excavation and the sale of 'duplicate' antiquities: Rupert Gunnis and the Cyprus Museum, 1926-1932”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 55, 269-301. Online
- 2.Eric M. Meyers (ed.) (1997). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York, Oxford University Press.
- 3.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.