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F. Ll. Griffith

fl. 1880–1926

Excavator and archaeologist, active 1880–1926. Worked for Exploration fund; worked with Ernest Arthur Gardner and Édouard Naville.

Life and work

  1. 1887
    Egyptologist attached to the Egypt Exploration Fund who completed the excavation of the Aphrodite sanctuary at Naukratis with Gardner and in 1887 worked with Naville at Tell el-Yahudiyeh, where he recorded Cypriot-type pottery in the tombs.

    Revue archéologique (1887-07), p. 348

  2. Undated
    Judging from pottery, dated the necropolis to an earlier date and enumerated remarkable objects found during the excavations, including Cypriote-style bottles with concentric patterns.

    American journal of Archaeology and of the History of the fine arts vol.3 (1887)

  3. Undated
    Collected lamps, Cypriot pottery and porcelain beads from a necropolis of violated tombs in Egypt for the Exploration Fund and dated it to the Ramesside period.

    Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique Troisieme Serie Tome.10 (1887)

  4. Undated
    Dated the Tell-el-Yahoodieh nekropolis from pottery and beads, and listed finds including Kypriote-type bottles with concentric patterns.

    Frothingham, A. L., Archæological News (1887)

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    Found pottery of Cypriot type from a Theban necropolis

    Revue archéologique

  8. Undated
    Wrote the inscription chapters of Petrie's Tanis report, including the Cypriot tombs at Tell Nebesheh, and reported Cypriot bottles from the tombs he excavated with Naville at Tell el-Yahudiyeh.

    Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942; Griffith, F. Ll. (Francis Llewelyn), 1862-1934, Tanis (1885)

  9. Undated
    Excavating with M. Naville at Tell-el-Yahudiyeh, Egypt, where he reported tombs with pottery resembling Cypriote bottles; not Cyprus-based, tie is comparative only.

    Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London, England), The Journal of Hellenic studies (1880)

  10. Undated
    Wrote from Egypt that he was excavating with M. Naville at Tell-el-Yahudiyeh and reported tombs with Cypriote bottles and other pottery.

    lix, 575 p., The journal of Hellenic studies

  11. Undated
    Described the Egyptian group of Wersu and Sit-Re in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. ii, part 1, with a plate and rubbings; the group is Egyptian, not Cypriot.

    Old Italian Majolica. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, March 2, 1926. (1926-03-02), p. 11

Connections

3 people
Édouard NavilleWilliam Flinders PetrieErnest Arthur GardnerF. Ll. Griffith
FieldworkColleagues

Mentioned in

5 mentions

Sources

  1. 1.Revue archéologique (1887-07).
  2. 2.American journal of Archaeology and of the History of the fine arts vol.3 (1887).
  3. 3.Ernest Leroux, Revue Archeologique Troisieme Serie Tome.10 (1887).
  4. 4.Frothingham, A. L., Archæological News (1887).
  5. 5.Alexandra Villing; Marianne Bergeron; Giorgos Bourogiannis; Alan Johnston; François Leclère; Aurélia Masson; Ross Thomas; Daniel von Recklinghausen; Jeffrey Spencer; Valerie Smallwood; Virginia Webb; Susan Woodford, Naukratis: Greeks in Egypt - Cypriot figures.
  6. 6.Naville, Edouard, 1844-1926; Griffith, F. Ll. (Francis Llewellyn), 1862-1934, The Mound of the Jew and the city of Onias. Belbeis, Samanood, Abusir, Tukh el Karmus. 1887 (1890).
  7. 7.Revue archéologique.
  8. 8.Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), Sir, 1853-1942; Griffith, F. Ll. (Francis Llewelyn), 1862-1934, Tanis (1885).
  9. 9.Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (London, England), The Journal of Hellenic studies (1880).
  10. 10.lix, 575 p., The journal of Hellenic studies.
  11. 11.Old Italian Majolica. London: Christie, Manson & Woods, March 2, 1926. (1926-03-02). Online
  12. 12.E. A. Gardner, 1888, Naukratis, Part II, with an appendix by F. Ll. Griffith (Sixth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund); Amelia B. Edwards, 1891.
  13. 13.Eric M. Meyers; William G. Dever; Carol L. Meyers; James D. Muhly; Dennis Pardee; James A. Sauer, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (1997).

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