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Ludwig Borchardt

fl. 1898–1930 · Germany

German excavator and scholar, active 1898–1930. Bought from Datari.

Life and work

  1. 1898
    Cited as author of studies (Z. 1898) on Egyptian foreign colonies and Anibé, which mention a Cypriot colony at Anibé.

    Baillet, Jules (1864-1924), Le régime pharaonique dans ses rapports avec l'évolution de la morale en Égypte. Tome 1 (1912-1913), p. 667

  2. 1907
    Leading German excavator in Egypt who published the Fifth Dynasty anchor block from Abusir in 1907.

    Nicholas Reeves, Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries: A Year-by-Year Chronicle (2000), p. 248

  3. 1907
    Originally published the Fifth Dynasty Abusir anchor as a block with an inscribed drum in 1907.

    ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ANCHORS: A Focus on the Facts (1984), p. 248

  4. 1910
    Described the German excavations at Hagg Qandil (Amarna period building with columns) in M.D.O.G. 50 (1910), p. 8, which Woolley identified the site with.

    The Egypt Exploration Fund, Journal Of Egyptian Archaeology Vol.8 (1922)

  5. 1912
    German excavator who earlier dug at el-'Amarnah and described the site's large Egyptian building remains in M.D.O.G. 50 (1912).

    T. Eric Peet; C. Leonard Woolley; Battiscombe Gunn; P. L. O. Guy; F. G. Newton, The City of Akhenaten: Part I. Excavations of 1921 and 1922 at El-'Amarnah (1923), p. 125

  6. Undated
    German excavator in Egypt (el-Amarna) who held the Berlin silver bowl from Athienou to be purely Egyptian and wrote on a Cypriot colony at Aniba; a black askos was in his collection in Cairo.

    Elizabeth Brophy, Royal Statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220: Context and Function (2015), p. 132

  7. Undated
    Considered the Berlin silver bowl from Athienou (Cyprus) to be purely Egyptian.

    Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 35.1911

  8. Undated

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Sources

  1. 1.Elizabeth Brophy, Royal Statues in Egypt 300 BC-AD 220: Context and Function (2015).
  2. 2.Revue de philologie, de littérature et d'histoire anciennes 35.1911.
  3. 3.Baillet, Jules (1864-1924), Le régime pharaonique dans ses rapports avec l'évolution de la morale en Égypte. Tome 1 (1912-1913).
  4. 4.The Egypt Exploration Fund, Journal Of Egyptian Archaeology Vol.8 (1922).
  5. 5.T. Eric Peet; C. Leonard Woolley; Battiscombe Gunn; P. L. O. Guy; F. G. Newton, The City of Akhenaten: Part I. Excavations of 1921 and 1922 at El-'Amarnah (1923).
  6. 6.Black and Plain Pottery of the 6th, 5th and 4th Centuries B.C. Part 1: Text (1970).
  7. 7.Nicholas Reeves, Ancient Egypt: The Great Discoveries: A Year-by-Year Chronicle (2000).
  8. 8.ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ANCHORS: A Focus on the Facts (1984).

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