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Percy E. Newberry

fl. 1930–1934 · United Kingdom

Egyptologist who deciphered and drew the Egyptian scarabs found by the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, for publication in its second volume.

Biography

Professor Percy Newberry read the Egyptian scarabs that the Swedish Cyprus Expedition dug up between 1927 and 1931. The Preface to the first volume of the expedition's publication states that he and Max Pieper deciphered and described the scarabs found at the excavations, and that Newberry also made drawings of a great number of them. Volume I contains no scarab descriptions; the results were to appear in volume II1.

His work was written into the agreement on dividing the finds. The memorandum of 27 October 1930 on the allocation of the expedition's finds provided that scarabs allotted to the Cyprus Museum might be temporarily sent to Professor Newberry for decipherment2. He also appears in the list of subscribers to volume I, as "Igtham, England"1. His birth and death dates are not recorded.

Life and work

  1. 27 October 1930
    The 1930 memorandum on the allocation of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition's finds (signed by Storrs, Markides, Gunnis, Gjerstad, Westholm, Sjöqvist and others) provided that scarabs allotted to the Cyprus Museum 'may be temporarily sent to Professor Newberry for decipherment'.

    CyprusChapter on the Swedish… 2012, p. 142

  2. 1931–1934
    With Max Pieper, deciphered and described the scarabs found at the Swedish excavations; Newberry also drew a great number of them. Descriptions were held back for volume II (not in vol. I).

    Gjerstad et al. 1934

  3. 1934
    Listed among the subscribers to SCE I.

    Gjerstad et al. 1934

Connections

2 people

Scholarship

Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.E. Gjerstad, J. Lindros, E. Sjöqvist, A. Westholm (1934). The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927-1931, Vol. I (text). Stockholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition.
  2. 2. (2012). “Chapter on the Swedish Cyprus Expedition”. 140-143.
  3. 3.P. E. Newberry (1906). Egyptian Antiquities. Scarabs. An Introduction to the Study of Egyptian Seals and Signet Rings. London, Archibald Constable.
  4. 4.P. E. Newberry (1907). Scarab-Shaped Seals (Catalogue Général du Musée du Caire). London.