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Excavator · Cataloguer · Archaeologist

W. B. Emery

fl. 1935–1962

Excavator and cataloguer, active 1935–1962. Worked with L. P. Kirwan.

Life and work

  1. 1935

    1. 1935–1939

      Excavated at Saqqara in 1935–1939 and published The Royal Tombs of Ballana and Qustul (1938), cited for parallels to Cypriot-related jars.

      Michel Bonifay, Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique (2004), p. 459

  2. 1938

    1. Published The Royal Tombs of Ballana and Qustul (Cairo, 1938), cited as the source for a Nubian jar parallel to the Cypriot-related micaceous jar series.

      Pottery of the Roman Period: Chronology (1959), p. 17

  3. 1956

    1. Excavated at Saqqara in 1956 a secondary burial containing a Cypriot Base-Ring I jug, which he never published.

      Ruminations on a Lifetime Spent in Archaeological Research (2015), p. 248

  4. 1962

    1. professor at University College, London; Merrillees said to be going to the Sudan with him in Claude Schaeffer's papers (Collège de France), 1 document, 1962.

      Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 188, «[Lettre de Eve Stewart à Schaeffer à propos des publications de son époux]», 19 June 1962of 2

  5. Undated

    n.d.

    1. Passed to a museum fragment of Greek amphora from Saqqara with Phoenician letters Yod and Mem, now in Egyptian Museum Cairo

      Fenici a Naucratis? (2017), p. 39

In the field

1 record

Buhen

  • ExcavatedEmery's excavations at Buhen uncovered two Cypriote pottery sherds.

    No. BUHEN Nos. 1 and 2Merrillees 1968, p. 141

Mentioned in

2 mentions

Documents · 2

Sources

  1. 1.R. S. Merrillees (1968). The Cypriote Bronze Age Pottery Found in Egypt. Lund.
  2. 2.Ruminations on a Lifetime Spent in Archaeological Research (2015).
  3. 3.Michel Bonifay, Etudes sur la céramique romaine tardive d'Afrique (2004).
  4. 4.Pottery of the Roman Period: Chronology (1959).
  5. 5.Fenici a Naucratis? (2017).
  6. 6.Collège de France, Paris, Fonds Claude Schaeffer (34 CDF), 34 CDF art. 188, «[Lettre de Eve Stewart à Schaeffer à propos des publications de son époux]», 19 June 1962of 2. Online

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