Gunn Battiscombe

Object identifier COR_899

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1946/08/27 - 1946/11/22

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Description: Three manuscript letters from Battiscombe Gunn to Kahle. Gunn was born in London and educated at Bedales School, Westminster School and Allhallows School, Honiton. After trying banking, engineering and journalism, he was the private secretary to Pinero from 1908 to 1911. In 1913 he became an assistant to the noted Egyptologist Flinders Petrie. He was invalided out of the army after the start of World War I, and then became assistant to Alan Gardiner. From 1921 to 1922 he assisted Leonard Woolley in the excavations of Amarna. He also worked with Cecil Firth in the investigations of the pyramid of Teti. He became assistant conservator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 1928. He moved to the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1931 as curator of the Egyptian section. In 1934 he was appointed Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, a chair he held until his death. He was given an honorary M.A. at Oxford and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1943.

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