Battiscombe Gunn
Male, Deceased Person
1883 – 1950
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Who was Battiscombe Gunn?
Battiscombe "Jack" George Gunn was an English Egyptologist and philologist. He published his first translation from Egyptian in 1906. He translated inscriptions for many important excavations and sites, including Fayum, Saqqara, Amarna, Giza and Luxor. He was curator at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and at the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1934 he was appointed Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, a chair he held until his death in 1950.
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- Born
- Jun 30, 1883
England - Education
- Westminster School
- Lived in
- London
- Died
- Feb 27, 1950
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on July 23, 2013
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