Alan Gardiner

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Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (March 29, 1879 Eltham - December 19, 1963 Oxford) was one of the premier British Egyptologists of the early and mid-Twentieth century. Some of his most important publications include a 1959 book on his study of "The Royal Canon of Turin" and his seminal 1961 work "Egypt of the Pharaohs", which covered all aspects of Egyptian chronology and history at the time of publication.

Two major contributions to ancient Egyptian philology by Gardiner are his famous three editions of Egyptian Grammar and its correlated list of all the Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs in Gardiner's Sign List. Publishing Egyptian Grammar produced one of the few available hieroglyphic printing fonts.

In 1915 Gardiner was also able to crack the so-called Proto-Sinaitic writing system by deciphering the "B'alat inscriptions".

[edit] Important publications

The Admonitions of an Egyptian Sage from a Hieratic Papyrus in Leiden (Pap. Leiden 334 recto). Leipzig, 1909 (reprint Hildesheim - Zürich - New York, 1990).
"New Literary Works from Ancient Egypt", JEA 1 (1914), 20-36 and 100-106.
Notes on the story of Sinuhe. Paris, 1916
"The Tomb of a much-travelled Theban Official", JEA 4 (1917), 28-38.
"On Certain Participial Formations in Egyptian", Rev. ég. N.S. 2/1-2 (1920), 42-55.
"The Eloquent Peasant", JEA 9 (1923), 5-25.
Egyptian Grammar. Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs. 3rd Ed., Rev. London: Oxford University Press, 1957 (1st edition 1927). ISBN 0-900416-35-1
"The Earliest Manuscripts of the Instruction of Amenemmes I", Mélanges Maspero I. 2, 479-496. 1934
Ancient Egyptian Onomastica. Vol. I—III. London, 1947.
The Ramesseum Papyri. Plates (Oxford 1955)
The Theory of Proper Names: A Controversial Essay. London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1957.