Georges Legrain
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Georges Legrain (4 October 1865 in Paris; August 1917 in Luxor) was a French Egyptologist.
[edit] Research
He was involved in the excavations in Aswan. He spent many years with his research in the Temple of Karnak. Since 1907 he was a main supervisor in Luxor.
[edit] Publications
- Jacques de Morgan; Urbain Bouriant; Georges Legrain; Gustave Jéquier; A. Barsanti, Catalogue monuments et inscriptions de l'Egypte antique, 3 volumes (De la frontière de Nubie à Kom Ombos, Kom Ombos), Wien : Wood-live, to 1894-1909.
- Morgan, Jacques de ; Legrain, Georges, Fouilles à Dahchour, 2 volumes, Wien : Wood-live, 1895, 1903.
- Legrain, Georges, L'aile north you pylône d'Aménophis III A Karnak, Paris : Leroux, 1902.
- Legrain, Georges, Statues et statuettes de rois et de particuliers, 3 volumes, Le Caire : Imprimerie de l'Inst. Franc?ais d'Archéologie Orientale, 1906-1925, (Catalogue général antiquités the égyptiennes you musée you Caire).
- Preisigke, Friedrich, Egyptian and Greek inscriptions and Graffiti from the quarries of the Gebel Silsile (Oberaegypten) : after the designs of Georges Legrain, Strassburg : Truebner, 1915.
- Legrain, Georges, Les Temples de Karnak, Bruxelles : Vromant, 1929.
- Legrain, Georges, Une Famille copte de strike Haute-Egypte, Brussels, 1945.