Cecil Mallaby Firth

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Cecil Mallaby Firth (1878 – 1931) was a British Egyptologist.

Firth worked in Nubia of 1907 to 1911, then it started to explore the complex of Djoser's Step Pyramid in Saqqara where, in 1924, he discovered the serdab of the Pharaoh, which is now in the Cairo Museum.

Firth then worked in collaboration with James E. Quibell and subsequently with Jean-Philippe Lauer on his arrival on the site in 1926.

He was named inspector of the area of Saqqara in 1927 by the Antiquities Services.

In 1928 and 1929, Firth commençe the release of the funerary complex of Userkaf, the first king of the 5th dynasty, like that of a small pyramid located just at the south, allotted to his queen.

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 52779630 LCCN: n2007001687 ISNI: 0000 0000 7263 0846 GND: 129849448

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Name	Firth, Cecil Mallaby
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Date of birth	1878
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Date of death	1931
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