Newsletter, 27 June 1951
Our Membership Secretary, Richard A. Parker, Professor of Egyptology at Brown University, has sent the following delightful account of his recent visit to Egypt- The fruits of his researches will no doubt be more savory to us than the accomplishment was to him: those of us who cannot visit Egypt in...
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oai:localhost:123456789-842022-03-26T23:12:45Z Newsletter, 27 June 1951 Our Membership Secretary, Richard A. Parker, Professor of Egyptology at Brown University, has sent the following delightful account of his recent visit to Egypt- The fruits of his researches will no doubt be more savory to us than the accomplishment was to him: those of us who cannot visit Egypt in the near future will find some consolation in this evidence that a visit is not all roses. ’’Shortly after the close of the first semester at Brown University I left for Egypt for a stay of nearly three months. I had not been in Egypt since I turned over the directorship of the University of Chicago expedition at Chicago House, Luxor, to George Hughes very early in 19U9; and I was anxious to see what two years’ work had brought to light from Egypt’s buried past. I had the primary purpose, however, of rechecking some of ny previous copies of astronomical ceilings and of recording a few new ones as well as a few which time had not permitted me to record before. During xny stay at home, I and my colleague Otto Neugebauer had worked over much of the material which we had previously collected toward the goal of a publication of all Egyptian astronomical texts; and various questions about correct readings had come up which could of course be answered only in the field. 2021-12-06T06:41:50Z 2021-12-06T06:41:50Z 1951-06-27 Journal https://library.arce.org/handle/123456789/84 en application/pdf American Research Center in Egypt |
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Our Membership Secretary, Richard A. Parker, Professor of Egyptology at Brown University, has sent the following delightful account of his recent visit to Egypt- The fruits of his researches will no doubt be more savory to us than the accomplishment was to him: those of us who cannot visit Egypt in the near future will find some consolation in this evidence that a visit is not all roses.
’’Shortly after the close of the first semester at Brown University I left for Egypt for a stay of nearly three months. I had not been in Egypt since I turned over the directorship of the University of Chicago expedition at Chicago House, Luxor, to George Hughes very early in 19U9; and I was anxious to see what two years’ work had brought to light from Egypt’s buried past. I had the primary purpose, however, of rechecking some of ny previous copies of astronomical ceilings and of recording a few new ones as well as a few which time had not permitted me to record before. During xny stay at home, I and my colleague Otto Neugebauer had worked over much of the material which we had previously collected toward the goal of a publication of all Egyptian astronomical texts; and various questions about correct readings had come up which could of course be answered only in the field. |
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