A. F. Shore

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A. F. Shore
Born
Arthur Frank Shore

14 November 1924
Died27 November 1994(1994-11-27) (aged 70)
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Spouse
Patricia
​
(m. 1952)​
ChildrenFour
Academic background
Late Antiquity
  • art of ancient Egypt
  • archaeology of Ancient Egypt
  • Christianity in Egypt
  • Coptic language
    • Institutions

    Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore (14 November 1924 – 27 November 1994) was a British

    Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool
    from 1974 to 1991.

    Early life and education

    Shore was born on 14 November 1924 in

    first class honours in 1952.[1][2]

    Career

    Shore was elected a

    Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool from 1974 to 1991. In retirement, he was chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society.[2][3]

    Shore began his career as a

    excavation experience was as part of the rescue excavations before the building of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s,[1][2] and was attached to the Polish team at Faras.[1]

    In 1994, a Festschrift was published in his honour titled "The Unbroken Reed: Studies in the Culture and Heritage of Ancient Egypt".[4]

    Personal life

    Shore was a devout

    Roman Catholic.[1] Although he always published as A. F. Shore, he was known to friends as Peter.[1] In 1952, he married Patricia (née Tillett).[2] Together they had two sons, two daughters, and, at the time of his death, ten grandchildren.[1][2]

    Shore had periods of ill-health throughout his life, including a bout of tuberculosis that meant he spent months in a sanatorium and lost the use of one lung.[1] Having been seriously ill for months, he died on 27 November 1994, aged 70.[2]

    Selected works

    • Shore, A. F. (1962). Portrait Painting from Roman Egypt. London: The British Museum.
    • Shore, A. F. (1963). Joshua I—VI and Other Passages in Coptic Edited from a Fourth-Century Sahidic Codex in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin. Chester Beatty Monographs (no. 9). Dublin: Hodges Figgis.
    • Shore, A. F. (1971). "Christian and Coptic Egypt". In Harris, J. R. (ed.). The Legacy of Egypt. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    References

    1. ^
      S2CID 163183388
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    2. ^ a b c d e f g Pace, Eric (5 December 1994). "A. F. Shore, 70, a British Expert On Egypt After Cleopatra's Fall". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
    3. ^ a b "Egyptologist Arthur Frank Shore Is Dead At Age 70". AP NEWS. 5 December 1994. Retrieved 26 May 2021.
    4. ISBN 978-0856981241
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