Francis Llewellyn Griffith

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Francis Llewellyn Griffith
Egyptologist
OrganizationEgypt Exploration Fund
Spouse(s)Kate Bradbury Griffith (d. 1902)
Nora Christina Cobban Macdonald (m. 1909–his death)
Parent
  • Rev. Dr. John Griffith (father)

Francis Llewellyn Griffith

Egyptologist
of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Early life and education

F. Ll. Griffith was born in

The Queen's College from 1880 to 1882: in the absence of an Egyptological department he taught himself ancient Egyptian.[3]

Career

Griffith worked as a student for The Egypt Exploration Fund (EEF) (later known as the

Edouard Naville.[7] He obtained a vellum leaf containing a Coptic male homosexual love spell written in Hermopolitan dialect, from an Egyptian avocat named Fanous,[8] which provides the only example in Coptic language of a love spell between men.[9] This document is held and preserved at the Ashmolean Museum with the designation of Ashmolean Parchment AN 1981.940
.

Personal life

Griffith married Kate Bradbury (26 August 1854 – 2 March 1902), a good friend of Amelia Edwards, in 1896.[10] Kate died six years later and Griffith eventually inherited his father-in-law's estate. This allowed him to endow the study of Egyptology at Oxford. In 1909 he married Nora Christina Cobban Macdonald (1870–1937), who assisted him in his studies and excavations in Egypt and Nubia in 1910–13, 1923, 1929 and 1930, and prepared his unfinished work for publication after his death.[11] Nora was from Aberdeen, and in 2017 the city council approved erection of a blue plaque to honour her as a "noted Egyptologist".[12]

After the establishment of a post in Egyptology, Griffith was appointed Reader in 1901. He was Professor of Egyptology at the university from 1924 until 1932 and died in 1934.

By the terms of his will the Griffith Institute at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford was established in 1939,[13] with additional funding from the will of his second wife, Nora. He was buried in Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.[14]

Works

  • 1889: The inscriptions of Siut and Dêr Rîfeh. London: Trübner. (online version at the Internet Archive)
  • 1898: Hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the middle kingdom). London: Quaritch. (online version at the Internet Archive)
  • 1900: Stories of the High Priests of Memphis: the Dethon of Herodotus and the Demotic tales of Khamuas. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (online version at the Internet Archive)
  • 1904–1921: The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (online version: vol. 1, vol. 3 at the Internet Archive)
  • 1911: Karanòg: the Meroitic inscriptions of Shablul and Karanòg. Philadelphia: University Museum. (online version at the Internet Archive)

Footnotes and references

  1. S2CID 192407860
    .
  2. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/98158. Retrieved 30 September 2016. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  3. ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press 2004, p. 959.
  4. ^ Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology, University of Wisconsin Press 1995, p. 85.
  5. ^ Report of Third Annual General Meeting & Balance Sheet 1885, [n.p.] [1885], p. 5. HathiTrust Digital Library. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015059695299?urlappend=%3Bseq=20
  6. ^ Report of Fourth Annual General Meeting and Balance Sheet. 1885–6 London: Trüber & Co., [1886], 8. HathiTrust Digital Library. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015059695299?urlappend=%3Bseq=78.
  7. ^ Report of Fourth Annual General Meeting and Balance Sheet. 1885-6 London: Trüber & Co., [1886], p. 21. HathiTrust Digital Library. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015059695299?urlappend=%3Bseq=78.
  8. JSTOR 3854650
    . Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  9. ^ Cromwell, Jennifer (15 June 2021). "Ancient Same Sex Love Spells". papyrus-stories.com. Retrieved 9 April 2022.
  10. ^ Flinders Petrie: A Life in Archaeology, University of Wisconsin Press 1995, pp. 222–223
  11. ^ "Nora Griffith". Artefacts of Excavation: British Excavations in Egypt 1880–1980. Griffith Institute. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  12. ^ "Council approves commemorative plaques for pioneers". Aberdeen City Council. 26 April 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  13. ^ The Ashmolean 16, 1989, pp. 5–7.
  14. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    (ODNB) – Oxford University Press – Published in print: 23 September 2004 Published online: 23 September 2004

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