Nora Griffith
Nora Griffith (7 December 1870 – 21 October 1937) was a Scottish
Born as Nora Christina Cobban Macdonald in
After her husband's death in 1934 she prepared his unfinished work for publication including his two volume Demotic Graffiti in the Dodecaschoenus, complete with 70 illustrations in addition to photographs taken by herself. She organised and funded further excavations at Firka and Kawa in the Sudan and financially supported the Egypt Exploration Society in its work. She added to and expanded the already large Egyptological library collected by her husband and herself and which was later donated to the University of Oxford and added her own personal fortune to that of her late husband for the building and endowment of the Griffith Institute at Oxford which is dedicated to the advancement of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies.[3][4][8][9][10][11]
Nora Griffith died at the Acland Home in Oxford of peritonitis after an appendectomy in 1937 at the age of 66.[4][11] She was buried with her husband in Holywell Cemetery in Oxford.[12]
Legacy
In addition to her endowment of the Griffith Institute at Oxford, in 2017 Aberdeen City Council approved the erection of a blue plaque to honour her as a "noted Egyptologist".[13] This was unveiled in November 2018 and is located at Kings College Quad in Aberdeen[14]
References
- ^ Jason Thompson, Wonderful Things (Volume 2): A History of Egyptology: 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914, The American University in Cairo Press (2015) - Google Books pg. 174
- ^ Nora Christina Cobban Macdonald in the Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
- ^ a b c Nora Christina Cobban Griffith (nee Macdonald) (1870 – 1937) - Aberdeenshire Council website
- ^ a b c d Obituary for Nora Griffith - The Journal for Egyptian Archaeology, Volume XXIII - The Egypt Exploration Society (1937)
- ^ British Academy, A Century of British Orientalists, 1902-2001, Oxford University Press - Google Books pg. 194
- ^ Nora Griffiths, 'Akhenaten and the Hittites' - The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 9, No. 1/2, Apr., 1923
- ^ Nora Griffith - The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology
- ^ "Nora Griffith". Artefacts of Excavation: British Excavations in Egypt 1880–1980. Griffith Institute. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ Nora Griffith - Artefacts of Excavation: British Excavations in Egypt 1880-1980, The Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
- ^ Nora Griffiths- Scots & Egyptology - Egyptology Scotland
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(ODNB) - Oxford University Press - Published in print: 23 September 2004 Published online: 23 September 2004
- ^ 'The strange mystery of the Egyptologist’s missing tomb' - This is Oxfordshire 20 March 2014
- ^ "Council approves commemorative plaques for pioneers". Aberdeen City Council. 26 April 2017. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ Nora Griffith plaque unveiling - Women's History Scotland - 24 November 2018
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