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Fredrick William Green. Dates: 1869 - 1949. British Egyptologist and excavator; he was born in London, 21 March 1869, son of Frederick G., solicitor, and Sophia Rose; he studied at Jesus College, Cambridge; BA, 1898; MA, 1901; he became interested in Egyptology at an early age and studied it under Sethe at Göttingen and later at Strasbourg; he ...
These included the granite head of Senwosret III (E.37.1930), who reigned in Dynasty 12, which Green presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum in 1930, and is now one of the key pieces of Middle Kingdom art held by the museum.
He also worked as a mapmaker for the Geological Survey of Egypt, 1896-8, and on several subsequent expeditions with William Hume in the Eastern and Western Deserts. He was involved in surveying the topography and monuments of Nubia, 1906 and 1909-10.
He surveyed the topography and monuments of Nubia in 1906 and 1909 to 1910. Nearing the end of his career Green led the Mond excavation of the Bucheum at Armant from 1929 to 1930. He was the Honorary Keeper of the Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, from 1908 to 1949.
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Biographical history. British Egyptologist and excavator; he was born in London, 21 March 1869, son of Frederick G., solicitor, and Sophia Rose; he studied at Jesus College, Cambridge; BA, 1898; MA, 1901; he became interested in Egyptology at an early age and studied it under ... Archival history.
The collection mainly comprises manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, maps and drawings relating to the following excavations and surveys: Hierakonpolis, 1898-1900; El Kab, 1896, 1902; the Bucheum, 1930; Nubia, 1906, 1909-10; the Eastern Desert, 1897-1900, 1902, 1910; the Fayum and the Western Desert, 1908-9.
