George Willoughby Fraser (baptized 5 August 1866 – 24 November 1923) was an English
civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing ...
who operated at the service of the
Egypt Exploration Fund
The Egypt Exploration Society (EES) is a British non-profit organization. The society was founded in 1882 by Amelia Edwards and Reginald Stuart Poole in order to examine and excavate in the areas of Egypt and Sudan. The intent was to study and an ...
. His parents were Sir Thomas Fraser and Matilda Wildman.
As part of his work for the Egypt Exploration Fund, he worked as a draftsman in the excavations conducted by Sir
Flinders Petrie
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egypt ...
,
Percy Edward Newberry
Percy Edward Newberry (23 April 1869 – 7 August 1949) was a British Egyptologist.
Biography
Percy Newberry was born in Islington, London on 23 April 1869. His parents were Caroline () and Henry James Newberry, a woollen warehouseman. Newber ...
and
Marcus Worsley Blackden Marcus, Markus, Márkus or Mărcuș may refer to:
* Marcus (name), a masculine given name
* Marcus (praenomen), a Roman personal name
Places
* Marcus, a main belt asteroid, also known as (369088) Marcus 2008 GG44
* Mărcuş, a village in Dobâr ...
in the
Faiyum
Faiyum ( ar, الفيوم ' , borrowed from cop, ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ ' from egy, pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum ...
, in
Beni Hasan
Beni Hasan (also written as Bani Hasan, or also Beni-Hassan) ( ar, بني حسن) is an ancient Egyptian cemetery. It is located approximately to the south of modern-day Minya in the region known as Middle Egypt, the area between Asyut and Mem ...
, in
Deir el-Bersha
Deir El Bersha ( ar, دير البرشا; also written as Dayr al-Barsha, Deir el-Bersheh) is a Coptic village in Middle Egypt, in the Minya Governorate. It is located on the east bank of the Nile to the south of Antinoöpolis and almost opposit ...
and in the quarries of
Hatnub
Hatnub was the location of Egyptian alabaster quarries and an associated seasonally occupied workers' settlement in the Eastern Desert, about from el-Minya, southeast of el-Amarna. The pottery, hieroglyph inscriptions and hieratic graffiti at ...
. Less well known is his description of the burial ground dating to the
4th and
5th dynasties, two kilometers south of
Tuna el-Gebel
Tuna el-Gebel ( ar, تونة الجبل, cop, ⲑⲱⲛⲓ) was the necropolis of Khmun ( Hermopolis Magna). It is the largest known Greco-Roman necropolis in Egypt, dating from the New Kingdom to the Roman Period, and seeing heavy use in the ...
, later renamed ''
Fraser Tombs
The Fraser Tombs are a necropolis located northeast of Al Minya, Upper Egypt. They sit around south of Tihna el-Gebel village, which was an ancient limestone quarry.
The rock-cut sepulchres date to the Fourth and Fifth Dynasties of the O ...
'' in his honor.
[Warren R. Dawson, Eric P. Uphill: ''Who was who in Egyptology.'' 3rd revised edition, by Morris L. Bierbrier. The Egypt Exploration Society, London 1995, , p. 157.]
Significant works
* "Mr. G. Willoughby Fraser's Report on the Survey of the Wady Dêr en-Nakhleh", in:
Francis L. Griffith, Percy E. Newberry
''El Bersheh'' Part 2 Egypt Exploration Fund u. a., London 1895, pp. 55–66.
''A catalogue of the scarabs belonging to George Fraser'' London 1900.
* "The early tombs at Tehneh", in ''Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte'' 3, 1902, , pp. 67–76, 122–130, 5 plates.
References
1866 births
1923 deaths
English civil engineers
English Egyptologists
People from Mereworth
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