Frederick William Green (March 21, 1869 – 1949) was an
English Egyptologist, who worked at a number of sites throughout
Egypt.
Biography
He was born in
London on 21 March 1869. He worked at
Hierakonpolis
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(ancient Nekhen), where amongst other discoveries his team found the
Narmer Palette in 1898.
He studied at
Jesus College in
Cambridge, continuing to study
Archaeology and Egyptology under
Kurt Sethe in
Göttingen and
Strasbourg
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and then excavated sites in and around Egypt with
Flinders Petrie and
Somers Clarke. He worked with
James Quibell at Hierakonpolis from 1897 to 1898 (and alone in 1899).
He later excavated at
Eileithyiaspolis
El Kab (or better Elkab) is an Upper Egyptian site on the east bank of the Nile at the mouth of the Wadi Hillal about south of Luxor (ancient Thebes). El Kab was called Nekheb in the Egyptian language ( , Late Coptic: ), a name that refers to ...
with Clarke and
Archibald Sayce from 1901 to 1902. 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.
He was an accomplished watercolourist, he produced hundreds of paintings during his travels. In 2009 a collection of 149 paintings, together with childhood drawings and early sketchbooks have surfaced for sale on an online auction site, fully documented before their dispersal.
Zboray, A. 2010. The watercolours of Frederick William Green. Nekhen News 22
He died in Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire in 1949.
References
The Waters of the Nile
at www.rps.psu.edu
1869 births
1949 deaths
English Egyptologists
Archaeologists from London
Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
People from Great Shelford
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