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Travellers’ Graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan

Volume V

THEBES

The Temples of Medinet Habu

 

Page 35

 

 

Humphrey. H. B

     

Date: 1840

Location: Small temple, added courts, first pylon, inner face (10) between (d) and (f),

PM II, (1972, plan p. XLIV.

Recording: RDK 1286

 

Biographical details: American from Boston

Bibliography: “Appendix” to the American in Egypt by George Robbin Gliddon (1842); Finnie p. 168 note, 184..

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Henry B. Humphrey (1809-1872)

 

Whose diaries are owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston. Humphrey travelled on the Nile with a Scotsman, Thomas Weir, and with an Englishman, J. B. Petre, a captain in the Royal Dragoons. He formed a valuable library which was sold in 1871 and he is buried in Mount Auburn cemetery in Cambridge.

 

My thanks for the above information goes to Andrew Oliver, Washington DC, USA.

 

 

Additional information

 

Travelers’ Graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan

Volume V

THEBES

The Temples of Medinet Habu

 

Page 69

 

 

 

Unclassifiable

 

Small temple, added courts, first pylon, PM II, (1972).

 

E J MO///////

 

Is to read : Edward Joy Morris

 

He wrote,        Notes on a tour through Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Arabia Petra,

to the Holy Land: including a visit to Athens, Sparta, Delphi,

Cairo, Thebes, Mt. Sinai, Petra & co.

Philadelphia 1842. 2 volumes.

 

Vol., 2,  p. 113,  visited Medinet Habu on  15 January 1840.

 

Biographical information:

            Born in Philadelphia, 16 July 1815  

            Died in Philadelphia,  31 December 1881

 

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M000975

http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/bibdisplay.pl?index=M000975

 

 

Bibliography:

“Appendix” to The American in Egypt, George Robbin Gliddon, Philadelphia     1842; Finnie, p. 76, 155, 168n, Appendix 284; Kalfatovic, p. 139.

 

Information:

My thanks are due to Andrew  Oliver, Washington DC,  USA