Georges Émile Goyon (French pronunciation: [ʒɔʁʒ(ə) ɡɔjɔ̃]; 5 August 1905 – 12 January 1996) was a French Egyptologist.[1] A senior fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), he was King Farouk's private archaeologist.
Georges Goyon | |
|---|---|
| Born | Georges Émile Goyon 5 August 1905 Port Said, Egypt |
| Died | 12 January 1996 (aged 90) Marseille, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Egyptologist |
Biography
editGoyon was born in Port-Saïd, Egypt, in 1905, son of Henri Goyon, who worked for the Suez Canal Company.[2] A student and disciple of Pierre Montet,[3] Goyon led, early in his career, the construction of a gigantic granite monument at Ismaïlia for the Suez Canal Company.
For twenty years he led the work of excavation of Tanis and inspected the stones of the Great Pyramid of Cheops to which he practically dedicated his life to, but also did a vast amount of work on the inscriptions and graffiti on the Great Pyramid, making a number of important discoveries especially in the 1940s.[4][5]
In 1946, Goyon discovered an "abecedary incised on black granite" in Wadi Hammamat.[6]
In 1977, he published a ramp model with a single spiral ramp for the construction of the Great Pyramid . The ramps are attached to the outer casing of the pyramid and completely wrap-around it.[7][8]
Publications
editAs author:
- Les inscriptions et graffiti des voyageurs sur la Grande Pyramide. Préf. de Ét. Drioton. , Société royale de géographie, Cairo, 1944.
- Le papyrus de Turin dit "des Mines d'or" et le Wadi Hammamat, Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, 1949.
- Le Tombeau d'Ankhou à Saqqarah, Paul Geuthner, Paris, 1959.
- Le Secret des bâtisseurs des grandes pyramides - Khéops, Pygmalion Editions, 1983.
- La Découverte des trésors de Tanis, Éditions Perséa, 1987.
As a contributing author:
- Les constructions et le tombeau de Chéchanq III à Tanis, 1960.
- Histoire générale des techniques. Tome I, Les origines de la civilisation technique, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1962.
As an editor:
- Voyage en Égypte d'Anthoine Morison, 1697, Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire, 1976.
- Nouvelles inscriptions rupestres du Wadi Hammamat, Paris: Librairie d'Amérique et d'Orient (Imprimerie nationale), 1957.
References
edit- ^ G. Goyon on the author list of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) website
- ^ Montet, Pierre (1998). Lettres de Tanis, 1939-1940: la découverte des trésors royaux (in French). Éditions du Rocher. ISBN 978-2-268-02884-2. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ Guadagnin, Rémy (2008). Archéologia. A. Fanton. ISBN 978-2-902685-41-7. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ "Cheops" (in German). Benben.de. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ Sarah Israelit-Groll; Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim. Ḥug le-egipṭologyah (1985). Pharaonic Egypt: the Bible and Christianity. The Magnes Press, the Hebrew University. pp. 65–70. ISBN 978-965-223-602-9. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ Porten, Bezalel; Yardeni, Ada (May 1999). Textbook of Aramaic documents from ancient Egypt: Ostraca & assorted inscriptions. Hebrew University, Dept. of the History of the Jewish People. ISBN 978-965-350-089-1. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ Geroges Goyon: Le secret des bâtisseurs des grandes pyramides: Khéops. Pygmalion, 1977, pp. 83, 177-178.
- ^ Müller-Römer, Frank (2007). Pyramidenbau mit Rampen und Seilwinden (PDF) (Report). (28 MB) p. 131 – via edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de.
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