Word: reisner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great outstanding feature of the history of Ethiopia was that the Ethiopian cultural unit stood as an outpost of Egyptian civilization in Middle Africa," writes Professor Reisner. He shows that Ethiopia had become thoroughly Egyptianized while it was under the sway of Egypt, and the Egyptian influence, though gradually diminishing, remained dominant for hundreds of years. During the Meroitic kingdom,--the period when Meroe was the capital,--Professor Reisner finds that several times Egyptian influences on Ethiopian culture were reintroduced and the Egyptian arts and crafts were revived, possibly through the importation of Egyptian craftsmen. The Ethiopians, however, were...
Excavations conducted in the Sudan during the past three years by Professor George A. Reisner '89 of the University, who is in charge of the Egyptian expedition working under the joint auspices of the University and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, have revealed the main outlines of the history of the ancient kingdom of Ethiopia during a period of over a thousand years, according to a report received from Dr. Reisner...
...They knew well," says Professor Reisner, "the use of writing from the cumbersome Egyptian hieroglyphics which they had inherited along with the official Egyptian language, and they must have had hints of alphabetic writing from the use of Greek in Ptolemaic Egypt and the use of the Southern Arabic script of Abyssinia. But they made a script of their own,--unique in the form of the letters, adapted only to the writing of their own peculiar language. The cursive was invented first for the practical purposes of daily life and caused an immediate decline in the knowledge of Egyptian...
...debris of a ruined pyramid belonging to a child of the royal family who had made their tombs in the Southern cemetery," says Dr. Reisner, "we found to our great surprise a Greek rhyton of red-figured ware signed with the name of the known Athenian potter, Sotades, who lived about 450 B. C. This was borne on the back of an Amazon mounted on a horse, all beautifully modeled. Whether this masterpiece of the Athenian potter reached Meroe by trade or as a gift brought back by some Meroitic ambassador to Egypt must remain uncertain for the present...
...Pound Class.--Reisner defeated W. C. Westhaver '24 by decision...