Faulkner, R.O. : Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, Oxford University Press – Oxford, 1969, p.9, utterance 43.
Faulkner was a British Egyptologist who studied under Alan Gardiner:
Faulkner developed an interest in Egyptology, and in 1918 he took to studying Egyptian hieroglyphs in his spare time at University College London under the tutelage of Margaret Murray. In 1926 he became the full-time assistant to Dr Alan Gardiner, from whom he received philological training and encouragement to publish his works on hieroglyphic texts.
He was the editor of the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology from 1946–59, and wrote many books, articles, and reviews. In 1950 he was admitted as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.
In 1951 Faulkner became an assistant in language teaching at University College London, progressing to become a lecturer in Egyptian language – a post he held from 1954 to 1967. He received his Doctor of Letters degree from the University of London in 1960.
Faulkner’s main area of interest was Egyptian philology, and he made major contributions to Egyptology with his translations and indexes of many important ancient Egyptian texts, as well as his autographic dictionary of Middle Egyptian (which remains an important and standard reference for modern Egyptologists and students of the ancient Egyptian language).
Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (29 March 1879, in Eltham – 19 December 1963, in Oxford) was one of the premier English Egyptologists of the early and mid-20th century. Some of his most important publications include a 1959 book on his study of “The Royal Canon of Turin” and his seminal 1961 work Egypt of the Pharaohs, which covered all aspects of Egyptian chronology and history at the time of publication.
Two major contributions to ancient Egyptian philology by Gardiner are his famous three editions of Egyptian Grammar and its correlated list of all the Middle Egyptian hieroglyphs in Gardiner’s Sign List. Publishing Egyptian Grammar produced one of the few available hieroglyphic printing fonts.
In 1915 Gardiner was also able to crack the so-called Proto-Sinaitic writing system by deciphering the “B’alat inscriptions”.
He was educated at Temple Grove School, Charterhouse, and Queens College, Oxford; he was later a student of the famous egyptologist Kurt Heinrich Sethe in Berlin.[1]
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For Wikipedia article on Kurt Heinrich Sethe, click here.
The following links – to Champollion and The Rosetta Stone are worth a good read. Both stories together make for history of the most dramatic sort. Both topics have been Dramatized. One of the great Code Breaking episodes in scholarly history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Champollion