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Henri Frankfort
Black and white photo of Frankfort sat behind a table while outside
Frankfort in the 1930s
Born(1897-02-24)24 February 1897
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died16 July 1954(1954-07-16) (aged 57)
London, England
SpouseHenriette Groenewegen-Frankfort
Academic background
EducationUniversity of Amsterdam
University College London
University of Leiden
Academic work
InstitutionsOriental Institute
University of Chicago
Warburg Institute

Henri "Hans" Frankfort (24 February 1897 – 16 July 1954) was a Dutch Egyptologist, archaeologist and orientalist.

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Henri Frankfort

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Henri "Hans" Frankfort (24 February 1897 – 16 July 1954) was a Dutch Egyptologist, archaeologist and orientalist. Born in Amsterdam, into a "liberal Jewish"...

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Eshnunna

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Henri Frankfort, "Sculpture of the Third Millennium B.C. from Tell Asmar and Khafajah, Oriental Institute Publication 44, 1939" [15] Henri Frankfort,...

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Khafajah

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between 1930 and 1937 by an Oriental Institute of Chicago team led by Henri Frankfort with Thorkild Jacobsen, Conrad Preusser and Pinhas Delougaz. For two...

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Frankfort

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dramatist, novelist and poet Henri Frankfort (1897–1954), Dutch Egyptologist, archaeologist and orientalist Jacob Frankfort (1801–unknown), first Jewish...

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Tell Asmar Hoard

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invited the Dutch Archeologist Henri Frankfort (1897–1954) to lead the expedition. Between 1930 and 1937 Frankfort and his team conducted extensive...

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Mythopoeic thought

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thought preceding modern thought, proposed by Henri Frankfort and his wife Henriette Antonia Frankfort in the 1940s, based on their interpretation of...

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First Intermediate Period of Egypt

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Intermediate Period" was coined in 1926 by Egyptologists Georg Steindorff and Henri Frankfort. Very little monumental evidence survives from this period, especially...

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Warburg Institute

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1937. In 1944 it became associated with the University of London. Henri Frankfort succeeded Saxl as director in 1949, and in 1955 was succeeded by Gertrud...

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Neferkare Khendu

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"Khendy", has been tentatively attributed to him by the egyptologist Henri Frankfort in 1926. Modern scholarship has shown however that the cartouche on...

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Lilith

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(1978). Kramer's translation of the Gilgamesh fragment was used by Henri Frankfort (1937) and Emil Kraeling (1937) to support identification of a woman...

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Ancient Egyptian deities

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deities in animal form, and finally deities in human form, whereas Henri Frankfort argued that the gods must have been envisioned in human form from the...

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List of archaeological excavations by date

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- Stephen Langdon Sutton Hoo - Basil Brown Eshnunna - Henri Frankfort Khafajah - Henri Frankfort Tell Uqair - Seton Lloyd Masada - Yigael Yadin Tel Arad...

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Amun

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his name as Amun, he appears to the face as Re, his body is Ptah. Henri Frankfort suggested that Amun was originally a wind god and speculating pointed...

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Phaistos Disc

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Scripts from Crete and Cyprus. Volume 9 of the publications of the Henri Frankfort Foundation. 131 pages. ISBN 9789004084315 Jan G. P. Best, Fred C. Woudhuizen...

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Tell Ishchali

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excavations there between 1934 and 1936. The expedition was led by Henri Frankfort and the work at Ishchali was handled by Thorkild Jacobsen and Harold...

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Sacred king

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of Royalty: Power and Ceremonial in Traditional Societies (1987). Henri Frankfort, Kingship and the Gods (1948, 1978). Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy:...

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Shabaka Stone

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alludes to the importance of Memphis as the first royal city). As such, Henri Frankfort, John Wilson, Miriam Lichtheim, and Erik Iversen have also assessed...

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Enriqueta Harris

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albeit for two years when she was married to the institution's director Henri Frankfort. Her work on Spanish paintings earned her widespread recognition in...

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Burney Relief

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Mesopotamian mythology and religion. Detailed descriptions were published by Henri Frankfort (1936), by Pauline Albenda (2005), and in a monograph by Dominique...

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Tell Agrab

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Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1952, ISBN 0-226-14233-7 Henri Frankfort, "Revelations of Early Mesopotamian Culture. New Discoveries at Tell...

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Serpopard

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177, 2008, Eisenbrauns, ISBN 1575061449, 9781575061443, Google books Henri Frankfort, The Art And Architecture Of The Ancient Orient, Yale University Press...

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Book of Nut

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Königsgräber. Ramses IV. und Ramses VII. von Zabern, Mainz 1990, S. 89–96. Henri Frankfort: The Cenotaph of Seti I at Abydos (with chapters by Adriaan de Buck...

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David Wengrow

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during Wengrow's time at Oxford. Between 2001 and 2004 Wengrow was Henri Frankfort Fellow at the Warburg Institute and Junior Research Fellow at Christ...

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Myth

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edition 2009. Archived 12 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine PDF Frankfort, Henri; Frankfort, H.A.; Wilson, John A.; Jacobsen, Thorkild; Irwin, William A...

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Amarna

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excavation at Amarna under the direction of T.E. Peet, Sir Leonard Woolley, Henri Frankfort, Stephen Glanville, and John Pendlebury. Mary Chubb served as the digs...

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Isis

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Kurt Sethe suggested she was originally a personification of thrones. Henri Frankfort agreed, believing that the throne was considered the king's mother...

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List of Egyptologists

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Georges Foucart (French, 1865–1943) Detlef Franke (German, 1952–2007) Henri Frankfort (Dutch, 1897–1954) Henning Franzmeier (German) George Willoughby Fraser...

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Egyptian mythology

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the contradictory imagery in Egyptian myth. However, in the 1940s, Henri Frankfort, realizing the symbolic nature of Egyptian mythology, argued that apparently...

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