James Quibell

James Edward Quibell ( born November 11, 1867 in Newport, Shropshire, England; † June 5, 1935 in Hertford ) was a British Egyptologist.

He was educated at Christ Church College in Oxford. Subsequently, he was involved with Flinders Petrie at the excavations at Tell el- Amarna, where he was chased away by Petrie for theft. In 1893, he dug in Koptos, Naqada and Hierakonpolis. He became in 1899 a member of the Antiquities Authority. In 1898, he was chief inspector of antiquities in the Delta. In 1905 he was involved in the Valley of the Kings on the Discovery ( excavation Theodore Davis) of the tomb of Yuya and Thuya ( KV46 ). In the same year he returned to Saqqara, where he was involved in the excavation of the Jeremias Monastery. There he found the blocks destroyed by monks tomb of Maya. Since 1 January 1914 to 1923 he worked as a curator at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. From 1923 to 1925 he was General Inspector of the Antiquities Authority. After his retirement, he worked with his successor Cecil Mallaby Firth at the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara.

Publications (selection)

• Ballas. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1896.
• El Kab Bernard Quaritch, London, 1898.
• Excavations at Saqqara, 1906-1907. Impr de l'Institut français d' archéologie orientale, Cairo 1908.
• Hierakonpolis. Bernard Quaritch, London 1900-02.
• The Ramesseum. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1898.