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GEOFFREY KILLEN

PUBLICATIONS 2002 -  1975 

Killen, G.P. "Woodworking in Ancient Egypt - the skills of ancient artisans- Part Three: Measurement, Scale and Proportionality of Ancient Egyptian Furniture", Ancient Egypt Magazine, 32 - 35, Manchester, January/February, 2003.

Killen, G.P. Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volume I, Aris and Phillips, Warminster, Wiltshire, 1980. (reprinted 2002).

Killen, G.P. "Woodworking in Ancient Egypt - the skills of ancient artisans- Part Two: Materials and Decorative Techniques", Ancient Egypt Magazine, 24 - 28, Manchester, November/December, 2002.

Killen, G.P. "Woodworking in Ancient Egypt - the skills of ancient artisans- Part One: Tools and Processes", Ancient Egypt Magazine, 24 - 29, Manchester, September/October, 2002.

Killen, G.P. " Furniture " and " Woodworking ", The Oxford Encyclopaedia of Ancient Egypt, 580 – 586, 516 – 519, New York, 2001.

Killen, G.P. ed. Nicholson. P, and Shaw, I. " Woodworking ", Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology, 353 – 371, Cambridge University Press. 2000.

Killen, G.P. " The Decoration and Embellishment of Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Part 2, 354 – 361, The Magazine Antiques, New, York, 1997.

Killen, G.P. " Wood Turning in Ancient Egypt ", The Journal of the Tools and Trades History Society, No. 10. 1997.

Killen, G.P. " The Style and Development of Ancient Egyptian Furniture ", The Magazine Antiques, Part 1, 574 – 581, New, York, April 1997.

Killen, G.P. " Le Travail du Bois et ses Techniques dans L' Egypte Ancienne ", Egypte, Afrique and Orient, No. 3. 2 - 7. 1997.

Killen, G.P. ed. Herrman. G. " Ancient Egyptian Carpentry, its Tools and Techniques ", The Furniture of Western Asia, Philippe von Zabern, 13 - 20. pls. 5 - 9. 1996.

Killen, G.P. " Furniture, Furniture in Antiquity " Encyclopaedia Americana, ( 1994 ), 188 -190. 1995.

Killen, G.P. Egyptian Woodworking and Furniture, Shire Publications, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, 1994.

Killen, G.P. Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volume II, Aris and Phillips, Warminster, Wiltshire, 1994.

Killen, G.P. " Middle Kingdom Seats", Furniture History Journal, ( 1993 ) 1-6.

Killen, G.P. Ancient Egyptian Furniture, Volume I, Aris and Phillips, Warminster, Wiltshire, 1980.

Killen, G.P. " The Evolution of Tools and Furniture VII, The Middle Kingdom ", Woodworker, ( December 1976 ), 380-381, 384.

Killen, G.P. " The Evolution of Tools and Furniture VI, The Furniture of Queen Hetepheres I ", Woodworker, ( August 1976 ), 237- 240.

Killen, G.P. " The Evolution of Tools and Furniture V, The Stool and Chair", Woodworker, ( March 1976 ), 88-90.

Killen, G.P. " The Evolution of Tools and Furniture IV, Tools of the Archaic Period ", Woodworker, ( January 1976 ), 22-23, 32.

Killen, G.P. " The Gem Work of Ancient Egypt ", Gem Craft, ( 1975 ), 580-582.

Killen, G.P. " Antique Crossbow ", Woodworker, ( December 1975 ), 370-372.

Killen, G.P. " The Evolution of Tools and Furniture III, The Earliest Saws", Woodworker, (December 1975), 365-366.

Killen, G.P. " The Evolution of Tools and Furniture II, The Earliest Furniture", Woodworker,   (November 1975), 330-332.

Killen, G.P. " The Evolution of Tools and Furniture I, AD or BC?", Woodworker, ( October 1975 ), 314 - 315.

CLASSES AND LECTURES

" John Garstang's Discovery of Wooden Furniture at the Middle Kingdom Necropolis of Beni Hasan", The Bard Graduate Center, New York, 24th October, 2002.

" Ancient Egyptian Furniture " and " Woodworking Techniques ", The Bard Graduate Center, New York, 23rd October, 2002.

"Ancient Egyptian Woodworking", Letchworth Museum, Hertfordshire - North Herts. Archaeological Society, 17th October 2001.

" Ancient Egyptian Woodworking ", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21, 1997.

" Ancient Egyptian Furniture " and " Woodworking Techniques ", The Bard Graduate Center, New York, February 19, 1997.

" Carpentry in Ancient Egypt ", March 20, 1996, Department of Egyptology, University College, London.

" Ancient Egyptian Furniture " and " Woodworking Techniques ", The Bard Graduate Center, New York, February 20, 1995.

" Carpentry in Ancient Egypt ", January 18, 1994, Department of Egyptology, University College, London.

" The Furniture of Western Asia - Ancient Egyptian Carpentry, its Tools and Techniques ", June 28 - 30 1993, The Institute of Archaeology - University College, London.

" Woodworking in Ancient Egyptian ", The Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge, 1992.

HONOURS AND AWARDS

British Academy Scientific Research Grant, Research into dating turned wood by Radio Carbon dating, 1996 - 1997.

British Academy Research Grant, Research into the turning of wood in Ancient Egypt, 1996 -1997.

Samuel H. Kress Foundation Grant, Travel grant for lectures at the Bard Graduate Center and study in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum. 1995.

Thomas Mulvey Fund, University of Cambridge, Travel and accommodation grant to study and prepare technical drawings in Cairo. 1990.

Robert Davies Memorial Grant, Travel grant to catalogue the furniture in the Journal Entree ( JE ), of the Egyptian Antiquities Museum, Cairo. 1976.

 

© Geoffrey Killen 2003