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dramatis personae ASOR Punic Project - Dramatis Personae

1925 CENTENNIAL • Franco-American Excavations

Kelsey Correspondents 1924-27: Excavation Patrons, Supporters & Staff


DRAMATIS PERSONAE   1825 | 1875 | 1925 | 1975

Ashby
Thomas Ashby FBA FSA (1874-1931)
Director of the British School at Rome (1906-1925), honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; recommended A. M. Duff and D. B. Harden to B. Khun de Prorok (1924).
Askren
David Leslie Askren MD (1875-1939)
Medical missionary in the Faiyum and local intermediary for the Karanis excavations; provided papyri and artifacts for F. W. Kelsey's collection in the 1920s.
Audollent
Auguste Audollent (1864-1943)
Professor of Latin at the Université Clermont (from 1893); specialist on Roman Carthage and epigrapher (tabellae defixionum); member of the Carthage Exploration Society; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (from 1933).
Bell
Harold Idris Bell (1879-1967)
Served the British Museum in the Department of Manuscripts (1903-1944), as Keeper (from 1929); middleman in sales of papyri.
Bertrand
Louis Bertrand (1866-1941)
Member of the Académie française (seat 4, from 1925); ideologue and propagandist of French colonialism in North Africa.
Bishop
William Warner Bishop (1871-1955)
Head librarian at the University of Michigan (1915-1941); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
Bliss
Robert Woods Bliss (1875-1962)
Career diplomat; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; founder of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.
Boak
Arthur Edward Romilly Boak (1988-1962)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan (1914-1958), member of the university's Committee on Near East Research and participant in excavations at Karanis (from 1924).
Bonner
George Gough Booth (1864-1949)
Publisher and philanthropist.
Bonner
Campbell Bonner (1876-1954)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan; member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
Bowman
Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950)
First Director of the American Geographical Society (1915-1935); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; president of the Johns Hopkins University (1935-1948).
Brady
Nicholas Frederic Brady (1876-1930)
Investor and philanthropist; holder of several papal honors (e.g. Duke of the Holy Roman Church); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Brunton
Guy Brunton OBE (1878-1948)
Egyptologist and archaeologist; student and close associate of W. M. Flinders Petrie; assistant keeper of the Cairo Museum (1931-1948).
Buckler
William Hepburn Buckler FBA (1867-1952)
Director of American excavations at Sardis (1910-1914) and in Anatolia (1922-1930).
Burton
Marion LeRoy Burton (1874-1925)
President of the University of Michigan (1920-1925); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
Butler
Orma Fitch Butler (1875-1938)
Participant during the Kelsey campaign (1925), along with her sister Anita “Nita” Lorine Butler; curator of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1928-1938).
de Vimy
Field Marshal Julian Hedworth George “Bungo” Byng de Vimy (1862-1935)
  aka Viscount Byng of Vimy
Honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; 12ᵗʰ Governor General of Canada (1921-1926).
Cagnat
Réné Louis Victor Cagnat (1852-1937)
Professor at the College de France (from 1887), specialist in Latin epigraphy of North Africa; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (from 1895); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Callander
Thomas Callander (1880-1959)
Professor of Classics at Queen's University (1903-1934).
Calder
Ralph Russell Calder (1894-1969)
First recipient of the University of Michigan George G. Booth Traveling Fellowship in Architecture (1924); assistant architect at Carthage (1925).
Carroll
Mitchell Carroll (1870-1925)
Professor of Classics at George Washington University and Secretary of the Washington DC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA-DC); editor of the society's journal Art and Archaeology; member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Carton
Louis Carton MD (1861-1924)
Military physician and amateur archaeologist; excavated at Dougga, Bulla Regia, Sousse, and the sanctuary of Tinnit at el-Kénissa; promoter and excavator of ancient Carthage; owner of the Villa Stella and the propriété Carton in the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (adjacent to the propriété Regulus-Salammbô); in perpetual conflict with L. Poinssot of the Service des Antiquités.
Caton-Thompson
Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888-1985)
Egyptologist and archaeologist, student of W. M. Flinders Petrie.
Chabannes La Palice
Jean Victurnien Jacques de Chabannes La Palice (1867-1939)
  aka Compte (“count”) de Chabannes
French aristocrat whose family had purchased the territory of Utica and environs; supported excavations by the abbé J. Moulard (his tutor) and by B. Khun de Prorok.
Chabot
abbé Jean-Baptiste Chabot (1860-1948)
Catholic abbot and Semitic epigrapher; member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (from 1917); editor of the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum and Répertoire d'Épigraphie Sémitique; key member of the Carthage Exploration Society and intermediary with French protectorate authorities.
Chase
George Henry Chase (1874-1952)
Professor of Archaeology at Harvard University, excavator of the Argive Heraeum; although approached by B. Khun de Prorok in 1923, declined to lead the Franco-American excavations.
Cintas
Pierre Cintas (1908-1974)
Custom official in Algeria (1929-1931) and then Tunisia (1931-1946); excavated the propriété Lacour/Hervé sector at the Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1944-1947); later served in the Service des Antiquités (1947-1956) and then as director of the French archaeological mission until the end of the protectorate (1956-1961).
Clements
William Lawrence Clements (1861-1934)
Regent of the University of Michigan (1909-1933).
Clermont-Ganneau
Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau (1846-1923)
Philologist and amateur archaeologist while dragoman in the French foreign service, stationed in Jerusalem and Constantinople (from 1867); member of the Academie (1889); chair of Semitic epigraphy and antiquities at the Collège de France (1890)
Cooke
Rev. George Albert Cooke (1865-1939)
Professor of Scripture and Hebrew at the University of Oxford (from 1914).
Conway
William Martin Conway, 1ˢᵗ Baron Conway of Allington (1856-1937)
Explorer, politician and art critic; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Coudray de La Blanchere
René Marie du Coudray de La Blanchère (1853-1896)
Director of the Service des antiquités (1885-1896, now the INP).
Currelly
Charles Trick Currelly (1876-1957)
Student of W. M. Flinders Petrie; first director of the Royal Ontario Museum (1914-1946); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Currie
Gen. Arthur William Currie GCMB KCB (1875-1933)
President and vice-chancellor of McGill University (1920-1933); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Delattre
Rev. Alfred-Louis Delattre MAfr (1850-1932)
Catholic missionary of the Pères Blancs (“White Fathers”); tireless excavator of Carthage; founder and curator of Musée Lavigerie de Saint-Louis (1875-1932); advisor to B. Khun de Prorok and F. W. Kelsey; honorary Chairman of the International Research Committee of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Demidoff Troubetzkoy
Olga Pavlovna Demidova (1895-1982)
  aka “princess” Olga Demidoff Troubetzkoy (or Trubetskoy)
Aristocratic who fled to Paris before the Russian Revolution; wife E. R. Stoever (m.1918-1930).
Douglas
William Douglas (   )
Assistant architect at Carthage (1925); fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1928).
Doumic
Réné Doumic (1860-1937)
Member of the Académie française (from 1909); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Duff
Arnold Mackay Duff (1900-1976)
Alongside D. B. Harden, Fellow at the British School at Rome and participant during the Khun de Prorok campaign (1924).
Dundas
Lawrence John Lumley Dundas (1876-1961), The 2ⁿᵈ Marquess of Zetland
  aka Lord Dundas (until 1892) or Earl of Ronaldshay (1892-1929)
President of the Royal Geographical Society London (1922-1925); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Dussaud
René Dussaud (1868-1958)
Archaeologist and epigrapher; curator at the Musée du Louvre (1910-1938) and member of the Académie (from 1923).
Edhem Bey
Halil Edhem Bey (1861-1938)
Assistant Director (from 1889) and then Director General of the Istanbul Museum (1910-1931).
Effinger
John Robert Effinger (1869-1933)
Professor of French at the University of Michigan (1892-1933); dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA 1915-1933); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
d’Erlanger
Rodolphe François d'Erlanger (1872-1932)
  aka Baron d'Erlanger
Artist and musicologist; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; provided accommodation for Franco-American excavators at his palace in Sidi bou Said (Dar Ennejma Ezzahra).
Evans
Sir Arthur John Evans FRS FBA FBE (1851-1941)
Archaeologist and Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum (1884-1908); President of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1914-1991); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Evelyn-White
Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White (1884-1924)
Professor of Classics at the University of Leeds (1922-1924); excavator of the tomb of Tutankhamun; died just before the initial Karanis campaign.
Fowler
Col. William Eric Fowler (1874-1956)
Diplomat and philanthropist; trustee of the Washington DC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA-DC); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Freer
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)
Correspondent with F. W. Kelsey; philanthropist and donor of the core collection of the Freer Gallery in the National Museum of Asian Art of the Smithsonian Institution
French
George F. French (1899-1984?)
Draftsman for the Kelsey campaign (1925); Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Garstang
John Garstang (1876-1956)
Professor of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool, director of the Department of Antiquities in British Mandate Palestine (1920-1926)
Gielly
Paul Gielly (ca.1875-   )
Tax and customs official during the French protectorate and amateur archaeologist; friend of F. Icard and secretary to L. Carton; co-discovered the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1921); co-owned the propriété Regulus-Salammbô.
Gauckler
Paul Frédéric Gauckler (1866-1911)
Director of the Service des antiquités (1896-1905, now the INP).
Gonzague Ryckmans
Louis Constant de Gonzague Ryckmans (1887-1968)
Philologist and instructor at the Aartsbisschoppelijk Groot Seminarie in Mechelen (1920-1929), then professor at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (1930-1958); co-editor of the Répertoire d'Épigraphie Sémitique.
Grosvenor
Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor (1875-1966)
President of the National Geographic Society; editor of the magazine National Geographic (1899-1954); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Gsell
Stephane Gsell (1864-1932)
Professor at the Collège de France (1912-1932); member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (from 1923), member of the Carthage Exploration Society
Hanotaux
Albert Auguste Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944)
Member of the Académie française (from 1897); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Harden
Donald Benjamin Harden (1901-1994)
Craven Fellow of the British School at Rome and participant during the Khun de Prorok (1924) and Kelsey campaigns (1925); donated ceramics to the British Museum (1925); held a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Ann Arbor to prepare excavation reports for the University of Michigan (1926-1928); served as assistant (1929-1945) and then Keeper of Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum (1945-1956); accessioned additional ceramics for the Ashmolean (1933); published a still-valid typology of Punic ceramics (1937).
Hayes
William Christopher Hayes (1903-1963)
Assistant curator (1936-1952) then Curator of the Egyptian Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1952-1963); participant during the Kelsey campaign (1925).
Hoeing
Charles A. Hoeing (1871-1938)
Professor of Latin at the University of Rochester (1905-1929) and dean of its College for Men (1914-1929).
Herrick
Myron Timothy Herrick (1854-1929)
US ambassador to France (1912-1914, 1921-1929).
Horton
Mary Ann Horton (1864-1947)
Wife of H. H. Rackham and trustee of his estate.
Huguenot
Rev. Edmond Huguenot MAfr (1850-1933)
Catholic missionary of the Pères Blancs (“White Fathers”); archaeologist of African prehistory; founder and curator of the Musée préhistorique de Ouargla; advisor to B. Khun de Prorok.
Hutchins
Harry Burns Hutchins (1847-1930)
Fourth president of the University of Michigan (1909-1920).
Hyvernat
Henri Eugene Xavier Louis Hyvernat (1858-1941)
First Professor of Oriental Studies at the Catholic University of America.
Icard
François Oscar Icard (1875-ca.1941)
Police inspector during the French protectorate, antiquarian and amateur archaeologist; associate of L. Carton and his co-excavator at the sanctuary of Tinnit at el-Kénissa; after buying Punic stelae surreptitiously for years, co-discovered the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l in Carthage (1921) and co-owned the propriété Regulus-Salammbô.
Jusserand
Jean Adrien Antoine Jules Jusserand (1855-1932)
French ambassador to the US (1903-1925); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Kellerman
Maurice Charbonnet Kellerman (1883-1943)
Cinematographer for the Khun de Prorok and Kelsey campaigns (1924-1925) and for Lost Gods (1930).
Kelsey
Francis Willey Kelsey (1858-1927)
Professor of Classics (Latin) at the University of Michigan (1889-1927), and at the American Academy in Rome (1900-1901) President of the American Philological Association (1906-1907) and of the Archaeological Institute of America (1907-1912); driving force behind the Antiquities Act (1906); director of excavations in the propriété Regulus-Salammbô sector of the Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1925)
Badger Kelsey
Mary Isabelle Badger Kelsey (1862-1944)
Wife of F. W. Kelsey.
A. J. Kenny
Alice Josephine Kenny (1899-1955?/1962?)
Self-styled “Countess” Khun de Prorok (1923-1927); remarried in 1930 to P. G. Lawson-Johnston (1894-1955), who adopted her daughters Maureen Bune (1924-2013) and Denise Bouché Fitch (1925-2022).
D. J. Kenny
Dennis J. Kenny (1903/4-1925)
Brother to Alice Kenny; killed during a dispute over cab fare in Queens, New York.
W. F. Kenny
William Francis Kenny (1868-1951)
Wealthy building contractor and philanthropist; supporter of Alfred E. Smith as governor (D-NY) and as presidential candidate (1928); owner of a private roof-top club frequented by Tammany Hall politicians (The Tiger Room); father-in-law of B. Khun de Prorok (1923-1927); honorary member and patron of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Kenyon
Frederick George Kenyon GBE KCB TD FBA FSA (1863-1952)
Director of the British Museum (1909-1931); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
King
William Lyon Mackenzie King OM CMG PC (1874-1950)
Tenth Prime Minister of Canada; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Khun de Prorok
Francis Byron Khun de Prorok (1896-1954)
  aka Francis Victor/Byron Kuhn
Socialite and self-styled “count” whose marriage to Alice Kenny introduced him to the New York City political elite; promoted excavations in Carthage and Utica (1921-1925), held the C. E. Norton Memorial Lectureship of the Archaeological Institute of America (1922-1923), and led the so-called “Franco-American” campaign at the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1924), which continued under F. W. Kelsey.
Lacau
Pierre Lacau (1873-1963)
French director of the Egyptian Department of Antiquities (1914-1936).
Lansing
Robert Lansing (1864-1928)
US Secretary of State (1915-1920); president of the Washington DC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (1919-1928); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Lamaître
Rev. Alexis Lamaître MAfr (1864-1939)
Archbishop of Carthage and primate of Africa (1922-1939); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Lantier
Raymond François Lantier (1886-1980)
Served in the Service des Antiquités during the French protectorate (until 1926); Assistant curator (1926-1933) then Curator of the Musée d'Archéologie nationale de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1933-1956).
Lapyere
Rev. Gabriel-Guillaume Lapyere MAfr (1877-1952)
Catholic missionary of the Pères Blancs (“White Fathers”), excavator not only of the propriété Carton but also the area under the former rue de Numidie at the Precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l (1934-36).
Larner
John Bell Larner (1858-1931)
Prominent lawyer in Washinton DC and philanthropist; vice-president and general counsel of the Washington Loan & Trust Co. (1889-1917).
Lawrence
Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1935)
  aka Lawrence of Arabia
Archaeologist and key figure in the Arab Revolt (1916-1918).
Lawson-Johnston
Capt. Percival “Percy” Glen Lawson-Johnston (1894-1955)
Second husband of Alice Kenny.
Léon
Paul Léon (1874-1962),
Member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1922-1962) and its Director General (1928-1933), professor of the Collège de France (1933); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Lidzbarski
Mark (née Abraham Mordechai) Lidzbarski (1868-1928)
Professor at the University of Greifswald (1907-1917) and Göttingen (from 1917).
Lloyd
Alfred Henry Lloyd (1864-1927)
Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan (1891-1927), Dean of Graduate School (1915-1927); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
zzz
John Ellerton Lodge (1876-1942)
Director of the Freer Gallery of Art (1920-1942).
Lucinge
Bertrand Marie Ponce François Raphael Lucinge (1898-1943)
Self-styled “Prince of Cystria”; professional driver and road racer; associate of E. de Waldeck and B. Khun de Prorok.
Macalister
Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870-1950)
Director of excavations for the Palestine Exploration Fund (1901-1909) and professor of archaeology at University College Dublin (1909-1943)
MacLean
Robert Alexander MacLean (1878-1964)
Professor of Classics at the University of Rochester; pioneer of aerial archaeology.
Magoffin
Ralph Van Deman Magoffin (1874-1942)
Professor of Classics at New York University (1923-1930); president of Archaeological Institute of America (1921-1931); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Merlin
Alfred Merlin (1876-1965)
Director of the Service des antiquités in Tunisia (1906-1920, now the INP); curator of the Musée du Louvre (1921-1946); member of the Carthage Exploration Society; member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (from 1928).
Merriam
John Campbell Merriam (1869-1945)
President of the Carnegie Institute of Washington DC (1921-1938); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Morey
Charles Rufus Morey (1877-1955)
Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University (1924-1945); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Moulard
abbé Jacques Moulard (18??- 19??)
Catholic abbot and dilletante excavator of Utica with B. Khun de Prorok (1920s); tutor of the Chabannes family.
Murphy
Charles Murphy PC (1862-1935)
Postmaster General of Canada; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Myres
John Linton Myres OBE FBA (1869-1954)
Professor of archaeology at Oxford University; honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Nahman
Maurice Nahman (1868-1948)
Dealer of papyri in Cairo.
O'Neil
Horton O'Neil (1907-1997)
Teen-aged assistant to B. Khun de Prorok at both Carthage and Utica (1924-1925); exported multiple steamer trunks of artifacts, later donated to the Harvard University Department of Classics (now accessioned into the Harvard Art Museums), as well as to the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
Peterson
Enoch Ernest Peterson (1891-1978)
Participant at Antioch in Pisidia (1924), Karanis (1925), and recorder of finds at Carthage (1925); field director at Karanis (1926-1935); director of the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (1950-1961).
zzz
William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS FBA (1853-1942)
Egyptologist and Professor of Archaeology at University College London (1892-1933); developed systematic methodologies for archaeology and for the preservation of artifacts.
Picard
Colette Durand Picard (1913-1999)
Curator of the site of Carthage; wife of G. Charles Picard.
Charles Picard
Gilbert Charles Picard (1913-1998)
Member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (1932-1965), Director of the Service des Antiquitiés until the end of the protectorate (1942-1956); excavator at the precinct of Tinnit and Ba‘l with P. Cintas (1944-1947).
Poinssot
Louis Poinssot (1879-1967)
Director of the Service des Antiquités (1921-1942, now INP); member of the Carthage Exploration Society; often in open conflict with leaders of non-governmental archaeological initiatives, both private (e.g. L. Carton) and religious (e.g. A.-L. Delattre, J.-B. Chabot).
Ramsay
William Mitchell Ramsay FBA (1851-1939)
Professor of Archeology and New Testament at the University of Aberdeen (1886-1911); collaborator at Antioch in Pisidia (1924).
Rackham
Horace Hatcher Rackham (1958-1933)
Lawyer and early shareholder in the Ford Motor Company; philanthropist and patron of the University of Michigan Committee on Near East Research.
Rhees
Benjamin Rush Rhees (1860-1939)
President of the University of Rochester (1900-1935).
Reisner
George Andrew Reisner, Jr. (1867-1942)
Professor of Archaeology at Harvard University (1905-1942).
Renault
Jules Renault (1879?-1921)
Architect and amateur archaeologist; editor of Cahiers d'archéologie tunisienne; mentor of B. Kuhn de Prorok; inhabitant of Hill of Juno ruins; namesake of the Renault-De Waldeck Memorial Museum (1924).
Rey de Villette
Gerard Rey de Villette (1899-   )
Student the École des Sciences Politiques de Paris; participant at Carthage and Utica (1924-1925); family friend and assistant to B. Khun de Prorok.
Ridgeway
William Ridgeway FBA FRAI (1853-1926)
Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge University (from 1892); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society; supported participation of D. B. Harden.
Robbins
Frank Egleston Robbins (1894-1963)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan, editor at the University of Michigan Press (1930-1953); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research.
Robinson
David Moore Robinson (1880-1958)
Professor of Classics and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University (1905-1947) and the University of Mississippi (1949-1958); member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Ross
Edward Denison Ross CIE (1871-1940)
First Director of the School of Oriental studies (now SOAS, 1916-1937); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
zzz
Orlando Warren “Pip” Qualley (1897-1988)
Professor of Classics at Luther College (1918-1963), participant at Karanis.
Sanders
Henry Arthur Sanders (1868-1956)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan (1899-1939); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research; editor of the University of Michigan Studies: Humanistic Series.
zzz
Suzanne “Zha Zha” Saroukhanoff (1907-   ),
Second wife of B. Khun de Prorok (m.1927–pre-1931); son Byron Cyril (1928-1938).
Schiff
Mortimer Loeb Schiff (1877-1931)
Banker and philanthropist; leader of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Shorey
Maj. Frederick Charles Shorey (1877-1932)
Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society (FRGS), representing McGill University during the Utica campaigns of Khun de Prorok (1924-25).
Singer
Frederick George Isaac Singer (1897-1971)
Naval attaché then assistant trade commissioner of the American Embassy in Paris (until 1924); early promoter of de Prorok's “Franco-American“ excavations in Carthage; employed by the DuPont Co. Tariff Division (1924-1958).
Starkey
James Leslie Starkey FSA (1895-1938)
Student of W. M. Flinders Petrie; archaeologist for the British School of Archaeology in Egypt (BSAE); field director at Karanis (1924-1925) and Lachish (1932-38).
Stoever
Maj. William Edward “Ted” Royal Stoever (1887-1930)
Field director during Michigan excavations at Carthage (1925).
Swain
George Robert Swain (1866-1947)
Staff photographer for the University of Michigan (1915-1947); photographer for the Carthage excavations (1925), accompanied by his son, Robert Rice Swain (1905-1981), who served as mechanic.
Suefi
Ali Suefi (fl. 1925)
Skilled Egyptian foreman employed by W. M. Flinders Petrie.
Thélu
Marie Ernestine Marie Elise Ernestine Émilienne Thélu (1873-1956)
  aka Mme. Carton
Supporter of her late husband's interests; often in conflict with L. Poinssot of the Service des Antiquités.
zzz
Marie Joseph Eusèbe Vassel (1844-1927)
Journalist and scholar of Semitic languages; editor of Revue tunisienne; historian of Jewish-Arab relations in Tunisia.
Wainwright
Gerald Avery Wainwright (1879-1964)
Egyptologist and archaeologist; associate of W. M. Flinders Petrie; chief inspector of Middle Egypt in the Antiquities Service (1921-1924).
Walcott
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927)
Fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927).
de Waldeck
Xavier Edgard de Waldeck (1897-1923)
Self-styled “prince”; co-director of Carthage excavations with B. Khun de Prorok (and his best man); namesake of the Renault-De Waldeck Memorial Museum on the Hill of Juno (1924).
Washington
Henry Stephens Washington (1867-1934)
Member of the Geophysical Laboratory in the Carnegie Institute of Washington DC (1912-1934).
Wells
Columbus C. Wells (1903-1990)
Participant in the Kelsey campaign (1925).
Widor
Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (1844-1937)
Named to the Institute de France (1910) and permanent secretary of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (1914); honorary member of the Carthage Exploration Society.
Wiegand
Theodor Wiegand (1864-1936)
Director of the Antikensammlung Berlin (from 1911); president of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI 1932-1936).
White
Lee White (1886-1971)
Journalist and editor with the Detroit News; associate of G. G. Booth.
Wilhelm
Adolf Wilhelm (1864-1950)
Professor of Classics at the University of Vienna (1905-1933).
Winter
John Garrett Winter (1881-1956)
Professor of Classics at the University of Michigan (1928-1951); member of the university's Committee on Near East Research; director of the Museum of Classical Archaeology (1929-1950, later the KMA); editor of the University of Michigan Studies: Humanistic Series.
Wolcott
Charles Doolittle Wolcott (1850-1927)
Third director of the U.S. Geological Survey (1894-1907); fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927).
Woodbridge
Frederick James Woodbridge (1900-1974)
Fellow (1923-1925) and later Fullbright scholar and resident at the American Academy in Rome (1951-1952); sometime Boyer research fellow in Classical Archaeology and lead architect for the Kelsey campaign (1925)
Woolley
Charles Leonard Woolley FSA OBE MC (1880-1960)
Archaeologist affiliated with the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford University) and Penn Museum (University of Pennsylvania); director of excavations at Ur, Carchemish, al-Mina, etc.
Worrell
William Hoyt Worrell (1879-1952)
Director of the American School of Oriental Research in Jerusalem (1919-1925, now AIAR); professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan (1925-1948).
Yeivin
Shmuel Yeivin (1896-1982)
Student of W. M. Flinders Petrie at University College London, first director of the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums (1948-1961, now the IAA).
Zaghlul
Saad Zaghloul Pasha (Sa‘d ibn Ibrāhīm Zaġlūl Paša, 1859-1927)
Key figure in the Egyptian Revolution (1919), prime minister of independent Egypt (26 Jan–24 Nov 1924).
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