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Last Name Eckenstein

Given Name Lina Johanna °

alt. Names L. E. ; Lina Eckenstein ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1857 in Islington, London

Year died 1931

Place of death Little Hampden, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, England

Father's occupation German businessman Frederick Gottlieb Eckenstein (1820/21-1891)

Relatives Julie Amalie Antonia Helmke (1830/31-1921) (mother) ; mountaineer Oscar Eckenstein (younger brother)

Education

Country of Activity Egypt

Worked for A history of Sinai ; Seven Memphite tomb chapels ; Tutankh-aten : a story of the past ;

Patronage

Collaborators draughtswoman ->Hilda Petrie ; draughtswoman -> Florence Kate Kingsford draughtswoman -> F. Hansard ;

Techniques archeological drawing ;

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Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Eckenstein ;

Published sources Sybil Oldfield, ‘Eckenstein, Lina Dorina Johanna (1857–1931)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online at https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/.001.0001/odnb--e-59940 ;

other Together with the archaeologists Hilda Pegtrie & Flinders Petrie shw worked in Egypt, taking on the administrative role of running the excavations camp and ensuring that finds were catalogued correctly. She worked at excavations at Abydos, Saqqara, Serabit el-Khadim, and El Shatt as well as at the temple of King Seti.

Further Place of Activity: Palestine.

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