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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="de" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="de" dir="ltr"><p><b>Dows Dunham</b> (* <a href="1._Juni" title="1. Juni">1. Juni</a> <a href="1890" title="1890">1890</a> in Irvington-on-Hudson, <a href="New_York_(Bundesstaat)" title="New York (Bundesstaat)">New York</a>; † <a href="10._Januar" title="10. Januar">10. Januar</a> <a href="1984" title="1984">1984</a> in <a href="Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a>, <a href="Massachusetts" title="Massachusetts">Massachusetts</a>) war ein amerikanischer <a href="%C3%84gyptologe" class="mw-redirect" title="Ägyptologe">Ägyptologe</a>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Leben">Leben</h2></div>
<p>Dows Dunham studierte von 1909 bis 1913 Kunstgeschichte an der <a href="Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>. Er wurde von <a href="George_Andrew_Reisner" title="George Andrew Reisner">George Andrew Reisner</a> unterrichtet, der ihm eine Stelle anbot und der ihn zu einem seiner Hauptassistenten machte.
</p><p>Dunham war seit 1914 Mitglied zahlreicher Expeditionen in Ägypten und in den <a href="Sudan" title="Sudan">Sudan</a>, wobei er hauptsächlich im Team von George Andrew Reisner arbeitete. In <a href="Gizeh" title="Gizeh">Gizeh</a> war er zum Beispiel im <a href="Grab_der_Hetepheres_I." title="Grab der Hetepheres I.">Grab der Hetepheres I.</a> tätig und war verantwortlich für die genaue Dokumentation von dessen Funden.
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<p>Er war Kurator an der ägyptischen Abteilung des <a href="Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_Boston" title="Museum of Fine Arts, Boston">Museum of Fine Arts</a> in <a href="Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> bis 1956. Nach seiner Pensionierung publizierte er einen großen Teil der Grabungen von George Andrew Reisner, dessen Grabungsunterlagen im Museum of Fine Arts aufbewahrt werden.
</p><p>Im Jahr 1956 publizierte er einen Vorschlag zum Bau der <a href="Cheops-Pyramide" title="Cheops-Pyramide">Cheops-Pyramide</a>. An jeder der vier Seiten der Pyramide startet an der linken Ecke ein separater Rampenpfad, welcher auf der inneren Stufenpyramide aufliegt und sich im Gegenuhrzeigersinn nach oben windet. Walter Vose vom <a href="Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology" title="Massachusetts Institute of Technology">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> beratschlagte das Projekt mit praktischem Ingenieurswissen.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="Mark_Lehner" title="Mark Lehner">Mark Lehner</a> schrieb in seinem Buch: „<i>Diese Art von Rampe würde weitaus weniger Material erfordern als die gerade Außenrampe</i>.“<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mitgliedschaften_und_Auszeichnungen">Mitgliedschaften und Auszeichnungen</h2></div>
<ul><li>1954 wurde er in die <a href="American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences" title="American Academy of Arts and Sciences">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a> gewählt.</li>
<li>1979 wurde ihm die <a href="Goldmedaille_des_Arch%C3%A4ologischen_Instituts_von_Amerika" title="Goldmedaille des Archäologischen Instituts von Amerika">Goldmedaille des Archäologischen Instituts von Amerika</a> verliehen.</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Veröffentlichungen_(Auswahl)"><span id="Ver.C3.B6ffentlichungen_.28Auswahl.29"></span>Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl)</h2></div>
<ul><li>mit Oric Bates: <i>Excavations at Gammai</i> (= <i>Harvard African Studies.</i> Band 8). African Department of the Peabody Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.) 1927, S. 1–122.</li>
<li><i>Naga-ed-Dêr stelae of the first intermediate period.</i> Oxford University Press (for the Museum of fine arts, Boston), London 1937.</li>
<li><i>The Royal Cemeteries of Kush.</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://sfdas.hypotheses.org/326">Fünf Bände</a>; abrufbar über <i>Section Française de la Direction des Antiquités du Soudan</i> (SFDAS).
<ul><li>Band I: <i>El Kurru.</i> Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1950 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/royal-cemeteries-of-kush-vol-1-e1-kurru-by-dows-dunham-cambridge-massachusetts-harvard-university-press-1950-pp-xxii105-figs-44-pls-lxxiii-maps-2-charts-2-price-25-vol-iii-decorated-chapels-of-the-meroitic-pyramids-at-meroe-and-barkal-by-suzanne-e-chapman-with-text-by-dows-dunham-museum-of-fine-arts-boston-harvard-university-printing-office-cambridge-mass-usa-reproductions-printed-by-meriden-gravure-co-meriden-conn-usa-1952-pp-vii5-pls-34-price-20/D56EBBB8E558700C7CC06966DE081C04">Cambridge University Press</a>).</li>
<li>Band II: <i>Nuri.</i> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1955 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/371459">University of Chicago Press</a>).</li>
<li>Band III: mit Suzan E. Chapman: <i>Decorated Chapels of the Meroitic Pyramids at Meroë and Barkal.</i> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1952 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/royal-cemeteries-of-kushvol-iii-nuri-by-dows-dunham-museum-of-fine-arts-boston-massachusetts-1955-pp-xxvii-300-with-141-plates-and-216-figures-3250/9ED57870CBD6DAF16BFFB820A6DD2388">Cambridge University Press</a>).</li>
<li>Band IV: <i>Royal Tombs at Meroë and Barkal.</i> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1957 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/abs/royal-tombs-at-meroe-and-barkal-royal-cemeteries-of-kush-vol-iv-by-dows-dunham-museum-of-fine-arts-boston-1957-pp-206-75-plates-3-charts-4-maps-136-figures-in-the-text-3250/883CD25F9FF694D2D6AAA2B44AD00C65">Cambridge University Press</a>).</li>
<li>Band V: <i>The West and South Cemeteries at Meroë.</i> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1963 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/502398?journalCode=aja">University of Chicago Press</a>).</li></ul></li>
<li>mit William Kelly Simpson: <i>The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III.</i> In: <i>Giza Mastabas.</i> Band 1. Boston 1974, ISBN 0-87846-104-3 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://giza.fas.harvard.edu/pubdocs/52/full/">Digital Giza</a>).</li>
<li><i>Zawiyet el-Aryan: the cemeteries adjacent to the Layer Pyramid.</i> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1978, ISBN 0-87846-119-1.</li>
<li><i>Recollections of an Egyptologist.</i> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1972, ISBN 0-87846-069-1, (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/images/MFA-images/Giza/GizaImage/full/library/dunham_recollections.pdf">Digital Giza</a>, Lebenserinnerungen).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Morris L. Bierbrier: <i><a href="Who_was_who_in_Egyptology" class="mw-redirect" title="Who was who in Egyptology">Who was who in Egyptology</a></i>, (Fourth Revised Edition). The Egypt Exploration Society, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-85698-207-1, S. 165–166.</li>
<li>William Kelly Simpson, Whitney M. Davies (Hrsg.): <i>Studies in Ancient Egypt, The Aegean, and the Sudan. Essay in honor of Dows Dunham on the occasion of his 90th birthday, June 1, 1980.</i> Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1981, ISBN 0-87846-197-3 (<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://giza.fas.harvard.edu/pubdocs/596/full/">Digital Giza</a>).</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Weblinks">Weblinks</h2></div>
<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://giza.fas.harvard.edu/modernpeople/1523/full/">Dows Dunham - Published Documents - The Giza Project at Harvard University</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://arce.org/founding-arce/">The Founding of ARCE</a></li>
<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.archaeological.org/grant/gold-medal-award/">Dows Dunham - 1979 Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><span class="cite">Dows Dunham: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cheops-pyramid.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Dows-Dunham-Egyptian-Pyramid.pdf"><i>Building An Egyptian Pyramid.</i></a> (PDF) In: <i>Journal of Archeology.</i> September 1956,<span class="Abrufdatum"> abgerufen am 16.&nbsp;Juni 2024</span> (englisch).</span><span style="display: none;" class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fde.wikipedia.org%3ADows+Dunham&amp;rft.title=Building+An+Egyptian+Pyramid&amp;rft.description=Building+An+Egyptian+Pyramid&amp;rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fcheops-pyramid.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2024%2F03%2FDows-Dunham-Egyptian-Pyramid.pdf&amp;rft.creator=Dows+Dunham&amp;rft.date=1956-09&amp;rft.language=en">&nbsp;</span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mark Lehner: <i>The Complete Pyramids: Solving the Ancient Mysteries,</i> Thames and Hudson Ltd, London 1997, ISBN 0-500-05084-8, S.&nbsp;215.</span>
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