A. F. Shore | |
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Born | Arthur Frank Shore 14 November 1924 |
Died | 27 November 1994 | (aged 70)
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Spouse |
Patricia (m. 1952) |
Children | Four |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | King's College, Cambridge |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Egyptologist |
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Institutions |
Arthur Frank "Peter" Shore (14 November 1924 – 27 November 1994) was a British Egyptologist, academic and museum curator, who specialised in Roman Egypt and Late Antiquity.[1] He took degrees in classics and Oriental studies (Egyptology) at the University of Cambridge, before being elected a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge in 1955. He then worked at the British Museum from 1957 to 1974, and was Brunner Professor of Egyptology at the University of Liverpool from 1974 to 1991.