Battiscombe Gunn

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Professor Battiscombe Gunn FBA
Gunn in 1935
Born	Battiscombe George Gunn (1883-06-30)30 June 1883 London, England
Died	27 February 1950(1950-02-27) (aged 66) Oxford, England
Title	Professor of Egyptology (1934–1950)
Spouses	Lillian Florence Meacham Constance Rogers
Children	J. B. Gunn
Awards	Fellow of the British Academy
Academic background
Education	University College, London
Academic work
Discipline	Egyptology and Philology
Institutions	Egyptian Museum, Cairo Penn Museum, Philadelphia University of Oxford
Notable students	Alec Naylor Dakin T. G. H. James Ricardo Caminos Labib Habachi
Influenced	J. W. B. Barns

Battiscombe George "Jack" Gunn FBA (30 June 1883 – 27 February 1950) was an English Egyptologist and philologist. He published his first translation from Egyptian in 1906. He translated inscriptions for many important excavations and sites, including Fayum, Saqqara, Amarna, Giza and Luxor (including Tutankhamun). He was curator at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and at the University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In 1934 he was appointed Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford, a chair he held until his death in 1950.