A Dedicated Life: Tributes Offered in Memory of Rosalind Moss
Rosalind Moss was one of the most remarkable figures of Egyptology
in this century. She was born on 21 September 1890. Her father, the
Rev. H.W. Moss, was headmaster of Shrewsbury School. Rosalind went
to Heathfield School, Ascot, and St Anne's College, Oxford. She
received her Diploma in Anthropology in 1917 and her Bsc in 1922.
Her Life after Death in Oceania was published in 1925. While at
Oxford, she studied Egyptology with F. Ll. Griffith. In 1924 she
became joint editor, with Miss Bertha Porter, of the Topographical
Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and
Paintings. For the next fifty years, until her retirement in 1972,
she was the main driving force behind this project which is unique
to Egyptology. She received an honorary doctorate from Oxford in
1961. Rosalind Moss's work exerted profound influence on
research techniques of Egyptology. She died in Ewell on 22 April,
1990, some five months short of her 100th birthday.
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