Friday, September 22, 2017

Fragment: Piecework in the British Museum

From: Wiseman, Donald John. Life Above and Below: Memoirs. Tasworth UK: Privately Published, 2003.
My colleagues in the Department were Cyril Gadd, Deputy Keeper, Eiddon Edwards and Richard Barnett (Assistant Keepers) and a special assistant H. H. Figulla who was being paid, I believe,  much as had been Theophilus Pinches in the days of  E. A. W. Budge, according to the number of texts he copied...
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