Mace, Arthur Cruttenden

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Mace was the Assistant Curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York beginning in 1901 and helped develop an area of the museum devoted to Egyptian artifacts and history. He traveled to Egypt where he worked on archeological expeditions. He was later made the Assistant Curator of the Department of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum. Mace worked with Howard Carter in the excavation of the Tomb of King Tutankhamun. He is credited with directing the first Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1874

England

1928-4-6

Egyptologist, Museum Curator

"Diospolis Parva, The Cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu, 1898-9" with W.M.F. Petrie (1901)
"El Amrah and Abydos, 1899-1901" with D. R. Maciver (1902)
"The Early Dynastic Cemeteries of Naga-ed-Der" pt. 2 (1908-09)
"The Tomb of Senebtisi at Lisht" with H. E. Winlock (1916)
"The Tomb of Tut.Ankh.Amen" with H. Carter (1922-23)

"Who Was Who in Egyptology," Dawson and Uphill, accessed January 28th 2015

"In Memory of Arthur Cruttenden Mace." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. 23.5 (1928): 122-123. Print.

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Museum Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and director of their first Egyptian Expedition. He worked with Howard Carter on the tomb of Tutankhamun.