Died 1927 | ||
Books Commando Double Black: An Historical Narrative of the 2/5th Australian Independent Company Later the 2/5th Cavalry Commando Squadron, 1942-1945 | ||
Annie Abernathie Pirie Quibell (1862–1927) was a Scottish artist and archaeologist.
Life
Her father was academic in Aberdeen and she originally trained as an artist and her work was exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy. She was a student of Flinders Petrie at University College London in the 1890s, and travelled to Egypt in 1895 to work as a copyist with another artist Rosalind Frances Emily Paget at Saqqara and the Ramesseum, Thebes. She was a part of the excavation team at El Kab in 1897, and Hierakonpolis the following year and continued working in excavations in Egypt with her husband, James Edward Quibell, whom she married in 1900. They worked together at Saqqara for eight years from 1905 to 1914
While her illustrations were featured in archaeological reports on Saqqara, the Ramesseum and Hierakonpolis. Annie Quibell was also an author in her own right. Her first publication was an English translation of the Guide to the Cairo Museum in 1906, done in conjunction with her husband. She produced short guides to the Pyramids at Giza and the Saqqara tombs which were originally published in Cairo. In the 1920s, she published two further books, Egyptian History and Art (1923), and A Wayfarer in Egypt (1925). Annie Pirie Quibell died in England in 1927 of leukaemia.