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Lyla Pinch Brock is a Canadian
Egyptologist Egyptology (from ''Egypt'' and Greek , ''-logia''; ) is the scientific study of ancient Egypt. The topics studied include ancient Egyptian history, language, literature, religion, architecture and art from the 5th millennium BC until the end ...
, specializing in
epigraphy Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the wr ...
. She lives in Saissac, France. She has taken part in a number of archaeological projects, including the
Tell el-Borg Tell may refer to: *Tell (archaeology), a type of archaeological site *Tell (name), a name used as a given name and a surname *Tell (poker), a subconscious behavior that can betray information to an observant opponent Arts, entertainment, and m ...
Project and the Theban Mapping Project. On behalf of the
Royal Ontario Museum The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is a museum of art, world culture and natural history in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is one of the largest museums in North America and the largest in Canada. It attracts more than one million visitors every year ...
, she was responsible for epigraphy in the tomb of Amenmose ( TT89) and wholly responsible for excavating and conserving the tomb of
Anen Anen or Aanen was an ancient Egyptian nobleman and official of the Eighteenth Dynasty. A priest and administrator, his period of royal service occurred largely during the reign of his brother-in-law, Amenhotep III. Biography He was the son of ...
(
TT120 The Thebes, Egypt, Theban Tomb TT120 is located in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. It forms part of the Theban Necropolis, situated on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor. The tomb is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian official Anen, who was the ...
). She also cleared and conserved
KV55 KV55 is a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. It was discovered by Edward R. Ayrton in 1907 while he was working in the Valley for Theodore M. Davis. It has long been speculated, as well as much disputed, that the body found in this tomb ...
from 1992-1996. During excavation of the tomb in 1993, she discovered an
ostracon An ostracon (Greek language, Greek: ''ostrakon'', plural ''ostraka'') is a piece of pottery, usually broken off from a vase or other earthenware vessel. In an archaeology, archaeological or epigraphy, epigraphical context, ''ostraca'' refer ...
painted with part of the original plan of the tomb among other objects. The pottery from this job has recently been published. She was married to Edwin C. Brock, who was also an Egyptologist until his death in 2015.


Publications

* (contributor) *No. 33, Autumn 2008, pp. 16 – 17. *Brock, Lyla Pinch. "Art, Industry and the Aegeans in the Tomb of Amenmose." ''Ägypten und Levante/Egypt and the Levant'' 10 (2000): 129-137. *Brock, Lyla Pinch, and Roberta Lawrie Shaw. "The Royal Ontario Museum epigraphic project: Theban tomb 89 preliminary report." ''Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt'' 34 (1997): 167-177.


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