DOI Artikel:
Jakobielski, Stefan; Plumley, J. Martin [Gefeierte Pers.]: Jack Plumley: 1910-1999
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OBITUARY
texts; indeed, until 1987 he served as Chairman of the British Committee of the International
Critical Greek New Testament Project. During the time of the Nubian Safeguarding Campaign, he
was invited by the British Exploration Society to carry out excavations in one of the most important
sites in Nubia, the fortress city of Qasr Ibrim. He directed fieldwork therefor seven seasons, in 1963-
1978. There followed a stream of publications of the rich archaeological material from the excava-
tions, including “The Scrolls of Bishop Timotheos”; two documents from medieval Nubia (1975)
and, with Gerald AL Browne, “Old Nubian Texts from Qasr Ibrim” (1987, as well as numerous
articles dealing with Christian inscriptions of all kinds.
Plumley visited Poland repeatedly. He was one of the founders of the International Society of
Nubian Studies, established in Warsaw in 1972, and took over the post of President of the Society
after the death of its first President, Professor Kazimierz Michalowski, with whom he had had
a close friendship. In 1982, he was elected Patron of the Society in recognition of his accomplishments
in the field of ancient and medieval Nubian studies. It was in this field that our contacts were par-
ticularly lively and, under an agreement with Warsaw University's Center of Archaeology, Polish
scholars of Christian Nubia repeatedly had the opportunity and pleasure to participate in the work
of the Egypt Exploration Society expedition to Qasr Ibrim, finding Professor Plumley to be a man of
immense knowledge, yet modest, straightforward, tactful and possessing a great sense of humor. His
death is a great loss to the entire Egyptological community, including Polish scholars, for whom the
Professor's house at Cambridge was always open and who could always count on his help and advise
in matters not only of a scholarly nature. He will remain in our minds a paradigm of a reliable
scholar, an excellent organizer of fieldwork, a righteous and good-hearted man.
Stefan Jakobielski
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texts; indeed, until 1987 he served as Chairman of the British Committee of the International
Critical Greek New Testament Project. During the time of the Nubian Safeguarding Campaign, he
was invited by the British Exploration Society to carry out excavations in one of the most important
sites in Nubia, the fortress city of Qasr Ibrim. He directed fieldwork therefor seven seasons, in 1963-
1978. There followed a stream of publications of the rich archaeological material from the excava-
tions, including “The Scrolls of Bishop Timotheos”; two documents from medieval Nubia (1975)
and, with Gerald AL Browne, “Old Nubian Texts from Qasr Ibrim” (1987, as well as numerous
articles dealing with Christian inscriptions of all kinds.
Plumley visited Poland repeatedly. He was one of the founders of the International Society of
Nubian Studies, established in Warsaw in 1972, and took over the post of President of the Society
after the death of its first President, Professor Kazimierz Michalowski, with whom he had had
a close friendship. In 1982, he was elected Patron of the Society in recognition of his accomplishments
in the field of ancient and medieval Nubian studies. It was in this field that our contacts were par-
ticularly lively and, under an agreement with Warsaw University's Center of Archaeology, Polish
scholars of Christian Nubia repeatedly had the opportunity and pleasure to participate in the work
of the Egypt Exploration Society expedition to Qasr Ibrim, finding Professor Plumley to be a man of
immense knowledge, yet modest, straightforward, tactful and possessing a great sense of humor. His
death is a great loss to the entire Egyptological community, including Polish scholars, for whom the
Professor's house at Cambridge was always open and who could always count on his help and advise
in matters not only of a scholarly nature. He will remain in our minds a paradigm of a reliable
scholar, an excellent organizer of fieldwork, a righteous and good-hearted man.
Stefan Jakobielski
12