Janet Gourlay

Janetta "Nettie" Agnes Gourlay (1863–1912) was a Scottish Egyptologist, known for her excavation of and publication on the Precinct of Mut, a temple compound on the east bank of the Nile in Egypt. She worked with her partner Margaret Benson. She and Benson later returned to Thebes to work under Percy Newberry from 1900 to 1901.

Personal life Janet Gourlay was born on 30 January 1863 in Dundee, Scotland, the eldest daughter of engineer Henry G. Gourlay and Agnes Christie Burrell, who had married in 1861.

She was known to have a disabling illness that was noticed and sometimes remarked on. They were introduced by their mutual friend Lady Jane Lindsay. In these, they described their devotion, emotions, and happenings.

On 3 March 1912, Gourlay died in Kempshott Park near Basingstoke. She never married. gaining excavation experience to add to her theoretical knowledge.

Gourlay joined Benson in 1896 in the second season of excavation at the Precinct of Mut in Karnak, Thebes, in Egypt. The pair stayed at the Luxor Hotel for the duration of these digging seasons. They also published an incomplete account in 1899. It was published this way so that the information could be available to others and it would not be forgotten, as it previously had been, which they explained in their preface.

Gourlay joined Benson in 1896.

Gourlay returned to Egypt on December 13, 1900, with Benson, to work on restoring a cleared tomb in Thebes. Gourlay, J. A. with Percy Newberry, "Mentu-em-hat," Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes: pour servir de bulletin à la Mission Française du Caire, 20:3-4 (1898), 188-192.