Some 25% of the material collected for Part 3 of Volume VIII (Provenance Not Known:
Stelae, reliefs and paintings) has been analyzed and incorporated into the text. The planned
date for the completion of the text is the end of February 2003.
Mrs Lindsay Charlesworth continued working on a part-time basis on the conversion of the
existing Topographical Bibliography files to a computerized format.
A number of Egyptologists were sent a questionnaire in which they were asked for their views
on the methods of publishing the Topographical Bibliography. A clear majority of them
expressed their support for the current policy of combining the traditional book form with an
Internet-based continually updated database (3.html).
The Committee has agreed to recruit a new full-time member of the Topographical
Bibliography and Griffith Institute Archive staff (Clerical and Library Grade 4).
THE ARCHIVE
The records kept in the Griffith Institute Archive were moved into the new Sackler Library at
the end of June and the beginning of July 2001. After nearly three years in storage, the
Archive will reopen at the beginning of October.
Mr Kent Rawlinson worked on the scanning of Howard Carter's field cards and Harry
Burton's photographs made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Miss Lindsay
Allen transcribed the remaining Tutankhamun records. To date, some 90% of the material has
been scanned or transcribed and is ready for editing and encoding. All this material is
gradually being made available on the Institute's web site
(4tut.html). Mr Rawlinson also completed the scanning of
the 19th-century 'studio' photographs in the Archive of the Griffith Institute and edited their
catalogue originally prepared by J. Malek and E. Miles. A database of these photographs will
be made available on the Institute's web site early in 2002.
In connection with the move of the Archive into its new premises, the database of the material
has been revised and updated. It is planned that it will be eventually possible to consult it on
our web site.
Miss Neda Moussavi worked in the Archive during the week 2-6 July for work experience.
Miss J. K. Ámundadóttir assisted in the move of the Archive into its new premises and in the
preparation of transcripts of Howard Carter's material in July 2001.
ACQUISITIONS BY THE ARCHIVE OF THE GRIFFITH INSTITUTE
Donations: a copy of G. Daressy's Recueil de cônes funéraires annotated and augmented by
Norman de Garis Davies (Dr Donald Ryan); four photographs taken by anonymous
photographers during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun (Mrs M. Young); some
additional papers of Dr I. E. S. Edwards (Mrs E. Edwards). Internal transfer: an album with
watercolour sketches, ink drawings, letters and other material by Amelia Edwards. Purchase:
Twelve 19th-century photographs of Egypt by Bonfils and Zangaki.
LOANS FROM THE ARCHIVE
Several items from the Howard Carter manuscripts were loaned to the exhibition Mythos
Tutanchamun. Ein Pharo wird populär at the Deutsches Elfenbein Museum in Erbach, 30
August 2001 - 31 January 2002.
A. H. GARDINER TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS
The Gardiner Travel Scholarships for 2000-1 were awarded to Mr Hassan Abd el-Bassir, Mr
Khaled Mohamed Mahmoud, and Mr Magdy Ahmed Ismail Aly.
THE LENMAN PRIZE
The Lenman Prize for 2000 was awarded to Mr Giles Thomson (Wadham).
GRANTS
The following grants were made: £17,680 the Ashmolean (Sackler) Library, £550 to the
Annual Egyptological Bibliography, £10,000 for studentships awarded by the Board of the
Faculty of Oriental Studies; another £2,000 to the Board of the Faculty of Oriental Studies to
supplement the Lenman Fund; £300 to Dr S. Dalley to pay for a drawing of a reconstruction
of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon; £500 to Dr A. Sherratt for a mapping project.
A grant of $1,500 was received from The Theban Foundation in Charleston, S.C., for the
conservation of Howard Carter's records.
PUBLICATIONS
S. J. Clackson's Coptic and Greek Texts Relating to the Hermopolite Monastery of Apa
Apollo was published in December 2000.
(November 26, 2001)