Extracts from the Report of the Committee of Management
of the Griffith Institute 1994- 5

The Committee of Management

Professor R.R.R. Smith, the new Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, was welcomed as a member of the Management Committee in April 1995.

Topographical Bibliography

The large amount of unprovenanced material has made it necessary to revise the plans for its inclusion in the existing series. The next volume (8, Objects of Provenance Not Known: Statues) will be published in two parts which will appear simultaneously in the course of next year. The other unprovenanced material will be included in volumes 9 and 10.

Archives

The transcript of most of the unpublished notebooks and diaries of Howard Carter has been completed. The whole Carter archive has been re-organized and the maps and plans have been copied in order to protect the original material. The catalogue of the photographs in the Griffith Institute archive has been revised.

Material was lent to the exhibition Agyptomanie. Agypten in der europaischen Kunst 1730-1930 in Vienna, October 1994 - January 1995, and the exhibition De kleren van de farao in Leiden and other cities, November 1994 - October 1995.

An exhibition Tutankhamon. Imagenes de un tesoro bajo el desierto egipcio, for which we provided almost all its photographic documenation, has opened at Fundacio Arqueologica Clos in Barcelona in the Spring of 1995.

Publications

The text of a lecture given by J. Malek at the conference on Theban tombs in Heidelberg in June 1994 has now been published under the title "The archivist as a researcher" in J. Assmann et al., Thebanische Beamtennekropolen (Heidelberg, 1995). A transcript of Howard Carter's "Personal diaries of the first excavation season in the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-3", prepared collectively by the Griffith Institute staff, has been published in Discussions in Egyptology 32 (1995).

Donations

Madame Irene Clere has presented a large and important collection of her late husband's papers to the Griffith Institute. Jacques Jean Clere (1906-1989) was Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris.

Computerization

The Griffith Institute now has its own computer network with Internet and email links. The Institute's World Wide Web home pages were set up at the beginning of August.

Other activities

J. Malek participated in the working meeting of the Committee for the compilation of the Multilingual Egyptological Thesaurus in Horssen (The Netherlands) in May 1995, and continued to act as Chairman of the Annual Egyptological Bibliography Committee.

Lenman Memorial Prize Fund

A book-prize has been awarded from the Lenman Memorial Prize Fund to Ms. Rachel Walker (St. John's College) for distinguished work in Egyptology in the Second Public Examination, 1994.

Grants

The Annual grant to the Ashmolean Library has been increased and another supplementary grant made later in the year.

Grants have been made towards the printing of the abstracts of the papers for the Seventh International Congress of Egyptology in Cambridge in September 1995, to the organizers of the conference on Settlement, Land and Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times, to take place in Oxford in March 1996, and to Professor John Baines.

Visitors.

Visitors, mostly from abroad, have worked in the Archive or consulted the Topographical Bibliography records on some 220 occasions.

(August 14, 1995)

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