Photographs of Egyptian monuments, etc. The photographs belonged to the late Professor Raphael Giveon (1916-1985) of Tel Aviv University. Presented by Dr Deborah Sweeney. (The two photographs accompanying this note show, it seems, the hole for the attachment of a crown in the head of the Great Sphinx at Giza, and the work on the restoration of the heb-sed kiosk (Chapelle blanche) of Sesostris I at Karnak.)
Another batch of notes, photographs, copies of inscriptions, etc., mostly concerning ancient Egyptian monuments from the Memphite area and now in various museums. Compiled by the late Professor Alan R. Schulman (1930-2000). Presented by Mrs D. S. Schulman. For the material presented to the Griffith Institute's Archive previously, see accessions of the Griffith Institute Archive in 2008.
Drawings and correspondence concerning the creation of the Clarendon Press's (Gardiner's) hieroglyphic font by Norman and Nina de Garis Davies and A. H. Gardiner for use in Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar. Presented by Mr A. Wishart (son of the late D. Wishart).
Copies and notes on the surviving fragments of the New Testament in the Faiyumic dialect of Coptic, by Dr P. E. Kahle (1923-1965). Presented by Professor R. McL. Wilson.
Another batch of notes, photographs, chapters from The negation of the adverb in demotic, etc., by the late Professor Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002). Presented by Mrs. D. Gilula. See also accessions of the Griffith Institute Archive in 2007.
(November 25, 2009)
Visitor's book of the George Foucart family,
Cairo, 1925-1948. G. Foucart (1865-1943) was
Inspector of Antiquities for Lower Egypt, Professor of
Ancient History at the University of Bordeaux, Professor of the History of
Religions at Aix-en-Provence, and then Director of the Institut français
d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo between 1915 and 1928. The book provides
an interesting insight into the social life of the Egyptological community
in Cairo in the 1920s and 1930s. It contains seventy pages and there are some 680
signatures in it. (Presented by Dr. R. J. Demarée.)
Walter Segal's (1907-1985) notes, drawings, negatives and photographs of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun. See now M. Eaton-Krauss, The Thrones, Chairs, Stools and Footstools from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (Oxford: Griffith Institute, 2008, ISBN 978 0 900416 89 7). All this material will shortly be made available on the Griffith Institute's website. (Presented by Dr Marianne Eaton-Krauss.)
Folders with notes, photographs, copies of inscriptions, etc., mostly concerning ancient Egyptian monuments from the Memphite area. Compiled by the late Professor Alan R. Schulman. (Presented by Mrs D. S. Schulman.)
Two sheets with 19th-century engravings showing the pyramidion of Tia, Overseer of the Treasury in the temple of Ramesses II in the domain of Amun, temp. Ramesses II, from his tomb at Saqqâra, formerly in the Lethieullier and Long collections, present location of the monument not known. (Internal transfer, Sackler Library.)
Additional photographic material of John G. Ross
(1920-2006).
It consists of some 40 19th-century prints of Egypt, and others from the
British Museum, Italian museums and Greece, some 100 colour transparencies,
about 900 b&w 35 mm negatives, some 140 b&w prints of John Ross's photographs
and some postcards. (Presented by Mrs Judy Ross.)
A CD with digital copies of the plan and 99 views of Somers Clarke's house at el-Kâb. Drawn and photographed by N. Warner in March 2008. (Presented by Mr. Nicholas Warner.)
(December 21, 2008)
Fire insurance policy concerning 11, Norham Gardens, Oxford, taken out
by F. Ll. Griffith on 9 February, 1909. (Presented by Mr. Jacob Khokhlov.)
Some 2,500 colour transparencies of Photographs of Egypt taken by John Ross. (Presented by Mrs Judy Ross.) A note about the John Ross photographs on the webpages of ACCES.
More material has been added to the papers of Professor Mordechai Gilula
(1936-2002), including parts of
his planned grammar of Middle Egyptian. (Presented by Mrs Gilula.)
(July 20, 2007)
Twenty-nine albumen prints of 19th-century photographs showing
various sites in Egypt, including Abydos, Alexandria, Beni Hasan, Dendera,
Edfu, Esna, Heliopolis, Karnak, Medinet Habu, Qurna, The Ramesseum, Saqqara
and Theban tombs. Several famous photographers of ancient Egyptian monuments
are represented in this group. The prints are remarkably well preserved and some of
these
images are new for our
Egyptian Mirage database. (Presented by Mr.
John Ross.)Some additional papers of Professor Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002). (Donation.)
An album containing seventy-four 19th-century albumen prints of Egypt,
mostly by J. P. Sebah. It probably dates from about 1890. Many of these
photographs are new for our
Egyptian Mirage database. (Acquired by purchase with the help of
the Essex Egyptology Group, the Southampton Ancient Egypt Society, the Oxford
Experience 2005 Summer School led by Chris Kirby, groups from
Birkbeck College, London, led by Suzanne Bojtos and Charlotte Booth, and
a group from the Workers Educational Association, Essex, led by Charlotte
Booth).
Papers of Joan Crowfoot Payne connected with her Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean. (Transfer from the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities.)
Photographs of ancient Egyptian anchors found at Marsa Matruh in 1991-2. (Presented by Dr. A. Nibbi.)
An album containing sixty-three 19th-century albumen prints, mostly of
Egypt. Among the photographers whose work is represented in the album are
H. Béchard, J. P. Sébah and A. Beato. The album dates to 1877-8 and
it appears that it belonged to a G. M. F[rean]. There are also some
watercolour sketches. Many of the photographs are new for our
Egyptian Mirage database. (Acquired by purchase.)
(November 3, 2006)
Thirty-six photographs of the sarcophagus of Sethos I, from tomb KV 17 in
the Valley of the Kings, now in London, Sir John Soane
Museum. (Presented by Mr John Ruffle.)
Some 21 boxes of the papers of the late John Gwyn Griffiths (1911-2004), Professor of Classics and Egyptology, University College of Swansea. (Presented by Professor Griffiths' sons.)
Twenty-five albumen prints of 19th-century "studio photographs" of Karnak. All these images are new for our Egyptian Mirage database. (Presented by Mr. John Ross.)
A notebook containing P. E. Newberry's notes concerning G. Daressy's
Recueil de cônes funéraires. See a similar item by
Norman de Garis
Davies. (Presented by Dr Donald Ryan and his son, Mr Samuel Ryan.)
Tracing of the panel of the false door of Merankhef, Dyn. V-VI, in Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 29.209.1, by Charles Huffnagle MD, in 1847. (Griffith Institute transfer.)
Some 50 photographs taken in Egypt in 1888 by James Parker Simpson. The copyright of these photographs belongs to Mr Simon B. Simpson but the Griffith Institute's Archive has scans and prints.
(December 2, 2005)
Incomplete (Preface and pp. 1-24) typescript of Sir A. H.
Gardiner's My Early Years, annotated by Gardiner himself. (Donation.)
A copy of My Early Years, by Sir Alan Gardiner. Typed, photocopied and bound
by John Gardiner at Ballaghaue, Isle of Man, 1986. Includes Henry John Gardiner,
... A very few reminiscences by his younger son, and The Tutankhamun
tomb, by Margaret Gardiner. (Donation.) The
papers of Sir A.
H. Gardiner are in the Griffith Institute.
Two albums of photographs. (Donation.)
One album, formerly belonging
to Captain H. Langford, contains albumen prints of Antonio Beato's
photographs taken in the 1890s,
especially views of the Luxor and Karnak temples and the
Ramesseum. See
online database of similar 19th-century
"studio photographs" in the Archive of the Griffith Institute (some of the
photographs in the album are new and will be added to the database). The other album contains
photographs taken during a trip to Egypt in 1923, including views of
the then recently discovered tomb of Tutankhamun
(Howard Carter's
excavation records are in the Archive of the Griffith Institute).
Colour scan of a letter to P. E. Newberry (1869-1949) from 'C. S. H.'
(Donation.)
Four photographs showing objects from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. (Donation.)
Seven card-indexes compiled by E. J. Baumgartel (1892-1975) recording
grave finds from Naqada and Ballas. (Internal transfer.) They are based
on Flinders Petrie's excavation records. The Archive of the Griffith
Institute already has
some papers of E. J. Baumgartel.
Some papers of Professor Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002). (Donation.) These include a copy of an extensive study of The negation of the adverb in demotic, proofs of articles, notes, correspondence and an index of words and phrases illustrating various grammatical concepts.
(January 27, 2005)
A copy of
G. Daressy's Recueil de cônes funéraires annotated
and augmented by Norman de Garis Davies. (Donation.) [The Griffith Institute
also has Norman de Garis Davies's
index of
funerary cones, presented in 1998-9.]Some minor additions to the papers of I. E. S. Edwards. (Donation.)
Four photographs taken by anonymous photographers during the excavation
of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Griffith Institute photos. 102.51-4. (Donation.)
[We already have a number of such photographs and these will be made available
in Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation.
An album with watercolour sketches, ink drawings, letters and other
material by Amelia Edwards. (Internal transfer.) [The Griffith Institue
already has other Amelia Edwards papers, see
the list of records.]
Twelve
19th-century photographs of Egypt by Bonfils (B) and Zangaki (Z).
They include the following: the Pompey Pillar in Alexandria (B),
the pyramids of Khufu and Khephren at Giza (Z), the Great Sphinx with the
pyramid of Khufu in the background (Z), the Great Sphinx at Giza (B),
the
hypostyle hall at Karnak (B), the court of Ramesses II in the Luxor temple
(Z),
the Colossi of Memnon on the West Bank at Thebes (B), the Edfu temple
(Z), Philae (B), boats on the Nile (Z), women fetching water (B) and a
market at Bulaq (B). (Purchase.) [We already have a large collection of such
photographs, see
the Archive.]
Notes on the Hierakonpolis finds by Margaret A. Murray (1863-1963).
(Donation.)
Copies of some 710 cards of the Berlin Wörterbuch. They were prepared by Hermann Junker from the Philae photographs of the Photo-Expedition of the German Academy 1908-9 and 1909-10. (Donation.) (We already have a number of Wörterbuch cards in the papers of Sir A. H. Gardiner.)
The papers of Sarah Clackson (1965-2003), mostly on Coptic. (Donation.) [This material will be available for consultation in mid-2004.]
Some 720 photographs of Predynastic objects in Brooklyn Museum of Art,
Brooklyn NY, from E. J. Baumgartel (1892-1975), accompanied by about 100
pages of notes. (Donation.)
Some non-Egyptological papers of Professor O. R. Gurney (1911-2001). Mostly correspondence and notes on related topics. (Donation.)
The watercolour "Theban landscape with figures and tent", by Howard Carter. (Donation.)
Some 170 lantern slides and Egypt through the stereoscope,
consisting of about 100 stereoscopic photographs of Egypt, China, India and
Europe. Underwood & Underwood, c.1910. (Donation.)
(January 27, 2005)
The first of these is the papers of Jacques Jean Clère, presented by Madame Irène Clère in 1995. J. J. Clère (1906-1989), the former Directeur d'Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, was an outstanding Egyptologist whose interests ranged from Egyptian philology to ancient Egyptian sculpture, and from the Early Dynastic Period (shortly after 3,000 BC) to the Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC). He was an excellent epigraphist and a keen photographer who recorded many unpublished monuments in museum and site storerooms as well as pieces seen on the art market or in the hands of dealers. This documentation often remains the only evidence we have concerning such material and will prove invaluable for the Griffith Institute's other main project, the Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings.
The papers also contain a copy of Clère's unpublished volume on Middle-Kingdom stelae in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo which was prepared for the Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire series. There is also the documentation concerning his unfinished project on sistrophorous statues and some material intended for further fascicles devoted to the texts of the First Intermediate Period.
In sheer volume, the material represents one of the largest groups in the Griffith Institute's Archive. It has been analyzed and catalogued in a general way but detailed identification and classification will continue for some time to come.
The second group consists of a large number of drawings and sketches made by Joseph Bonomi. Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878) was a superb and versatile draughtsman who spent many years in Egypt cooperating with some of the most prominent copyists of the first half of the 19th century, such as Robert Hay, James Burton, John Gardner Wilkinson (later Sir), and Ippolito Rosellini. He travelled extensively in Egypt and the Sudan as well as in other countries of the Levant. Bonomi was a member of the famous epigraphic expedition led by Richard Lepsius in 1842-4. In the United Kingdom, he was actively involved in the production of books on ancient Egypt, the cataloguing of Egyptian collections, and the design and decoration of Egyptianizing buildings. In 1861 he was appointed Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum in London.
Bonomi's material in our Archive is of various dates and covers Egypt, Nubia, Palestine and other countries. A detailed analysis and cataloguing of these papers will begin soon.
An interesting addition to the Archive is a notebook by C. G. Jelf concerning work in various Theban tombs in 1909-10, which was financed by Robert L. Mond (later Sir). This has been presented by Dr Donald P. Ryan and it completes the other notes by Jelf already in our Archive (among the papers of Sir Alan Gardiner). The quality of our documentation of the tombs on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor, which are generally known as the Theban tombs (the Greek name of ancient Egyptian Weset was Thebes), especially those dating from the New Kingdom (1540-1069 BC), is outstanding.
The excitement surrounding the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922 is vividly recorded in correspondence addressed to Howard Carter by various non-scholarly members of the general public. A group of such letters, often charmingly naive, has been given to our Archive by Mrs Margaret Orr, the daughter of Carter's close collaborator and co-author, A. C. Mace. Some photographs and lantern slides illustrating the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb have been presented by Mrs G. E. W. Howells, Dr H. Whitehouse, Dr P. T. Nicholson, and Mr Neville Jones, and correspondence on the same topic has been the gift of Sir Noel Moynihan. All these provide further insights into the excavation of Tutankhamn's tomb. The field records by Howard Carter and his collaborators and the photographic documentation by Harry Burton are one of the most often consulted groups of archive material in the Griffith Institute.
Some additional material of Professor Jaroslav Cerný, especially correspondence, has been presented by his step-daughter, Lady Mackintosh. It completes the very extensive and much used Cerný papers already in our Archive.
Additions have also been made to another very important group of records which we already have. These are the papers of Sir Alan Gardiner and the new material, mainly correspondence, completes the section on linguistics. Sir Alan's original contribution to general linguistics has recently become the focus of renewed scholarly interest. The additional material has been presented by his daughter, Mrs Margaret Gardiner.
Original prints have enlarged our impressive collection of 19th-century "studio photographs" of Egypt. An interesting album has recently been donated by Mr T. G. H. James. Although it probably dates to the 1920s, it contains prints of 19th-century photographs which had previously not been represented in our Archive.
More recent, but nevertheless not without interest, are photographs taken by Dr G. Weiler and Mr Sieburg during trips to Egypt in the 1950s. These were given to us by the Department of History of Art and the Taylor Institution Library.
Photographs taken during a trip to the Eastern Desert in the late 1920s or early 1930s have been given to us by the daughter of Sir Laurence Kirwan, Mrs A. J. Preston, and some transparencies of Nubian sites taken in the early 1960s came from Mr D. M. Hawke.
Some additional papers of Duncan Mackenzie who worked in Sudan with the Wellcome Expedition have been presented by his nephew, Mr A. B. Mackenzie.
A copy of an unpublished manuscript of Creative Work in Palestine, by W. A. Stewart, the restorer of the furniture of Queen Hetepheres, has been given to us by Mrs P. Stewart.
(July 5, 1997)