Identity area
Reference code
Dennis MSS
Title
Date(s)
- 1906-1907 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
American attorney and Egyptologist. Born, Baltimore, MD 1865. Died, Woodbrook, MD 1918. Educated Lafayette College and John Hopkins University, 1896-1903. Went to Egypt on several occasions between 1895 and 1907. Worked with the Hearst Expedition of the University of California at Gîza in 1903-4 and as a volunteer assistant to E. Naville at Deir el-Bahri. Published several popular books about his travels.
Archival history
Not known.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Not known.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Some 250 facsimile copies of graffiti and ostraca found by E. Naville at Deir el-Bahari (Deir el-Bahri), probably mostly in the Hathor-cow Chapel, in 1906-7.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Arranged by hieroglyphic, hieratic, Demotic, and Coptic texts.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Partial catalogue.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals.
Existence and location of copies
Not knwon.
Related units of description
Publication note
Not published.