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Griffith Institute Photographs Collection

  • GI Photographs
  • Collection

Photographs from various sources, including 19th Century Studio Photographs by Abdullah Frères, A. Beato, F. Bonfils, W. Hammerschmidt, P. Sébath and others.
Includes photographs of Egyptologists.

Griffith Institute Casts Collection

  • GI Casts
  • Collection
  • c.1950s-1970s

Plaster casts of objects in Edinburgh, Royal Museum of Scotland, 1956.144 (lower part of block statue of Pedehor, Late Period), and 1961.439 (stela of Anakht, New Kingdom); Reading, The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (copper mirror of Henuiti (woman), Dyn. XII), inked in by J. Černý; Samos, Archeological Museum of Vathy (inscription from bronze mirror of Antiuzashu, Dyn. XXV-XXVI), cast sent by J. Penrose Barron of Balliol College to J. Černý, kept with copies of the texts made by J. Černý and J. Harris.

Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Grenfell, Bernard Pyne - correspondence

Correspondence from Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869-1926) including relating to his excavation work at Fayoum (or Faiyum).

Note:
MSS 20/60 is also numbered A.367
MSS 20/61 is also numbered 5a
MSS 20/63 is also numbered 326

Green, F. W. - correspondence

Correspondence from F. W. Green (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) including relating to a sale at Sothebys; photos of a stelae of Tyty; bequest from Sir Herbert Tompson and candidates for a position in demotic and coptic; and standards on boat mast heads including notes and sketches; World War Two.

Note:
MSS 20/49 is also numbered A.7
MSS 20/50 is also numbered A.189

Greek and Coptic texts on medical and ophthalmic preparations

Material for contribution to Gedenkschrift Ulrike Horak, ‘Greek and Coptic medical prescriptions from the Michaelides collection in Cambridge University Library’.
Notes.
B&w photographs of papyri.
Correspondence.
Transcriptions.
Annotated copies of ‘Greek and Coptic Pharmaceutical Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library. Folio from a Greek pharmaceutical codex CUL Michael. 1073'.

Greece. Island of Aegina. Temple of Aphaia (formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius)

View of the ruins of the Temple of Aphaia (formerly known as the Temple of Jupiter Panhellenius) with a lounging figure on the island of Aegina in Greece:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 37.9 x 27.6 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Greece (underlined) Nº 4' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Egine / temple de Jupiter' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'Temple of Jupiter Hellenius. Island of Agina' (pencil note)

Grdseloff, Bernhard - correspondence

14 letters from Grdseloff, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Grdseloff.
2 letters from Misha Grdseloff (brother of B. Grdseloff).
1 letter from Leonard Grdseloff (brother of B. Grdseloff).
Professional as well as personal matters.

  • Grdseloff's work plans
  • personal news of other Egyptologists (H. W. Fairman, J. Leibovitch and H. J. Polotsky)
  • exchange of off-prints and other publications
  • most significant topic is Deir el-Medina fieldwork and finds of ostraca, including the Cairo love songs (O. DeM 1266 + CGC 25218), published by G. Posener, see Posener, G. Catalogue des ostraca hiératiques littéraires de Deir el Médineh II: Nos 1227-1266 (1972) (OEB 15763), and later Fox, M. V. 'The Cairo love songs', in Journal of the American Oriental Society 100 [2] (1980), 101-9, (OEB 22733)
  • another significant topic is Grdseloff's illness (stomach cancer), Černý sent his own rations of Hovis bread to Egypt to Grdseloff as it was one of the few foods Grdseloff could still digest
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