Griffith Institute Archive

1. recto: Translation of Vienna Papyrus No. 27 Cf. Bergmann, Ernst Ritter von, Hieratische und hieratisch-demotische Texte der Sammlung aegyptischer Alterthümer des Allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses (1886) (OEB 134186), platess X-XVIII.
1. verso: Translation by Kate Griffith (corrected by F. Ll.Griffith) of the Story of Ahure compiled in Griffith, Francis Llewellyn, Stories of the high priests of Memphis: the Sethon of Herodotus and the demotic tales of Khamuas, 2 vols (1900) (OEB 140799), vol. I, p. 17-29, with discussion by F. Ll. Griffith on the title Pḥry.

Griffith, Kate

Notes on and translation of the Story of the Shipwrecked Sailor in Leningrad, Hermitage Museum

Griffith MSS 12.5
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n.d.

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Notes on transliteration from demotic

Griffith MSS 12.7
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n.d.

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Reports of the Harvard-Boston excavation at Gebel Barkal in 1916 sent to Griffith by Reisner in a letter

Griffith MSS 13.2
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29 April 1916

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Seven typed pages and two plans.

Letter from George W. Murray (29 June 1909)

Griffith MSS 14.4
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29 June 1909

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Letter from G. W. Murray dated 29 June 1909. Remarks on the /č/ sound in Nubian and on the term "Fadija" as the name of a dialect with the Mahas Nubian language.

Letter from G. W. Murray (7 May 1910)

Griffith MSS 14.8
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7 May 1910

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Letter from G. W. Murray dated 7 May 1910. Comments on certain elements in Nubian place names. Remarks on the proportion of Arabic words in modern Nubian.

Transliteration and commentary on the Miracle of Saint Menas [British Museum Or. Ms. 6805] in Old Nubian

Griffith MSS 14.16
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c.1913

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Transliteration and commentary on the Miracle of Saint Menas [British Museum Or. MS. 6805] in Old Nubian. This commentary is subsequent to the publication indicated below.

Nubian vocabulary

Griffith MSS 14.21
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

List of Mahas Nubian geographical words and place names in and around Serra East. List of family names and two personal names; the second, Daud Kubara at Halfa, said to have been writing a history of Nubia. Mahas Nubian phrases.
Words in Old Nubian and in modern Mahas, Kenzi and Dongolese Nubian.

Letters exchanged between F. G. Kenyon and Griffith in December 1907 and June 1908

Griffith MSS 14.23-26
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December 1907-June 1908

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Letters exchanged between F. G. Kenyon and Griffith in December 1907 and June 1908 about the publication of the Rustafjaell Old Nubian MSS in the British Museum.

Letter from E. W. Watson (8 April 1909)

Griffith MSS 14.27
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8 April 1909

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Letter from E. W. Watson dated 8 April 1909 on the Arabic Pseudo-Nicene Canons.

Letter from W. E. Crum (5 July 1908)

Griffith MSS 14.32
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5 July 1908

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Letter from W. E. Crum dated 5 July 1908 referring to literature on Nubian names.

Letter from W. E. Crum (28 February 1912)

Griffith MSS 14.33
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28 February 1912

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Letter from W. E. Crum dated 28 February 1912 on the original provenance of the Rustafjaell MSS: MS. 1 from [serrah (Coptic transcription)], being dedicated to a church at Edfu, the scribe having been from Esna; MSS. 2 and following taken to Nubia and joined to MS. 1.

Arabic text on Nubian History and letters from W. E. Crum

Griffith MSS 14.35-38
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c.1926-1927

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Griffith MSS 14.36: Arabic text on Nubian History, later published by W. E. Crum in Studies Presented to F. Ll.Griffith (1932), p. 137-148: "A Nubian Prince in an Egyptian Monastery".
Griffith MSS 14.35: Letter from W. E. Crum dated 26 December 1927 enclosing an abstract.
Griffith MSS 14.37: Letter from W. E. Crum dated 10 February 1926 with comments on the stories.
-Griffith MSS 14.38: MS Marsh 287 - names and dates in Crum's hand. Note by Griffith on the Nubian Prince stories.

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