Griffith Institute Archive

Squeezes of Meroitic and related material

Griffith MSS 22
Series
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Meroitic and Related Material. Offering table with Meroitic script belonging to a Robert Garrett. With correspondence.

Gebel Harden – Fragment of sandstone stela with Meroitic cursive text on both faces. With correspondence and extract from official report. TopBib.vii.272
-Meroë – No. 30, Takideamani. Sandstone offering-table. Berlin 2255. TopBib.vii.254
-Gebel Geili – Cartouche of a Meroitic king. With correspondence and copy. TopBib.vii.272
-Philae – Hadrian’s Gate. Meroitic texts (by Spiegelberg) [=Griffith, Meroitic Inscriptions ii, pls. XXXV-XL, Nos. 119-123]. TopBib.vi.255
-Kalâbsha – Meroitic cursive text of Blemmye King Kharamadēye. TopBib.vii.13(16)
-Amâra – Stela of Ademeqē, with Meroitic cursive text. TopBib.vii.164

Griffith MSS 21
Series

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Letters numbered 1-470 listed by Warren Dawson in 1953. List in box with letters. A further group of unlisted letters was found in the archives in 1969 and these are now filed alphabetically in a separate group after the numbered letters - list at end of the Dawson catalogue.

Notes on Egyptian weights and measures

Griffith MSS 20.9
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Draft of article "Egyptian Books"

Griffith MSS 20.8
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Notes on scarab hpr mentioned in Pyramid texts with drawing of Atenchus Sacer

Griffith MSS 20.7
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Miscellaneous notes

Griffith MSS 20.65
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Unidentified notes.

Gurob Papyrus Fragment A

Griffith MSS 20.64
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Hieroglyphic transcription of Gurob papyrus fragment A (recto and verso). Not published.
Hieroglyphic transcriptions of Gurob papyri I.1 and III.1 on reverse of pages. Published in plates xxxviii and xxxix of Griffith, Francis Llewellyn 1898. The Petrie papyri: hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the Middle Kingdom). 2 vols. London: Quaritch (OEB 140786).

Correspondence of Greek alphabet with Demotic

Griffith MSS 20.63
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Correspondence of the Greek alphabet with the Demotic script, also with references to Coptic. Cf. Hess, J. J. 1896. Zur Aussprache des Griechischen (griechische Umschriften demotischer Wörter). Indogermanische Forschungen 6 (1-2), 123-134 (OEB 141489).

Draft of lecture on the ecology and history of ancient Egypt

Griffith MSS 20.62
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Partial draft of lecture on the ecology and history of ancient Egypt.

Draft review of Peet, Thomas Eric: The great tomb-robberies of the twentieth Egyptian dynasty

Griffith MSS 20.61
Item
c.1931

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Draft review of Peet, Thomas Eric 1930. The great tomb-robberies of the twentieth Egyptian dynasty: being a critical study, with translations and commentaries, of the papyri in which these are recorded. Oxford: Clarendon Press (OEB 146846). Published in the Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 17 (1931), p. 258-259.

Draft review of Neuaegyptische Grammatik by Adolf Erman

Griffith MSS 20.60
Item
c.1933

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Draft of review of Erman, Adolf 1933. Neuaegyptische Grammatik, 2nd revised ed. Leipzig: Engelmann (OEB 1221). Published in Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 36 (1933), p. 604-606.

Notes on a tour in Buto

Griffith MSS 20.6
Item
May 1886

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Notes on a tour in May 1886 through some of the region of Buto with sketch maps of bearings.

Correspondence of Egyptian months with Julian

Griffith MSS 20.59
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Table showing the correspondence of Egyptian months with Julian.

Notes on Egyptology in Oxford

Griffith MSS 20.58
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Handwritten notes on the 'Needs of Egyptology at Oxford' and 'Requirements for Egyptology in connexion with the Ashmolean Museum'.

Draft on the work of the Egypt Exploration Society

Griffith MSS 20.57
Item
c.1932

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Typed draft of a speech or lecture by Griffith reviewing the work of the Egypt Exploration Society on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 1932.

Autobiographical notes by Griffith

Griffith MSS 20.56
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Handwritten notes by Griffith, possibly draft of a lecture or speech, reviewing his career. Possibly linked to the presentation of his Festschrift (OEB 151195) at the Egypt Exploration Society in 1932.

Notes on northern caravan route from Egypt to Syria

Griffith MSS 20.55
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Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Notes, possibly part of a draft, on northern caravan route from Egypt to Syria.

Notes on papyrus Boulaq 18

Griffith MSS 20.54
Item
c.1891

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Notes on papyrus Boulaq 18 and relating to the preparation of Griffith, F. L. 1891. The account papyrus no. 18 of Boulaq, in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 29, 102-116 (OEB 140707), including different versions of drafts.

Notes on Kahun Catalogue

Griffith MSS 20.53
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c.1898

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Notebook titled '[KA]HUN CATALOGUE' and notes relating to preparation of Griffith, Francis Llewellyn 1898. The Petrie papyri: hieratic papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the Middle Kingdom). 2 vols. London: Quaritch (OEB 140786).

Notes on the Papyrus of Any