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Ruins of Coptic Convent near Philae and traders' camp at Manhatta
Two pencil and watercolour sketches:
Pencil and watercolour sketch of two camels.
Nubian woman and child, Maharrakeh
Pencil sketch of woman and child:
The traders' landing place at Aswan
Watercolour and pencil sketch of landing place at Aswan:
Pencil drawing with Christian altar in the first hypostyle hall at Philae temple complex:
Nine mounted pencil sketches:
Human figures; camel; dahabiyya
Seven pencil sketches:
Watercolour and pencil sketch of rock inscriptions at Philae:
Dendarah landscape, human figures, Nerghaileh
Nine sketches:
Four pencil sketches:
Watercolour and pencil sketch of remains of structure and dahabiyyas:
Ali the Nubian; Riskalli; Salame; Reïs Hassan; unidentified people
Nine pencil sketches:
Watercolour and pencil sketch of hypostyle hall at Karnak:
Watercolour and pencil sketch of Hypostyle Hall at Karnak:
Mountains above Thebes; mountains above Moramballa Marsh
Two images:
Watercolour and pencil sketch of Coptic convent near Naqadah:
Pencil sketch with two men and camel in foreground and remains of structure in the background.
Watercolour and pencil sketch of palace gateway, Medinet Habu:
Necropolis of Abydos and Kom es Sultan
Watercolour and pencil sketch of necropolis of Abydos and Kom es Sultan:
9 pencil sketches:
Buildings - tombs
31 pages (16 single-sided + 15 double-sided), handwritten
Lists of royal and private tombs, mostly Old Kingdom and some Twelfth Dynasty, with area size calculations
Notes on the tombs of viziers located at several sites
Some additional related material has been moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted records. Includes notes on Early Dynastic tombs at Abydos, including calculations and some plans, and genealogical lists for some early Dynastic royal families
Some notes are written on the verso of two letters:
Buildings: funerary complexes and other structures
Notes on funerary complexes, temples, palaces, and forts are copied mainly from other publications. Perhaps preliminary notes for a project(s) or publication(s) with some brief descriptions, measurements and plans
68 pages (31 single-sided + 37 double-sided), handwritten and typewritten with annotations
Sites and monuments mentioned, including some of Uphill's headings:
Amenhotep III and Haremhab: buildings and construction projects
Notes mainly on some of the building and irrigation construction projects of Amenhotep III [Amenophis III] and Horemhab's [Haremhab; Horemhab]
15 pages (8 single-sided + 7 double-sided), typewritten and handwritten, preliminary notes for a project or publication, with brief descriptions, measurements and plans, also includes notes made from other publications
Uphill's headings:
Notes on the comparative sizes of buildings in Egypt and Jerusalem.
20 pages (18 single-sided + 2 double-sided), typewritten with annotations, preliminary notes for a project or publication, comprising of brief descriptions, measurements and plans, also includes notes made from other publications
Uphill's headings:
A group of miscellaneous notes on temples and tombs, mostly ancient Egyptian but also Solomon's temple, Jerusalem
46 pages (41 single-sided + 5 double-sided)
Preliminary notes for a project or publication, publication plan, with brief descriptions, measurements and plans
First group, 25 pages (20 single-sided + 5 double-sided)
Uphill's headings:
Second group, related material moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes
21 single-sided pages
Pyramid construction: correspondence and documentation
Correspondence and documentation exchanged between Robert M. Porter and Uphill in 2002 and 2007.
25 pages (16 single-sided + 9 double-sided)
The first exchange in 2002 concerns the construction of Fourth Dynasty pyramids and Porter's article, which was written in response to another article published on the same subject.
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Handwritten text:
'If any man wants [?] {[?]} [?] of the truth of {the} [?]
here it isif he cannot find in history if he cannotfind it in his own heart or if refuses to seek for it then
became he wants an [?] not to look for it then
here is abundance say there books are only words which
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subject to errors of various kinds the [?] of
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of ad(d)itions for [?] of years and offer all
on oldest copy are not another is any
years old which years [?] [?] [?]
except it [?], and year [?] [?] first
year seeing the middle [?]
but is like a middle [?]
The [?] [?] on certainly managed to carry
The expression of age and fatigue of [?] and [?]
are the conclusion[?] the strenuous efforts'
Greatest builders in history: working notes
Working notes, almost certainly collected for the project "Greatest Builders in History", see also Uphill MSS 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
48 pages (14 single-sided + 34 double-sided)
Working notes, all handwritten
Greatest builders in history: related documents
Three documents, perhaps part of, or related to, the project "Greatest Builders in History", which has a similar scope, see Uphill MSS 5.1.1 to 3, and perhaps some intended for conference papers or lectures
27 pages (26 single-sided + 1 double-sided)
Earlier Road Systems
6 pages, single-sided typewritten with annotations
Uphill's headings:
Late Imperial Residences under the Tetrarchy
8 single-sided pages, typewritten with annotations
Uphill's headings:
Additional group of bibliographic notes
13 pages (12 single-sided + 1 double-sided), typewritten with annotations and some handwritten notes
Uphill's headings:
Notebook with notes and statistics for buildings and irrigation systems
Notebook containing manuscript notes for a project on a world history of buildings and irrigation, probably for a publication.
The sections include the following, and Uphill's headings are used when appropriate: