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Wieder, F. C. - correspondence

2 letters from Wieder, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary).
Plans for a publication of J. R. Harris' research on lexicography of ancient Egyptian minerals, Brill publishers enquiring about the possibility of a subsidy for publishing. The book was eventually published elsewhere, see Harris, J. R., Lexicographical Studies in Ancient Egyptian Minerals (1961) (OEB 8464).

Žába, Zbyněk - correspondence

42 letters from Žába.
Professional and personal matters:

  • Žába's studies in Prague and his dissertation on Ptahhotep (later published as, Žába, Z., Les maximes de Ptaḥḥotep (1956) (OEB 5487))
    -Žába's plans to visit Oxford and study with B. Gunn
    -book exchange and purchases
    -the situation of the Egyptological seminar in Prague
    -Egyptian collections in Czechoslovakia
    -post-war Britain and Czechoslovakia
    -personal matters
    -the move of Černý's library to London

Miscellaneous - slip-index

  • Prosopographical notes. General
  • Prosopographical notes. To the Cambridge Ancient History chapter
  • Vocabulary of the Great Inscription of Merneptah
  • Egyptian words in other languages
  • Vocabulary from various sources
  • Lexicographical slips
  • Weights and measures

Miscellaneous - slip-index

  • Vocabulary, some from Černý, Ostraca hiératiques (Cat. Caire) (OEB 136749).
  • Palaeography of hieratic signs from Abusir.
  • Texts from mummy wrappings. See Daressy 'Les cercueils des prètres d'Ammon (deuxième trouvaille de Deir el-Bahari)', in ASAE 8 (1907), 3-38 (OEB 137609).
  • Index of references to Černý in publications.
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