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

  • 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.

Arabic texts

(a) British Library Or. 5660 fol. 50b
(b) British Library Or. 1331 fols. 8b, 9a Ibu al-‘ Assâl
(c) British Library Or. 5019
(d) Fuhrer Rainer 725
(e) Synaxarium - Bib. Theol. Laur. MS. Ar. 189, fols. 50-51

Archibald Henry Sayce Collection

  • Sayce MSS
  • Collection
  • 1872-early 1930s

Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.

Sayce, (Revd) Archibald Henry

Architectural design

Architectural design:

  • pencil sketch with watercolour (blue) on paper
  • loose
  • 15.2 x 35.9 cm
    -[on sketch] 'B / B' (pencil note)

Architectural drawings of the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily (Italy), with measurements

Architectural drawings of the Temple of Olympian Zeus at Agrigento, Sicily (Italy), with measurements:

  • blue ink sketches on tracing paper
  • loose
  • 49.4 x 44.2 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Plan of half the Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Agrigentum.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Length of side 369.5' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Length of End 182.8' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Windows' / 'Profile' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Centre not roof?' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Elevation within the Centre or nave.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Section of outer wall Large scale.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Elevation Large scale.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Restoration of the Temple of Jup. Olympius Agrigentum' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'with comparison of relative scale of Temple of Concord at Agrigentum & Parthenon at Athens.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Temple of Concord Agrigentum.' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'Parthenon at Athens.' (ink note)

Architectural features including the lotus pattern and fluted columns

Folder titled 'Fluted columns' containing research material on architectural features including the lotus pattern and fluted columns.

Includes:
-Letter from Eiddan Edwards referring to an article by him on early architectural features, 15 January 1949.
-Tracings, cuttings and drawings of lotus patterns
-Drawings of examples of floral headdresses
-Drawings of examples of column heads
-Notes on columns
-Notes on silphium and silphium columns

Also includes draft letter to Sir Edward Salisbury which refers to a short paper Newberry is writing up on the origin of the fluted columns of Egypt and Greece.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Special Subjects 2'.

Architecture and buildings

Folder titled 'Architecture. Building' containing notes, tracings and drawings relating to architecture includings notes on tents and primitive Egyptian houses, construction of buildings and palaces, building methods and materials, building workers, styles of architecture e.g. columns and recessed brickwork.

Also includes photographs of Morrocan architecture.

There is also a paper folder attached to this folder containing a couple of pages of notes on columns.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Special Subjects 2'.

Arkell, Anthony John - correspondence

7 letters from Arkell, 1 carbon copy of a letter by Černý to Arkell.

  • consulting Černý for readings of texts
  • news from Arkell's excavations in the Sudan
  • request for information from Černý concerning University College students and their previous archaeological education

Arkell, (Revd) Anthony John

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