Griffith Institute Archive

Gurney MSS
Colección
1940s-1990s

Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.

Gurney, Oliver Robert

Hector Horeau Collection

Horeau MSS
Colección
1838

Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.

Horeau, Hector

Georges Nagel Collection

Nagel MSS
Colección
1920s-1930s

Two albums containing approximately 460 black and white photographs taken by various members of the IFAO team during excavations at Deir el-Medîna during the 1920s and 30s. Photographs interspersed with some notes and drawings.

Nagel, Georges

Myrtle Florence Broome Collection

Broome MSS
Colección
1927-1937

415 items of correspondence written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.

Fifteen items are groups of two letters (16, 35, 51, 55, 97, 111, 154, 198, 227, 268, 306, 319, 325, 363, 408, and 414, not all of them by Miss Broome), four of which are actually cards/postcards (16A, 306A, and 414A-B); item 156 is a group of three letters [= 429 letters and 4 cards/postcards in total].

A few letters include drawings/maps; seven letters include photographs (111, 123, 273-276, and 279); letter 337 includes a newspaper cutting; many of the letters include the original envelopes in which they were sent; some other letters mention the enclosure of additional items which are now lost.

Broome, Myrtle Florence

Joseph Bonomi Collection

Bonomi MSS
Colección
c. 1824-1870s

1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].

Bonomi, Joseph

Wilhelm Spiegelberg Collection

Spiegelberg MSS
Colección
1895-1899

MSS 1: Squeezes made in 1895-1896 of some scenes in Theban Tombs 11, 12, 20, 50, 157, and 163.
MSS 2: Squeezes of some scenes and texts in the Island of Biga and Philae (Dodecaschoenus).
MSS 3: Two diaries (with continuous pagination) compiled between 7 November 1898 and 9 February 1899 during the Marquis of Northampton's excavations at Thebes.

Spiegelberg, Wilhelm

Jenny Lane Collection

J. Lane MSS
Colección
c. 1876-1887

J. Lane MSS 1-3: Journals of Jenny Lane, lady's maid to Lucy Renshaw, travelling companion of Amelia A. B. Edwards, describing in detail their various trips including the 1873-1874 journey through France and Italy, crossing from Brindisi to Alexandria on the Simla, thence up the Nile to Dendara, Karnak, Luxor, Aswan, Philae and Abu Simbel, and the return journey via Port Said, through Lebanon to Damascus, Baalbek and Beirut, Constantinople, Athens, and the Rhine. They contain vivid descriptions of the landscape, weather and peoples, and anecdotes and observations of fellow travellers and places visited. They cover the period from 4 September 1873 to 6 March 1876. 286 pages in three volumes, calf, worn, 8vo.
J. Lane MSS 4: Photograph album put together following Miss Lane's two trips to Egypt and the Near East between 1873 and 1876.
J. Lane MSS 5: Collection of antiquities and miscellanea collected by Miss Lane during her trips.
J. Lane MSS 6: Three framed portraits (Jane Collins, née Jane Lane, George Collins [first husband], and George Lane [father]).
J. Lane MSS 7: Photocopy of marriage certificate for George Collins and Jane Lane (20 October 1879).
J. Lane MSS 8: Related documentation (three letters to the Martin family and two papers) by Brenda Moon.

Lane, Jenny

Griffith Institute Casts Collection

GI Casts
Colección
c.1950s-1970s

Plaster casts of objects in Edinburgh, Royal Museum of Scotland, 1956.144 (lower part of block statue of Pedehor, Late Period), and 1961.439 (stela of Anakht, New Kingdom); Reading, The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (copper mirror of Henuiti (woman), Dyn. XII), inked in by J. Černý; Samos, Archeological Museum of Vathy (inscription from bronze mirror of Antiuzashu, Dyn. XXV-XXVI), cast sent by J. Penrose Barron of Balliol College to J. Černý, kept with copies of the texts made by J. Černý and J. Harris.

Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Berlin Academy Photographs Collection

Berlin MSS
Colección
c. 1912

Photographs of Abû Simbel, Amâda, Bîga, Dâbôd, el-Dakka, Dendûr, Edfu, Gammai, Gebel Addala, Kalâbsha, Konosso, el-Maarraqa, "Meschek", Philae, Qar Ibrîm, Saqqâra, el-Sebua, and Tâfa (Gardiner MSS 9, 12, and 14). Photographs of foreigners (Meyer photographs in Gardiner papers).

Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin

Colin Christopher Walters Collection

Walters MSS
Colección
1960s-late 1990s

Complete papers, including notes, drafts, lectures, annotated photocopies and notebooks.

Walters, Colin Christopher

Karl-Heinz Kuhn Collection

Kuhn MSS
Colección

Notes, negatives, transcripts, photographs and photostats of Coptic documents.

Kuhn, Karl-Heinz

John Mason Harden Collection

Harden J. M. MSS
Colección

Fifteen notebooks on Ethiopic.

Harden, (Rt. Revd) John Mason

Griffith Institute Postcards Collection

GI Postcards
Colección

Antique and modern postcards from various sources.

Griffith Institute Film and Media Collection

GI Film & Media
Colección

Film and media from various sources.

Alexander Colvin Ainslie Collection

Ainslie MSS
Colección
1853

Album of drawings and watercolour sketches made in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and Palestine in 1853.

Ainslie, (Revd) Alexander Colvin

Joseph Grafton Milne Collection

Milne MSS
Colección
1895-1896

Two albums of photographs compiled following Milne's visits to Egypt in 1895-6 and 1905-6. One includes photographs taken during W. M. F. Petrie's expedition to Sinai. The other album contains photographs of various sites, including some 19th-century studio photographs.

Milne, Joseph Grafton

Hilda Mary Isabel Petrie Collection

Petrie H. MSS
Colección
Probably early 1900s

Two albums. One labelled 'Scraps', which contains mainly photographs, only one of which shows Egypt (Pyramids and Great Sphinx at Gîza); the rest are British churches and historic buildings. The other album is labelled 'Post Card Album' and contains postcards showing French Prehistoric stone circles, megaliths, and chamber tombs, as well as excavations in progress.

Petrie, (Lady) Hilda Mary Isabel

Rosalind Frances Emily Paget Collection

Paget MSS
Colección

Coloured drawings of hieroglyphs.

Paget, Rosalind Frances Emily

John Phillips Slides Collection

Phillips MSS
Colección
Probably 1960s to early 1970s

2,500 slides (35 mm), taken in 1962 and 1963 at sites in Egypt and in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Folder containing typewritten and handwritten lists/catalogues.

Phillips, John

Günther Roeder Collection

Roeder MSS
Colección

Photographs, tracings and squeezes of Dodecaschoenus graffiti.

Roeder, (Ernst) Günther

Griffith Institute Lantern Slides Collection

GI Lantern Slides
Colección

Lantern slides from various sources.

Alfred Lucas Collection

Lucas MSS
Colección
1922-1933

Notebook on 'Archaeology, Register of samples, and analyses. Tutankhamen and others.' (TAA i.2.11). Notebook on 'Examination of Materials: (a) Tutankhamen. (b) Various.' (TAA i.2.12).

Lucas, Alfred

Heathcote Negatives Collection