Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Schott MSS
Título
Fecha(s)
- 1920s-1940s (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Volumen y soporte
8 A4 ring binders, 2 boxes, 5 notebooks and 1 sheaf of printed papers
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
German Egyptologist. Born, Berlin 1897. Died, Innsbruck 1971. Studied Egyptology under H. Ranke at Heidelberg, 1924, then with H. Junker and K. Sethe. Dr. Phil., 1926. Employed initially as an assistant in the Berlin Museum, and also worked at the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo. During his time in Egypt he translated texts collected by the German E. Delta expedition in 1929. Also worked for Chicago House, Luxor, as an epigraphist. Lecturer, Göttingen University, 1943. Professor of Egyptology, Heidelberg University, 1952. Professor of Egyptology, Göttingen University, 1956. Professor (emeritus), Göttingen University, 1965-71. Published extensively, especially religious texts.
Historia archivística
(a) Professor Schott lent the original negatives to Dr R. L. B. Moss in 1950. They were used during the compilation of the second edition of the Topographical Bibliography, vol. i, Pt. 1.
(b) The original photographs made from these negatives are in the Abteilung Ägyptologie, University of Trier. There was an exchange of copies of photographs and negatives, completing some of the gaps in the Griffith Institute and Trier sets.
(c) Not known.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
(a) Professor Schott officially presented the negatives to the Griffith Institute in 1960.
(b) Photographs completing part of the Griffith Institute set were received in exchange from the Abteilung Ägyptologie, University of Trier (Professor E. Winter), in 1992.
(c) Transferred from the Sackler Library Archive Room in November 2018.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
(a) Approximately 3,500 negatives recording scenes from private tombs at Thebes, accompanied by a concordance in five notebooks .
(b) There are also several hundred photographs which were received in exchange with the Abteilung Ägyptologie, Trier.
(c) Microfilm roll with copies of the negatives.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Kept as received.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford, and Abteilung Ägyptologie, FB III, Universität Trier, Universitätsring 15, D-54296 Trier.
Idioma del material
- alemán
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
The original nitrate negatives were copied onto 35 mm safety film and the originals destroyed. The consultation set of prints are contact sheets made from the 35 mm negatives.
Instrumentos de descripción
Catalogue.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
The original negatives are in the Griffith Institute. The original photographs are in Abteilung Ägyptologie, Universität Trier.
Existencia y localización de copias
Trier, Abteilung Ägyptologie (http://www.schott.uni-trier.de).