Identity area
Reference code
Janssen, Jac. J. - Černý MSS 21.1167-83
Title
Janssen, Jacobus J. - correspondence
Date(s)
- 1957-1967 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
0.5 cm, 17 letters
Context area
Name of creator
(1898-1970)
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
13 letters from J. J. Janssen, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to J. J. Janssen.
Janssen's research, and co-operation with Černý:
- plans for his book on commodity prices - Janssen, J. J., Commodity Prices from the Ramessid Period. An Economic Study of the Village of Necropolis Workmen at Thebes (1975) (OEB 9846)
- Janssen's publication of BM EA 588 (TopBib i2.721), published later as Janssen, J. J., 'An unusual donation stela', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 49 (1963), 64-70 (OEB 10084)
- discussion of Endesfelder, E., 'Über die Arbeiter der thebanischen Nekropole im Neuen Reich', in Günther, R. and Schrot, G. (eds), Sozialökonomische Verhältnisse im Alten Orient und im klassischen Altertum (1961), 88-93 (OEB 8360)
- Janssen's work on p. Leiden I, 350
- dating of ostraca, and changes in the Deir el-Medîna economy
- Černý mediating access to the Museo Egizio in Turin for Janssen, via Ernesto Scamuzzi
- exchange of off-prints and other publications
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Some of the letters are not in chronological order within the assigned archive numbering sequence.
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Language of material
- English
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Note
The correspondence is not complete, e.g. Černý MSS 21.1183 refers to a letter written in 1967 that is not included in the file at present.