Identity area
Reference code
Edel - Černý MSS 21.54-5, 426-73
Title
Edel, Elmar - correspondence
Date(s)
- 1948-1969 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
0.5 cm. 50 letters
Context area
Name of creator
(1898-1970)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
43 letters from Edel, 7 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Edel.
- philology
- publications
- CEDAE expeditions
- etymologies, including Coptic
- the Nubian campaign - texts from Amara and Abu Simbel
- Aswan fieldwork of Edel, hieratic texts on vessels from Aswan
- book exchange
- communication between European and Egyptian Egyptologists
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
English
German
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Egyptological Archives of the University of Milan, Collection Elmar Edel, including letters from Černý.
Publication note
The Edel papers and Nubian campaign archive resources:
- Piacentini, P. (ed.), Gli archivi egittologici dell’Università degli Studi di Milano. 1 Il fondo Elmar Edel (2006) (OEB 155184).
- Piacentini, P., 'Ten years later' [Editorial], Egyptian and Egyptological Documents, Archives, Libraries 1 (2009), 11-20 (OEB 171822).
- Piacentini P., 'The Egyptological Archives of the Università degli Studi di Milano', in Piacentini, P. (ed.), Egypt and the Pharaohs. From the Sand to the Library. Pharaonic Egypt in the archives and libraries of the Università degli Studi di Milano (2010), 63-114 (OEB 169106).