Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- mid 1940s-1989 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
79 boxes, 49 document folders, 15 folders (containing impressions), and 13 packages
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
French Egyptologist. Born, Paris 1906. Died, Paris 1989. Trained as an artist at the École Bernard Palissy and the École des Arts Decoratifs. First started studying Egyptology with Henri Sottas at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, 1924. Student, École du Louvre, 1925. Worked with Bruyère at Deir el-Medîna, and then with Bisson de la Roque at Madâmûd. Studied Egyptian language with Moret, Weill, and Sethe. Qualified in the history of religion, phonetics, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, and Berber. Director d'Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, 1949. Visiting Professor, Brown University, 1951-2 and 1960-1. Wilbour Fellow, Brooklyn Museum, 1967. Published many linguistic articles as well as several monographs.
Historia archivística
Part of the estate of J. J. Clère.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Donated by his widow, Madame Irène Clère, in 1995.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Notebooks, loose notes, drafts of articles, teaching notes, photocopies, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, impressions, photographs, negatives, transparencies (cut into strips and in rolls), videotape recording, tracings, drawings, and correspondence.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
- Mostly kept as received.
- Correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order.
Área de condiciones de acceso y uso
Condiciones de acceso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condiciones
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Idioma del material
francés
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
No problems.
Instrumentos de descripción
- Preliminary file-level catalogue: refer to the PDF associated with this record.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
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These are the originals except for the following.
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The originals of MSS group 04 and associated negatives, together with a small group of miscellaneous notes, correspondence, prints, etc., are in the Musée du Louvre. There are photocopies for most of this group in the Griffith Institute archive, but these may not be comprehensive. Also, there are no copies of the associated negatives in the Institute.
Existencia y localización de copias
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Griffith Institute Archive:
- Video, based on a film made by J. J. Clère at the 23rd Congress of Orientalists in Cambridge in 1954: see Griffith Institute videos, no. 4.
Nota de publicación
- Publication details are indicated in the Clère catalogue.