Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
Titolo
Date
- mid 1940s-1989 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
79 boxes, 49 document folders, 15 folders (containing impressions), and 13 packages
Area del contesto
Nome del soggetto produttore
Nota biografica
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.
Storia archivistica
Part of the estate of J. J. Clère.
Modalità di acquisizione
Donated by his widow, Madame Irène Clère, in 1995.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
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.
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
- Mostly kept as received.
- Correspondence has been arranged in alphabetical order.
Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso
Condizioni di accesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condizioni di riproduzione
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Lingua dei materiali
francese
Scrittura dei materiali
Note sulla lingua e sulla scrittura
Caratteristiche materiali e requisiti tecnici
No problems.
Strumenti di ricerca
- Preliminary file-level catalogue: refer to the PDF associated with this record.
Area dei materiali collegati
Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali
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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.
Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
Unità di descrizione collegate
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 bibliografica
- Publication details are indicated in the Clère catalogue.