Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Título
Fecha(s)
- c.1939-1945 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Volumen y soporte
1 folder
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
British Egyptologist. Born, Mytholmroyd, Yorkshire 1912. Died, Bristol 2003. Educated, Heath School, Halifax, and read Literae Humaniores at Queen's College, Oxford; BA, 1935. He was the first Lady Wallis Budge Fellow at University College, 1936-42. Published several articles, including one with P. C. Smither titled 'The Semnah Despatches', and another on Middle Kingdom stelae in Queen's College, Oxford (now in the Ashmolean Museum). Entered the Foreign Office in May 1940 and worked as a cryptographer at Bletchley Park. After the war left Egyptology and became a schoolmaster but took it up again in the 1970s.
Historia archivística
Dakin sent his papers with 'Notes on Auxiliaries' to Sir Alan Gardiner when he left Egyptology in the mid-1940s.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Formed part of the bequest of Sir Alan Gardiner.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
1 folder containing unsorted notes.
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.
Idioma del material
inglés
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
No problems.
Instrumentos de descripción
See Gardiner catalogue page 124.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
These are originals.
Existencia y localización de copias
None.
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Not known.
Nota de publicación
Not published.