Collection Dennis MSS - James Teackle Dennis Collection

Identity area

Reference code

Dennis MSS

Title

James Teackle Dennis Collection

Date(s)

  • 1906-1907 (Creation)

Level of description

Collection

Extent and medium

1 box

Context area

Name of creator

(1865-1918)

Biographical history

American attorney and Egyptologist. Born, Baltimore, MD 1865. Died, Woodbrook, MD 1918. Educated Lafayette College and John Hopkins University, 1896-1903. Went to Egypt on several occasions between 1895 and 1907. Worked with the Hearst Expedition of the University of California at Gîza in 1903-4 and as a volunteer assistant to E. Naville at Deir el-Bahri. Published several popular books about his travels.

Archival history

Not known.

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Not known.

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Some 250 facsimile copies of graffiti and ostraca found by E. Naville at Deir el-Bahari, probably mostly in the Hathor-cow Chapel, in 1906-7.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Arranged by hieroglyphic, hieratic, Demotic, and Coptic texts.

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Conditions governing access

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Conditions governing reproduction

Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.

Language of material

  • English

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Physical characteristics and technical requirements

No problems.

Finding aids

Partial catalogue.

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Existence and location of originals

These are originals.

Existence and location of copies

Not knwon.

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Not published.

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Physical storage

  • Shelf: 0621A