Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- Probably 1920s (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
British Egyptologist. Born, Liverpool 1903. Died, Cairo 1971. Educated St. Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool, then the Institute of Archaeology, Liverpool University, 1921-3. Went out to Egypt for the first time as an assistant to the EES excavations at Amârna in 1923-4. Also worked for Mond at Luxor and Armant, 1923-8. Subsequently directed excavations at many sites in Egypt, notably his work at North Saqqâra in 1935-9. Served with the British Army 1939-46, afterwards attached to the British Embassy in Cairo. In 1951 appointed to the Edwards Professorship at University College London, which he held until his retirement in 1970. Worked in the Sudan and at Qasr Ibrîm in the 1950s and 60s.
Archival history
Not known.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Possibly acquired with the Mond MSS.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Plans, tracings, and photographs made in TT 55, 92, and 97.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Kept as received.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Language of material
English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Catalogue.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals.
Existence and location of copies
Not known.
Related units of description
Other Archives:
- Scrapbooks with newspaper cuttings, etc. in Liverpool, Institute of Archaeology.
- Papers in London, Egypt Exploration Society.
- Some correspondence in London, University College.
-Some material, formerly with Professor Geoffrey T. Martin. Currently in the McDonald Institute of Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge (info September 2022).
Griffith Institute Archive:
- Mond MSS. 3 (Emery field journal, Thebes, 1924-5).
- Mariette MSS. (Catalogue of objects found in the Serapeum at Saqqâra in 1850-2 and now in the Louvre. Copied by Mrs M. M. Emery).
- Gardiner Correspondence = MSS. 42 (4 letters).
Publication note
Not published.