Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- Probably 1920s (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 box
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
Not known.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Possibly acquired with the Mond MSS.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Plans, tracings, and photographs made in TT 55, 92, and 97.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Kept as received.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Langue des documents
anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
Catalogue.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
These are originals.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Not known.
Unités de description associées
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).
Note de publication
Not published.