Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Möller MSS
Título
Fecha(s)
- late 1890s-1921 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Volumen y soporte
5 slip-cover boxes
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
German Egyptologist. Born, Caracas 1876. Died, Uppsala 1921. Studied at Berlin under Erman, 1896-1900. PhD, 1900. Then excavated in Egypt and was attached to the German consulate, 1901-7. Was appointed to the staff of Berlin Museum, later becoming Assistant Director of the Egyptian collections, 1907. Habilitation, 1912. Lectured at Berlin, 1913-6, 1918-22. Professor, 1916. Excavated in Egypt, particularly at Abusir el-Melek. He was an all-round Egyptologist and produced an edition of the Rhind Demotic Bilingual Papyri, a volume on goldsmith's work in Berlin Museum, and another on Mummy Portraits, but his most important work was in the field of hieratic texts and palaeography. At the time of his death he was preparing works on the graffiti in the Hatnub quarry, hieroglyphic palaeography, and the history of the Libyans.
Historia archivística
Collection given to E. Lüddeckens (Mainz), the editor of the Demotisches Namenbuch (see Jahrbuch 1952 of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Wiesbaden, p. 74). Following Lüddeckens' appointment as Professor at the Universität Würzburg in 1964, the project was moved there, and the collection with it. Later G. Wittmann of the Würzburg Demotisches Namenbuch donated it to S. P. Vleeming (Universität Trier).
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
Donated by Professor S. P. Vleeming (Universität Trier) in 2013.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Copies, transcriptions, facsimiles, drawings and some photographs of mummy labels in Demotic, Greek or bilingual, presented as loose sheets in folders arranged by cities/museums/collections, housed in five slip-cover boxes. They were collected by Möller from printed sources and from several collections he visited on research journeys. One folder in box V is by W. Spiegelberg (1893).
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
- alemán
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
No problems.
Instrumentos de descripción
Preliminary list.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
These are originals.
Existencia y localización de copias
Not known.
Unidades de descripción relacionadas
Nota de publicación
- Some mummy labels are published in W. Spiegelberg, Ägyptische und griechische Eigennamen aus Mumienetiketten der römischen Kaiserzeit (Leipzig, 1901).
- For the Demotic and bilingual (Demotic/Greek) mummy labels, see mainly S. P. Vleeming, Demotic and Greek-Demotic mummy labels and other short texts gathered from many publications (short texts II 278-1200), 2 vols. (Leuven, 2011).