Zone d'identification
Cote
Möller MSS
Titre
Date(s)
- late 1890s-1921 (Production)
Niveau de description
Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
5 slip-cover boxes
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
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).
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Donated by Professor S. P. Vleeming (Universität Trier) in 2013.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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).
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
- allemand
Écriture des documents
Notes sur la langue et l'écriture
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
Preliminary list.
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
Note de publication
- 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).