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GI Squeezes
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Biographical history
British clergyman and collector; he was born in Chester-le-Street, Co. Durham, 26 April 1824, second son of William S., coal owner, and Barbara Haytor; he was educated at The Queen's College, Oxford from 1842; BA, 1847; MA, 1848; ordained, 1849; he held various curacies, 1849-64; Rector of Warkton, Northants., 1865-81, where he completely restored the church; he visited Egypt, 1854-5, and brought back some important antiquities; some of these were published in a fol. vol. without letterpress, Egyptian Antiquities collected on a voyage made in Upper Egypt in the years 1854 and 1855 ..., 1855; most of the antiquities were bought by Joseph Mayer of Liverpool, including the papyri, now famous as `Mayer A & B'; the British Museum bought the Coptic and Greek papyri, one of which had on the verso the Funeral oration of Hypereides, edited by Churchill Babington; the remainder were given to the Bristol Museum by Miss Stobart in 1927; his squeezes are in the Griffith Institute, Oxford; he retired to Wykeham Rise, Totteridge, Herts. in 1881, and died at Funchal, Madeira, 30 Dec. 1895.
Archival history
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Griffith Institute squeezes 4.1-106 (Stobart squeezes), were presented by Reginald Dalton Pontifex (1857–1951), in 1947.
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Paper squeezes from various sources.
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Publication note
- Online presentation of Griffith Institute Squeezes, see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/archive/onlineresources/GISqueezes.html
- From the tomb of Sethos I (KV 17) in the Valley of the Kings: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4sethos.html
- Theban tomb of Khaemhet (TT 57): http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4khaem.html
- Theban tomb of Paser (TT 106): http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4paser.html
- Also: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4gisquee.html