Área de identidad
Código de referencia
Gunn MSS
Título
Fecha(s)
- c.1920s-1950 (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Colección
Volumen y soporte
25 boxes, 3 outsize boxes, 8 purpose-made slip boxes, 1 package, and 2 rolls
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
British Egyptologist. Born, London 1883. Died, Oxford 1950. Studied hieroglyphs at University College, London, as a student of Margaret Murray. Assistant to Gardiner helping him with the lexicographical work on Onomastica. Excavated at various sites including Amarna, Haraga, and Saqqâra. Assistant Curator at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo in 1928-31. Curator of Egyptian Antiquities at the University Museum, Philadelphia, 1931-4. Professor of Egyptology, Oxford, 1934-50. Edited the Journal of Egyptian Archeology, 1934-40.
Historia archivística
Bequeathed by Professor B. G. Gunn to the Griffith Institute.
Origen del ingreso o transferencia
The estate of Professor B. G. Gunn. Various notes on Heqanakhte papers presented by Mr T. G. H. James in 1985.
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.
Valorización, destrucción y programación
Acumulaciones
Sistema de arreglo
Mostly kept as received. Sir Alan Gardiner sorted the MSS before they were transferred to the Griffith Institute.
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
- inglés
Escritura del material
Notas sobre las lenguas y escrituras
Características físicas y requisitos técnicos
Some tracings, squeezes, and photographs need to be handled with great care.
Instrumentos de descripción
Catalogue.
Área de materiales relacionados
Existencia y localización de originales
These are originals, except where indicated in Gunn catalogue.
Existencia y localización de copias
Copies of photographs and notes made from Gunn MSS., to be used in proposed publication by D. Magee and J. Malek. Kept in Topographical Bibliography room.