Zone d'identification
Cote
Gunn MSS
Titre
Date(s)
- c.1920s-1950 (Production)
Niveau de description
Collection
Étendue matérielle et support
25 boxes, 3 outsize boxes, 8 purpose-made slip boxes, 1 package, and 2 rolls
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
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.
Histoire archivistique
Bequeathed by Professor B. G. Gunn to the Griffith Institute.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
The estate of Professor B. G. Gunn. Various notes on Heqanakhte papers presented by Mr T. G. H. James in 1985.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Mostly kept as received. Sir Alan Gardiner sorted the MSS before they were transferred to the Griffith Institute.
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 sur la langue et l'écriture
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
Some tracings, squeezes, and photographs need to be handled with great care.
Instruments de recherche
Catalogue.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
These are originals, except where indicated in Gunn catalogue.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
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.