Identity area
Reference code
Nadpis
Date(s)
- c.1920s-1950 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
25 boxes, 3 outsize boxes, 8 purpose-made slip boxes, 1 package, and 2 rolls
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
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.
Archival history
Bequeathed by Professor B. G. Gunn to the Griffith Institute.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The estate of Professor B. G. Gunn. Various notes on Hekanakht papers presented by Mr T. G. H. James in 1985.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Mostly kept as received. Sir Alan H. Gardiner sorted the MSS before they were transferred to the Griffith Institute.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Language of material
angličtina
francouzština
němčina
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Some tracings, squeezes, and photographs need to be handled with great care.
Finding aids
Catalogue.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals, except where indicated in Gunn catalogue.
Existence and location of 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.
Related units of description
Other archives:
- Correspondence with Alan Rowe (1892-1968) at the Penn Museum Archives, University of Pennsylvania, as part of the documentation related to the "University of Pennsylvania Museum Expedition to Meydum, Egypt" (catalogue: https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/UPENN_MUSEUM_PU-MU.1013).
Publication note
Notes area
Note
- The collection was partially catalogued by Elena Limongelli (2024-2025), under the supervision of Jen Turner.