Bereich "Identifikation"
Signatur
Titel
Datum/Laufzeit
- c.1920s-1950 (Anlage)
Erschließungsstufe
Umfang und Medium
25 boxes, 3 outsize boxes, 8 purpose-made slip boxes, 1 package, and 2 rolls
Bereich "Kontext"
Name des Bestandsbildners
Biographische Angaben
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.
Bestandsgeschichte
Bequeathed by Professor B. G. Gunn to the Griffith Institute.
Abgebende Stelle
The estate of Professor B. G. Gunn. Various notes on Hekanakht papers presented by Mr T. G. H. James in 1985.
Bereich "Inhalt und innere Ordnung"
Eingrenzung und Inhalt
Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.
Bewertung, Vernichtung und Terminierung
Zuwächse
Ordnung und Klassifikation
Mostly kept as received. Sir Alan H. Gardiner sorted the MSS before they were transferred to the Griffith Institute.
Bedingungen des Zugriffs- und Benutzungsbereichs
Benutzungsbedingungen
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Reproduktionsbedingungen
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
In der Verzeichnungseinheit enthaltene Sprache
Englisch
Französisch
Deutsch
Schrift in den Unterlagen
Anmerkungen zu Sprache und Schrift
Physische Beschaffenheit und technische Anforderungen
Some tracings, squeezes, and photographs need to be handled with great care.
Findmittel
Catalogue.
Bereich Sachverwandte Unterlagen
Existenz und Aufbewahrungsort von Originalen
These are originals, except where indicated in Gunn catalogue.
Existenz und Aufbewahrungsort von Kopien
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.
Verwandte Verzeichnungseinheiten
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).
Anmerkung zur Veröffentlichung
Bereich "Anmerkungen"
Anmerkung
- The collection was partially catalogued by Elena Limongelli (2024-2025), under the supervision of Jen Turner.