Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
Titolo
Date
- c.1920s-1950 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
25 boxes, 3 outsize boxes, 8 purpose-made slip boxes, 1 package, and 2 rolls
Area del contesto
Nome del soggetto produttore
Nota biografica
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.
Storia archivistica
Bequeathed by Professor B. G. Gunn to the Griffith Institute.
Modalità di acquisizione
The estate of Professor B. G. Gunn. Various notes on Hekanakht papers presented by Mr T. G. H. James in 1985.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
Mostly kept as received. Sir Alan H. Gardiner sorted the MSS before they were transferred to the Griffith Institute.
Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso
Condizioni di accesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condizioni di riproduzione
Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
Lingua dei materiali
inglese
francese
tedesco
Scrittura dei materiali
Note sulla lingua e sulla scrittura
Caratteristiche materiali e requisiti tecnici
Some tracings, squeezes, and photographs need to be handled with great care.
Strumenti di ricerca
Catalogue.
Area dei materiali collegati
Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali
These are originals, except where indicated in Gunn catalogue.
Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
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.
Unità di descrizione collegate
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).
Nota bibliografica
Area delle note
Nota
- The collection was partially catalogued by Elena Limongelli (2024-2025), under the supervision of Jen Turner.