Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 1937-1948, card index 1958 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
2 card index boxes, 1 box (drawings) , 1 file of correspondence, and 1 box of print-outs
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
British Egyptologist. Born, Beckenham 1878. Died, White River, Transvaal 1948. Studied Egyptology under Petrie and Margaret Murray. Between 1912-14 he excavated with Petrie at Lahun, and after war service again in 1919-21. He then excavated at Qau, Badari, and Deir Tasa before taking up a post in the Cairo Museum in 1931. He was assisted in his work by his wife, Winifred, an artist. After his retirement he returned to South Africa, where he died without having completed his work on button seals.
Name of creator
Biographical history
British artist. Born, 1880. Died, Clocolan, Orange Free State, South Africa 1959. Married Guy Brunton in 1906. Produced water colour illustrations for her own publications, as well as for her husband's excavation reports.
Archival history
In possession of his widow Mrs. Winifred Brunton (1880-1959). She deposited the Matmar negatives in 1949. After unsuccessful attempts to find a candidate to complete the catalogue of button seals, the material was deposited in the Griffith Institute in 1956, where further work was done on it by J. J. Orchard, who produced the index.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Negatives, Mrs. Winifred Brunton in 1949.
Preliminary work on button seals deposited at Mrs. Brunton's request in 1956.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Drawings (by Winifred M. Brunton), letters, and working notes for a publication on button seals.
Negatives taken during the Matmar excavations in 1928-30.
Card index created 1958.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Kept as received.
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
English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The nitrate negatives were scanned and the originals deaccessioned.
Finding aids
None.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
The paper documents are original. The nitrate negatives have been replaced by scans and print-outs.
Existence and location of copies
Scans (of nitrate negatives).
Related units of description
Publication note
-The drawings, card indexes and correspondence form the basis of A. B. Wiese, Die Anfänge der ägyptischen Stempelsiegel-Amulette. Eine typologische und religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung zu der 'Knopfsiegeln' und verwandten Objekten der 6. bis frühen 12. (PhD Thesis; Basel, 1995).