Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
Titolo
Date
- 1937-1948, card index 1958 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
2 card index boxes, 1 box (drawings) , 1 file of correspondence, and 1 box of print-outs
Area del contesto
Nome del soggetto produttore
Nota biografica
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.
Nome del soggetto produttore
Nota biografica
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.
Storia archivistica
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.
Modalità di acquisizione
Negatives, Mrs. Winifred Brunton in 1949.
Preliminary work on button seals deposited at Mrs. Brunton's request in 1956.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
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.
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
Kept as received.
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
Scrittura dei materiali
Note sulla lingua e sulla scrittura
Caratteristiche materiali e requisiti tecnici
The nitrate negatives were scanned and the originals deaccessioned.
Strumenti di ricerca
None.
Area dei materiali collegati
Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali
The paper documents are original. The nitrate negatives have been replaced by scans and print-outs.
Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
Scans (of nitrate negatives).
Unità di descrizione collegate
Nota bibliografica
-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).