Griffith Institute Archive

Wylie MSS
Collection
1910

153 black and white negatives taken in Egypt, Palestine, and Greece. Boxes marked with the date '1910'. Most of the Egyptian negatives show Giza Pyramids and the Great Sphinx.

Wylie

Yates Negatives Collection

Yates MSS
Collection
1890s

118 glass stereoscopic plate negatives. Most show sites in and around

Cairo, in and around
- General views of Cairo
- Street views
- Tombs of the Caliphs
- Tombs of the Mamelukes
- Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan
- Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq
- Tomb of Abouseer
- Mosque of Khat Bey
- Al-Hakim Mosque
- Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
- The Citadel
Other sites in Egypt
- 'Tombs at Thebes'
- 'Rocks of Abusir', Second Cataract
- 'Arab village'
Outside Egypt, mostly Israel and Palestine:
- Bethlehem
- Jacob's Well
- Mount Tabor

Yates, Miss ?

Yioutanis, Eftychios - correspondence

Yioutanis - Černý MSS 21.162
File
1966

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

1 letter from Yioutanis.
Query concerning the monuments of a Deir el-Medîna workman, Pashedu (possibly the same Pashedu, owner of TT 3 at Thebes, TopBib i2.9-11).

Young, Eric - correspondence

Young - Černý MSS 21.1977
File
1962

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

1 letter from Young.
Third Intermediate Period history and Černý's plan to work on texts from Beni Hasan.

Yoyotte, Jean - correspondence

Yoyotte - Černý MSS 21.163-6, 1978-91
File
1949-1964

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

18 letters from Yoyotte.
Professional and personal matters:

exchange of offprints and publications
QV 53 publication by Yoyotte, see Yoyotte, J., 'The Tomb of a Prince Ramesses in the Valley of the Queens (No. 53)', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 44 (1958), 26-30 (OEB 6811)
Yoyotte's visits to the UK
situation of IFAO after the Suez crisis
personal matters

Leonie Zuntz Collection

Zuntz MSS
Collection

Hittite index. Non-Egyptological.

Zuntz, Leonie

Jaroslav Černý Collection

Černý MSS
Collection
1918-1988

Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.

Series 1 to 4, 6, 7 contain photographs, copies, transcriptions and translations of Egyptian texts, and photographs of objects and sites.
Series 5 contains articles and lectures, some unpublished.
Series 5 and 10 contain notes on Egyptian history.
Series 8, 14, 22, 24, 26 contain notes and indexes on lexicography and grammar and card indexes for a late Egyptian and general hieroglyphic dictionary.
Series 17 contains notebooks with transcriptions of texts from ostraca, graffiti, papyri and other monuments. There is a card index of ostraca with references to notebooks in series 28.
Series 18 and 23 contain Coptic notes and a card index for Coptic grammar.
Series 25 contains data on Egyptian personal names.
Series 33 is an etymological card index.

Černý, Jaroslav

Ostraca

Černý MSS 1
Series
1918 to 1970

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

867 groups of documentation, mainly for ostraca with hieratic inscriptions, as well as a small number of ostraca with demotic or Coptic inscriptions, or ostraca with figures.
Writing boards with hieratic inscriptions are also included.
Most of the documents are photographs. The rest of the material includes transcriptions, translations, facsimiles, correspondence, annotated off-prints and various notes.

-Museums, Černý MSS 1.1-522 (523-4, numbers not allocated)
-Collections, Černý MSS 1.525-594
-Not identified, Černý MSS 1.595-625
-Miscellaneous, Černý MSS 1.626-830

History

Černý MSS 10
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

History of Dynasty XII

Černý MSS 10.1-15
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Notes on the history of Dynasty XII.

History of Dynasty XXI

Černý MSS 10.16-62
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Notes, mainly on Dynasty XXI. Includes photographs of a Late Period block from Saqqara, with four rows of ancestors, 'Genealogy of a Memphite Priest', in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, 23673 (see TopBib iii2.751).

Ramesses XI

Černý MSS 10.63
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Genealogy of Nesbanebdjed and Herihor

Černý MSS 10.64
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Handwritten genealogy tree for Nesbanebdjed (Smendes) and Herihor.

New Kingdom chronology

Černý MSS 10.65
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

King-list with dates of reigns.

Palaeography

Černý MSS 11
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Egyptian Palaeography

Černý MSS 11.1-85
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Notes on Egyptian palaeography used for two lectures given to "Prof. Sisson's students on 18th and 25th February 1947".

Colours of hieroglyphs in tombs

Černý MSS 11.86-88
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Brief notes on the colours of hieroglyphs in tombs.

Hieratic signs

Černý MSS 11.89-96
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Facsimiles of hieratic signs from Gardiner ostraca.

Hieratic signs from Simeone, L. Raccoltà dei segni ieratici egizi

Černý MSS 11.97
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Hieratic signs copied from:
Simeone, L., Raccoltà dei segni ieratici egizi nelle diverse epoche, con i corrispondenti geroglifici ed i loro differenti valori fonetici (1880) (OEB 143734).

Comparison of signs from papyri

Černý MSS 11.98-99
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Comparison of signs from various papyri and a numbered list of new signs.

Annotated offprints

Černý MSS 12
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Annotated off-print: Murray, 'Notes on some genealogies of the Middle Kingdom'

Černý MSS 12.1
Item

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Annotated off-print:
Murray, M. A., 'Notes on some genealogies of the Middle Kingdom', in Ancient Egypt (1927), 45-51 (OEB 145972).

Workmen in the Place of Truth

Černý MSS 13
Series

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Translations of ostraca and papyri

Černý MSS 13.1-15
Subseries

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Workmen in the Place of Truth.
Translations of parts of:

O. DM 45, 14 ff.
O. Berlin 12630
O. Berlin 12654
O. Cairo 25515
O. BM [50722]
O. Leipzig 2
O. Turin 9753
unnumbered ostracon from Chicago
unnumbered ostracon from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Lettre du scribe Djary"
Takhentshepsi and Heria
papyri 49 and unnumbered
O. Gardiner 90, Testament of Ken

ṯȝy-mdȝt

Černý MSS 13.16-20
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

List of ṯȝy-mdȝt attested, with notes.

Workmen of O. Turin Cat. 2167

Černý MSS 13.21-22
File

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Notes on workmen

Černý MSS 13.23-40
Subseries

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

13.23-39: Draft notes for a 1922 dissertation.
13.40: List of words, not related to previous.

Les équipes de Deir el Médineh

Černý MSS 13.41-42
Subseries

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Two notebooks of L.-A. Christophe , Les équipes de Deir el Médineh:

Notebook I: Ramesses III - An XXIV - An XXXI.
Notebook II: Ramesses IV - An I - III.

Christophe, Louis-Antoine

Drafts for The Valley of the Kings

Černý MSS 13.43
Subseries

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Early incomplete drafts for different chapters of The Valley of the Kings (Černý MSS 43.1).
Draft of chapter on 'Draughtsmen and their Work' for The Valley of the Kings not published (Černý MSS 43.2).
Draft and notes for a chapter on 'Tools' for The Valley of the Kings, not published (Černý MSS 43.3).

Deir el-Medina workmen genealogies

Černý MSS 13.44
Subseries

Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection

Various notes on the genealogies of Deir el-Medina workmen.

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