Uphill's CV, and his notes and records on the Uphill family's genealogy.
90 pages (42 single-sided + 48 double-sided)
Contents include:

• Eric Uphill curriculum vitae, no date but created after 2004, with the annotated date "2006-8"
  • 3 typewritten, single-sided pages with annotations
• Handwritten notes on various topics relating to family history
  • 5 handwritten, double-sided pages
• Miscellaneous photocopies from publications including maps of the Hampshire area, notes on Cheshire family history and typed notes from Society of Genealogists Family History Tracts and a letter from the Society to Eric Uphill in May 1994 electing him as a Town member of the society. Also, handwritten notes with family member names and connections and some related correspondence
  • 27 pages (20 single-sided + 7 double-sided)
• Handwritten notes on Guphill Pedigree and Bellas
  • 9 handwritten, double-sided pages
• Handwritten, and a few typewritten, notes on family generations, some information taken from the 1850 census. Includes a diagram for the family tree of John Whinfield Parrington (1773-1857) and Rebecca Harker (1775/76 - 1865), also Pattison, Etchells [Ecculs], notes on Charles Darwin, Salisbury Cathedral, and memorials of Westminster Abbey
  • 46 pages (19 single-sided + 27 double-sided)

Correspondence received by Uphill, some copies and drafts of letters created by Uphill, and a copy of a letter mentioning Uphill. The correspondence dates between 1963 and 2012.

• Correspondence received:
  • "Bacchus", 6 letters, 2000-2002 + 2 undated, personal correspondence from "Bacchus" who addresses Uphill as "Empire"
  • Bl..., Margaret M. 1 letter, 30/04/1994
  • Cruickshank, Durward William John, 1 letter, 28/09/1998
  • Heath(?), Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 1 postcard, [22/12/1999], acknowledgement
  • Jaeschke, Helena, 1 letter, 02/03/1996
  • Kitchen, Kenneth, 1 letter, 09/12/1991
  • Page, Robin A., Rubicon Press, 25/04/2001, publication agreement, and a copy of Uphill's letter to Page, 01/05/2001
  • Porter, Robert M., 6 letters, 02/1997 to 02/2004, with photocopied scans of articles relating to their discussion, and a copy of Uphill's letter to Porter, 14/01/2004
  • Seymour, Claire, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 1 letter, 20/06/2002
  • Wainwright, G. A., 1 letter, 05/08/1963
  • ?, Elizabeth, 1 letter with an enclosed photocopy of an article on Jean-Philippe Lauer published in KMT, 22/07/2002
• Correspondence sent, Uphill's handwritten copies and drafts:
  • Booth, Charlotte, 1 page, not dated
  • Graham, Angus, 3 pages, 18/06/2012
  • Scott, Mr, 1 letter, 18/02/2006
• Correspondence mentioning Uphill
  • Fitton, Lesley, British Museum, 1 letter and enclosure, 12/01/2010, addressed to Helen Stuckey

Uphill's notes made during meetings, lectures and conferences, including notes made by others
87 typewritten pages (59 single-sided + 28 double-sided)

• "Egypt Through the Eyes of John Gardiner Wilkinson', lecture given by Jaromir Malek, Egypt Exploration Society, 01/11/1978
  • 5 typewritten pages, notes on lecture and the slides used
  • Created by "PR", who notes, "Notes do not show the artistry and delicacy with which the simple facts were woven together, nor the great respect the speaker felt for his subject"
• "Lectures 20 July 1993"
  • 1 typewritten page
  • Notes on papers presented: "Jebel Haridi" , Christopher Kirby, and "The Monuments of Ahmose at Abydos Recent Excavations", Stephen Harvey
• "Ramesses II Libyan Fortress", Stephen Snape, University College London, 23/11/1994
  • 1 typewritten page
• "Ulu Burun Wreck", Claire Calcagno, Birkbeck Archaeological Society, 23/02/1996
  • 1 typewritten page
• "Egypt and Canaan in the Late Bronze Age", E. Oren, University College London, 27/02/1997
  • 1 typewritten page
• "Assyria (Iron Age) on the Border of Egypt and the Archaeological Perspective", E. Oren, University College London, 06/03/1997
  • 3 typewritten pages with annotations
• [Roman mummy portraits], Euphrosyne Doxiadis, British Museum, 18/03/1997
  • 1 typewritten page
• "Recent Excavations at the Pyramid of Senwosret III", Dieter Arnold, Sackler Lecture, British Museum, 16/07/1997
  • 2 typewritten pages
• SARS Lectures on recent fieldwork, 22/05/2002
  • 2 typewritten pages (1 single-sided + 1 double-sided)
• "Searching for Solomon: the Bible and Archaeology", Jonathan Tubb, British Museum, 10/10/2002, and "Tel Rehov: the excavations and their implications for the Archaeology of the Early Monarchy in Israel", Amihai Mazar, University College London, 07/10/2002
  • 1 typewritten page
• "Goliath's People", Jonathan Tubb, British Museum, 17/10/2002
  • 2 typewritten pages
• "The Origins of Ancient Egyptian Civilisation", Michael Rice, 12/02/2004, Egyptian Embassy, London
  • 2 typewritten pages
• "The Elamites and their contribution to the creation of Iran", lecture by D. Potts, 29/04/2004, SOAS University of London
  • 1 typewritten page
• "Piramesse Capital of Ramesses the Great and Portal to the E. Med", lecture by Edgar Pusch, Sackler Lecture, British Museum, July 2005
  • 1 typewritten page
• "Autobiography as self explanation", Miriam Lichtheim, Turin, date not recorded
  • 1 typewritten page
• [Kerma], [Charles] Bonnet, Meroitic Congress, British Museum, date not recorded, probably 1999
  • 1 typewritten page

Handwritten notes and associated documentation, including flyers and programmes, relating to other Egyptological conferences and seminars, including:

• "Early Egypt Colloquium" British Museum, 22/07/1993
  • 5 typewritten pages (4 single-sided + 1 double-sided)
  • Notes for papers on "The earliest evidence for writing", Gunter Dreyer; "The elite graves at Hierakonpolis", Barbara Adams; "The ceremonial centre at Hierakonpolis", Renée Friedman; "The Predynastic site of Adaima", Beatrix Midnant-Reynes; "Relative chronology of the Naqada Period", Stan Hendrickx; "Mishat Abu Omar", Karla Kroeper; "Town and state in the early Old Kingdom", Stephan Seidlmayer
• Papers given at the Eighth Egyptologists Congress in Cairo, 28 March - 3 April 2000
  • 11 typewritten pages with annotations
• "Egypt and the Hittites: contacts, conflict and diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age", British Museum, International Colloquium 2005
  • 12 typewritten and photocopied pages (9 single-sided + 3 double-sided)
  • Includes a copy of the abstracts and typed notes for other speakers, including "Forerunners of the Hattusili-Ramesses treaty", Dietrich Surenhagen and "The Eternal Treaty from the Hittite Perspective" T. R. Bryce, also two maps
• "The Heavens on Earth: Astronomy and Ancient Egypt", Egypt Exploration Society Study Day, [17/08/2006]
  • 2 pages (1 single-sided printed page, 1 double-sided handwritten page)
• 12th International Conference on Nubian Studies organised by the British Museum and Naga-Project and Friends of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrussammlung, Germany, 1-6/08/2010
  • 6 pages (1 single-sided printed page, 5 double-sided handwritten pages)
• "The Men of the Gang: the Village of Deir el-Medina and its Inhabitants", Egypt Exploration Society Study Day, 25/10/2008
  • 3 pages (1 double-sided printed page, 1 single-sided printed page, 1 single-sided handwritten page)
• "New Explorations: the EES in 2009", Egypt Exploration Society Annual Conference, 20-21/06/2009
  • 2 pages (1 double-sided printed page, 1 double-sided handwritten page)
• Seminar for Arabian Studies Annual Conference, British Museum, 22-24/07/2010
  • 3 pages (2 double-sided printed pages, 1 single-sided handwritten page)
• Seminar for Arabian Studies Annual Conference, British Museum, 28-30/07/2011
  • 4 pages (2 double-sided printed pages, 2 double-sided handwritten pages)
• Third British Egyptology Congress held between the British Museum and UCL, 11-12/09/2010
  • 6 pages (2 double-sided printed pages, 4 single-sided handwritten pages)
• "Grand Designs - Amenhotep III & the Landscape of Thebes", Egypt Exploration Society Study Day, 09/06/2012
  • 1 handwritten, double-sided page
• "Nubia in the New Kingdom: Lived Experience, Pharaonic Control and Indigenous Traditions", Annual Egyptology Colloquium, British Museum, 11-12/07/2013
  • 7 pages (1 double-sided printed page, 1 single-sided printed page, 4 double-sided handwritten pages, 1 single-sided handwritten page)

Uphill's conference papers and lecture notes
83 pages (68 single-sided + 15 double-sided)

• "The Early Days of the Egypt Exploration Society"
  • 21 quarto-sized pages, typewritten with annotations, plus 1 handwritten Thames & Hudson Ltd compliment slip, date not known
• "Comings and Goings"
  • 5 photocopied A4 pages, typewritten extract(?) from a travel journal, recording a trip to Egypt. If this was used for one of Uphill's papers, the venue and date are not known
• "The Boundaries and Orientation of Akhenaten"
  • 4 typewritten pages, two drafts of the same abstract(?), one references University College London, date not known
• "Hawara and the Fayum Residence of Amenemhat III"
  • 5 typewritten pages with annotations (4 single-sided + 1 double-sided), marked as "Lecture", venue and date not known
• "Ramesses II Megalomaniac or Servant of the Gods"
  • 5 typewritten pages with annotations (4 single-sided + 1 double-sided), including a list of slides used alongside the text, venue and date not known
• "Architectural Connections between Egypt and Mesopotamia c. 3100 BC"
  • 1 typewritten page, British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA), 1991
• "Per Ramesses", Liverpool. BANEA, 15/12/1992
  • 1 page with a single typewritten paragraph with notes
• "The Hawara Labyrinth of Amenemhat III", British Museum, 22/02/1996
  • 4 typewritten pages (3 single-sided + 1 double-sided)
• "Religion and Life at Buhen in Nubia"
  • 6 pages (4 single-sided + 2 double-sided), 2 pages of typewritten notes + 2 photocopied maps + 2 pages handwritten notes, for a lecture for an event at Bristol, 24/05/1997
• "The Butic Canal: Its Date and Functions"
  • 9 pages (7 single-sided + 2 double-sided), including typewritten pages of paper, extract, and guidelines for proceedings for the 8th International Congress of Egyptologists in 2000, and some handwritten notes
• "Great Ancient Egyptian canals"
  • 1 page with a single typewritten paragraph, "From a lecture by Mr Eric Uphill, at the Egyptian Embassy, on 4th December, 2003"
• "The Instruction of King Amenemhat"
  • 17 pages (9 single-sided + 8 double-sided), 2 quarto-sized pages of typewritten preliminary (student?) notes with annotations, 8 pages produced sometime after 2009, Uphill dedicates this version of the paper to John Tait. The group also includes 6 pages of handwritten notes and a photocopy of a line drawing of the stela of Ikhernofret from Abydos from a publication, venue not known

Notebook containing handwritten notes on sites and monuments, and typewritten documents describing three sites
46 pages (26 notebook pages + 20 loose pages)

• Notebook, Uphill's headings
  • Heliopolis
  • Stela of year VIII Ramesses II
  • Obelisks
  • Temple model of Seti I
  • Mnevis bull cemetery
  • Old Kingdom tombs of high priests
  • Gebel Ahmar
  • Horemheb
  • Ramesses II
  • Peripheral site material
  • Iusaus
  • Arab el Hisn, royal and private monuments
  • Alexandria
  • Foundation of Iunu (Heliopolis)
  • Notes from Strabo Geographie
  • List of high priests
  • Tanis material
  • Tomb of Ramesses VI
  • Solar temples
• 12 typewritten pages with annotations, Uphill's headings
  • Tell el Amarna
  • general description, typewritten with annotations, dated 22-12- 1993
  • Some points about the Ezbet Helmi painting location
  • dated 20-07-1992
  • Beth Shan
  • typewritten notes made at a lecture given by Ami Mazor on 18-04-1996, and Robert M. Porter's notes on the Beth-Shan Heights with photocopied plans from a publication
• Related material, moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes, 2 handwritten pages, brief notes, Uphill's headings
  • Saqqara. Pyramid enclosure
  • Ramesside tombs
  • Aksha cemetery
  • Toshka West
  • Mirgissa
  • Lisht
  • Behbeit el-Hagar
  • Sais
  • Nubian culture past and present
  • Djerukha [great lake of Amenhotep III]
  • Dorginarti
  • Mendes
  • Ramesseum
  • Nakhtnebef [Nectanebo I; Nektanebos I]
    • History
    • Additional site material
    • Tanis
    • Mendes
    • Hermopolis
    • Saqqara
    • Memphis
    • Karnak
    • Luxor
    • El Kab

Buildings - tombs
31 pages (16 single-sided + 15 double-sided), handwritten
Lists of royal and private tombs, mostly Old Kingdom and some Twelfth Dynasty, with area size calculations
Notes on the tombs of viziers located at several sites
Some additional related material has been moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted records. Includes notes on Early Dynastic tombs at Abydos, including calculations and some plans, and genealogical lists for some early Dynastic royal families
Some notes are written on the verso of two letters:

• (?) Fulstone, Merton Park, London, 03/08/1974, regarding the will of Sarah Belzoni
• John Kirby, Crawley, not dated, reply to Uphill's invitation to a party

Notes on funerary complexes, temples, palaces, and forts are copied mainly from other publications. Perhaps preliminary notes for a project(s) or publication(s) with some brief descriptions, measurements and plans
68 pages (31 single-sided + 37 double-sided), handwritten and typewritten with annotations
Sites and monuments mentioned, including some of Uphill's headings:

• Step Pyramid Enclosure
• Qantir
• Tell Basta
• Malkata
• Memphis, Merneptah palace
• Palaces, areas
• Towns in Egypt and other places, notes from Herodotus and Diodorus
• Amarna
• Areas [of] West Bank funerary temples
• Per Ramesses
• Palaces
• Wadi Natrun fort
• New pyramid revealed at Giza
• Comparative sizes of Twelfth Dynasty pyramid complexes
• Babylon, circuit walls
• Copy of a student's(?) typewritten paper: Ann McRae, Morley College, "Mathematical correlation between two specific dimensions of the First Dynasty tombs at Saqqara and Abydos"

Notes on the comparative sizes of buildings in Egypt and Jerusalem.
20 pages (18 single-sided + 2 double-sided), typewritten with annotations, preliminary notes for a project or publication, comprising of brief descriptions, measurements and plans, also includes notes made from other publications
Uphill's headings:

• Comparative sizes of temples and platforms
• House of pharaoh's daughter [Solomon's wife]
• Onias temple
• Measures used in ancient tombs at Jerusalem
• Common factors shared by the Jerusalem temples
• Plans, hand-drawn

Notes mainly on some of the building and irrigation construction projects of Amenhotep III [Amenophis III] and Horemhab's [Haremhab; Horemhab]
15 pages (8 single-sided + 7 double-sided), typewritten and handwritten, preliminary notes for a project or publication, with brief descriptions, measurements and plans, also includes notes made from other publications
Uphill's headings:

• 8 pages (7 single-sided + 1 double-sided), typewritten with plans
  • "Amenhotep III's Paradise Garden"
    • Reconstruction schemes
    • Queen Tiy's [Queen Tuy] lake
  • Possible enlargement of Birket Habu and east bank basin
  • Ritual significance of voyages in the wooden barque of Amun
  • Stone structure in lake area
  • Three plans for lake
• 7 pages (1 single-sided + 6 double-sided), handwritten, including notes on
  • Birket Habu Reconstructions
  • Heliopolis enclosure
  • Horemheb site material

A group of miscellaneous notes on temples and tombs, mostly ancient Egyptian but also Solomon's temple, Jerusalem
46 pages (41 single-sided + 5 double-sided)
Preliminary notes for a project or publication, publication plan, with brief descriptions, measurements and plans
First group, 25 pages (20 single-sided + 5 double-sided)
Uphill's headings:

• "Further remarks on the Aten temples"
  • Sanctuary
  • Constructed & plan alterations
• Meket Re model portico
  • Cattle census yard
  • Cattle stable
  • Butcher shop
  • Granary
  • Brewery and bakery
  • Weaving shop
  • Carpenter's shop
• Heliopolis
• Hermopolis
• Hierakonpolis
• Abydos royal tombs, list with plans
• Jerusalem, Solomon's temple

Second group, related material moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes
21 single-sided pages

• Notes on Heliopolis, typewritten, annotated
  • Temple of Ramesses II
  • Temple of Ramesses IV
  • Chapel of prince Nebmaatre [Nebmaetre] (son of Ramesses IX)
  • Habitable area at Heliopolis
  • Fort complex of Ramesses III
  • Photocopied maps and plans of Heliopolis, made from publications

Correspondence and documentation exchanged between Robert M. Porter and Uphill in 2002 and 2007.
25 pages (16 single-sided + 9 double-sided)
The first exchange in 2002 concerns the construction of Fourth Dynasty pyramids and Porter's article, which was written in response to another article published on the same subject.

• Dorka, Uwe E. 2002. "Lifting of stones in 4th Dynasty pyramid building". Göttinger Miszellen 189, 11-22 (OEB 49710)
• Porter, Robert M. 2003. "Pyramid building: a response to Dorka and others". Göttinger Miszellen 194, 105-107 (OEB 180943)
  The second group consists of a letter from Porter in 2007 relating to ramps used for the construction of Neferirkare's pyramid, along with a copy of Porter's paper "An easy way to build a pyramid," a conference paper presented at Current Research in Egyptology VIII, Swansea, 2007
• Also see Porter, Robert M. 1994. "An easy way to build a pyramid". Göttinger Miszellen 139, 93-94 (OEB 38447)

Three documents, perhaps part of, or related to, the project "Greatest Builders in History", which has a similar scope, see Uphill MSS 5.1.1 to 3, and perhaps some intended for conference papers or lectures
27 pages (26 single-sided + 1 double-sided)

Earlier Road Systems
6 pages, single-sided typewritten with annotations
Uphill's headings:

1. Earlier Road Systems
   1. Egyptian pharaonic
      • Pharaonic or pre-Roman road systems
      • A possible Ramesside post or road station
      • Ramesses III's "Green Policy"
   2. Persian - Darius I road system
   3. India - Mauryan Dynasty Asoka c.273-232 BC
   4. China
      • a. Qin Dynasty Qin Shin Huang Di 246-209 BC
      • b. Han Dynasty earlier period 208 BC-AD 220
      • c. The Mongol system in China under Kublai Khan 1260-1294 AD

Late Imperial Residences under the Tetrarchy
8 single-sided pages, typewritten with annotations
Uphill's headings:

• Summary of pre-Diocletianic defences erected Augustus - Probus
• Circuses
• Trajan Red Sea canal
• Papyrus manufacture
• Diocletian's buildings
• Roads
• Posting stations
• Related bibliographic references

Additional group of bibliographic notes
13 pages (12 single-sided + 1 double-sided), typewritten with annotations and some handwritten notes
Uphill's headings:

• Roman roads and post stations
• Blemmyes and Nobatae
• Reconquest of Britain
• Roads and post stations
• Egyptian irrigation and canals
• Year dating by Diocletianic accession date

Working notes, almost certainly collected for the project "Greatest Builders in History", see also Uphill MSS 5.1.1 and 5.1.2
48 pages (14 single-sided + 34 double-sided)
Working notes, all handwritten

• The notes have been arranged into the following sections:
  • Pyramids
  • Nubian pyramids and other monuments
  • Fortresses and fortress town
  • Temples
  • Cities
  • Walls
  • Tombs
  • Circuses
  • Irrigation

"Greatest Builders in History"
72 pages (8 single-sided + 64 double-sided)
Two handwritten drafts, probably intended for a publication

• First draft, preliminary text and notes. For the second draft, see below
  • 47 pages (6 single-sided + 41 double-sided)
  • These are working notes which have an informal and sometimes irregular arrangement
  • There are sections for different types of buildings, then sub-sections for each civilisation, usually beginning with ancient Egypt. Sub-sections are arranged chronologically. Monuments are listed at the beginning of a section, along with area measurements, then by building type
  • Uphill's sections and headings include the following:
    • Pyramids
    • Fortresses and forts
    • Temples
    • Palaces
    • Volumes comparison continued. Mainly earth constructions
    • City and town walls
    • City sizes
    • Great walls in history
    • Funerary complex figures
    • Royal tombs and burials in 'palace city' mounds
    • Conspectus [of] great earthworks, mounds etc.
• Second draft, probably for a publication, this only a partial text and does not represent all of the sections in the first draft. For the first draft, see above
  • 25 pages (2 single-sided + 23 double-sided)
  • There are sections for different types of buildings, then sub-sections for each civilisation, usually beginning with ancient Egypt. Sub-sections are arranged chronologically. Monuments are listed at the beginning of a section, along with area measurements, then by building type
  • Uphill's sections and headings include the following:
    • [Pyramids]
    • Tomb mounds for royal burials: sizes
    • By period: world's greatest builders and constructors
    • Greatest tombs and funerary monuments
    • Tomb mounds and earth funerary constructions
    • Earthworks & mounds
    • Comparative early wall sizes
    • Ramesses III conspectus of known constructions
    • World's greatest builders and constructors: all-time greats - by period
    • Great walls and defences

Notebook containing manuscript notes for a project on a world history of buildings and irrigation, probably for a publication.
The sections include the following, and Uphill's headings are used when appropriate:

• World history of irrigation, arranged chronologically, pp. 1-97
  • Egyptian constructions and buildings (Narmar (Menes) irrigation system; Twelfth Dynasty additional and enlarged systems; Palace or residence cities' royal estate parks - New Kingdom; Palaces; Ka-en-Kemet. Estate wall; Great temple enclosures; Maritine canal Wadi Tumilat; Lake Moeris area
  • Also: Sumer; Babylonia; Assyria; Syria; Hittites Anatolia; Elam; Persia; Crete; Greece; Israel; India; China; Britain; Sicily; Roman Empire; Spain; Morocco; Turkey; Burma (Myanmar); Thailand; Cambodia; Mongolia; Mexico; Peru; France; Germany; Austria; Portugal; Italy; Sweden; Russia; Tibet; Vietnam and Japan
• List of world temples with area sizes, arranged chronologically, pp. 98-150
  • Temples: ancient (Egypt; Israel); Greek period temples (Syria; Lebanon); Roman Empire; Medieval temples (India; Sri Lanka; Burma (Myanmar); Thailand; Cambodia; Indonasia; China; Iraq; conspectus of Justinian I works)
• Tombs and funerary constructions, arranged chronologically, pp. 151-190
  • Egypt; Persia; China; Roman Empire; Israel; Japan; India; Turkey

Working notes for a project on a world history of buildings and irrigation, probably for a publication, comprising mainly handwritten notes, some typewritten drafts, and photocopies of publications.

Further research papers, similar in content to Uphill MSS 4, and may have been publication projects.

"Project VII. Thebes: a. General; b. 'Hanging Gardens'"*
26 pages (25 single-sided + 1 double-sided)
Draft of a planned article or lecture(?) on Thebes, including a general description of Thebes with sections on Memphis and the 'Hanging Gardens of Thebes', a draft with typewritten and handwritten sections.
Uphill's section headings with some descriptions:

• Summary of Diodorus's description of the geography, buildings and history of Thebes and Memphis
• Commentary: Thebes
• Tomb of Osymandias [Ozymandias]
• Memphis, four pages
• The Hanging Gardens of Thebes, five pages
  • Mentuhotep
  • Hatshepsut
  • Amenhotep III
• Birket Habu: harbour - circus, naumachia, summaries of relevant publications

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"Project VI. Karnak"*
11 pages (5 single-sided + 6 double-sided)
Preliminary documentation for a planned publication or project on Karnak temple, typewritten and handwritten notes and a draft.
Uphill's section headings with some descriptions:

• Amun temple
• Middle Kingdom Karnak
• Former temples and chapels, notes on the New Kingdom buildings in the Amun temple enclosure

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"Ancient Egyptian hydraulic works c. 3150 BC to c. 600 B.C. and later c. 300-280 B.C."*
94 single-sided pages
Documentation for ancient Egyptian waterways, irrigation schemes and their mention in texts, typewritten drafts of a proposed publication(s), and the drafts for two articles published by Uphill using this documentation; see below for details. Also, one page from a related lecture and photocopied publications
Description using Uphill's section headings where appropriate:

• 'Land area inundation water heights under Senusret I', one page from a lecture given by Uphill at University College London, 15-12-2005
• Possible dates for the high flood levels after the Djoser seven year famine
• Wadi Garawi dam dating
• Estimated decline in Lake Moeris area and capacity Narmer to late Old Kingdom
• Estimated increase in Lake Moeris area and capacity Amenemhat I or Senusret I
• Estimated increase in Lake Moeris area and capacity post Amenemhat III to 450 BC
• Possible use of Lake Moeris as a water supplier
• Extent of Fayum Lake and province
• Lake Moeris in the Saite Period
• Lake Moeris entry channel
• Size and location of Lake Moeris
• Babylonia Lake
• Wadi Tumilat canal
• Possible increase in village settlements
• Twenty-Second Dynasty Nile heights
• Late Period Nile high floods
• Possible enlargement of the Nile Valley agricultural land post-Senusert III
• Estimated alluvium deposits in basins on average land area Senusert I 1950 BC - AD 1900
• Uphill, Eric P. 2010. The significance of Nile heights recorded under the Twelfth Dynasty. In El-Aguizy, Ola and Mohamed Sherif Ali (eds), Echoes of eternity: studies presented to Gaballa Aly Gaballa, 67-76 (OEB 165232), two annotated typewritten drafts, variously titled Some new information on Nile flood heights under the Twelfth Dynasty, and, The significance of Nile heights recorded under the Twelfth Dynasty
• Biahmu colossi courts
• Uphill, Eric P. 2005. Irrigation basins and cultivated land under the Twelfth Dynasty. Trabajos de Egiptología - Papers on Ancient Egypt 4, 109-127 (OEB 160921), annotated draft
• Correlation of Old Kingdom and Senusert I Nile inundation heights on fields
• Nubian Nile height figures an explanation
• Nubian spur dam positions and province divisions
• Nubian high-level Nile inundation heights in the Middle Kingdom
• Nubian reservoir capacity
• Photocopies made from publications, some annotated

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"Project IV. Hydraulic wonders of Egypt"*
72 pages (63 single-sided + 9 double-sided)
Documentation for ancient Egyptian waterways and irrigation schemes, and references mentioning these in texts, typewritten drafts with some handwritten notes.
Description with Uphill's section headings where appropriate:

• Nile heights. Breasted. Palermo Stone
• Palermo Stone water heights using Wilkinson
• Hydraulic projects I: Menes basin scheme
• Qusheisha dyke
• Suggested figures for "Menes" dykes
• Scheme for Menes dykes
• The original (?) basin system on the Nile - possible unification period date
• The Nubian province land area under cultivation
• Channels of the Nile through the Delta in antiquity
• Figures relating to lands watered by shaduf raising
• The dating of the Gisr Gadalla and Gisr Bahlawan and possible date of Qushesha dyke
• Fayum Lake levels
• Hydraulic projects II: Lake Moeris and the Biahmu statues of Amenemhat III
• The Fayum system
• Copy of a letter addressed to [Robert M. Porter], dated 05-11-2006, regarding Palermo Stone annals and Nile heights, with an attached draft, notes and relevant photocopies made from publications
• Photocopies made from publications, some annotated

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"Project III. Tod. The 11th Dynasty Temple"*
27 pages (20 single-sided + 7 double-sided)
Documentation for 11th Dynasty temples, including a typewritten draft, handwritten notes and a draft plan.
Description with Uphill's section headings where appropriate:

• Incomplete draft for "The Eleventh Dynasty Temple", annotated typescript, 17 pages, which has an introduction, then a listing with brief descriptions of the relevant temples by site:
  • Abydos
  • Dendera
  • Ballas
  • Thebes (Karnak, Qurneh)
  • Armant
  • Gebelein
• Handwritten notes which continue from the point the typescript finishes, with notes on:
  • Gebelein (used for the Gebelein entry in the typescript)
  • El Kab
  • Sinai
  • Tod
  • Hierakonpolis
  • Abydos
  • Medamoud
  • Heliopolis
  • Hermopolis
  • Ideas on 11 Dyn. temples
  • Amenhotep I
  • Thutmose IV
  • Sandstone of Nebhepetre
  • Limestone of Sankhkare
  • Middle Kingdom - 12th Dyn. temples
  • Draft plan of Tod temple

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"Project II. Mentuhotep II. "Funerary City" Thebes. Notes on 11th Dynasty Tombs etc."*
24 pages (7 single-sided + 17 double-sided)
Preliminary handwritten notes on the temple of Mentuhotep II Nebhepetre and contemporaneous 11th Dynasty private tombs at Thebes.
Description with Uphill's section headings where appropriate:

• 19 records with notes for 11th Dynasty tombs at Thebes, probably mostly copied from PM TopBib
• Tomb inventory Mentuhotep Deir el Bahari
• Tomb of 11th Dynasty General Antef & causeway kiosk of Thutmose III, etc.
• Mentuhotep temple, with a plan of possible reconstruction of the causeway

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"Ramesses III: Last of the Great Pharaohs or Penultimate Great Pharaoh"*
87 pages (81 single-sided + 6 double-sided)
Documentation for Ramesses III's building projects and monuments, including typewritten and handwritten drafts and notes copied from relevant publications and some photocopies. In part, the same or similar in content to Uphill MSS 4.1-2.
Uphill's section headings include:

• Drafts, "Ramesses III: Last of the Great Pharaohs", three annotated typescripts, produced at different stages, varying in length (7, 12 and 10 pages), one dated June 1996
• Summaries and extracts from related publications
• Cities, fortresses and enclosures
• Conspectus of Ramesses III buildings in Egypt and other locations outside Egypt
• Foundations of Ramesses III in Asia from text and other sources
• Plans of sites photocopied from other publications
• Tree planting
• Possible road stations and rest houses or inns
• Comparisons [monuments in Egypt, Persia, India and China]
• The harem conspiracy
• The witchcraft plot
• Notes made at a K. A. Kitchen lecture at the E.E.S. 06-12-2003, 'Ramesses III: towards a true history?'
• Uphill's comments on Porter, Robert M. 2008. A note on Ramesses IV and 'Merneptah' at Beth Shean. Tel Aviv 35 (2), 244-248 (OEB 215340)

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"An Heretical History of Egypt Commencing with the Egyptians' Concept of the Beginning of Time or Eternity Past and Future Followed by the Creation of the Universe and Continuing Down until the End of the First Dynasty c.3100 BC"*
91 pages (74 single-sided + 17 double-sided)
Incomplete typewritten and handwritten drafts with annotations and drawings, with some additional notes, the early history of ancient Egypt based on historical records with cross reference material relating to other world cultures, a publication plan, drafts for some sections, and notes for others.
Uphill's section headings:

• Astronomical periods
  1. The cosmic year
  2. The galactic year
  3. The great or processional year
• Egyptian duration texts
• Creation
  • Fuller phases of creation and Egyptian cosmogeny
• Egyptian cycles of years
• A possible explanation of Herodotus's account of Egyptian solar cycles
• The Biblical day and year cycle of Yahwe
• Duration of the gods
• Similarities of Egyptian and Indian Universes
• Ḏt r Nḥḥ eternity to eternity
• Rest periods in the life of the universe(s)
• Ancient Egyptian "moments of time" really great year cycles
• The great distances travelled by Re and the time they take to accomplish
• Minimum figures for the travel distances of Re
• Maximum figures for the travel distances of Re
• The king's great span of distances and time
• The concept of Horus and Thoth as Ptah's mind and speech
• The classical writers references to datings in Egyptian prehistory
• The gods Re and Brahma age and their lives end
• Further Indian religious parallels with Egypt
• The voyages of Re in his solar bark and their time cycles
• The counting of later periods of time: Sothic cycles as a means of counting backwards
• A parallel system of counting in Sumerian chronology
• Sothis "opener of the year"
• Egyptian calendars
• The festival [hieroglyphs] Ḏt or of eternity
• The cycle termed the "era of Horakhti"
• Spell 175 Ani
• Passages from the Book of Gates
• Sepi
• The great cosmic serpent
• The idea behind the cosmic serpent image
• How the Egyptians may measure light speed using Iteru length units
• Duration of the sun god's voyages in the heavens
• Length of the Sothic cycle
• Scheme adopted for cycles
• Relationship with the year discrepancy
• Sothic cycle evidence
• Note on Herodotus sun movement
• Miscalculated reading of precessional year count
• Farina scheme for Turin Papyrus prehistory
• Hebrew tradition of generations
• Chronological scheme
• Identifications of gods with development phases
  a. Cosmic and pre-settlement deity identifications
  b. Terrestrial and post-settlement deity identifications
• Nebulae
• Sumerian creation cycle
• Hebrew creation periods and generations span
• Indian world chronology
  • Indian world ages
  • Brahma time periods
  • Maru duration
  • Brahma duration
• Jain chronology
• Buddhist chronology
• Dating based on Nile sedimentation relevant to Turin Papyrus
• The Maya chronological cycles and calendar system
• First Dynasty label annals
• Building shown on Dynasty 1 labels
• Palermo Stone annals
• First Dynasty annals
• Related material, moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes, 2 handwritten pages, brief notes on the cult of Ra, the creation myth, and sun worship

*Uphill's description for this group.

"Domestic architecture and its urban setting in ancient Egypt. Part II: Palaces"*
192 pages (187 single-sided + 5 double-sided)
Incomplete drafts, typewritten with annotations, the palaces of ancient Egypt form the second section of a planned but unpublished publication. See Uphill MSS 4.24 for the first part.
There is a publication plan, a primary publication draft incorporating carbon copies, a few drafts for additional chapters, a revised draft for the chapter on Malkata, appendices and notes.
Uphill's section headings:

• Publication plan with notes, 10 pages (9 single-sided + 1 double-sided), quarto size paper, handwritten and typewritten with annotations
  • Part II. Palaces
    • Generalities
    • Old Kingdom
    • Middle Kingdom
    • New Kingdom
    • Malkata
    • Amarna
    • Nineteenth Dynasty
      • Palace of Ramesses II in Ramesseum
    • Twentieth Dynasty
      • Ramesses III at Medinet Habu
    • Nineteenth Dynasty (sic)
      • Palace of Merneptah at Memphis
    • Twenty-Sixth Dynasty
      • Palace of Apries
    • Short summary to conclude
    • Illustration lists
    • Palaces. Sizes
• Primary publication draft, 115 single-sided pages, quarto size, typewritten, annotated with some drawings, and one handwritten note. All chapters include the original typewritten draft along with its carbon copy except for 'The imperial city' section at the end
  • The early dynastic palaces
  • The Old Kingdom palace
  • The Middle Kingdom palace
  • Deir el Ballas
  • Malkata
    • Site plan
    • The temple (pr) of Amun
    • The audience pavilion
    • The harem and servant's quarters
    • The west villas and officials' houses
    • The middle palace
    • The private palace of the king
    • The south palace and dependencies
    • Construction
    • Decoration
  • The imperial city
    • Table 1. W. Asia capitals
    • Table 2. Egyptian capitals and residences
    • Table 3. Aegean citadels and walled enclosures
• Chapter draft, 11 single-sided pages, quarto size paper, typewritten with annotations, perhaps produced later than the primary publication draft
  • The royal palaces of El Amarna
    • Introductory
    • Generalities
    • Residence boundaries
    • Great north palace
    • North palace
    • Central palace
    • Coronation hall
    • The bridge
    • The "estate" palace
    • Maru Aten
    • Conclusions
• Chapter draft, 11 single-sided pages, A4 size paper, typewritten with annotations, produced later than the primary publication draft
  • The Delta residence of Ramesses II
    • Introductory
    • Exploration
    • Khatana
    • Qantir
    • Reconstruction of the city site
    • The palace - temple sector
    • The palace
    • Public halls and rooms
    • Private apartments
    • The temples
    • Conclusions
• Revised draft of the Malkata chapter from the primary text draft (see above), 36 single-sided pages, A4 size paper, typewritten with annotations
  • Malkata
    • Site plan
    • The temple (pr) of Amun
    • The audience pavilion
    • The harem and servant's quarters
    • The west villas and officials' houses
    • The middle palace
    • The private palace of the king
    • The south palace and dependencies
    • Construction
    • Decoration
• Notes on palaces, 6 pages (2 single-sided + 4 double-sided), A4 size ruled paper, handwritten
  • Palaces & palace complex areas, lists of palaces with area sizes
    • Egypt; Sumer; Babylonia; Assyria; Syria; Anatolia; Persia; Crete; Greece; Egypt. Ptolemic; Sicily; Rome
  • Ratio of sizes by area covered by buildings
    • Egypt; Sumer; Assyria; Babylonia; Syria; Anatolia; Persia; Sassanian; Crete; Greece. Mycenaeum; Egypt. Ptolemic; Rome
• Related material, moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes
  • 3 single-sided pages, quarto size paper, handwritten and hand-drafted
    • Plan of the temples and palaces on the Theban West Bank
    • Plan of the Malkata palace
    • Notes on the Malkata palace areas and a list of Theban West Bank temples

*Uphill's description for this group.

"Domestic architecture and its urban setting in ancient Egypt. Part I: Houses and towns"*
133 single-sided pages
Annotated typewritten draft on the houses and towns of ancient Egypt, forming the first section of an unpublished book. See Uphill MSS 4.25 for the second part.
Uphill's section headings:

• Draft, 2 + 131 pages, quarto size, typewritten with annotations
  • Title page
  • Table of contents
  • Part I - Houses and towns
    1. Generalities
    2. The Predynastic villages
    3. The Early Dynastic house
    4. The Old Kingdom town
    5. The town of Queen Khent-kawes
    6. The Middle Kingdom town
    7. The town of Senusret II
    8. The town of Ahmose
    9. Akhetaten: the residence of Akhenaten and the city of the sun
    10. El Amarna: the house of Nakht
    11. El Amarna: the house of Hatiay
    12. El Amarna: a middle class house V.37.1
    13. El Amarna: the model house
    14. El Amarna: the eastern village
    15. Thebes: The southern capital and great metropolis of Upper Egypt
    16. The Theban house
    17. Medinet Habu: the temple town of Ramesses III
    18. The workmens' village at Deir el Medineh

*Uphill's description for this group.

"The First and Last Pharaohs - I. Menes - Narmer; List of possible photos and line drawings"*
297 pages (289 single-sided + 8 double-sided), quarto size paper
An incomplete publication draft on the reigns of Menes (Narmer) and Diocletian. There is a full draft for the first section on Menes (Narmer). This section includes several drafts for some sections, additional notes and bibliographic references and notes. The section for Diocletian is preliminary and mostly consists of bibliographic references and notes. There is also a publication proposal. The whole group consists of mainly annotated typescripts, some handwritten notes, and summaries and notes made from relevant publications.
Uphill's section headings:

• Publication proposal and preliminaries, 42 single-sided typewritten and handwritten pages, annotated
  • 16. The Development and Continuity of Egypt between Menes and Diocletian c. 3150 BC - AD 284
  • The First and Last Pharaohs: Menes and Diocletian
  • Publicity summary
  • Uphill's C. V.
  • Programme
    • Part I. Menes
    • Part II. Diocletian
    • Chapters or section headings
    • Line drawing figures: Narmer
    • Line drawing figures: Diocletian - tetrarchy
    • Revised chapter headings
• Notes used for drafting part of the publication, 66 single-sided typewritten pages, annotated, including:
  • How Memphis became the largest city in the ancient world
  • Notes for chapters 13-15
  • Notes on royal annals, especially the Palermo Stone
• Publication draft
  • Part I: Menes, 159 single-sided typewritten pages, annotated
  • 1. Who was the real Menes?
  • 2. Identification
  • 3. Egyptian prehistory and 'Predynastic' states
  • 4. The unification and dual monarchy: infrastructure and government
  • 5. The Egyptian calendar and its possible links with the unification
  • 6. The discovery and significance of the Great Deposit at Hierakonpolis
  • 7. Royal hunting and sports
  • 8. Warfare under Menes
  • 9. Egypt over the border
       • a. Menes in Palestine
       • b. Sinai contacts
  • 10. The great walls of Menes
        • a. General features of the Nile and Egyptian irrigation
        • b. Suggested reconstruction of the Memphite hydraulic works
  • 11. The foundation of the 'White Wall' settlement at Memphis
  • 12. The building programme of Menes
        • a. Fortresses and forts
        • b. Towns and royal residences
        • c. Contemporary foreign towns
        • d. Temples and shrines
  • 13. Apotheosis: the Sed-festival of Menes (Narmer)
  • 14. Where and how was Menes buried?
        • a. Hierakonpolis evidence versus that from Abydos
        • b. Objects associated with First Dynasty tombs indicating actual burial places
  • 15. The tomb of queen Neithhotep at Naqada: its architecture and contents
  • Table of First Dynasty tomb dimensions
  • Part II: Diocletian, 30 annotated typewritten and handwritten pages (22 single-sided + 8 double-sided)
    • Bridging section with a summary of main events, etc., in the thirty-four centuries after Narmer, followed by three chapters. These will cover the political situation under the Tetrarchy in Egypt and the Roman Empire in general, followed by evidence as to the position of Diocletian as 'Pharaoh'. Wars and government of Egypt in summary and description of the major buildings erected at this time in Egypt, especially fortifications. [Copied from Uphill's publication proposal]
  • Preliminary notes on Diocletian
  • Egyptian Dating System; Pedigree (Diocletian); Provisional list of plates

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"Hatshepsut: Foremost of Noble Women"*
14 single-sided pages
Two drafts for a general article or lecture on Hatshepsut's background, reign, monuments and buildings, annotated typescripts.
Uphill's section headings:

• Hatshepsut: Foremost of Noble Women, earlier draft
  • Introduction
  • Family background
  • Politics. The succession problem
  • Names and titles
  • Representation on royal monuments
  • Punt expedition
  • The Sed festival
  • Great officials
  • Lesser officials
  • Daily life
  • Foreign trade and intercourse
  • Buildings and monuments
  • Private monuments
  • Burial equipment
  • Changes in art
  • Eradication of the names and inscriptions of the queen
  • Later deletion from the King Lists
  • Hatshepsut monument survey. With Nubia
  • Ma'etkare Hatshepsut dates
• Hatshepsut: Foremost of Noble Women, later draft incorporating corrections from the earlier one
• Same headings as the earlier draft, it ends with the section 'Later deletion from the King Lists' and does not include the final two sections present in the earlier draft

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.

"Project XIX. Persia - Sassanian: A. Shapur I - Nahrawan canal system; B. Monuments of Shapur II - Khandak Sabur canal system"*
8 single-sided pages
A preliminary document describing Shapur I and Shapur II's building projects, annotated typescript, includes brief descriptions with measurements of buildings and other structures, and photocopies from publications.
Uphill's section headings:

• Nahrawan canal system
  • Urban area
• The Iranian canal system of Shapur I
• Further cities of Shapur I
• Khandak Sabur canal system

*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.