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Eric Parrington Uphill Collection

  • Uphill MSS
  • Collection
  • c. 1954-2018

Complete working papers, including notebooks, notes, card indexes, slides, photographs, correspondence and teaching notes.

Eric Parrington Uphill

Hawara Labyrinth publication: Pharaoh's gateway to eternity: the Hawara Labyrinth of king Amenemhat III documentation

Publication documentation for Uphill, Eric P. 2000. Pharaoh's gateway to eternity: the Hawara labyrinth of king Amenemhat III. Studies in Egyptology. London; New York: Kegan Paul International, OEB 45200. Based on Eric Uphill's M.A. thesis.
423 pages (400 single-sided + 23 double-sided).

  • 1.1. Typewritten draft 'Recording the Labyrinth site and earlier views expressed on it', 158 pages with 1 handwritten page for index:
    • Draft reviewed and annotated by Harry Smith;
    • Smith’s report on the same, dated 20-03-1993;
    • Smith's covering letter to Uphill, dated 20-03-1993.
  • 1.2. Earlier annotated typewritten draft of 'Recording the Labyrinth site and earlier views expressed on it', 149 pages, with related documentation, typed and handwritten notes, photographs and plans copied from publications.
  • 1.3. Typeset proof of Pharaoh's gateway to eternity: the Hawara Labyrinth of king Amenemhat III, xiv + 102 pages.
  • 1.4. 3½" floppy disk, 2 files are different versions of the publication text.

Miscellaneous records, mostly non-Egyptological

Uphill's notes on miscellaneous subjects, including some Egyptological-related ones, and Uphill's student notebook on hieroglyphs. Uphill's headings are used when appropriate.
269 pages (231 single-sided + 38 double-sided)
Handwritten and typewritten notes with diagrams and some printouts. Uphill's headings are used where appropriate:

  • Notebook with student notes on ancient Egyptian words written in hieroglyphs with translations, based on the work of Alan Gardiner
    • 174 numbered pages
  • Grouped notes originally in a folder annotated "EGYPT. General + Chronological List (T.P.); Astronomical Cycles (Various); Assyrian King List; Ethiopian King List; Aga Khan Genealogy; Bennett, Chris Sothic Cycle Calendars"
    • 71 typewritten, handwritten, and printed pages (53 single-sided + 18 double-sided)
    • Pedigree of 'Ankhefenmut, includes handwritten copy(?) of a letter from Uphill to Else Churchill, 06/12/2011
    • Turin Papyrus, includes a letter from Okasha ?, London NW6, 14/06/1998
    • Notes on P. E. Newberry, 1922. "Set Rebellion of the IInd Dynasty". Ancient Egypt 7 (OEB 146395)
    • Correspondence, email exchange between Chris Bennett and Robert Porter, dated 19-03-2004, regarding Sothic cycles
    • Chronological tables for Neolithic Period Egypt, Upper Egypt, Nubia & Sudan, and Lower Egypt & Delta
    • Printout of Hassan, Fekri A., Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, and Geoffrey J. Tassie 2006. "The sequence and chronology of the Protodynastic and Dynasty I rulers". In Kroeper, Karla, Marek Chłodnicki, and Michał Kobusiewicz (eds), Archaeology of early Northeastern Africa: in memory of Lech Krzyżaniak, 687-722. Poznan: Archaeological Museum (OEB 176167)
    • Part of a typewritten copy of R. M. Porter, Early Bronze Age Exodus and Conquest
    • Kitchen, K. A. [1995]. The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650 B.C.), 2nd ed. Warminster: Aris & Phillips (OEB 197507), a printout of p. xli-xlv, sent to Uphill by Kitchen
    • Pedigree of Aigyptos and Danaus
    • Indian Descents from Deities. Mainly solar and lunar dynasties
    • Pedigree of Ham
    • Indian Cosmogony; Buddhist Cosmology; Chinese Cosmology; Iranian Cosmology
    • Lists for Sumerian Kings, Assyrian Kings, and Ethiopian Rulers; Genealogy of the Aga Khan
  • Other notes
    • 24 pages (13 single-sided + 9 double-sided + 2 housing notes)
  • Indian Descents from Deities
    • 7 typewritten, single-sided pages + 1 handwritten note from original housing
  • India. Gods' Descents and Mythological Descents. Also B. Williams Pedigree material down c. Bosworth 1485. Notes on the history of Burma
    • 11 pages (10 handwritten pages (2 single-sided + 8 double-sided) + 1 typewritten, single-sided page + 1 handwritten note from original housing)
  • Notes on objects, handwritten, not Uphill:
    • 3 handwritten, single-sided pages
    • Ceramic jar from the Joseph Pulitson bequest (1959)
    • Decorated cup from the Rogers Fund (1962)
    • Decorated Mesopotamian panel from the Fletcher Fund (1931)
  • List of cantata festivals
    • 1 handwritten, double-sided page

Teaching notes

Bundles of typewritten and handwritten teaching notes, with prepared text, transcriptions, and translations. The larger group is a set of typewritten notes on quarto-size paper, which suggests they were created pre-1980. None of the documentation is dated nor indicates the classes they were prepared for.
The sections use Uphill's headings:

  • 360 pages, typewritten sections on quarto-sized paper

    1. The early civilisations (introduction), 25 pages
    2. Egyptian pharaohs list; An alternative scheme Parker, 18 pages
    3. Egyptian coffin texts: De Buck vol. 1, 37 pages
    4. Late Egyptian grammar (notes derived from Prof. Cerny by Lady Carryl.), 60 pages
    5. Late Egyptian miscellanies: 1. Fragment of a letter. Bologna 1094; 2. King's jubelee (Merneptah); 3. A letter of instructions; 4. Praise of Amen-Re; etc., 25 pages
    6. Late Egyptian stories: The Doomed Prince; The Tale of Two Brothers; The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood; The Duel of Horus and Seth, 28 pages
    7. Ahmose son of Ebana; Ahmose Pennekhbet, 40 pages
    8. Harkuf; Decree of Isesi to his Vizier; Biographical inscription Mry Pth 'nh Merire; Sabni; Decree of King Pepi II, 11 pages
    9. Ikhernofret Stela; Hatnub inscription: Djhewty hotep statue; Semnah stela; Sinai inscription; tomb contracts of Djefahep; Armant stela; Scarabs of Amenhotep III; Gebel Barkal stela of Tuthmose III; The poetical stela of Tuthmose III; Tuthmose I: coronation inscription; Tombos stela; Philae: Thutmose II Nubian expedition; Sethe Urk. 4. Vol. 1. Line 257: Thutmose gives his daughter to the kingdom; Some further pieces of Sethe Urk. on Punt expedition of Hatshepsut; Sethe Urk. 361 -9: inscription on the bases of the north obelisks of Karnak; Sethe Urk. 647: the battle of Megiddo; Davies - Speos Artemidos - Gardiner; Davies - Amarna stela - later proclamation, 47 pages
    10. Khnumhotep II, 4 pages
    11. Piankhi; The dream stela of Tanutamun, 18 pages
    12. Ptahhotep; Ptahhotep from Devaud, 19 pages
    13. Punt expedition of Queen Hatshepsut; The formal announcement of the success of the expedition before Amun, 9 pages
    14. The Tale of Sinuhe, 19 pages
  • Other teaching notes, handwritten, typewritten with annotations, and some photocopies, mostly quarto-size paper and some A4. It was likely created later than the preceding group. 148 pages (99 single-sided + 49 double-sided)

    1. The shipwrecked sailor - Leningrad 1115, 25 pages
    2. Westcar - Erman from 4 17, 19 pages
    3. Hymn to the sun - Seth & Horus tomb; Magical spell for the protection of a baby; The deliverance of mankind from destruction; Kagemni; Khensemhab and the spirit, 8 pages
    4. Hordjedef; The installation of the vizier; 2nd wonder (Nebtauire); Menkaure; Lebensmüden - Pap. Berlin 3024, 14 pages
    5. The taking of Joppa; Wenamun; Apophis and Seknenre; Astarte; Concerning a king and a goddess; 4. Report on agricultural matters, 16 pages
    6. Verb Classes, most are based on exercises from Gardiner's Grammar, 29 pages
    7. The Eloquent Peasant; Papyrus Harris 500, 10 pages
    8. The instruction for king Mery-Ku-Re, 37 pages (photocopies)
    9. Hayes, Papyrus of the late Middle Kingdom in the Brooklyn Museum, pls I-VII; Crime and punishment in Bronze Age Egypt, 4 pages

The boundaries and orientation of Akhetaten

Uphill, E. P. 1998. 'The boundaries and orientation of Akhetaten'. In Eyre, C. J. (ed.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress of Egyptologists, Cambridge, 3-9 September 1995, 1191-1195, plans. Leuven: Peeters (OEB 42987).
31 pages, single-sided, and one 3½" floppy disk with files.

  • Paper presented at the Congress with slide list and notes, typewritten with annotations.
  • Draft for publication, typewritten.
  • Second draft for publication, print-out, with 3 original inked plan drawings.
  • Photocopy of annotated proof.
  • Digital files converted and saved as Word files. Not available online.

Nubian settlement fortifications in the Middle Kingdom

Uphill, Eric P. 1999. 'Nubian settlement fortifications in the Middle Kingdom'. In Leahy, Anthony and John Tait (eds), Studies on ancient Egypt in honour of H. S. Smith, 327-330 plans. London: Egypt Exploration Society (OEB 44393)
39 pages (32 single-sided + 7 double-sided).

  • Publication draft, typewritten with annotations, with 3 original inked plan drawings.
  • Off-print with related letter.
  • Handwritten notes.
  • Annotated photocopies of plates from Caminos, Ricardo A. 1974. The New-Kingdom temples of Buhen vol. i. Most of these photocopies do not relate to the article's content, although Uphill filed them with the rest of this group.

The ancient Egyptian view of world history

Uphill, E. P. 2003. 'The ancient Egyptian view of world history'. In Tait, John (ed.), "Never had the like occurred": Egypt's view of its past, 15-29, 2 figs [ills (one colour)], 2 tables. London: UCL Press (OEB 156397)
68 pages, single-sided.

  • 3 drafts, 1 typewritten and 2 print-outs, all annotated; these are successive drafts of the article.
  • 2 pages of handwritten notes.

Grove Art Online

Uphill's articles in The Dictionary of Art and its online counterpart Grove Art Online.
8 pages, single-sided.
Documentation relating to Uphill's articles for the revised online edition.

  • Printouts of Uphill's articles, none are annotated:
    • Abu Rawash [Abū Ruwāsh];
    • Hesyre [Hesy; Hezire], tomb of;
    • Palace, §I: Ancient world. 2. Egypt;
    • Temple, §I: Ancient world. 2. Egypt.
  • Printed list of Uphill's revisions to the preceding.
  • Letter from the publisher regarding the revised edition, dated 06-01-2004.

Irrigation basins and cultivated land under the Twelfth Dynasty

Uphill, Eric P. 2005. 'Irrigation basins and cultivated land under the Twelfth Dynasty'. Trabajos de Egiptología - Papers on Ancient Egypt 4, 109-127, 3 figs (160921).
47 pages, single-sided.

  • 3 drafts, print-outs, all annotated; these are successive drafts of the article;
  • 3 additional pages, some do not relate directly to the article's content, although Uphill filed them with the rest of this group;
    • Uphill's headings:
    • Outline. Inundation in ancient Egypt;
    • Montet's general figures for the Senusret kiosk: land areas of Upper Egypt and reconstruction.

Water management in Egypt as part of the recovery of Egypt after the arid period (2200-2000 BC)

Uphill, Eric P. 2018. 'Water management in Egypt as part of the recovery of Egypt after the arid period (2200-2000 BC)'. In De Trafford, Aloisia, Geoffrey J. Tassie, Okasha el-Daly, and Joris van Wetering (eds), A river runs through it: essays in honour of Professor Fekri A. Hassan. Volume 1, 186-196, 6 figs [maps, ills] (OEB 265385).
8 pages, single-sided.

  • Draft of article, annotated print-out.
  • 2 handwritten drafts for the introductory and final paragraphs:
    • 'Fekri Hassan's inspiration';
    • 'Postscript'.

A New Kingdom relief from Memphis

Uphill, E. P. 1962. 'A New Kingdom relief from Memphis'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 48, 162-1631 fig. [ill.] (OEB 9395).
2 pages, single-sided, typewritten.
This may be a copy or an earlier draft of the version submitted by Uphill. The wording is slightly different from the published version.

The Nine Bows

Uphill, Eric 1965-1966. 'The Nine Bows.' Jaarbericht van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux 19, 393-420 figs [maps] (OEB 7788).
14 pages, double-sided, softcover.
Offprint only, not annotated.

The concept of the Egyptian palace as a "ruling machine"

Uphill, Eric 1972. 'The concept of the Egyptian palace as a "ruling machine"'. In Ucko, Peter J., Ruth Tringham, and G. W. Dimbleby (eds), Man, settlement and urbanism: proceedings of a meeting of the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects held at the Institute of Archaeology, London University, 721-734 1 plan, 1 fig., 3 plates (OEB 15919).
3 pages, single-sided.
Photocopied proof with annotations.

An ancient Egyptian maritime link with Arabia

Uphill, E. P. 1988. 'An ancient Egyptian maritime link with Arabia'. Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 18 (Proceedings of the Twenty First Seminar for Arabian Studies held at Durham, 28th to 30th July 1987), 163-170, 3 figs [ill, maps, plans] (OEB 319151).
11 pages (7 single-sided + 4 double-sided).

  • Annotated typescript.
  • Off-print, not annotated.

Egyptian towns and cities

Uphill, Eric P. 1988. Egyptian towns and cities. Shire Egyptology 8. Princes Risborough: Shire Publications (OEB 32932).
122 pages, single-sided, and 9 photographs.

  • Documentation is only for the drawings.
  • Set of original inked drawings used for the publication. Figure 2 is missing.
  • Photograph prints used in the publication.
  • Two incomplete sets of proofs for the drawings, one set annotated and one set without annotations.
  • Material sourced from other publications used for the drawings.
  • Some correspondence from the publisher and illustrator.
  • Plan for Tell el-Daba, which may have been intended for the publication but was not included or perhaps belongs to another group.

Where were the funerary temples of the New Kingdom queens?

Uphill, Eric 1992. 'Where were the funerary temples of the New Kingdom queens?' In Anonymous (ed.), Sesto Congresso internazionale di egittologia: atti 1, 613-618, 4 plans (OEB 36200).
18 pages (13 single-sided + 5 double-sided).

  • Documentation used for preparing the paper presented at the Congress. There are no typewritten, handwritten or proofs for the article text, although extracts from the paper are reproduced in the publication.
  • Extract: typewritten and proof copies.
  • Two typewritten drafts, both annotated, of the paper presented at the Sixth International Congress of Egyptology, Turin, 1st-8th September 1991.
  • Handwritten slide lists.
  • Handwritten notes.

Review: Valbelle, D. Les neuf arcs

Uphill', E. P. Review: Valbelle, Dominique 1990. *Les neuf arcs: l'égyptien et les étrangers de la préhistoire à la conquête d'Alexandre'. Paris: Armand Colin (OEB 33029)
9 pages

  • Annotated typewritten draft.
  • It has not been established where the review was published.

Review: Kerisel, J. The Nile and its masters

Uphill, E. P. Review: Kerisel, Jean 2001. The Nile and its masters: past, present, future. Source of hope and anger. Translated by Philip Cockle. Rotterdam; Brookfield, VT: A. A. Balkema (OEB 46099).
9 pages, single-sided.

  • Annotated typewritten draft.
  • It has not been established where the review was published.

Publication projects: not published

Documentation collected for publication projects, papers or lectures, mostly unpublished.
One group was originally housed in a series of folders called Projects I to XIX.
Other unnumbered projects were also collected and kept in folders marked with the project's name, some of which have similar content to some of the Projects I-XIX.
Some projects are almost publication-ready, while others are only represented by a few preliminary notes.

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