Cast of hieroglyphs made at Deir el Bahari.
Ostracon given by Warren Dawson 30.xii.32, no. D. 102.
Two ostraca marked “bought Luxor 1910”.

Abnormal hieratic ostraca from Thebes.

• Photographs showing the transport of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun to the Laboratory tomb (KV 15), Valley of the Kings.
• Taken by anonymous photographers.
• None of the photographs in this group were taken by Harry Burton.

Paper squeezes from various sources. The Pontifex squeezes are mounted and are kept in five original portfolios. The Stobart squeezes are not mounted and stored in a package. Other collections of squeezes are not mounted and are stored in large boxes.

Booklet PDF, 5 double-sided pages, printed from the Royal Mail website, advertising products from the Special Stamp Issue 'Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in collaboration with the Griffith Institute, to mark the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, issued on 24 November 2022.

Correspondence from Lady Margaret Susan Amherst (d. 1919) (wife of Lord Amherst of Hackney) relating to:

• Newberry's work at Tel el Amarna and Beni Hassan;
• the purchase of items, including requests that Newberry purchase certain items on their behalf;
• Howard Carter's appointment;
• fraud and sale of house and belongings (1906);
• Newberry's divorce trial.

Note:
MSS 2/47a is also numbered 2/61
MSS 2/47b is also numbered 2/62 and 255
MSS 2/18, 2/24, 2/26, 2/28, 2/35 and 2/36 have been moved to NEWB2/14A (Miss Margaret Amherst).

Correspondence from Miss Margaret Mitford Amherst (b. 1864; fourth daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney) on topics including receipt of the proofs of Newberry, Percy E. 1899. The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Egyptian papyri in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A., at Didlington Hall, Norfolk: with an appendix on a Coptic papyrus (OEB 146343); visit of HRH Edward VII to Didlington Hall; work on the publication produced by Lady Amherst of Hackney 1904. A sketch of Egyptian history from the earliest times to the present day (OEB 133461); invitations to Diddlington Hall to meet Lord Percy.

Note:
Previously miscatalogued as part of NEWB2/014 (Lady Margaret Amherst).
Previously numbered as 2/18, 2/24, 2/26, 2/28, 2/35 and 2/36.

Correspondence from Lord William Amhurst Tyssen Amherst (First Baron Amherst of Hackney) (1835-1909) on topics including: travel in Egypt; purchase of items from Egypt; articles written by Newberry.

Note:
MSS 2/71A is also numbered 96
MSS 2/73 is also numbered 43
MSS 2/74 is also numbered 49
MSS 2/75 is also numbered 20
MSS 2/76 is also numbered 41
MSS 2/77 is also numbered A.222
MSS 2/78 is also numbered A.223
MSS 2/79 is also numbered A.221
MSS 2/80 is also numbered A.228
MSS 2/84 is also numbered 33
MSS 2/85 is also numbered 35
MSS 2/86 is also numbered 34
MSS 2/87 is also numbered 37a
MSS 2/93 is also numbered 46
MSS 2/75 is also numbered 20

Correspondence from Miss Sybil Margaret Amherst (1858-1926; 2nd daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney) on topics including relating to the purchase of items in Egypt, the sale of the family's book collection to Liverpool, the identification of museum papyri.

Correspondence from Miss Mary Rothes Margaret Amherst (1857-1919; eldest daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney; marriage 1885, Lord William Cecil; in 1909 succeeded her Father as 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney) on topics including relating to the purchase of items in Egypt; the sale of the family's book collection to Liverpool; the identification of museum papyri.

Note:
MSS 2/48a is also numbered 1/50 and A.96

Correspondence from Miss Florence Amherst (b. 1857; 3rd daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney) writing on behalf of her Mother, Lady Margaret Susan Amherst, relating to the publication of an article by her Father and on his death.

Dates of letters:
10 September 1898
January 1909
26 August 1922

Correspondence from Miss Alicia Margaret Amherst (1865-1941; 5th daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney; married 1898, Sir Evelyn Gascoyne-Cecil) mainly relates to research for her book on the history of gardening. Correspondence 1907 relating to the need to raise money, the sale of books, and asking Newberry to seek an interview with Carnegie on the family's behalf.

Material relating to the "Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference", held in Luxor, Egypt, between 4-6 November 2022.

1. Booklet with information on schedule and speakers.
2. Menu of the Gala Dinner at the Luxor Temple on 4 November 2022.
3. Printout of lecture (and slides) given by Francisco Bosch-Puche on behalf of the Griffith Institute on 5 November 2022.
4. Printout of article by Francisco Bosch-Puche and Elizabeth Fleming for the proceedings of the conference (version June 2023).

Two diaries (with continuous pagination) compiled between 7 November 1898 and 9 February 1899 during the Marquis of Northampton's excavations at Thebes [TopBib i2.607-609]:

• Diari I: p. 1-94 (7 November 1898 - 27 January 1899)
• Diari II: p. 96-115 (27 January 1899 - 9 February 1899).

Squeezes made in 1895-1896 of some Theban Tomb scenes:

• TT 11 (Djehuty) - "Northampton Stela" [TopBib i2.22(5)A];
• TT 12 (Hery) - Funeral procession and funerary banquet scenes, with letter from Spiegelberg and note about the acquisition [TopBib i2.24(1)-(2), (3)-(4)A];
• TT 20 (Mentuhirkhopshef) - Deceased and mother in top register [TopBib i2.35(4)-(5)A];
• TT 50 (Neferhotep) - (2) May and governors of Upper and Lover Egypt before Haremhab; (3) Parents in top register [TopBib i2.95(2), (3)A];
• TT 157 (Nebwenenef) - Scene, includes one unidentified sheet [TopBib i2.267(8)A]
• TT 163 (Amenemhet) - Scene [TopBib i2.276A].

Squeezes of some scenes and texts in the Island of Biga and Philae (Dodecaschoenus):

• Island of Biga - no. 1 [TopBib v.257A];
• Philae - nos 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11-13, 24, 36-7, 41, 43-5, 66, 71, 77-8, 86, 91 (part, and unpublished), 213-15, 244, 249, 252, 255-7, 289-90, 301-4, 324, 365, 369-72, 376, 402, 408-12, 416, 436, 441, 449 [TopBib vi.206A].

[Note: The numbering corresponds to that in Griffith's publication (see "Publication note" below)]

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)

  15. The shipwrecked sailor - Leningrad 1115, 25 pages
  16. Westcar - Erman from 4 17, 19 pages
  17. 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
  18. Hordjedef; The installation of the vizier; 2nd wonder (Nebtauire); Menkaure; Lebensmüden - Pap. Berlin 3024, 14 pages
  19. The taking of Joppa; Wenamun; Apophis and Seknenre; Astarte; Concerning a king and a goddess; 4. Report on agricultural matters, 16 pages
  20. Verb Classes, most are based on exercises from Gardiner's Grammar, 29 pages
  21. The Eloquent Peasant; Papyrus Harris 500, 10 pages
  22. The instruction for king Mery-Ku-Re, 37 pages (photocopies)
  23. Hayes, Papyrus of the late Middle Kingdom in the Brooklyn Museum, pls I-VII; Crime and punishment in Bronze Age Egypt, 4 pages

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 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

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

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