3 letters from Wainwright, 3 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Wainwright. Wainwight's gifts of publications and archive materials to the Griffith Institute and to Černý.
6 letters from Vercoutter, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Vercoutter. Photographs of texts from Egypt and the British Museum; exchange of research materials; personal matters.
1 letter from Veale. Formal conferment of the MA (Oxon) degree to Černý after his election to Professor, as well as a non-stipendiary Professorial Fellowship at Queen's College.
1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Varille. 1 thank you note from Černý to Varille for Loret's obituary and for arranging a posthumous publication of Loret's book, see Loret, V., La résine de Térébinthe (SONTER) chez les anciens Égyptiens (1949) (OEB 2073).
Negatives and prints of paintings of Egypt in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (Searight collection) by several artists, including Francis Arundale, Frederick Cathewood, Vivant Denon, L. M. A. Linant de Bellefonds, Prisse d'Avennes, etc.
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
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
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
"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
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]
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
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
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
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:
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
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)