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Peter Webb and Ron Davey Collection

  • Webb-Davey MSS
  • Collection

Notes, colour transparencies and photographs of shabtis, monuments and other objects.

Webb, Peter

Colin Christopher Walters Collection

  • Walters MSS
  • Collection
  • 1960s-late 1990s

Complete papers, including notes, drafts, lectures, annotated photocopies and notebooks.

Walters, Colin Christopher

Vercoutter, Jean - correspondence

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.

Veale, Douglas - correspondence

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.

Luigi Vassalli Collection

  • Vassalli MSS
  • Collection
  • 1859-1884

Photocopies of papers kept at Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

Vassalli, (Bey) Luigi

Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan Collection

  • Vartavan MSS
  • Collection

Notes, reports and negatives and photographs of botanical specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Correspondence.

Vartavan, Christian Tutundjian de

Varille, Alexandre - correspondence

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).

Vandier, Jacques - correspondence

17 letters from Vandier.
Professional and private matters:

  • exchange of publications, publication plans of both researchers
  • membership of academic societies in the UK and France
  • Egyptian measure itrw
  • personal matters
  • visits
  • meetings

Victoria and Albert Museum Paintings Collection

  • V&A MSS
  • Collection

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.

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Personal papers and family genealogy

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

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

Notes made during lectures and conferences

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)

Papers and lectures

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

Sites and monuments: miscellaneous notes

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

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

Buildings: funerary complexes and other structures

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"

Buildings: comparative sizes

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

Amenhotep III and Haremhab: buildings and construction projects

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

Notes on temples and tombs

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

Pyramid construction: correspondence and documentation

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)
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