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Correspondence from/to Moran, William Lambert (1921-2000).

Correspondence from/to Arkell, Anthony John (1898-1980).

• Royal Mail Yearbook 2022
• Anonymous (ed.) 2022. A postcard from..: Royal Mail special stamps 2022. Royal Mail Yearbook 39. London: Royal Mail Group Ltd. ISBN: 9780946165773. 24.4 x 25.7 cm; 64 p., [117] figs [ills (mostly colour)] (OEB 307243).
• The publication contains every stamp and miniature sheet issued by Royal Mail in 2022, with a chapter devoted to every Special Stamp issue. An expert in their field has written each dedicated chapter for each stamp issue. The subjects include The Rolling Stones, Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and the discovery of Tutankhamun’s Tomb.
• Contains the chapter 'Tutankhamun' and discusses the extraordinary period during which Tutankhamun lived, the significance of his burial and its site in the Valley of the Kings.
• Also contains 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.
• The main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca.
• Mini stamp sheet of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute.

Newspaper cutting, 'King Tut the 1st', the brief article features one stamp (mask) 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.

DVD copy of 'Tutankhamon: l'ultima mostra' (2022), a documentary on the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the preparations for the travelling Tutankhamun exhibition launched in Los Angeles in 2019. The film was released to mark the centenary of the discovery.

Replicas of objects found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Printed twelve-month calendar, each month featuring a different colourised Harry Burton photograph.

• Burton images supplied by the Griffith Institute.
• Two copies.

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. Royal Mail Group Ltd commissioned the Griffith Institute to act as consultants supplying all the text and required images for all the Special Stamp products.

• See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun (accessed 19-06-2023).
• A set of twelve stamps comprising:
  • The main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb. Araldo De Luca supplied these images.
  • Mini-set of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute.
• Complete set of products:
  • First Day Cover issued on 24 November 2022
  • Presentation Pack
  • Prestige Stamp Book
  • Unmounted stamps
  • Coin cover (£5.00)
  • Postcard pack
  • Royal Mail Yearbook 2022
  • Newspaper cutting, noting the stamp issue, November 2022

Four First Day Covers, all issued on 24 November 2022, part of 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. The insert is the same for all four items, and the card's text briefly describes the tomb's discovery.

• See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun (accessed 19-06-2023, the first-day covers are no longer available).
• TAA iii.51.3.1.1
  • First Day Cover for the main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca, hand-stamped with Tutankhamun's cartouches, comprises one envelope with eight stamps affixed containing one insert with text and images
• TAA iii.51.3.1.2
  • First Day Cover for the main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca, hand-stamped with one of the Theban necropolis seal impressions, comprises one envelope with eight stamps affixed containing one insert with text and images
• TAA iii.51.3.1.3
  • First Day Cover for the mini-set of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute, hand-stamped with Tutankhamun's cartouches, comprises one envelope with mini stamp sheet of four stamps affixed containing one insert with text and images
• TAA iii.51.3.1.4
  • First Day Cover for the mini-set of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute, with one of the Theban necropolis seal impressions, comprises one envelope with mini stamp sheet of four stamps affixed containing one insert with text and images

Presentation Pack, issued on 24 November 2022, part of 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.

• See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun/tutankhamun-presentation-pack (accessed 19-06-2023).
• An illustrated fold-out carrier card, 'Tutankhamun', with the main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca. Carrier card with text on the tomb's discovery on one side and a commentary for each of the objects featured in the main set of stamps on the other
• Carrier card with the mini-set of four stamps 'Discovering Tutankhamun's Tomb', featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute, Carrier card text on the recording and conservation of the tomb's objects by Howard Carter and the excavation team.

Two copies of the Prestige Stamp Book, 'Tutankhamun: Finding a Pharaoh', issued on 12 December 2022 as part of 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.

• See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun/tutankhamun-prestige-stamp-book (accessed 19-06-2023).
• 14 pages, the text on each page discusses a different topic concerning the tomb's discovery, clearance and recording.
• Features three stamp panes containing all twelve Tutankhamun stamps. The book also includes a pane of definitive stamps that is unique to the issue.
• The two copies are identical.

Complete working papers, including notebooks, notes, card indexes, drawings of scenes and inscriptions, plans, slides, photographs, and correspondence.

Research papers
Includes relevant notes, concordances, photocopies, letters, emails, negatives, photographs, and small-scale tracings.

• Scarabs and seals.
• Brooklyn Museum scarabs and seals.
• New Kingdom reliefs.
• Valley of the Kings.
• El-Lisht.
• Tutankhamun shabtis.
• Amarna Royal Tomb/Necropolis.
• Research for articles.
• Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings.
• Miscellaneous papers.
• Three photograph albums.

Slides
10,000+ slides, the majority created by Martin, 1960s onwards. They include archaeological sites in Egypt, reliefs and objects, rephotographed publication illustrations, and commercially-produced slides.

Framed watercolour
Watercolour painting, perhaps by Annie Quibell. The upper part of an angel is probably inspired by (or copied from) one of the paintings in the Monastery of Apa Jeremias at Saqqara.

KV57: tomb of Horemheb, Valley of the Kings
Includes research papers, a small box of photographs, and Martin's epigraphic drawings of Horemheb's sarcophagus.

Original epigraphic drawings and scanned reductions of originals

• Epigraphic drawings of loose Memphite blocks used for Vols. I and II of Martin's Corpus of Memphite Blocks. Vol. I, published. Vol. II, in preparation (info. August 2022).
• Reduced line drawings of reliefs from published Memphite New Kingdom tombs, including the tomb of Horemheb and possibly the tomb of Maya.
• Drawings without labels, not yet identified—some Amarna.

Large photographs
Includes the Step Pyramid complex and Unas Causeway, some taken from the summit of the Step Pyramid, or perhaps aerial photographs. Some show tomb reliefs.

Miscellaneous

• PhD dissertation, G. T. Martin (two bound volumes on scarabs and seals. The second volume has been published. The first volume is not published).
• Brooklyn Museum manuscript (bound unpublished manuscript for scarabs and seals in the Brooklyn Museum).
• Three photograph albums (photographs of sites, buildings and street scenes mostly in and around Cairo in 1942. The albums were given or bequeathed to Martin).
• Manuscript ("The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb. A Palaeography (Catalogue of Signs)". Unfinished).
• Photocopied line drawings (these are probably duplicates of a published set of line drawings from a known New Kingdom Memphite tomb or are from Vol. I of Martin's Corpus of New Kingdom Memphite Blocks).
• Three bound volumes (miscellaneous postcards, photographs, etc.).
• Amarna Royal Tomb Project (selected material, copies of graffiti, ostraca, etc., represents a small section of the information gathered by the team when Martin was Field Director).
• Memphite New Kingdom Prosopography (card index with the names and other details of known tomb owners and other officials mentioned in reliefs, paintings, statuary, etc., in or from around the Memphite cemeteries).
• Photographs, newspaper cuttings, letters etc. (including a letter from Lord Mountbatten of Burma, also newspaper cuttings from international papers, primarily referring to the discoveries of Horemheb and Maya and the relationship of these officials to Tutankhamun).

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).

Unmounted stamps 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. Royal Mail Group Ltd commissioned the Griffith Institute to act as consultants supplying all the text and required images for all the Special Stamp products.

• TAA iii.53.3.4.1-2

  • Two copies of the set of eight colour stamps.
  • Main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb. Araldo De Luca supplied these images.
  • See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun/tutankhamun-stamp-set (accessed 19-06-2023).

• TAA iii.53.3.4.3-4

  • Two copies of the mini-stamp set of four stamps, 'Discovering Tutankhamun's Tomb'.
  • Mini-set of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute.
  • https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun/tutankhamun-miniature-sheet (accessed 19-06-2023).

Two identical sets of thirteen postcards featuring reproductions of all twelve Special Stamps (the mini-sheet stamps are represented twice, once as the complete mini-sheet design of four stamps as well as individually), all issued on 24 November 2022, part of 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.

• See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun/tutankhamun-postcards (accessed 19-06-2023).
• The postcards feature:
  • The main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb, images supplied by Araldo De Luca.
  • Mini-set of four stamps featuring black and white photographs, including three Harry Burton photographs supplied by the Griffith Institute.

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.

• 'Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive' exhibition at the Weston Library, Oxford, 13 April 2022 – 5 February 2023.
• Featuring material from the Tutankhamun Archive and other collections in the Griffith Institute.
• Posters, flyers, display materials, merchandising products, ephemera, and other memorabilia.
  1. Textile poster.
  2. Five text panels ('Introduction', 'Timeline', 'Griffith Institute', 'Curators’ Audio Highlights', 'Howard Carter portrait'), both textile and board.
  3. Caption texts for all sixteen showcases.
  4. Three textile banners.
  5. Image facsimiles, both original size and enlargements.
  6. QR codes for the audio guide.
  7. Reduced copy of Carter’s portrait.
  8. Replica of wreath placed on the forehead of the king’s outer coffin, made by The Garden of Oxford (Covered Market) and used in a ceremony held on 4 November 2022, where it was laid down by Ahdaf Soueif.
  9. Materials used in a 'Touch Tour' for the Blind and Partially Sighted / Visually Impaired on 13 October 2022.
  10. Free standing showcase cover design.
  11. Folder/package of posters, flyers, and other memorabilia and ephemera.
  12. Selection of merchandising products: bag, fridge magnets, postcards, book mark, and notebook.
  13. Two large size (A0) posters.

Replicas of the two sistra found in Tutankhamun's tomb. The replica sistra were commissioned in 2022 and were used in the performances of James Whitburn's composition 'Zahr Al-Khayal', based an Egyptian love poem roughly contemporary with Tutankhamun.

Two copies (identical) of the coin cover, 'The Burial of a King: Tutankhamun', produced by Royal Mail in partnership with the Royal Mint, marking the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb.
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. Royal Mail Group Ltd commissioned the Griffith Institute to act as consultants supplying all the text and required images for all the Special Stamp products.

• Issued 24-11-2022.
• See https://shop.royalmail.com/special-stamp-issues/tutankhamun/tutankhamun-coin-cover (accessed 19-06-2023).
• The coin cover comprises:
  • An envelope with the main set of eight colour stamps, each featuring an object from Tutankhamun's tomb. Araldo De Luca supplied these images.
  • All of the stamps are hand-stamped with a design based on one of the Horus-falcon collars found in the tomb.
  • The envelope contains a carrier card with a five-pound (£5.00) coin affixed. The text describes Tutankhamun's coffins, sarcophagus and burial shrines.
• Coin cover limited to 10,000 individually numbered covers.
• The two coin covers are limited series numbers '05135' and '05137'.

"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.

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

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'.

• Reproduction of a fruit crate label.
• "King Tut Brand Lemons, packed by Johnston Fruit Co., Santa Barbara, CAL".
• Reproduction produced c. 2015, after c. 1920s original.