Uphill's notes made during meetings, lectures and conferences, including notes made by others 116 typewritten pages ( single-sided + 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 slides shown
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" by Christopher Kirby and "The Monuments of Ahmose at Abydos Recent Excavations", by Stephen Harvey
"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
"Ramesses II Libyan Fortress", lecture given by Stephen Snape, University College London, 23/11/1994
1 typewritten page
"Ulu Burun Wreck", lecture given by Claire Calcagno, Birkbeck Archaeological Society, 23/02/1996
1 typewritten page
"Egypt and Canaan in the Late Bronze Age", lecture given by E. Oren, University College London, 27/02/1997
1 typewritten page
"Assyria (Iron Age) on the Border of Egypt and the Archaeological Perspective", lecture given by E. Oren, University College London, 06/03/1997
3 typewritten pages with annotations
Untitled lecture, given by Euphrosyne Doxiadis, British Museum, 18/03/1997
1 typewritten page
"Recent Excavations at the Pyramid of Senwosret III", lecture given by Dieter Arnold, Sackler Lecture, British Museum, 16/07/1997
2 typewritten pages
Papers given at the Eighth Egyptologists Congress in Cairo, 28 March - 3 April 2000
"Searching for Solomon: the Bible and Archaeology", lecture given by Jonathan Tubb, British Museum, 10/10/2002
1 typewritten page
"Goliath's People", lecture given by Jonathan Tubb, British Museum, 17/10/2002
2 typewritten pages
"The Origins of Ancient Egyptian Civilisation", lecture given by 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
"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
"Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome", lecture given by Platner-Ashby, date and event not known
"Outline of Suggested Three Phases of New Kingdom Delta Defenses", date and event not known
Lecture given by Miriam Lichtheim, Turin, date not known
"Kantarah Shark", lecturer, date and venue not known
Handwritten notes and associated advertisements for other Egyptological conferences and seminars, including:
"The Heavens on Earth: Astronomy and Ancient Egypt", Egypt Exploration Society Study Day, date not known
12th International Conference on Nubian Studies organised by the British Museum and Naga-Project and Friends of the Egyptian Museum and Papyrussammlung, Germany, not dated
"The Men of the Gang: the Village of Deir el-Medina and its Inhabitants", 25/10/2008, Egypt Exploration Society Study Day
"New Explorations: the EES in 2009", 20-21/06/2009, Egypt Exploration Society Annual Conference
Seminar for Arabian Studies Annual Conference, 22-24/07/2010 and 28-30/07/2011, British Museum
Third British Egyptology Congress held between the British Museum and UCL, 11-12/09/2010
"Nubia in the New Kingdom: Lived Experience, Pharaonic Control and Indigenous Traditions", Annual Egyptology Colloquium, British Museum, 11-12/07/2013
Lecture given by Bonnet, Meroitic Congress, British Museum, date not known
"Tell el-Amarna", lecturer, venue and date not known
Typewritten and handwritten
Miscellaneous handwritten notes, some with titles of lectures, including:
Maritime Archaeology' and 'Grand Designs Amenhotep III and the landscape of Thebes' from an event on 09/06/2012
Most of the papers are not dated, and some may not be directly connected to the other documentation within this group
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
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 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
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:
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)
