Zone d'identification
Cote
Titre
Date(s)
- 1915 (Production)
- 1909-1910 (Production)
Niveau de description
Étendue matérielle et support
1 box
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
Notice biographique
British Egyptologist and journalist. Born, Rochester 1886. Killed in action near Loos (between Vermelles and Hulloch), 1915. Foundation Scholar, Marlborough. Won an open scholarship to Exeter College, Oxford in 1905, completing his BA degree in 1909 with a Second Class in both Moderations and Literae Humaniores. Attached to the Department of Antiquities in Egypt, serving under A. E. P. Weigall for seven months in 1909. Assistant master, Fonthill School, East Grinstead, 1910-11. Assistant correspondent for The Times, based in Berlin, 1911-15. Volunteered at the beginning of World War I, as a commissioned officer he was appointed Second Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion of The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1915.
Histoire archivistique
- Not known. Previously in anonymous private possession in England.
- In the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
- Presented by Dr Donald P. Ryan in January 1996.
- Scans from Bodleian copy and printout made in October-November 2010.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
- Notebook containing notes on work in Theban tombs, financed by Sir Robert Mond, 1909-1910.
- Printout of the booklet "Charles Gordon Jelf. Born June 8, 1886. Killed in Action October 13, 1915" (printed for private circulation, 1915); from Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford copy [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph013761443&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_OX&tab=local&lang=en_US].
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Kept as received.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
1-2. Property of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
- Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
- Public domain (copyright expired).
Langue des documents
anglais
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
Catalogue.
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
- This is an original.
- This is a copy. The original publication is in the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Not known.
Unités de description associées
Griffith Institute Archive:
- Hand-drawn map (with key) giving the position of Private Tombs at Thebes, dated December 1909, compiled by Jelf (Gardiner MSS 18.1.1-2);
- List of the Tombs and Mortuary Chapels of the Theban Necropolis in Sept. 1911, presumably made by A. E. P. Weigall but in the autograph of Jelf (Gardiner MSS 18.2);
- Handwritten paper titled "The Tomb of Kheruef, Assasif." with plan by Jelf [originally thought to be by A. E. P. Weigall but in the autograph of Jelf] (Gardiner MSS 18.5).