Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
Titolo
Date
- 1915 (Creazione)
- 1909-1910 (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Consistenza e supporto
1 box
Area del contesto
Nome del soggetto produttore
Nota biografica
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.
Storia archivistica
- Not known. Previously in anonymous private possession in England.
- In the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
Modalità di acquisizione
- Presented by Dr Donald P. Ryan in January 1996.
- Scans from Bodleian copy and printout made in October-November 2010.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
- 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].
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
Kept as received.
Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso
Condizioni di accesso
1-2. Property of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. No restrictions.
Condizioni di riproduzione
- Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford.
- Public domain (copyright expired).
Lingua dei materiali
inglese
Scrittura dei materiali
Note sulla lingua e sulla scrittura
Caratteristiche materiali e requisiti tecnici
No problems.
Strumenti di ricerca
Catalogue.
Area dei materiali collegati
Esistenza e localizzazione degli originali
- This is an original.
- This is a copy. The original publication is in the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.
Esistenza e localizzazione di copie
Not known.
Unità di descrizione collegate
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).