Identity area
Reference code
Nadpis
Date(s)
- late 1890s-1921 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
5 slip-cover boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
German Egyptologist. Born, Caracas 1876. Died, Uppsala 1921. Studied at Berlin under Erman, 1896-1900. PhD, 1900. Then excavated in Egypt and was attached to the German consulate, 1901-7. Was appointed to the staff of Berlin Museum, later becoming Assistant Director of the Egyptian collections, 1907. Habilitation, 1912. Lectured at Berlin, 1913-6, 1918-22. Professor, 1916. Excavated in Egypt, particularly at Abusir el-Melek. He was an all-round Egyptologist and produced an edition of the Rhind Demotic Bilingual Papyri, a volume on goldsmith's work in Berlin Museum, and another on Mummy Portraits, but his most important work was in the field of hieratic texts and palaeography. At the time of his death he was preparing works on the graffiti in the Hatnub quarry, hieroglyphic palaeography, and the history of the Libyans.
Archival history
Collection given to E. Lüddeckens (Mainz), the editor of the Demotisches Namenbuch (see Jahrbuch 1952 of the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Wiesbaden, p. 74). Following Lüddeckens' appointment as Professor at the Universität Würzburg in 1964, the project was moved there, and the collection with it. Later G. Wittmann of the Würzburg Demotisches Namenbuch donated it to S. P. Vleeming (Universität Trier).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by Professor S. P. Vleeming (Universität Trier) in 2013.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Copies, transcriptions, facsimiles, drawings and some photographs of mummy labels in Demotic, Greek or bilingual, presented as loose sheets in folders arranged by cities/museums/collections, housed in five slip-cover boxes. They were collected by Möller from printed sources and from several collections he visited on research journeys. One folder in box V is by W. Spiegelberg (1893).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Kept as received.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Language of material
němčina
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Preliminary list.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals.
Existence and location of copies
Not known.
Related units of description
Publication note
- Some mummy labels are published in W. Spiegelberg, Ägyptische und griechische Eigennamen aus Mumienetiketten der römischen Kaiserzeit (Leipzig, 1901).
- For the Demotic and bilingual (Demotic/Greek) mummy labels, see mainly S. P. Vleeming, Demotic and Greek-Demotic mummy labels and other short texts gathered from many publications (short texts II 278-1200), 2 vols. (Leuven, 2011).