Sayce MSS B.32 - Miscellanea presented by Professor Oliver R. Gurney

28 pages

Presented by Professor Oliver R. Gurney in November 1987.

Correspondence, note, and two squeezes from multiple individuals:

• 1. Letter to Sayce from William Ramsay dated 8 August 1924 mentioning he is sending an impression of a seal, with the name Yalowatch/Yalowadj. The letter was written from "13 Greenhill Terrace, Edinburgh".
• 2. Letter to Sayce from William Ramsay undated ("Friday") asking Sayce whether he can make sense of the Cappadocian months he goes on to list. The letter was written from "Devon House, Forest Hill".
• 3. Letter to Sayce from John Punnett Peters dated 23 October 1888 discussing an inscription from Tarsus and saying he will send impressions. The letter was written from "Imperial Ottoman Bank, Constantinople".
• 4. Letter from Sayce to John Garstang dated 10 March 1907 apologising for being unable to join Garstang at Abydos. The letter was sent from "Dahabia Istar, Luxor".
• 5. Note with details of bead with inscription from Jerusalem. Probably by William M. Ramsay. The note is written on paper from "Palestine Exploration Fund, 24, Hanover Square, London W.".
• 6. Letter to Sayce from James (?) dated 11 September 1882 on sending Sayce the inscription of Marash lion. The letter was written from "St. Mary Church" in Torquay. The letter encloses a pencil rubbing of a bronze stamp with the label "a puzzle in Phenician epigraphy.(?)".
• 7. Letter to Gurney from Peter E. Rider, Atlantic Provinces Historian at National Museums Canada, dated 20 November 1978 about "The Fletcher Stone" or "The Yarmouth Runic Stone", which is now in Yarmouth Museum, Nova Scotia. The letter is written on paper from the "National Museums Canada; National Museum of Man".
• 8. Letter to Gurney from David L. Keenlyside, Atlantic Provinces Archaeologist at National Museums Canada,, dated 22 November 1978 discussing how the Museum's curator has verified the rock inscription which Sayce had referred to as the "Yarmouth Stone". The letter is written on paper from the "National Museums Canada".
• 9. Two squeezes of the same inscription.
• 10. Photograph of tombstone of an Etruscan grave "of man & wife" near Bologna, c. 1865-1870, by Fotografia dell'Emilia. The text on the reverse reads: "Gran Raccolta di Vedute e Quadri delle Città Bologna Ravenna e dintorni. Strada S. Mamolo No 101 1o Palazzo Rodriguez Bologna".

• 9. is in a fragile condition.