Identity area
Reference code
Schott MSS
Title
Date(s)
- 1920s-1940s (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
9 A4 ring binders, 2 boxes, 5 notebooks, 1 sheaf of printed papers and 1 tin
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
German Egyptologist. Born, Berlin 1897. Died, Innsbruck 1971. Studied Egyptology under H. Ranke at Heidelberg, 1924, then with H. Junker and K. Sethe. Dr. Phil., 1926. Employed initially as an assistant in the Berlin Museum, and also worked at the German ... »
Archival history
(a) Professor Schott lent the original negatives to Dr R. L. B. Moss in 1950. They were used during the compilation of the second edition of the Topographical Bibliography, vol. i, Pt. 1.
(b) The original photographs made from these negatives are in the ... »
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
(a) Professor Schott officially presented the negatives to the Griffith Institute in 1960.
(b) Photographs completing part of the Griffith Institute set were received in exchange from the Abteilung Ägyptologie, University of Trier (Professor E. Winter), ... »
Content and structure area
Scope and content
(a) Approximately 3,500 negatives recording scenes from private tombs at Thebes, accompanied by a concordance in five notebooks .
(b) There are also several hundred photographs which were received in exchange with the Abteilung Ägyptologie, Trier.
(c) ... »
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, Oxford, and Abteilung Ägyptologie, FB III, Universität Trier, Universitätsring 15, D-54296 Trier.
Language of material
- German
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The original nitrate negatives were copied onto 35 mm safety film and the originals destroyed. The consultation set of prints are contact sheets made from the 35 mm negatives.
Finding aids
Catalogue.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
The original negatives are in the Griffith Institute. The original photographs are in Abteilung Ägyptologie, Universität Trier.
Existence and location of copies
Trier, Abteilung Ägyptologie (http://www.schott.uni-trier.de).
Publication note
- Winter, E. 'Gründung eines Schott-Photo-Archivs in Trier' in Göttinger Miszellen 83 (1984), 95-8. Id. in Unijournal (Zeitschrift der Universität Trier), 1 (Feb. 1985), 8-9 ill.
- Online publication 'Das Digitale Schott-Archive: Altägyptische Monumente und Antiken in Photographien des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts' (http://www.schott.uni-trier.de).