Identity area
Reference code
Spiegelberg MSS 1
Title
Squeezes - Theban Tombs
Date(s)
- 1895-1896 (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 oversize box
Context area
Name of creator
(1870-1930)
Archival history
Sent by Spiegelberg to Professor Francis LI. Griffith in 1926 to be considered for publication.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
No documentation, transferred from Griffith MSS.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Squeezes made in 1895-1896 of some Theban Tomb scenes:
- TT 11 (Djehuty) - "Northampton Stela" [TopBib i2.22(5)A];
- TT 12 (Hery) - Funeral procession and funerary banquet scenes, with letter from Spiegelberg and note about the acquisition [TopBib i2.24(1)-(2), (3)-(4)A];
- TT 20 (Mentuhirkhopshef) - Deceased and mother in top register [TopBib i2.35(4)-(5)A];
- TT 50 (Neferhotep) - (2) May and governors of Upper and Lover Egypt before Haremhab; (3) Parents in top register [TopBib i2.95(2), (3)A];
- TT 157 (Nebwenenef) - Scene, includes one unidentified sheet [TopBib i2.267(8)A]
- TT 163 (Amenemhet) - Scene [TopBib i2.276A].
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Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Publication note
- Squeezes from TT 11 (biographical stela), published by Spiegelberg, Wilhelm 1900. Die Northampton Stele. Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes 22, p. 115-125 [OEB 50827].
- Squeeze with the Harpist's song in TT 163, now in London, British Museum, EA 53337, published by Assmann, Jan 1979. Harfnerlied and Horussöhne: zwei Blöcke aus dem verschollenen Grab des Bürgermeisters Amenemḥēt (Theben Nr. 163) im Britischen Museum. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 65, p. 54-77, plates ix-x [OEB 21679].
- Squeezes from TT 12 (funerary banquet scene), studied and published by Galán, José M. and Gema Menéndez 2011. The funerary banquet of Hery (TT 12) robbed and restored. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 97, p. 143-166, plate i [OEB 68789] (esp. fig. 7 = squeeze no. 17 and fig. 8 = drawing of wall from squeezes).