Identity area
Reference code
Spiegelberg MSS
Title
Date(s)
- 1895-1899 (Creation)
Level of description
Collection
Extent and medium
1 standard box and 2 large boxes
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
German Egyptologist and Demotist. Born, Hanover 1870. Died, Munich 1930. Educated at the Universities of Strasbourg, Berlin, and Paris, studying with J. Dümichen, A. Erman, and G. Maspero, respectively, 1888-92. Appointed Lecturer of Egyptology at Strasbourg University. He first concentrated on hieratic papyri especially the juristic texts, then on Coptic and Demotic studies, becoming one of the leading authorities in the field at that time. He published his acclaimed Coptic Dictionary, which was only superseded by W. E. Crum's work. Spiegelberg was a prolific author who wrote several hundred articles.
Archival history
(a) The diaries were given by W. Spiegelberg to Professor W. F. Edgerton.
(b) Squeezes, no documentation.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
(a) After Edgerton died Professor George R. Hughes deposited the diaries in the Griffith Institute in 1970.
(b) Squeezes, no documentation.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Two diaries made in 1898-9 during the Marquis of Northampton's excavations at Thebes, and squeezes made in 1895 of some scenes in TT11, 12, 20, 50, 157, and 163.
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
The diaries have joint copyright with The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
The squeezes are exclusively copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Language of material
- German
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The bindings of the diaries are in a fragile condition and need to be handled carefully.
Finding aids
Catalogue for the squeezes.
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are originals.
Existence and location of copies
There are xeroxes of the diaries in The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
Related units of description
Publication note
- One of the squeezes was published by W. Spiegelberg in Recueil de Travaux xxii (1900), 118-19, cf. 115-17, 120-5.
- Squeeze with the Harpist's song in TT 163, now in London, British Museum, EA 53337, published by J. Assmann in JEA 65 (1979), 54-77 pls. ix, x.
- Squeezes from TT 12, studied and published by J. M. Galán and G. Menéndez in JEA 97 (2011), 143-66 figs. 1-11, esp. fig. 7 (squeeze no. 17) and fig. 8 (drawing of wall derived from squeezes).