Collection Spiegelberg MSS - Wilhelm Spiegelberg Collection

1 box and 2 oversize boxes

• MSS 1 (Squeezes - Theban Tombs): Sent by Spiegelberg to Professor Francis LI. Griffith in 1926 to be considered for publication.
• MSS 2 (Squeezes - Dodecaschoenus): Given by W. Spiegelberg to Professor Francis Ll. Griffith for use in his Catalogue of the demotic graffiti of the Dodecaschoenus.
• MSS 3 (Diaries): Given by W. Spiegelberg to Professor W. F. Edgerton.

• MSS 1-2 (Squeezes): No documentation, transferred from Griffith MSS.
• MSS 3 (Diaries): After Edgerton died, Professor George R. Hughes deposited them in the Griffith Institute in 1970.

• MSS 1: Squeezes made in 1895-1896 of some scenes in Theban Tombs 11, 12, 20, 50, 157, and 163.
• MSS 2: Squeezes of some scenes and texts in the Island of Biga and Philae (Dodecaschoenus).
• MSS 3: Two diaries (with continuous pagination) compiled between 7 November 1898 and 9 February 1899 during the Marquis of Northampton's excavations at Thebes.

Kept as received.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

• MSS 1-2: Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
• MSS 3: Joint copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford, and Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly Oriental Institute), University of Chicago.

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The bindings of the diaries are in a fragile condition and need to be handled carefully.

Full catalogue.

These are originals.

There are xeroxes of the diaries in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly Oriental Institute), University of Chicago.

Other Archives:

• Spiegelberg MSS in the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures (formerly Oriental Institute), University of Chicago.

Griffith Institute Archive:

• Folder with copies of mummy labels from the Collection Forrer, Strasbourg, made by Spiegelberg in 1893, within Möller MSS (box V).

• Portrait: https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/projects/chicago-demotic-dictionary-cdd-0/biography-wilhelm-spiegelberg.