Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 10
Title
Miscellaneous records, mostly non-Egyptological
Date(s)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
(1929-2018)
Archival history
The estate of Eric Uphill.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Uphill's notes on miscellaneous subjects, including some Egyptological-related ones, and Uphill's student notebook on hieroglyphs. Uphill's headings are used when appropriate.
269 pages (231 single-sided + 38 double-sided)
Handwritten and typewritten notes with diagrams and some printouts. Uphill's headings are used where appropriate:
- Notebook with student notes on ancient Egyptian words written in hieroglyphs with translations, based on the work of Alan Gardiner
- 174 numbered pages
- Grouped notes originally in a folder annotated "EGYPT. General + Chronological List (T.P.); Astronomical Cycles (Various); Assyrian King List; Ethiopian King List; Aga Khan Genealogy; Bennett, Chris Sothic Cycle Calendars"
- 71 typewritten, handwritten, and printed pages (53 single-sided + 18 double-sided)
- Pedigree of 'Ankhefenmut, includes handwritten copy(?) of a letter from Uphill to Else Churchill, 06/12/2011
- Turin Papyrus, includes a letter from Okasha ?, London NW6, 14/06/1998
- Notes on P. E. Newberry, 1922. "Set Rebellion of the IInd Dynasty". Ancient Egypt 7 (OEB 146395)
- Correspondence, email exchange between Chris Bennett and Robert Porter, dated 19-03-2004, regarding Sothic cycles
- Chronological tables for Neolithic Period Egypt, Upper Egypt, Nubia & Sudan, and Lower Egypt & Delta
- Printout of Hassan, Fekri A., Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano, and Geoffrey J. Tassie 2006. "The sequence and chronology of the Protodynastic and Dynasty I rulers". In Kroeper, Karla, Marek Chłodnicki, and Michał Kobusiewicz (eds), Archaeology of early Northeastern Africa: in memory of Lech Krzyżaniak, 687-722. Poznan: Archaeological Museum (OEB 176167)
- Part of a typewritten copy of R. M. Porter, Early Bronze Age Exodus and Conquest
- Kitchen, K. A. [1995]. The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100-650 B.C.), 2nd ed. Warminster: Aris & Phillips (OEB 197507), a printout of p. xli-xlv, sent to Uphill by Kitchen
- Pedigree of Aigyptos and Danaus
- Indian Descents from Deities. Mainly solar and lunar dynasties
- Pedigree of Ham
- Indian Cosmogony; Buddhist Cosmology; Chinese Cosmology; Iranian Cosmology
- Lists for Sumerian Kings, Assyrian Kings, and Ethiopian Rulers; Genealogy of the Aga Khan
- Other notes
- 24 pages (13 single-sided + 9 double-sided + 2 housing notes)
- Indian Descents from Deities
- 7 typewritten, single-sided pages + 1 handwritten note from original housing
- India. Gods' Descents and Mythological Descents. Also B. Williams Pedigree material down c. Bosworth 1485. Notes on the history of Burma
- 11 pages (10 handwritten pages (2 single-sided + 8 double-sided) + 1 typewritten, single-sided page + 1 handwritten note from original housing)
- Notes on objects, handwritten, not Uphill:
- 3 handwritten, single-sided pages
- Ceramic jar from the Joseph Pulitson bequest (1959)
- Decorated cup from the Rogers Fund (1962)
- Decorated Mesopotamian panel from the Fletcher Fund (1931)
- List of cantata festivals
- 1 handwritten, double-sided page
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Kept as received. Arranged in order as listed.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are the originals.