File Uphill MSS 10 - Miscellaneous records, mostly non-Egyptological

1 folder

The estate of Eric Uphill.

Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.

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

Kept as received. Arranged in order as listed.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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These are the originals.