File Uphill MSS 11 - Teaching notes

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Uphill MSS 11

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Teaching notes

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  • c. 1960s-1990s (Creation)

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1 box

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The estate of Eric Uphill.

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

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Bundles of typewritten and handwritten teaching notes, with prepared text, transcriptions, and translations. The larger group is a set of typewritten notes on quarto-size paper, which suggests they were created pre-1980. None of the documentation is dated nor indicates the classes they were prepared for.
The sections use Uphill's headings:

  • 360 pages, typewritten sections on quarto-sized paper

    1. The early civilisations (introduction), 25 pages
    2. Egyptian pharaohs list; An alternative scheme Parker, 18 pages
    3. Egyptian coffin texts: De Buck vol. 1, 37 pages
    4. Late Egyptian grammar (notes derived from Prof. Cerny by Lady Carryl.), 60 pages
    5. Late Egyptian miscellanies: 1. Fragment of a letter. Bologna 1094; 2. King's jubelee (Merneptah); 3. A letter of instructions; 4. Praise of Amen-Re; etc., 25 pages
    6. Late Egyptian stories: The Doomed Prince; The Tale of Two Brothers; The Blinding of Truth by Falsehood; The Duel of Horus and Seth, 28 pages
    7. Ahmose son of Ebana; Ahmose Pennekhbet, 40 pages
    8. Harkuf; Decree of Isesi to his Vizier; Biographical inscription Mry Pth 'nh Merire; Sabni; Decree of King Pepi II, 11 pages
    9. Ikhernofret Stela; Hatnub inscription: Djhewty hotep statue; Semnah stela; Sinai inscription; tomb contracts of Djefahep; Armant stela; Scarabs of Amenhotep III; Gebel Barkal stela of Tuthmose III; The poetical stela of Tuthmose III; Tuthmose I: coronation inscription; Tombos stela; Philae: Thutmose II Nubian expedition; Sethe Urk. 4. Vol. 1. Line 257: Thutmose gives his daughter to the kingdom; Some further pieces of Sethe Urk. on Punt expedition of Hatshepsut; Sethe Urk. 361 -9: inscription on the bases of the north obelisks of Karnak; Sethe Urk. 647: the battle of Megiddo; Davies - Speos Artemidos - Gardiner; Davies - Amarna stela - later proclamation, 47 pages
    10. Khnumhotep II, 4 pages
    11. Piankhi; The dream stela of Tanutamun, 18 pages
    12. Ptahhotep; Ptahhotep from Devaud, 19 pages
    13. Punt expedition of Queen Hatshepsut; The formal announcement of the success of the expedition before Amun, 9 pages
    14. The Tale of Sinuhe, 19 pages
  • Other teaching notes, handwritten, typewritten with annotations, and some photocopies, mostly quarto-size paper and some A4. It was likely created later than the preceding group. 148 pages (99 single-sided + 49 double-sided)

    1. The shipwrecked sailor - Leningrad 1115, 25 pages
    2. Westcar - Erman from 4 17, 19 pages
    3. Hymn to the sun - Seth & Horus tomb; Magical spell for the protection of a baby; The deliverance of mankind from destruction; Kagemni; Khensemhab and the spirit, 8 pages
    4. Hordjedef; The installation of the vizier; 2nd wonder (Nebtauire); Menkaure; Lebensmüden - Pap. Berlin 3024, 14 pages
    5. The taking of Joppa; Wenamun; Apophis and Seknenre; Astarte; Concerning a king and a goddess; 4. Report on agricultural matters, 16 pages
    6. Verb Classes, most are based on exercises from Gardiner's Grammar, 29 pages
    7. The Eloquent Peasant; Papyrus Harris 500, 10 pages
    8. The instruction for king Mery-Ku-Re, 37 pages (photocopies)
    9. Hayes, Papyrus of the late Middle Kingdom in the Brooklyn Museum, pls I-VII; Crime and punishment in Bronze Age Egypt, 4 pages

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Kept as received, although the sections have been arranged into groups based on the various types of paper used, which may indicate that a section was created simultaneously. The section numbers were assigned during assession and are not intended to suggest their order.

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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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Some of the pages are in a worn and fragile condition.

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