Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 11
Title
Date(s)
- c. 1960s-1990s (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 box
Context area
Name of creator
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
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:
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360 pages, typewritten sections on quarto-sized paper
- The early civilisations (introduction), 25 pages
- Egyptian pharaohs list; An alternative scheme Parker, 18 pages
- Egyptian coffin texts: De Buck vol. 1, 37 pages
- Late Egyptian grammar (notes derived from Prof. Cerny by Lady Carryl.), 60 pages
- 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
- 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
- Ahmose son of Ebana; Ahmose Pennekhbet, 40 pages
- Harkuf; Decree of Isesi to his Vizier; Biographical inscription Mry Pth 'nh Merire; Sabni; Decree of King Pepi II, 11 pages
- 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
- Khnumhotep II, 4 pages
- Piankhi; The dream stela of Tanutamun, 18 pages
- Ptahhotep; Ptahhotep from Devaud, 19 pages
- Punt expedition of Queen Hatshepsut; The formal announcement of the success of the expedition before Amun, 9 pages
- The Tale of Sinuhe, 19 pages
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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)
- The shipwrecked sailor - Leningrad 1115, 25 pages
- Westcar - Erman from 4 17, 19 pages
- 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
- Hordjedef; The installation of the vizier; 2nd wonder (Nebtauire); Menkaure; Lebensmüden - Pap. Berlin 3024, 14 pages
- The taking of Joppa; Wenamun; Apophis and Seknenre; Astarte; Concerning a king and a goddess; 4. Report on agricultural matters, 16 pages
- Verb Classes, most are based on exercises from Gardiner's Grammar, 29 pages
- The Eloquent Peasant; Papyrus Harris 500, 10 pages
- The instruction for king Mery-Ku-Re, 37 pages (photocopies)
- Hayes, Papyrus of the late Middle Kingdom in the Brooklyn Museum, pls I-VII; Crime and punishment in Bronze Age Egypt, 4 pages
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
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.
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.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Some of the pages are in a worn and fragile condition.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are the originals.