Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 4.11
Title
Date(s)
- c. 1980s-2000s (Creation)
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File
Extent and medium
1 folder
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
"Project IX. Horemheb: a. Reign; b. Monuments; c. Shaduf introduction note"*
25 pages (23 single-sided + 2 double-sided)
Preliminary documentation on the Horemheb's monuments, mostly typewritten notes with some handwritten pages.
NB Although Uphill's note mentions the Shaduf, no obvious relevant documentation is present.
Uphill's section headings, with some descriptions, include summaries and notes from relevant publications:
- Horemheb temples and monuments, thirteen-page annotated typescript, some of the sub-headings include:
- Amenhotep IV Aten temple blocks
- Horemheb sites
- Horemheb restoration texts
- Delta wall system proposed form
- Tell Rub'a
- Amarna tomb sizes and status
- North tombs
- South tombs
- For comparison, Theban officials of the period
- Size indicated by doorways
- Outline of Suggested Three Phases of New Kingdom Delta Defenses
- Horemheb and the late Eighteenth Dynasty
- Seti I and the route into Asia
- Ramesses II consolidation of the lines
- Related material, moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes, 2 handwritten pages, brief notes and bibliographic references.
*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Kept as received.
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Conditions governing access
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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No problems.
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Existence and location of originals
These are the originals.