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Title
Date(s)
- c. 1980s-2000s (Creation)
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2 folders
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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 XV. Nubian fortifications: a. Fortresses; b. Forts and fortlets; c. Town walls; d. Administrative buildings; e. Hydraulic + irrigation projects"*
114 pages (113 single-sided + 1 double-sided)
An almost complete publication draft on Nubian fortifications, annotated typescript, some handwritten notes, mostly measurements for buildings and sites, a few maps and plans sourced from publication and the web, and correspondence.
Some of Uphill's section headings and a list of the sites discussed:
- Phases
- Middle Kingdom
- New Kingdom
- Concept of zones of defence
- Eleventh Dynasty phase in Nubia
- Uphill has not given the sections within this group top-level headings to introduce them. Uphill uses the same arrangement as his Hyksos fortifications documentation, see Uphill MSS 4.16:
- Major military bases
- Large cities
- Large towns
- Small towns
- Small settlements
- Fortlets
- Palaces
- Inscriptional evidence
- Nubian hydraulic constructions
- Scale of some Egyptian building schemes
- Middle Kingdom C-Group graves
- Conspectus of Nubian fort system
- Postulated Nubian irrigation basin system from archaeological evidence
- Alternative scheme for pharaonic large basins and Nubian small ones
- Final figures for the pharaonic system of basins and dams
- Buhen evidence
- Mirgissa evidence
- Possible double wall river bank dykes
- The system
- Scheme employing stone paved levelled irrigation basins
- Possible Narmer-Scorpion features
- Scheme using large earth banks
- Scheme using minimum walling
- The following sites feature:
- Aniba; Askut; Aswan; Buhen; Faras; Ikhur (Kuri); Kor; Kuban; Kumma; Mirgissa; Semna; Serra East; Sesebi; Shalfak; Uronarti
- Letter from Derek Welsby, The Sudan Archaeological Research Society, dated 04-02-1999, in response to Uphill's request for information on the 'wadi walls in the NDRS concession' at Dongola
*Uphill's description for this group as recorded on the original housing. This note has been retained.
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Accruals
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Kept as received.
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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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No problems.
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These are the originals.