Dossier Uphill MSS 4.17 - Nubian fortifications

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Uphill MSS 4.17

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Nubian fortifications

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  • c. 1980s-2000s (Production)

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2 folders

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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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"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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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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