Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 4.22
Title
Hatshepsut: biography and monuments
Date(s)
- c. 1980s-2000s (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 folder
Context area
Name of creator
(1929-2018)
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
"Hatshepsut: Foremost of Noble Women"*
14 single-sided pages
Two drafts for a general article or lecture on Hatshepsut's background, reign, monuments and buildings, annotated typescripts.
Uphill's section headings:
- Hatshepsut: Foremost of Noble Women, earlier draft
- Introduction
- Family background
- Politics. The succession problem
- Names and titles
- Representation on royal monuments
- Punt expedition
- The Sed festival
- Great officials
- Lesser officials
- Daily life
- Foreign trade and intercourse
- Buildings and monuments
- Private monuments
- Burial equipment
- Changes in art
- Eradication of the names and inscriptions of the queen
- Later deletion from the King Lists
- Hatshepsut monument survey. With Nubia
- Ma'etkare Hatshepsut dates
- Hatshepsut: Foremost of Noble Women, later draft incorporating corrections from the earlier one
- Same headings as the earlier draft, it ends with the section 'Later deletion from the King Lists' and does not include the final two sections present in the earlier draft
*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.
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.
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Script of material
Language and script notes
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
No problems.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are the originals.