Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 4.25
Title
Date(s)
- c. 1970s-2000s (Creation)
Level of description
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
"Domestic architecture and its urban setting in ancient Egypt. Part II: Palaces"*
192 pages (187 single-sided + 5 double-sided)
Incomplete drafts, typewritten with annotations, the palaces of ancient Egypt form the second section of a planned but unpublished publication. See Uphill MSS 4.24 for the first part.
There is a publication plan, a primary publication draft incorporating carbon copies, a few drafts for additional chapters, a revised draft for the chapter on Malkata, appendices and notes.
Uphill's section headings:
- Publication plan with notes, 10 pages (9 single-sided + 1 double-sided), quarto size paper, handwritten and typewritten with annotations
- Part II. Palaces
- Generalities
- Old Kingdom
- Middle Kingdom
- New Kingdom
- Malkata
- Amarna
- Nineteenth Dynasty
- Palace of Ramesses II in Ramesseum
- Twentieth Dynasty
- Ramesses III at Medinet Habu
- Nineteenth Dynasty (sic)
- Palace of Merneptah at Memphis
- Twenty-Sixth Dynasty
- Palace of Apries
- Short summary to conclude
- Illustration lists
- Palaces. Sizes
- Part II. Palaces
- Primary publication draft, 115 single-sided pages, quarto size, typewritten, annotated with some drawings, and one handwritten note. All chapters include the original typewritten draft along with its carbon copy except for 'The imperial city' section at the end
- The early dynastic palaces
- The Old Kingdom palace
- The Middle Kingdom palace
- Deir el Ballas
- Malkata
- Site plan
- The temple (pr) of Amun
- The audience pavilion
- The harem and servant's quarters
- The west villas and officials' houses
- The middle palace
- The private palace of the king
- The south palace and dependencies
- Construction
- Decoration
- The imperial city
- Table 1. W. Asia capitals
- Table 2. Egyptian capitals and residences
- Table 3. Aegean citadels and walled enclosures
- Chapter draft, 11 single-sided pages, quarto size paper, typewritten with annotations, perhaps produced later than the primary publication draft
- The royal palaces of El Amarna
- Introductory
- Generalities
- Residence boundaries
- Great north palace
- North palace
- Central palace
- Coronation hall
- The bridge
- The "estate" palace
- Maru Aten
- Conclusions
- The royal palaces of El Amarna
- Chapter draft, 11 single-sided pages, A4 size paper, typewritten with annotations, produced later than the primary publication draft
- The Delta residence of Ramesses II
- Introductory
- Exploration
- Khatana
- Qantir
- Reconstruction of the city site
- The palace - temple sector
- The palace
- Public halls and rooms
- Private apartments
- The temples
- Conclusions
- The Delta residence of Ramesses II
- Revised draft of the Malkata chapter from the primary text draft (see above), 36 single-sided pages, A4 size paper, typewritten with annotations
- Malkata
- Site plan
- The temple (pr) of Amun
- The audience pavilion
- The harem and servant's quarters
- The west villas and officials' houses
- The middle palace
- The private palace of the king
- The south palace and dependencies
- Construction
- Decoration
- Malkata
- Notes on palaces, 6 pages (2 single-sided + 4 double-sided), A4 size ruled paper, handwritten
- Palaces & palace complex areas, lists of palaces with area sizes
- Egypt; Sumer; Babylonia; Assyria; Syria; Anatolia; Persia; Crete; Greece; Egypt. Ptolemic; Sicily; Rome
- Ratio of sizes by area covered by buildings
- Egypt; Sumer; Assyria; Babylonia; Syria; Anatolia; Persia; Sassanian; Crete; Greece. Mycenaeum; Egypt. Ptolemic; Rome
- Palaces & palace complex areas, lists of palaces with area sizes
- Related material, moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes
- 3 single-sided pages, quarto size paper, handwritten and hand-drafted
- Plan of the temples and palaces on the Theban West Bank
- Plan of the Malkata palace
- Notes on the Malkata palace areas and a list of Theban West Bank temples
- 3 single-sided pages, quarto size paper, handwritten and hand-drafted
*Uphill's description for this group.
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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Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
These are the originals.