Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 5.1.1
Nadpis
Notebook with notes and statistics for buildings and irrigation systems
Date(s)
- c. 1980s-2000s (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 notebook
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
Notebook containing manuscript notes for a project on a world history of buildings and irrigation, probably for a publication.
The sections include the following, and Uphill's headings are used when appropriate:
- World history of irrigation, arranged chronologically, pp. 1-97
- Egyptian constructions and buildings (Narmar (Menes) irrigation system; Twelfth Dynasty additional and enlarged systems; Palace or residence cities' royal estate parks - New Kingdom; Palaces; Ka-en-Kemet. Estate wall; Great temple enclosures; Maritine canal Wadi Tumilat; Lake Moeris area
- Also: Sumer; Babylonia; Assyria; Syria; Hittites Anatolia; Elam; Persia; Crete; Greece; Israel; India; China; Britain; Sicily; Roman Empire; Spain; Morocco; Turkey; Burma (Myanmar); Thailand; Cambodia; Mongolia; Mexico; Peru; France; Germany; Austria; Portugal; Italy; Sweden; Russia; Tibet; Vietnam and Japan
- List of world temples with area sizes, arranged chronologically, pp. 98-150
- Temples: ancient (Egypt; Israel); Greek period temples (Syria; Lebanon); Roman Empire; Medieval temples (India; Sri Lanka; Burma (Myanmar); Thailand; Cambodia; Indonasia; China; Iraq; conspectus of Justinian I works)
- Tombs and funerary constructions, arranged chronologically, pp. 151-190
- Egypt; Persia; China; Roman Empire; Israel; Japan; India; Turkey
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.
Language of material
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.
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
- Notebook, blue cloth hardcover, ruled pages, 21.5 x 15.3 cm.