Zone d'identification
Cote
Uphill MSS 5.1.1
Titre
Notebook with notes and statistics for buildings and irrigation systems
Date(s)
- c. 1980s-2000s (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
1 notebook
Zone du contexte
Nom du producteur
(1929-2018)
Histoire archivistique
The estate of Eric Uphill.
Source immédiate d'acquisition ou de transfert
Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.
Zone du contenu et de la structure
Portée et contenu
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
Évaluation, élimination et calendrier de conservation
Accroissements
Mode de classement
Kept as received.
Zone des conditions d'accès et d'utilisation
Conditions d'accès
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Conditions de reproduction
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
Langue des documents
Écriture des documents
Notes de langue et graphie
Caractéristiques matérielle et contraintes techniques
No problems.
Instruments de recherche
Zone des sources complémentaires
Existence et lieu de conservation des originaux
These are the originals.
Existence et lieu de conservation des copies
Unités de description associées
Zone des notes
Note
- Notebook, blue cloth hardcover, ruled pages, 21.5 x 15.3 cm.