Zone d'identification
Cote
Uphill MSS 5.1.2
Titre
Greatest builders in history
Date(s)
- c. 1980s-2000s (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
2 envelopes
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
"Greatest Builders in History"
72 pages (8 single-sided + 64 double-sided)
Two handwritten drafts, probably intended for a publication
- First draft, preliminary text and notes. For the second draft, see below
- 47 pages (6 single-sided + 41 double-sided)
- These are working notes which have an informal and sometimes irregular arrangement
- There are sections for different types of buildings, then sub-sections for each civilisation, usually beginning with ancient Egypt. Sub-sections are arranged chronologically. Monuments are listed at the beginning of a section, along with area measurements, then by building type
- Uphill's sections and headings include the following:
- Pyramids
- Fortresses and forts
- Temples
- Palaces
- Volumes comparison continued. Mainly earth constructions
- City and town walls
- City sizes
- Great walls in history
- Funerary complex figures
- Royal tombs and burials in 'palace city' mounds
- Conspectus [of] great earthworks, mounds etc.
- Second draft, probably for a publication, this only a partial text and does not represent all of the sections in the first draft. For the first draft, see above
- 25 pages (2 single-sided + 23 double-sided)
- There are sections for different types of buildings, then sub-sections for each civilisation, usually beginning with ancient Egypt. Sub-sections are arranged chronologically. Monuments are listed at the beginning of a section, along with area measurements, then by building type
- Uphill's sections and headings include the following:
- [Pyramids]
- Tomb mounds for royal burials: sizes
- By period: world's greatest builders and constructors
- Greatest tombs and funerary monuments
- Tomb mounds and earth funerary constructions
- Earthworks & mounds
- Comparative early wall sizes
- Ramesses III conspectus of known constructions
- World's greatest builders and constructors: all-time greats - by period
- Great walls and defences
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 sur la langue et l'écriture
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.