Area dell'identificazione
Codice di riferimento
Uphill MSS 5.1.2
Titolo
Greatest builders in history
Date
- c. 1980s-2000s (Creazione)
Livello di descrizione
Unità documentaria
Consistenza e supporto
2 envelopes
Area del contesto
Nome del soggetto produttore
(1929-2018)
Storia archivistica
The estate of Eric Uphill.
Modalità di acquisizione
Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.
Area del contenuto e della struttura
Ambito e contenuto
"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
Valutazione e scarto
Incrementi
Sistema di ordinamento
Kept as received.
Area delle condizioni di accesso e uso
Condizioni di accesso
Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.
Condizioni di riproduzione
Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.
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These are the originals.