Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 5.6
Title
Buildings: funerary complexes and other structures
Date(s)
- c. 1960s-2000s (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 envelope
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
Notes on funerary complexes, temples, palaces, and forts are copied mainly from other publications. Perhaps preliminary notes for a project(s) or publication(s) with some brief descriptions, measurements and plans
68 pages (31 single-sided + 37 double-sided), handwritten and typewritten with annotations
Sites and monuments mentioned, including some of Uphill's headings:
- Step Pyramid Enclosure
- Qantir
- Tell Basta
- Malkata
- Memphis, Merneptah palace
- Palaces, areas
- Towns in Egypt and other places, notes from Herodotus and Diodorus
- Amarna
- Areas [of] West Bank funerary temples
- Per Ramesses
- Palaces
- Wadi Natrun fort
- New pyramid revealed at Giza
- Comparative sizes of Twelfth Dynasty pyramid complexes
- Babylon, circuit walls
- Copy of a student's(?) typewritten paper: Ann McRae, Morley College, "Mathematical correlation between two specific dimensions of the First Dynasty tombs at Saqqara and Abydos"
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, except for the paper written by Ann McRae.
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.