Identity area
Reference code
Uphill MSS 5.8
Title
Sites and monuments: miscellaneous notes
Date(s)
- c. 1960s-2000s (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent and medium
1 folder
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 handwritten notes on sites and monuments, and typewritten documents describing three sites
46 pages (26 notebook pages + 20 loose pages)
- Notebook, Uphill's headings
- Heliopolis
- Stela of year VIII Ramesses II
- Obelisks
- Temple model of Seti I
- Mnevis bull cemetery
- Old Kingdom tombs of high priests
- Gebel Ahmar
- Horemheb
- Ramesses II
- Peripheral site material
- Iusaus
- Arab el Hisn, royal and private monuments
- Alexandria
- Foundation of Iunu (Heliopolis)
- Notes from Strabo Geographie
- List of high priests
- Tanis material
- Tomb of Ramesses VI
- Solar temples
- 12 typewritten pages with annotations, Uphill's headings
- Tell el Amarna
- general description, typewritten with annotations, dated 22-12- 1993
- Some points about the Ezbet Helmi painting location
- dated 20-07-1992
- Beth Shan
- typewritten notes made at a lecture given by Ami Mazor on 18-04-1996, and Robert M. Porter's notes on the Beth-Shan Heights with photocopied plans from a publication
- Related material, moved here from a miscellaneous group of Uphill's unsorted loose notes, 2 handwritten pages, brief notes, Uphill's headings
- Saqqara. Pyramid enclosure
- Ramesside tombs
- Aksha cemetery
- Toshka West
- Mirgissa
- Lisht
- Behbeit el-Hagar
- Sais
- Nubian culture past and present
- Djerukha [great lake of Amenhotep III]
- Dorginarti
- Mendes
- Ramesseum
- Nakhtnebef [Nectanebo I; Nektanebos I]
- History
- Additional site material
- Tanis
- Mendes
- Hermopolis
- Saqqara
- Memphis
- Karnak
- Luxor
- El Kab
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.