File Uphill MSS 6 - Papers and lectures

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Uphill MSS 6

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Papers and lectures

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  • 1970s - 2010s (Creation)

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The estate of Eric Uphill.

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Donated by the executors of the estate of Eric Uphill in 2022.

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Uphill's conference papers and lecture notes
83 pages (68 single-sided + 15 double-sided)

  • "The Early Days of the Egypt Exploration Society"
    • 21 quarto-sized pages, typewritten with annotations, plus 1 handwritten Thames & Hudson Ltd compliment slip, date not known
  • "Comings and Goings"
    • 5 photocopied A4 pages, typewritten extract(?) from a travel journal, recording a trip to Egypt. If this was used for one of Uphill's papers, the venue and date are not known
  • "The Boundaries and Orientation of Akhenaten"
    • 4 typewritten pages, two drafts of the same abstract(?), one references University College London, date not known
  • "Hawara and the Fayum Residence of Amenemhat III"
    • 5 typewritten pages with annotations (4 single-sided + 1 double-sided), marked as "Lecture", venue and date not known
  • "Ramesses II Megalomaniac or Servant of the Gods"
    • 5 typewritten pages with annotations (4 single-sided + 1 double-sided), including a list of slides used alongside the text, venue and date not known
  • "Architectural Connections between Egypt and Mesopotamia c. 3100 BC"
    • 1 typewritten page, British Association of Near Eastern Archaeology (BANEA), 1991
  • "Per Ramesses", Liverpool. BANEA, 15/12/1992
    • 1 page with a single typewritten paragraph with notes
  • "The Hawara Labyrinth of Amenemhat III", British Museum, 22/02/1996
    • 4 typewritten pages (3 single-sided + 1 double-sided)
  • "Religion and Life at Buhen in Nubia"
    • 6 pages (4 single-sided + 2 double-sided), 2 pages of typewritten notes + 2 photocopied maps + 2 pages handwritten notes, for a lecture for an event at Bristol, 24/05/1997
  • "The Butic Canal: Its Date and Functions"
    • 9 pages (7 single-sided + 2 double-sided), including typewritten pages of paper, extract, and guidelines for proceedings for the 8th International Congress of Egyptologists in 2000, and some handwritten notes
  • "Great Ancient Egyptian canals"
    • 1 page with a single typewritten paragraph, "From a lecture by Mr Eric Uphill, at the Egyptian Embassy, on 4th December, 2003"
  • "The Instruction of King Amenemhat"
    • 17 pages (9 single-sided + 8 double-sided), 2 quarto-sized pages of typewritten preliminary (student?) notes with annotations, 8 pages produced sometime after 2009, Uphill dedicates this version of the paper to John Tait. The group also includes 6 pages of handwritten notes and a photocopy of a line drawing of the stela of Ikhernofret from Abydos from a publication, venue not known

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Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

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Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

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