Extracts from the Report of the Committee of Management
of the Griffith Institute 1995-6
The Committee of Management
Dr. John Rea will retire as Chairman of the Committee at the end
of the academic year. The new Chairman will be Dr. Jeremy Black,
for five years in the first instance.
Topographical Bibliography
The text of the first two parts of the new volume (8, Objects of
Provenance Not Known: Statues) has been completed and is now
being indexed and edited.
Archives
The papers of J.J. Clère have been catalogued and can now be
consulted, although more detailed identification of individual
items is still taking place. The papers of E.W. Lane have been
catalogued by Dr. Jason Thompson and re-housed.
Publications
Three new publications appeared: N.C. Strudwick, The Tombs of
Amenhotep, Khnummose and Amenmose at Thebes (nos. 253, 254 and
294), K.H. Kuhn and W.J. Tait, Thirteen Coptic Acrostic Hymns,
from Manuscript M574 of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York,
and R.S. Simpson, Demotic Grammar in the Ptolemaic Sacerdotal
Decrees. J. Malek's article on "The archive of J.J. Clère, an
outstanding Egyptologist" was published in The Ashmolean 29
(Christmas 1995), 5-6.
Donations
Some additional material belonging to the papers of J.J. Clère
has been received from Madame Irène Clère. A notebook of Mr. Jelf
concerning work carried out in various Theban tombs in 1909-10
has been presented by Dr. Donald P. Ryan. Other minor accessions
include some additional material relating to Sir Alan Gardiner
(presented by his daughter, Mrs Margaret Gardiner), an album of
photographs taken by Dr. G. Weiler on a trip to Egypt and Israel
in the 1950s (presented by the Department of the History of Art),
and pages from an album of photographs taken by Mr. Sieburg
during a trip to Egypt in the 1950s (presented by the Taylor
Institution Library).
The Gardiner Travel Scholarships
Awards have been made to Ms. Reem Mohamed Reda Bahgat
(Computerized cataloguing of Egyptian sculptures), Ms. Randa
Omar Kazem Baligh (Monuments of Tuthmosis I), and Dr. Maged Fahmy
Negm (The tomb of Simut Kyky at Thebes).
Computerization
Our home page on the World Wide Web
(http//www.ashmolean.museum/Griffith.html) now contains a
considerable amount of material concerning all aspects of the
Griffith Institute's activities. This includes lists of some of
the archive resources with scanned images. The most recent
accessions to the Griffith Institute Library are made available
on a regular basis.
Visitors
Visitors, mostly from abroad, have worked in the Archive or
consulted the Topographical Bilbiography records on 285
occasions.
(May 21, 1997)
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