Report of the Committee of Management of the Griffith Institute.
The Committee of Management.
Dr O'Hanlon and Dr A. Bowman joined the Committee of
Management. Mr T. G. H. James retired from the Committee in
May 1998.
Staff.
Mrs Lindsay Charlesworth's contract ended at the end of
February when Mrs Sue Hutchison returned from maternity leave.
Mrs Charlesworth will continue to be employed by the Institute
on a part-time basis.
Topographical Bibliography.
The text of the first two parts of the new volume (8, Objects
of Provenance Not Known: Statues) has been proof-read and
indexed and the camera-ready copy prepared for publication.
Archive.
The negatives of J. de Monins Johnson, made during his
excavations at Antinoë in 1913-14, have been printed and
partly made available on the Griffith Institute's web pages.
The work began transferring the catalogues of the manuscript
material of Sir Alan H. Gardiner onto the web pages.
Some papyri fragments have been transferred from the papers
of F. Ll. Griffith to the Department of Antiquities of the
Ashmolean Museum.
In preparation for the move to temporary premises, the
Archive has been officially closed since the beginning of
March. Visitors have, however, been allowed to use the archive
material in exceptional circumstances.
Donations to the Archive.
Mrs I. E. S. Edwards presented some items from her late
husband's Egyptological papers.
The Gardiner Travel Scholarships.
Awards have been made to Mr Amr Kamel Shehata Omar, Mr
Mohammed I. Abu El Atta and Ms Sally-Ann Ashton.
Computerization.
Our home page on the World Wide Web
(../Griffith.html) had 15,206 visits
from 12,390 sites.
Other activities.
J. Malek continued to act as President of the International
Association of Egyptologists. He lectured, at the invitation
of Fundació Arqueològica Clos, on the tomb of Tutankhamun in
Barcelona and Girona in November 1997.
D.N.E. Magee continued to serve as a member of the Committee
of the Egypt Exploration Society.
Griffith Egyptological Fund.
This has now been formally transferred to the Board of the
Faculty of the Oriental Studies.
Grants and donations.
Grants have been made to Dr Maria Brosius in support of a
workshop on Archives and Archival Tradition, and to the Annual
Egyptological Bibliography.
A set of the Topographical Bibliography was presented to
Cairo University Library.
Visitors.
Visitors, mostly from abroad, have worked in the Archive or
consulted the Topographical Bibliography records on 180
occasions.
(May 20, 1999)
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