Griffith Institute Archive

Description of material

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1. Identity statement

Reference code n/a

Title Dévaud in Gardiner MSS.

Dates of creation of the material not known

Level of description papers

Extent 2 boxes

2. Context

Name of creator Dévaud. E. V. (1878-1929)

Administrative and biographical history

E. V. Dévaud (1878-1929) was a lecturer at Fribourg University, Switzerland. He contributed significantly to the study of Coptic etymologies and published articles on this subject in various journals.

Custodial history part of the bequest of Sir Alan H. Gardiner

Dates of accumulation xeroxes made in 1955, see letter from H. Grapow dated 23-07-55 accompanying the xeroxes

Immediate source of acquisition bequest of Sir Alan H. Gardiner 1963

3. Content and structure

Scope and content transcripts of hieratic documents from Illahun (el-Lâhûn), in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, P. Berlin 10001-10098 (10008 and 10029 missing)

Appraisal kept permanently

Accruals none

System of arrangement catalogued as Gardiner MSS. 30.194-289

4. Access and use

Legal status property of the Griffith Institute

Access conditions no restrictions

Copyright conditions permission for publication of any kind must be obtained from the Ägyptisches Museum, Berlin

Language of material French

Physical characteristics no problems

Finding aids list of Gardiner MSS.

5. Allied materials area

Location of originals Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum

Existence of copies xeroxes have been made in the past on the condition that permission for use must be obtained from Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum

Related units of description see also Dévaud MSS. in the Griffith Institute

Associated material Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum

Publications not known

Notes Gardiner MSS. 30.194-289 also contain photographs of most of the transcribed papyri, acquired by Sir Alan H. Gardiner independently