Accessions of the Griffith Institute Archive 1990-2022

Five new additions to the Tutankhamun Archive: 17 postcards from the 1920s and a set of postcards “A Dream comes to Tutankhamun”, presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming; a reel-to-reel tape recording and cassette tape of a BBC radio broadcast on the “Treasures of Tutankhamun” exhibition at the British Museum in 1972, presented by Dr Rosalind Janssen; a merchandise pamphlet of the same exhibition, presented by Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson; and various material connected to the centenary of the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 2022, including the special stamp collection “Tutankhamun” from the Royal Mail - Griffith Institute collaboration, presented by Royal Mail; and material related to the exhibition “Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive” held at the Weston Library, Oxford, 13 April 2022 - 5 February 2023.

(December 7, 2023)

Correspondence by Dr Arthur Ferdinand Rowley Platt (1863-1946), written during two trips to Egypt in 1896 and 1907-1908. Presented by his great-nephew Julian Platt.

The complete papers of Professor Geoffrey Thorndike Martin (1934-2022), including notebooks, notes, card indexes, drawings of scenes and inscriptions, plans, slides, photographs, and correspondence. Part of Martin's bequest to Christ's College, Cambridge; presented by Christ's College.

The complete papers of Mr Eric P. Uphill (1929-2018), including notebooks, notes, card indexes, slides, photographs, correspondence and teaching notes. Negotiated through Professor Stephen Quirke; presented by the executors of Uphill's estate.

A selection of personal correspondence with Egyptologists and peer-reviews presented by Dr Marianne Eaton-Krauss (b. 1944).

Correspondence by Dr Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan (b. 1965), which has been added to the rest of his papers accessioned in 2010 and 2012. Presented by Dr C. T. de Vartavan.

A small addition to the correspondence group of Sir Alan H. Gardiner (1879-1963), namely a postcard he sent to Eugène Dévaud. Presented by Dr C. T. de Vartavan.

Mr Arthur C. Mace's (1874-1928) account of the opening of the burial chamber in Tutankhamun's tomb on 16 February 1923 (manuscript and typescript versions) and his excavation journal for 1922-1923 [TAA iv.1-3]. Formerly on long term loan to the Griffith Institute, they have been presented by his grandchildren, Mr David Orr and Mrs Alison Crawford.

Correspondence and related material on wood from the tomb of Tutankhamun by Mr Alfred Lucas (1867-1945), including three offprints [TAA i.11]. Presented by Dr Ian Gourlay.

Four new additions to the Tutankhamun Archive: two postcards and a game, presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming; and a copy of Victoria Wolf's And Seven Shall Die (London, 1943), presented by Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson.

A preparatory pencil sketch by Mr Howard Carter (1874-1939) of some columns from the processional colonnade in the Luxor temple, used for a watercolour of the same in private possession. Presented by Mr Arthur C. Mace's grandchildren, Mr David Orr and Mrs Alison Crawford.

(December 14, 2022)

Some additional correspondence of Mr Robert Thomas Rundle Clark (1909-1970), which complements the material accessioned in 2015 and 2017. Presented by his daughter Mrs A. Trowell.

Two copies of My Working Years (1962) by Sir Alan H. Gardiner (1879-1963). Internal transfer from the Sackler Library.

A small collection of ancient Egyptian-themed memorabilia, including stamps, magazine advertisements, and sheet music. Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming.

A charming addition to the Tutankhamun Archive: an important collection of memorabilia, including photographs, postcards, stamps, comics, trade cards, advertisements, sheet music, jewellery, etc. Presented by Dr Francisco Bosch-Puche (stamps) and Mrs Elizabeth Fleming (rest).

Two additions to the collection of Professor Jaroslav Černý (1898-1970): a personal photograph, presented by his stepdaughter Mrs Anna J. Allot, and an additional group of documentation (mostly correspondence), presented by Dr Jiřina Růžová, from the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague.

(February 10, 2022)

Some additions to the collection of Miss Jenny Lane (1835-?): the framed portraits of Jenny Lane, her father George Lane and her first husband George Collins, together with a copy of their marriage certificate and some related documentation by Brenda Moon. Presented by Mrs Patricia Martin.

"The Graffiti Archive Roger O. De Keersmaecker (1931-2020)": a corpus of traveller's graffiti in Egypt and Sudan, including copies of publications, proofs, correspondence, photographs and slides, notebooks, indexes and notes. Donated by Roger O. De Keersmaecker.

Two sets of postcards: a collection of 10 produced by Lehnert & Landrock (hand painted landscapes, Giza, the Citadel and Cairo) and another of 9 produced by A. K. Mayorkino (Port Said). Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming.

Unfinished manuscript of The Life of Sinuhe: A Reader's Commentary on the Middle Kingdom Version(s) (2020) by Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson. Presented by the author (permanent loan).

(November 25, 2020)

The journals of Miss Jenny Lane (1835-?), describing various trips in 1873-1876 as lady’s maid to Miss Lucy Renshaw. Acquired at auction thanks to grants from the Friends of the National Libraries, the Friends of the Petrie Museums and a number of donations to the Griffith Institute Archive. See more. An album of photographs put together following Lane’s trips, as well as a collection of antiquities and miscellanea, both presented by Mrs Patricia Martin.

Small additions to the correspondence groups of Professor Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934) and Professor Thomas Eric Peet (1882-1934), the latter including a five-page typescript. Both transferred from the Peet Library, the Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

An offprint of a G. Daressy publication (1898) annotated by Norman de Garis Davies (1865-1941). Transferred from the Peet Library, the Queen’s College, University of Oxford.

A watercolour of the Great Sphinx and the Pyramid of Khephren at Giza (1888). Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming.

Two sets of postcards: a collection of 16 unused items from the 1930s, presented by Dr Robert Simpson, and a set of 4 mailed from Egypt to the United Kingdom in 1903-1909, presented by Mr Dave Newman.

An album of photographs and some postcards from the 1920s-1930s, put together by Mrs Ethel Maud Gray (1891-1968). Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming.

An album of newspaper cuttings and some additional drawings by Mr Harold Parkinson (1918-1995), which have joined the material accessioned in 2013. Presented by his son, Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson.

Some additional papers of Professor Oliver Robert Gurney (1911-2001). Internal transfer from Professor Jacob Dahl’s office.

Three new additions to the Tutankhamun Archive: six photographs taken by James Deardon Holmes and showing the backfilled tomb in 1925 (each representing one-half of a miniature stereoscopic image), acquired by the Griffith Institute; one cigarette card from c. 1955, presented by Mr Elizabeth Fleming; and five albums of printed media (UK local newspapers) relating to the 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition held at the British Museum in London, presented by Mr Bruce Lovegrove.

(December 19, 2019)

The complete papers of our beloved Dr Diana N. E. Magee (1936-2017), including notes, some photographs, and a small group of correspondence. Presented by her nephew, Mr Alastair Malkin, on behalf of her sister, Mrs Jean Malkin.

C. 10,500 colour slides (35mm), mostly of Egypt, taken between 1980s and 2000s by Mr John F. Dewey (1934-2017), former president of the RAMASES Egyptology Society in Kent. Presented by Mr David Huggins.

Mr Arthur Cruttenden Mace’s (1874-1928) personal correspondence for 1922-1924, two typewritten articles, copies of Burton photographs, and newspaper cuttings for 1922-1925, which have joined some earlier journals accessioned in 2014. Presented by his grandchildren, Mr David Orr and Mrs Alison Crawford.

50 stereoscopic glass positives of views of Egypt (c. 1900-1914), together with a handwritten index and a Gaumont stereoscopic viewer, which are now part of the Institute’s collection of stereoscopic photographs. Acquired by the Griffith Institute.

Additional correspondence (four letters) of Professor Percy E. Newberry (1869-1949) and his wife Mrs Essie Newberry (1878-1953) with Sir William Rothenstein and Dr Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards. Presented by Dr Edwards’ daughter, Mrs Lucy Constantine.

Microfilm rolls with copies of Professor Siegfried Hugo Erdmann Schott’s (1897-1971) negatives (scenes from Theban Tombs) kept in the Griffith Institute, and of James Burton’s (1788-1862) and Robert Hay’s (1799-1863) manuscripts kept in the British Library. Internal transfer from the Sackler Library Archive Room.

Two new additions to the Tutankhamun Archive: a copy of The Times, 20 March 1972, ‘Tutankhamun’, p. i-iv, on the success of the Tutankhamun exhibition held in the British Museum, presented by Mrs Helen Hughes-Brock; and two 1923 telegrams (telegraphs) from the U.S.A. to Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter regarding Tutankhamun discovery, presented by Mr A. C. Mace’s grandchildren, Mr David Orr and Mrs Alison Crawford.

(December 13, 2018)

An album of watercolours, drawings, and tracings of Egypt (c. 1842-1843) by Mr George Lloyd (1815-1843). Acquired at auction thanks to a grant from the Friends of the National Libraries. See more.

Some additional research and teaching material of Mr Robert Thomas Rundle Clark (1909-1970), including notebooks and notes, as well as a small group of negatives, which complements the material accessioned in 2015. Presented by his daughter Mrs A. Trowell.

Additional photographic material of Professor Jaroslav Černý (1898-1970), specifically five items portraying his wife Mrs Marie Sargant, née Hloušková, on her 80th birthday, and her daughter Mrs Anna J. Allot during a visit to the Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology in Prague in 1973, which have joined the personal documentation accessioned in 2011 and 2016. Presented by Professor Černý’s stepdaughter Mrs Anna J. Allot.

Two undated watercolours: a view of a Gothic European(?) church by a 'L.H.' and a view of the colonnade of the Philae temple probably by the same artist but not signed, which have been added to the Institute’s watercolours and drawings collection. Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming.

A Sawyers View-Master Model B (1944-1947) and twelve View-Master reels with pictures of Egypt (© 1950), which are now part of the Institute’s collection of stereoscopic photographs. Presented by Dr Francisco Bosch-Puche.

Three new additions to the Tutankhamun Archive: a photograph of Professor R. G. Harrison (University of Liverpool), with Dr Z. Iskander et al. examining the mummy of Tutankhamun in KV 62 in early December 1968, presented for consultation purposes only by Dr Robert Connolly; a 'Tutoom – Journey to the treasures of the Pharaoh' board-game from 1923 which was on display in the 'Discovering TutAnkhAmun' exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 2014, presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming; and a wrist watch produced on the same occasion for merchandise, presented by Mrs Catherine Warsi.

(December 14, 2017)

Additional material of Professor Jaroslav Černý (1898-1970). (1) A substantial group of personal correspondence with Mrs Marie Sargant, née Hloušková, whom he married in 1951. Presented by Dr Jiřina Růžová. (2) Personal documentation of Professor Černý and his wife Mrs Marie Sargant, including her passport, their marriage certificate, private photographs, negatives, correspondence and a group of miscellanea, which have been added to the similar group of papers accessioned in 2011. Presented by his stepdaughter, Mrs Anna J. Allot.

A substantial group of loose plates, some of which hand-coloured, from a number of early (mostly 19th century) Egyptological publications, including from works by Cailliaud, Champollion, Gau, Prisse d’Avennes, Rifaud and Rosellini. Presented by Mrs Henrietta and Mr Christopher McCall.

Two large format positive transparencies of Tutankhamun’s throne (Carter no. 91) by the American photographer John G. Ross (1920-2006). Presented by Dr Geoffrey Killen.

Two modern (late 20th century) copies of Lehnert & Landrock photographs of Egypt. Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming.

Small additions to the correspondence groups of Professor Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1862-1934), Dr Alessandra Nibbi (1923-2007) and Professor Thomas Eric Peet (1882-1934). The first two were transferred from the Sackler Library and the latter presented by Professor Richard Bruce Parkinson.

A new addition to the Tutankhamun Archive: a selection of merchandising products from the 'Discovering TutAnkhAmun' exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 2014, including postcards, magnets, posters, notebooks, etc. Presented by Mrs Elizabeth Fleming.

(December 16, 2016)

The personal diary of Mrs Minnie C. Burton (1876-1957), wife of the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton, kept from the 4th of May 1922 to the 20th of October 1926. Acquired at auction thanks to two grants from the Friends of the National Libraries and the Heritage Lottery Fund. See more.

Rubbing and drawing of the emblem of the 16th nome of Lower Egypt, relating to the creation of the Clarendon Press's (Gardiner's) hieroglyphic font by Nina (1881-1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865-1941) and Sir Alan H. Gardiner (1879-1963) for use in Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar, which have been added to the material accessioned in 2009. Formerly in the possession of the late Mr D. Wishart and presented by his son Mr A. Wishart.

Mr Robert Thomas Rundle Clark's (1909-1970) research and teaching papers, including notebooks, notes and annotated offprints, as well as some lantern slides, which have joined the material on the iconography of Osiris accessioned in 1971. Presented by his daughter Mrs A. Trowell.

Some additional photographs and family papers of Mr Wilfrid Joseph Dilley (1874-1941), which complements the material accessioned in 2014. Presented by his granddaughter Mrs C. J. Sleight.

Some non-Egyptological additional papers of Mr Terence DuQuesne (1942-2014). Formerly in the possession of his publisher Mr D. Jacobs and presented by Mr J. Matthews.

An additional folder containing notes and photographs of New Kingdom stelae by Professor Alan Schulman (1930-2000), which has been added to the rest of his papers accessioned in 2008, 2009 and 2012. Presented by Dr D. Sweeney.

Some additional negatives, photographs, notes and drawings by Mr Walter Segal (1907-1985) of furniture in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the British Museum and gathered from publications, which have joined the rest of his material accessioned in 2008 and 2014. Presented by Dr M. Eaton-Krauss.

A few additions to the Tutankhamun Archive, including: three copies of the poster of the Semmel Concerts' exhibition 'Tutankhamun: His Tomb and His Treasures' in Manchester, internal transfer; a complete set in its original wooden box and a group of duplicates of plates of Tutankhamun’s painted box: Reproduced in colour from the original in the Cairo Museum, by Nina M. Davies and with explanatory text by Alan H. Gardiner (Oxford: Griffith Institute, 1962), internal transfer; a London Underground tube/train advertisement from the 1970s which was on display in the 'Discovering TutAnkhAmun' exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum in 2014, presented by Professor John Baines; a portfolio with newspaper and magazine cuttings, mainly from the contemporary press, including The New York Times and The Illustrated London News, relating to the finding and excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, collected by Mr F. W. Robinson and presented by Mr W. H. Peck; five brass printing plates from the production of Penelope Fox, Tutankhamun’s Treasure (London: Oxford University Press, 1951), presented by Mrs S. Woodhouse; and two further sets entitled 'Discovering TutAnkhAmun in 3D: Stereoscopic Installation Photographs of the Ashmolean Exhibition, 24 July – 2 November, 2014' created and presented by Ms J. Navratil.

(December 18, 2015)

Two photograph albums (one with family portraits and the other entitled 'Abusir. Summer 1923') and a copy of a publication on Arab architecture by the British engineer Mr Wilfrid Joseph Dilley (1874-1941). Presented by his granddaughter, Mrs Christina J. Sleight.

The bequest of the complete research papers of Mr Terence DuQuesne (1942-2014), including manuscripts, photographs and digital files. See more.

Two typescripts by Dr Paul Eric Kahle (1923-1955), entitled The Acta Pauli and The Meaning of diakonia in Coptic Texts, which have joined the rest of his papers accessioned in 1960 and 2009. Internal transfer from the Sackler Library.

Mr Arthur Cruttenden Mace's (1874-1928) excavation journals covering the periods 1899-1901 (working with Sir W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-2 (working with Professor G. A. Reisner). Presented by his grandson, Mr David Orr.

Professor Thomas Eric Peet (1882-1934). (1) Small watercolour. Presented by his great-niece, Mrs C. Newton. (2) Group of family papers and ephemera, including correspondence, photographs, newspaper cuttings, etc. Presented by his great-granddaughter, Mrs C. Barnes. Both groups have joined Peet's notebooks and slip indexes already in the Griffith Institute Archive, which were part of Sir Alan Gardiner's bequest.

2,500 slides (35mm), taken in the early 1960s at sites in Egypt and in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Mr John Phillips (1930-1999). Presented by Ms S. Cokyll.

Mr Walter Segal's (1907-1985) notes, drawings, negatives and photographs of furniture in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the British Museum, as well as other collections, and material gathered from publications, which has been added to the rest of his material on thrones, chairs, stools and footstools from the tomb of Tutankhamun accessioned in 2008. Presented by Dr M. Eaton-Krauss.

A number of additions to the Tutankhamun Archive, following the 'Discovering TutAnkhAmun' exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, including: five cigarette cards from 1926 and 1937, presented by Mr P. A. Clayton; a copy of the Evening Standard Souvenir, 3 June 1972, 'Tutankhamun', presented by Mrs J. Gerard; a set entitled 'Discovering TutAnkhAmun in 3D: Stereoscopic Installation Photographs of the Ashmolean Exhibition, 24 July – 2 November, 2014' created and presented by Ms J. Navratil; and a group of display materials from the exhibition, including labels, gallery guides, banners, etc., presented by the co-curator of the exhibition, Mr L. McNamara.

Some additional material relative to the study of botanical specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun by Dr Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan (b. 1965) (deposited at Kew Gardens and in Cairo), which have been added to the rest of his papers accessioned in 2010. Presented by Dr C. T. de Vartavan.

Dr Colin Christopher Walters (1937-2006) papers, including notes, drafts, lectures, annotated photocopies and notebooks. Presented by his nephew, Mr M. Lamb.

Nine postcards from Lehnert & Landrock, Cairo. Presented by Mr R. and Mrs A. Hobby.

(March 6, 2015)

Bound manuscript on Egyptian hieroglyphs by the Italian sculptor Pietro Bracci (1700-1773). Internal transfer from the Sackler Library.
Sample pages.

Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (1831-1892). (1) First edition of Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891), with handwritten dedication to ‘Katie’ [Mrs Kate Griffith (née Bradbury)]. Internal transfer from the Sackler Library. (2) Album of drawings entitled Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874, see http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/edwards-special/, with pencil sketches and one watercolour created by Miss Edwards during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4. Internal transfer from the Griffith Institute Archive (formerly Griffith Notebook 28). Both items have been added to the Amelia Edwards collection of papers.

Copy of Gaston Maspero (1846-1916), Sur quelques inscriptions du temps d’Amenemhâit Ier au Ouady Hamamât (1891), bound together with an article by Vladimir S. Golenishchev (1856-1947), Epigraficheskie ruzultaty poiezdki v Uadi Khammamât (ca. 1888), including interleaved pages with annotations of Sir Alan Henderson Gardiner (1879-1963). Internal transfer from the Sackler Library.

Five slip-cover boxes containing copies, transcriptions, facsimiles, drawings and some photographs of mummy labels in Demotic, Greek or bilingual, compiled by Professor Georg Christian Julius Möller (1876-1921). One folder in box V is by Professor Wilhelm Spiegelberg (1890-1930). Presented by Professor S. P. Vleeming.

A photograph album containing images of Egyptian monuments and a framed photograph of Professor Jacobus Johannes (Jac. J.) Janssen (1922-2011), which have been added to the rest of his papers accessioned in 2011 and 2012. Presented by his wife, Dr R. Janssen.

(August 18, 2014)

Around 50 black and white photographs and two colour negatives of objects in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo by Mr Frederick Leslie Kenett (1924-2012). Kenett’s images were used in Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, Tutankhamen. Life and death of a pharaoh (1963). Presented by Mrs. K. Stylianou.

Another batch of notes and photographs of objects and sites by Professor Alan Schulman (1930-2000), and a collection of 19th century studio photographs formerly in his possession. They have joined the rest of his papers accessioned in 2008 and 2009. Presented by Dr D. Sweeney.

(August 18, 2014)

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2011 ▲

Some additional material of Professor Jaroslav Černý (1898-1970), including personal photographs taken in Egypt, notes, incomplete proofs of one of his publications, a notebook and a number of photocopies. Presented by his stepdaughter, Mrs Anna J. Allot.

The complete papers of Professor Jacobus Johannes (Jac. J.) Janssen (1922-2011), including transcribed hieratic documents, photographs, annotated photocopies, notes on Deir el-Medina and some unpublished material. Presented by his wife, Dr R. Janssen. See more.

Dr Alexandra (Alix) H. Wilkinson (1932-2011), notes, drafts and photographs on ancient Egyptian gardens and cultivation, and some notes and photographs on ancient Egyptian jewellery. Presented by her husband, Mr J. Wilkinson.

(August 18, 2014)

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2010 ▲

Professor Karl Heinz Kuhn (b. 1919) Notes, negatives, transcripts, photographs and photostats of Coptic documents in various collections. Presented by his family, via Dr J. Cromwell.

Dr Christian Tutundjian de Vartavan, botanical specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun (deposited at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew), notes, negatives and photographs. Donated by Dr Tutundjian de Vartavan.

Webb-Davey papers. Notes, colour transparencies and photographs of shabtis from museums, private collections and dealers, and colour transparencies and photographs taken in Egypt and elsewhere, showing monuments and objects, and a large number of photographs taken in the tomb of Haremhab (KV 57). Compiled by Mr Peter Webb (1955-1992) and Mr Ron Davey (?-?). Presented by Dr N. Reeves.

Professor Robert McLachlan Wilson (1916-2010), copies, notes, transcripts, photographs and correspondence relating to surviving fragments of the New Testament in the Faiyumic dialect of Coptic. Presented by his son, Mr. A. Wilson. This group is the continuation of the work of Dr P. E. Kahle (1923-1965), presented by Professor Wilson to the Griffith Institute’s Archive in 2009.

(August 18, 2014)

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2009 ▲

Photographs of Egyptian monuments, etc. The photographs belonged to the late Professor Raphael Giveon (1916-1985) of Tel Aviv University. Presented by Dr Deborah Sweeney. (The two photographs accompanying this note show, it seems, the hole for the attachment of a crown in the head of the Great Sphinx at Giza, and the work on the restoration of the heb-sed kiosk (Chapelle blanche) of Sesostris I at Karnak.)

Another batch of notes, photographs, copies of inscriptions, etc., mostly concerning ancient Egyptian monuments from the Memphite area and now in various museums. Compiled by the late Professor Alan R. Schulman (1930-2000). Presented by Mrs D. S. Schulman. For the material presented to the Griffith Institute's Archive previously, see accessions of the Griffith Institute Archive in 2008.

Drawings and correspondence concerning the creation of the Clarendon Press's (Gardiner's) hieroglyphic font by Norman and Nina de Garis Davies and A. H. Gardiner for use in Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar. Presented by Mr A. Wishart (son of the late D. Wishart).

Copies and notes on the surviving fragments of the New Testament in the Faiyumic dialect of Coptic, by Dr P. E. Kahle (1923-1965). Presented by Professor R. McL. Wilson.

Another batch of notes, photographs, chapters from The negation of the adverb in demotic, etc., by the late Professor Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002). Presented by Mrs. D. Gilula. See also accessions of the Griffith Institute Archive in 2007.

(November 25, 2009)

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2008 ▲

Visitor's book of the George Foucart family, Cairo, 1925-1948. G. Foucart (1865-1943) was Inspector of Antiquities for Lower Egypt, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Bordeaux, Professor of the History of Religions at Aix-en-Provence, and then Director of the Institut français d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo between 1915 and 1928. The book provides an interesting insight into the social life of the Egyptological community in Cairo in the 1920s and 1930s. It contains seventy pages and there are some 680 signatures in it. (Presented by Dr. R. J. Demarée.)

Walter Segal's (1907-1985) notes, drawings, negatives and photographs of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun. See now M. Eaton-Krauss, The Thrones, Chairs, Stools and Footstools from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (Oxford: Griffith Institute, 2008, ISBN 978 0 900416 89 7). All this material will shortly be made available on the Griffith Institute's website. (Presented by Dr Marianne Eaton-Krauss.)

Folders with notes, photographs, copies of inscriptions, etc., mostly concerning ancient Egyptian monuments from the Memphite area. Compiled by the late Professor Alan R. Schulman. (Presented by Mrs D. S. Schulman.)

Two sheets with 19th-century engravings showing the pyramidion of Tia, Overseer of the Treasury in the temple of Ramesses II in the domain of Amun, temp. Ramesses II, from his tomb at Saqqâra, formerly in the Lethieullier and Long collections, present location of the monument not known. (Internal transfer, Sackler Library.)

Additional photographic material of John G. Ross (1920-2006). It consists of some 40 19th-century prints of Egypt, and others from the British Museum, Italian museums and Greece, some 100 colour transparencies, about 900 b&w 35 mm negatives, some 140 b&w prints of John Ross's photographs and some postcards. (Presented by Mrs Judy Ross.)

A CD with digital copies of the plan and 99 views of Somers Clarke's house at el-Kâb. Drawn and photographed by N. Warner in March 2008. (Presented by Mr. Nicholas Warner.)

(December 21, 2008)

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2007 ▲

Fire insurance policy concerning 11, Norham Gardens, Oxford, taken out by F. Ll. Griffith on 9 February, 1909. (Presented by Mr. Jacob Khokhlov.)

Some 2,500 colour transparencies of Photographs of Egypt taken by John Ross. (Presented by Mrs Judy Ross.)

More material has been added to the papers of Professor Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002), including parts of his planned grammar of Middle Egyptian. (Presented by Mrs Gilula.)

(July 20, 2007)

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2006 ▲

Twenty-nine albumen prints of 19th-century photographs showing various sites in Egypt, including Abydos, Alexandria, Beni Hasan, Dendera, Edfu, Esna, Heliopolis, Karnak, Medinet Habu, Qurna, The Ramesseum, Saqqara and Theban tombs. Several famous photographers of ancient Egyptian monuments are represented in this group. The prints are remarkably well preserved and some of these images are new for our Egyptian Mirage database.

(Presented by Mr. John Ross.)

Some additional papers of Professor Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002). (Donation.)

An album containing seventy-four 19th-century albumen prints of Egypt, mostly by J. P. Sebah. It probably dates from about 1890. Many of these photographs are new for our Egyptian Mirage database.

(Acquired by purchase with the help of the Essex Egyptology Group, the Southampton Ancient Egypt Society, the Oxford Experience 2005 Summer School led by Chris Kirby, groups from Birkbeck College, London, led by Suzanne Bojtos and Charlotte Booth, and a group from the Workers Educational Association, Essex, led by Charlotte Booth).

Papers of Joan Crowfoot Payne connected with her Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean. (Transfer from the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Egyptian Antiquities.)

Photographs of ancient Egyptian anchors found at Marsa Matruh in 1991-2. (Presented by Dr. A. Nibbi.)

An album containing sixty-three 19th-century albumen prints, mostly of Egypt. Among the photographers whose work is represented in the album are H. Béchard, J. P. Sébah and A. Beato. The album dates to 1877-8 and it appears that it belonged to a G. M. F[rean]. There are also some watercolour sketches. Many of the photographs are new for our Egyptian Mirage database. (Acquired by purchase.)

(November 3, 2006)

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2005 ▲

Thirty-six photographs of the sarcophagus of Sethos I, from tomb KV 17 in the Valley of the Kings, now in London, Sir John Soane Museum. (Presented by Mr John Ruffle.)

Some 21 boxes of the papers of the late John Gwyn Griffiths (1911-2004), Professor of Classics and Egyptology, University College of Swansea. (Presented by Professor Griffiths' sons.)

Twenty-five albumen prints of 19th-century "studio photographs" of Karnak. All these images are new for our Egyptian Mirage database. (Presented by Mr. John Ross.)

A notebook containing P. E. Newberry's notes concerning G. Daressy's Recueil de cônes funéraires. See a similar item by Norman de Garis Davies. (Presented by Dr Donald Ryan and his son, Mr Samuel Ryan.)

Tracing of the panel of the false door of Merankhef, Dyn. V-VI, in Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 29.209.1, by Charles Huffnagle MD, in 1847. (Griffith Institute transfer.)

Some 50 photographs taken in Egypt in 1888 by James Parker Simpson. The copyright of these photographs belongs to Mr Simon B. Simpson but the Griffith Institute's Archive has scans and prints.

(December 2, 2005)

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2004 ▲

Incomplete (Preface and pp. 1-24) typescript of Sir A. H. Gardiner's My Early Years, annotated by Gardiner himself. (Donation.)

A copy of My Early Years, by Sir Alan Gardiner. Typed, photocopied and bound by John Gardiner at Ballaghaue, Isle of Man, 1986. Includes Henry John Gardiner, ... A very few reminiscences by his younger son, and The Tutankhamun tomb, by Margaret Gardiner. (Donation.) The papers of Sir A. H. Gardiner are in the Griffith Institute.

Two albums of photographs. (Donation.) One album, formerly belonging to Captain H. Langford, contains albumen prints of Antonio Beato's photographs taken in the 1890s, especially views of the Luxor and Karnak temples and the Ramesseum. See online database of similar 19th-century "studio photographs" in the Archive of the Griffith Institute (some of the photographs in the album are new and will be added to the database). The other album contains photographs taken during a trip to Egypt in 1923, including views of the then recently discovered tomb of Tutankhamun (Howard Carter's excavation records are in the Archive of the Griffith Institute).

Colour scan of a letter to P. E. Newberry (1869-1949) from 'C. S. H.' (Donation.)

Four photographs showing objects from the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. (Donation.)

Seven card-indexes compiled by E. J. Baumgartel (1892-1975) recording grave finds from Naqada and Ballas. (Internal transfer.) They are based on Flinders Petrie's excavation records. The Archive of the Griffith Institute already has some papers of E. J. Baumgartel.

Some papers of Professor Mordechai Gilula (1936-2002). (Donation.) These include a copy of an extensive study of The negation of the adverb in demotic, proofs of articles, notes, correspondence and an index of words and phrases illustrating various grammatical concepts.

(January 27, 2005)

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2000-2003 ▲

A copy of G. Daressy's Recueil de cônes funéraires annotated and augmented by Norman de Garis Davies. (Donation.) [The Griffith Institute also has Norman de Garis Davies's index of funerary cones, presented in 1998-9.]

Some minor additions to the papers of I. E. S. Edwards. (Donation.)

Four photographs taken by anonymous photographers during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. Griffith Institute photos. 102.51-4. (Donation.) [We already have a number of such photographs and these will be made available in Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation.

An album with watercolour sketches, ink drawings, letters and other material by Amelia Edwards. (Internal transfer.) [The Griffith Institue already has other Amelia Edwards papers, see the list of records.]

Twelve 19th-century photographs of Egypt by Bonfils (B) and Zangaki (Z). They include the following: the Pompey Pillar in Alexandria (B), the pyramids of Khufu and Khephren at Giza (Z), the Great Sphinx with the pyramid of Khufu in the background (Z), the Great Sphinx at Giza (B), the hypostyle hall at Karnak (B), the court of Ramesses II in the Luxor temple (Z), the Colossi of Memnon on the West Bank at Thebes (B), the Edfu temple (Z), Philae (B), boats on the Nile (Z), women fetching water (B) and a market at Bulaq (B). (Purchase.) [We already have a large collection of such photographs, see the Archive.]

Notes on the Hierakonpolis finds by Margaret A. Murray (1863-1963). (Donation.)

Copies of some 710 cards of the Berlin Wörterbuch. They were prepared by Hermann Junker from the Philae photographs of the Photo-Expedition of the German Academy 1908-9 and 1909-10. (Donation.) (We already have a number of Wörterbuch cards in the papers of Sir A. H. Gardiner.)

The papers of Sarah Clackson (1965-2003), mostly on Coptic. (Donation.) [This material will be available for consultation in mid-2004.]

Some 720 photographs of Predynastic objects in Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY, from E. J. Baumgartel (1892-1975), accompanied by about 100 pages of notes. (Donation.)

Some non-Egyptological papers of Professor O. R. Gurney (1911-2001). Mostly correspondence and notes on related topics. (Donation.)

The watercolour "Theban landscape with figures and tent", by Howard Carter. (Donation.)

Some 170 lantern slides and Egypt through the stereoscope, consisting of about 100 stereoscopic photographs of Egypt, China, India and Europe. Underwood & Underwood, c.1910. (Donation.)

(January 27, 2005)

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1990-1997 ▲

The years between 1990 and 1997 have seen a steady increase in the material kept in the Archive of the Griffith Institute. Among the accessions there are two groups which are exceptional by any standards.

The first of these is the papers of Jacques Jean Clère, presented by Madame Irène Clère in 1995. J. J. Clère (1906-1989), the former Directeur d'Études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris, was an outstanding Egyptologist whose interests ranged from Egyptian philology to ancient Egyptian sculpture, and from the Early Dynastic Period (shortly after 3,000 BC) to the Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC). He was an excellent epigraphist and a keen photographer who recorded many unpublished monuments in museum and site storerooms as well as pieces seen on the art market or in the hands of dealers. This documentation often remains the only evidence we have concerning such material and will prove invaluable for the Griffith Institute's other main project, the Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings.

The papers also contain a copy of Clère's unpublished volume on Middle-Kingdom stelae in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo which was prepared for the Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire series. There is also the documentation concerning his unfinished project on sistrophorous statues and some material intended for further fascicles devoted to the texts of the First Intermediate Period.

In sheer volume, the material represents one of the largest groups in the Griffith Institute's Archive. It has been analyzed and catalogued in a general way but detailed identification and classification will continue for some time to come.

The second group consists of a large number of drawings and sketches made by Joseph Bonomi. Joseph Bonomi (1796-1878) was a superb and versatile draughtsman who spent many years in Egypt cooperating with some of the most prominent copyists of the first half of the 19th century, such as Robert Hay, James Burton, John Gardner Wilkinson (later Sir), and Ippolito Rosellini. He travelled extensively in Egypt and the Sudan as well as in other countries of the Levant. Bonomi was a member of the famous epigraphic expedition led by Richard Lepsius in 1842-4. In the United Kingdom, he was actively involved in the production of books on ancient Egypt, the cataloguing of Egyptian collections, and the design and decoration of Egyptianizing buildings. In 1861 he was appointed Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum in London.

Bonomi's material in our Archive is of various dates and covers Egypt, Nubia, Palestine and other countries. A detailed analysis and cataloguing of these papers will begin soon.

An interesting addition to the Archive is a notebook by C. G. Jelf concerning work in various Theban tombs in 1909-10, which was financed by Robert L. Mond (later Sir). This has been presented by Dr Donald P. Ryan and it completes the other notes by Jelf already in our Archive (among the papers of Sir Alan Gardiner). The quality of our documentation of the tombs on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor, which are generally known as the Theban tombs (the Greek name of ancient Egyptian Weset was Thebes), especially those dating from the New Kingdom (1540-1069 BC), is outstanding.

The excitement surrounding the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in November 1922 is vividly recorded in correspondence addressed to Howard Carter by various non-scholarly members of the general public. A group of such letters, often charmingly naive, has been given to our Archive by Mrs Margaret Orr, the daughter of Carter's close collaborator and co-author, A. C. Mace. Some photographs and lantern slides illustrating the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb have been presented by Mrs G. E. W. Howells, Dr H. Whitehouse, Dr P. T. Nicholson, and Mr Neville Jones, and correspondence on the same topic has been the gift of Sir Noel Moynihan. All these provide further insights into the excavation of Tutankhamn's tomb. The field records by Howard Carter and his collaborators and the photographic documentation by Harry Burton are one of the most often consulted groups of archive material in the Griffith Institute.

Some additional material of Professor Jaroslav Cerný, especially correspondence, has been presented by his step-daughter, Lady Mackintosh. It completes the very extensive and much used Cerný papers already in our Archive.

Additions have also been made to another very important group of records which we already have. These are the papers of Sir Alan Gardiner and the new material, mainly correspondence, completes the section on linguistics. Sir Alan's original contribution to general linguistics has recently become the focus of renewed scholarly interest. The additional material has been presented by his daughter, Mrs Margaret Gardiner.

Original prints have enlarged our impressive collection of 19th-century "studio photographs" of Egypt. An interesting album has recently been donated by Mr T. G. H. James. Although it probably dates to the 1920s, it contains prints of 19th-century photographs which had previously not been represented in our Archive.

More recent, but nevertheless not without interest, are photographs taken by Dr G. Weiler and Mr Sieburg during trips to Egypt in the 1950s. These were given to us by the Department of History of Art and the Taylor Institution Library.

Photographs taken during a trip to the Eastern Desert in the late 1920s or early 1930s have been given to us by the daughter of Sir Laurence Kirwan, Mrs A. J. Preston, and some transparencies of Nubian sites taken in the early 1960s came from Mr D. M. Hawke.

Some additional papers of Duncan Mackenzie who worked in Sudan with the Wellcome Expedition have been presented by his nephew, Mr A. B. Mackenzie.

A copy of an unpublished manuscript of Creative Work in Palestine, by W. A. Stewart, the restorer of the furniture of Queen Hetepheres, has been given to us by Mrs P. Stewart.

(July 5, 1997)