Griffith Institute Archive

Description of material

This description is based on the General International Standard Archival Description ISAD(G)

1. Identity statement

Reference code n/a

Title O'Connor MSS.

Dates of creation of the material 1966.

Extent 1 folder.

2. Context

Name of creator O'Connor, David (b. 1938).

Administrative and biographical history
Australian Egyptologist. B.A. Sydney, 1958. Postgraduate Diploma, London, 1962 Ph.D. Cambridge, 1969. William Fox Albright Lecturer, 1993; Guggenheim Fellowship,1982-1983. Currently Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Specialist on Ancient Egyptian art history and archaeology. Published books on Ancient Egyptian kingship and Nubia.
Info.: www.nyu.edu/fas/Faculty/OconnorDavid.html.

Custodial history Presented to the Griffith Institute by Dr D. O'Connor in 1966.

Immediate source of acquisition Dr D. O'Connor.

Related documentation None.

3. Content and structure

Scope and content Notes on some objects in Sydney, Nicholson Museum.

System of arrangement Kept as received.

4. Access and use

Legal status Property of the Griffith Institute.

Access conditions None.

Copyright conditions Copyright Griffith Institute, Oxford. Permission must also be sought from Dr O'Connor.

Language of material English.

Physical characteristics No problems.

Finding aids None.

5. Allied materials area

Location of originals These are originals.

Existence of copies Duplicate notes presumably with Dr O'Connor.

Related units of description Located with notes on Australian Museums made by Dr I. E. S. Edwards in 1964.

Associated material Not known.

Publications Not published.

Notes None.

(July 1, 2003)