Griffith Institute

Griffith Institute

The Griffith Institute is an institution based in the Ashmolean Museum of the University of Oxford for the advancement of Egyptology as a discipline. The Griffith Institute is named after the eminent Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith, who bequeathed funds within his will for the foundation of the Institute. The Institute opened on 21 January, 1939, with its own independent committee of management.

The Institute houses an important and unique Egyptological archive, preserving early copies of inscriptions, drawings and watercolours, old negatives and photographs, squeezes and rubbings. Among some seventy major groups of material the Institute holds the papers of Sir Alan H. Gardiner and Professors B.G. Gunn and Jaroslav Černý, records made by Howard Carter during his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922, as well as the documentation from the Nubian expeditions of Griffith and Sir Henry Wellcome.

The Institute edits and publishes the much respected Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, and is responsible for a number of important publications within the field of Egyptology, the best known being Gardiner's "Egyptian Grammar" and Faulkner's "A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian".

Finally, the Griffith Institute administers the A.H. Gardiner Travel Scholarship in Egyptology, the aim of which is to promote friendship and cooperation between Egyptologists from the United Kingdom and the Arab Republic of Egypt.

External links

* [http://www.ashmolean.museum/Griffith.html The Griffith Institute] - official web site, part of the Ashmolean Museum's web presence


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