Griffith Institute
The Griffith Institute is an Ashmolean Museum-based institution affiliated with Oxford University in the field of Egyptology . The institute is named after the Egyptologist Francis Llewellyn Griffith , who poured donations into the facility. The Griffith Institute opened on January 21, 1939 and even then had its own administration.
The institute includes an important and unique archive for Egyptology. Copies of inscriptions, drawings and watermarks, old negatives, photographs and printed works are kept. The facility also has texts by Alan H. Gardiner and Jaroslav Černý and photographs by Howard Carter during his excavations in 1922. The records of Sir Henry Wellcome's Nubia expedition are also stored in these archives.
The Griffith Institute regularly publishes the Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings and is also responsible for important publications such as Gardiner's Egyptian Grammar and Faulkner's A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian .
The facility also administers the AH Gardiner Travel Scholarship in Egyptology , which aims to improve friendship between British Egyptologists and the State of Egypt.