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024 7    |a MS 210522 Papers of Anthony John Arkell Box 5 |2 order with reference
024 7    |a PP MS 71/06/18 |2 soas manuscript number
040        |a UkLSOA |c UkLSOA
245 00 |a Meidob type house in Adrur village |h [electronic resource] |y English.
260        |c [n.d.].
490        |a Arkell, Anthony John [personal papers] : Notes and photographs concerning the Medob [PP MS 71/6/18].
500        |a أفريقيا -- السودان -- شمال دارفور -- جبل الميدوب
500        |a Biographical Note:
500        |a Anthony John Arkell was born on 29 July 1898. Educated at Bradfield College and Queen's College, Oxford he was a member of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War and received a military cross in 1918. In 1920 he joined the Sudan Political Service serving from 1921-1924 as Assistant District Commissioner for Darfur Province and then becoming acting Resident at Dar Masalit (1925-1926). He followed this with a period as District Commissioner for Kosti (White Nile Province) from 1926-1929 and then for Sennar (Blue Nile Province) from 1929-1932. In 1928 he married Dorothy Davidson (d.1945) and was also awarded an MBE. He received the Order of the Nile (Fourth Class) in 1931. He was Deputy Governor for Darfur from 1932-1937. Arkell worked for the Sudanese Government as Commissioner for Archaeology and Anthropology from 1938-1948 as well as being the Chief Transport Officer 1940-1944 and Editor of Sudan Notes and Records, 1945-1948. -- From 1948-1953, Arkell was a lecturer in Egyptology at University College, London whilst remaining Archaeological Adviser to the Sudanese Government. In 1950 he married his second wife, Joan Burnell. He was appointed Reader in Egyptian Archaeology in 1953 and held this post as well as that of Curator of the Flinder Petrie Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at University College, London until his retirement in 1963. Following his retirement Arkell entered the Church, becoming Vicar of Cuddington with Dinton from 1963 until 1971. He died on 26 Feb 1980. -- Arkell's publications include Early Khartoum, (1949); The Old Stone Age in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, (1949); Shaheinab, (1953); History of Sudan from Early Times to 1821, 1955 (2nd. ed. 1961); Wanyanga, (1964) and The Prehistory of the Nile Valley, (1975).
500        |a PP MS 71/6/18 is housed in PP MS 71, Arkell, Box 5.
500        |a Jibal Maydub was known as Medob or Meidob to Arkell. The Library of Congress (USA) lists the language spoken by the people of this region as Midob.
500        |a VIAF (name authority) : Cumming, D. C. : record number 169827269
533        |a Electronic reproduction. |b London : |c SOAS University of London, |c ASC, |c This item may only be used inside SOAS. Digitised for archival reference. Users are adived that this item may not be in the public domain. While the physical original may be cited, this digital version may neither be cited nor copied/published until it has clearly and unequivocably passed into the public domain., |d 2019. |f (SOAS Digital Collections) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software.
535 1    |a This item may only be used inside SOAS. Digitised for archival reference. Users are adived that this item may not be in the public domain. While the physical original may be cited, this digital version may neither be cited nor copied/published until it has clearly and unequivocably passed into the public domain.
650    0 |a Dwellings.
650        |a منزل.
720 1    |a Cumming, D. C..
752        |a Sudan |b North Darfur |d Adrur.
830    0 |a SOAS Digital Collections.
830    0 |a Sudan Collection.
852        |a GBR |b SDC |c Sudan Collection
856 40 |u http://digital.soas.ac.uk/ARKE000006/00001 |y Electronic Resource
992 04 |a http://digital.soas.ac.uk/content/AR/KE/00/00/06/00001/00001thm.jpg
997        |a Sudan Collection


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