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Tomb wall scene, priest with offerings before man and wife, probably TT 59

Tomb wall scene, upper register, sem priest with offerings before Qen and wife Meryt, with monkey eating dates under chair, followed by two rows of seated men and women, probably TT 59, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.7 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Painting in a tomb in the Hill of the shey'kh 'Abd El-Ckoor'neh' (pencil note)

Temple wall scene, tribute, Beit el-Wali

Part of a temple wall scene from the forecourt of the Beit el-Wali temple at Kalabsha, two registers of Nubians, including women and children, bringing tribute with animals, [to Ramesses II]:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculpture on the left side-wall of the court before the rock-temple of Ckala'b'sheh.' (pencil note)

Tomb wall scene, hoeing and ploughing, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures hoeing and ploughing:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 9.9 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Ploughing & Sowing.' (pencil note)
  • Detail from agricultural scenes, two groups of men hoeing and men with oxen ploughing (first group), west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, harvesting, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures harvesting:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.6 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Reaping.' (pencil note)
  • Detail from agricultural scenes, cutting corn with man at front drinking water from a bottle, west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, treading and winnowing grain, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures treading and winnowing grain:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.7 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Treading out the corn, & Winnowing.' (pencil note)
  • Detail from agricultural scenes, oxen threshing corn and men winnowing, west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, picking and treading grapes, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures picking and treading grapes:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.6 x 10.1 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Vintage.' (pencil note)
  • Detail from scene, vintage scenes, picking and treading grapes, from the upper part of the west wall of the hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Temple wall scenes, Karnak

Temple wall scenes from the hypostyle hall in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak
Left scene, Seti I spears Libyan chief on the battlefield, north exterior wall
Right scene, Ramesses II binding Syrian captives, south exterior wall

  • Two pencil drawings
  • Drawings are mounted side-by-side
  • 17.7 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Kar'nak' (pencil note)

Tomb wall scene, female musicians, tomb of Amenhotep-si-si, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna

Tomb wall scene, female musicians, from the hallway of tomb Amenhotep-si-se (TT75), Sheikh Abu el-Qurna. The musicians play a harp, lute, double-pipe, a girl dancing, lyre and a tambourine:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.7 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Female musicians & dancers — from the paintings at a tomb in the Hill of the shey'kh Abd El-Ckoor'n[eh]'.' (pencil note, 'eh' of 'Ckoor'neh' is cut off, presumably when the mounted drawings were bound)

Tomb wall scene, gazelle suckling fawn, Giza

Tomb wall scene, a gazelle suckling a fawn:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.6 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] illegible pencil note
  • Detail from a wall scene, gazelle suckling calf, probably from scenes of bringing fowl and young animals in boxes (including hare, hedgehog, gazelles, and gazelle and young, from room I in the tomb of Nebemakhet [LG 86], son of Khephren, in the Central Field at Giza.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Collection

  • Edwards A.A.B. MSS
  • Collection
  • 1856-1892
  • Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
  • Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
  • Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
  • Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
  • Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
  • First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.

Edwards, Amelia Ann Blanford

Raymond Oliver Faulkner Collection

  • Faulkner MSS
  • Collection
  • c. 1955-1965

A small group of Faulkner's documentation.

  • Translation of the stela of King Kamose [Kamosi] (Faulkner MSS 1).
  • Sections of Faulkner, Raymond O. 1962. A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Faulkner MSS 2).
  • Original housing for the group (Faulkner MSS 3).

Faulkner, Raymond Oliver

Raymond Oliver Faulkner Collection

  • Faulkner's translation (not published) of the stela of King Kamose [Kamosi], with an account of a victory over the Hyksos, found in the foundations of the Second Pylon, Karnak, and two additional blocks (found separately), found in the vicinity of the Third Pylon, now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo [TopBib ii2.37, 73]. 6 manuscript pages with later annotations (changes and corrections).

Guy Brunton Collection

  • G. Brunton MSS
  • Collection
  • 1937-1948, card index 1958

Drawings (by Winifred M. Brunton), letters, and working notes for a publication on button seals.
Negatives taken during the Matmar excavations in 1928-30.
Card index created 1958.

Brunton, Guy

Alan Henderson Gardiner Collection

  • Gardiner MSS
  • Collection
  • c. 1900-1963

Notebooks, notes, card indexes of the Pyramid Texts and Late Egyptian, copies of inscriptions, corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, drawings, correspondence, copies of his own publications, and portraits.

Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson

Third copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962)

Third copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

With an unsigned dedication on the front matter by Mr Rolf Gardiner:

"For the Library of the Griffiths[sic] Institute
on the occasion of a Memorial Dinner
held, by invitation of the Provost, at the
Queen's College, Oxford, in commemoration of
Sir Alan Gardiner
on Saturday 23 May 1964

Followed by the signatures of the attendees.

With an enclosure at the back containing the souvenir booklet printed by Oxford University Press on the occasion of the Memorial Dinner (sections: "Menu", "Sir Alan Gardiner, Kt.", a portrait photograph, and "Sir Alan Gardiner's Publications"), and a loose calling card of Rolf Gardiner.

William Gell Collection

  • Gell MSS
  • Collection
  • c. 1815-1820s

Three notebooks containing Gell's copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions from objects and publications, also drawings (some coloured) of objects seen by Gell in museums and private collections.

Gell, (Sir) William

Oliver Robert Gurney Collection

  • Gurney MSS
  • Collection
  • 1940s-1990s

Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.

Gurney, Oliver Robert

Hector Horeau Collection

  • Horeau MSS
  • Collection
  • 1838

Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.

Horeau, Hector

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Alexandria

View of Alexandria, including Pompey's Pillar:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom left edge] 'chameau mort devoré par les chiens'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom right edge] 'hr. 28m 748 tout ensemble compris fond.on colonne dite de Pompée'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, top edge] 'Alexandrie'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Colonne de Pompée'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'nº 2'. (ink note)
  • 34.4 by 25 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Alexandria

Catacomb (also known as the Grand catacomb) within the Wardian area at Alexandria, two individuals visible in the background using candlelight:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, edges of watercolour] 'la Nécropole bains de Cléopâtre'. (pencil note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'Alexandrie, Bain de Cléopâtre'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'nº 2'. (ink note)
  • 34.4 by 25 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Luxor

View from the river Nile of Luxor temple and nearby modern buildings:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'LUXOR'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'nº 20'. (ink note)
  • 34.5 by 19.5 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Luxor

Relief scene from the Birth Room at Luxor temple, with images of the god Thoth and a queen (birth scenes scenes in II, 1-3 at (152)):

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, lower left side] 'Thoth savoir, Chnouphis puissance force, Venus athor'. (ink note)
  • [on recto, bottom edge] 'La Reine TMAU-HEM-VA femme du Pharaon THOUTMES IV mettant au monde AMENOPH III (Memnon)'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, bottom edge] 'LUXOR Auprès du Sanctuaire de Luxor'. (ink note)
  • 30.9 by 11.5 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Luxor

View from the river Nile of Luxor by Nestor L'Hôte:

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • [on recto, bottom right edge] 'Luxor dessin de nestor l'hote'. (ink note)
  • [on mount, verso] 'LUXOR'. (ink note)
  • 21.9 by 10.9 cm
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