16 letters from Anthes and 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Anthes. Majority of the content is personal; Anthes communicated his wartime circumstances and subsequent career development, as well as the German Egyptology situation after the war (WWII). Černý provided professional information, as well as material assistance in the form of food rations sent to Anthes in the 1940s. Anthes and Černý exchanged information on ostraca discoveries, Černý updating Anthes on new finds at Deir el-Medîna during the 1940s and 1950s. Anthes recipricated by supplying information regarding finds during excavations at Mît Rahîna.
End of the 19th Century to 1st half of the 20th Century
1) Black and white photographs of objects in various Italian museums, including Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, Florence, Museo Archeologico (complete set), and Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale [2 boxes] 2) Two black and white photographs of views of Rome (photographs No. 5964 and No. 6688) [1 package]
Lion with tongue out from the third scene of the lower register, in the Great Hall of the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel (TopBib vii.103.(39)-(40)):
pencil sketch on paper
loose
41.9 x 26.8 cm
[on sketch] '.ABOO SIMBEL.' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'lyon de Sesostrifs' (pencil note)
[on sketch] encircled '9' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
[on verso] encircled '4' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
[on verso] 'Abu Symbel etc' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)