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Ostraca

867 groups of documentation, mainly for ostraca with hieratic inscriptions, as well as a small number of ostraca with demotic or Coptic inscriptions, or ostraca with figures.
Writing boards with hieratic inscriptions are also included.
Most of the documents are photographs. The rest of the material includes transcriptions, translations, facsimiles, correspondence, annotated off-prints and various notes.

-Museums, Černý MSS 1.1-522 (523-4, numbers not allocated)
-Collections, Černý MSS 1.525-594
-Not identified, Černý MSS 1.595-625
-Miscellaneous, Černý MSS 1.626-830

Papyri

245 groups of documentation for papyri with hieratic inscriptions, and a small number of papyri with demotic inscriptions.
Most of the documents are photographs. The rest of the material consists of transcriptions, translations, colour transparencies, facsimiles, photostats, annotated off-prints, various notes, and a card index for Deir el-Medina papyri.

-Museums, Černý MSS 3.1-283, 3.300-777
-Private collections, Černý MSS 3.778-780, 782-792
-Location not known, Černý MSS 3.792A
-Miscellaneous groups and unidentified locations, Černý MSS 3.794-812
Subsections within series:
-Oracular amuletic decrees, Černý MSS 3.826-875
-Abusir papyri, Černý MSS 876-888
-Love poetry, P. Chester Beatty, Černý MSS 3.781, 793.1-5
-Other love poetry texts, Černý MSS 3.793.6-793.16

Texts from objects and sites

299 groups of documentation. Texts from objects in museums, private collections and seen with dealers, and texts from sites including parts of inscriptions in tombs and temples and from in situ objects. Documentation includes photostats, hand-copies, facsimiles, tracings, photographs and notes. The notes include translation reference material, as well as accompanying notes on other aspects of the subject material, such as prosopography.

-Texts from objects, Černý MSS 4.1-256
-Texts from sites, Černý MSS 4.257-288

New Kingdom history

Manuscript, 3 drafts, probably intended for a paper(s) or publication chapters.
New Kingdom history:
-Beginnings of the XIXth Dynasty, Ramesses I and Sety I, Ramesses II, Merenptah and the Libyan invasion
-End of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Setnakhte and Ramesses III
-From the death of Ramesses III to the end of the XXth Dynasty

Twenty-First Dynasty

'Studies in the Chronology of the Twenty-first Dynasty' Part II. Draft of an unfinished article with notes on the High Priests of Amun, Herihor, Piankh etc.

Development of Egyptian Coffins

Manuscript of an article, a study on the development of Egyptian coffins with an analysis of their texts, 124 pages.
-Manuscript, an outline on the development of Egyptian coffins, Černý MSS 5.9
-Slip index, created during the preparation of the manuscript, Černý MSS 5.10

The Land of Put in Genesis 10, 6

Draft of an article and material used for its preparation. Includes letters from G. Posener, I. E. S. Edwards and G. R. Driver.
For inclusion in Hebrew Biblical Encyclopedia [not published?].

Hieratic graffito from KV 9, Ramesses VI

1 inked tracing, 7 lines of a hieratic graffito from KV 9, tomb of Ramesses VI, Thebes, visited by scribes in year 9 of Ramesses IX. Scribe Amenhotep and his entourage, visiting the tomb (see TopBib i2.517).
Reference to a previous record made by Champollion, J. F., Notices descriptives ii (1889), 635 (OEB 136960).

Graffito from the tomb of Ptahshepses at Abusir

1 photograph, positive print, annotated on the back.
Photograph of a hieratic graffito of year 50 (probably of Ramesses II) of the scribe Ptahemwia and father Yupa, concerning their visit to Pyramid of Sahure and paying homage to the goddess Sekhmet. Graffito from room II (Second Portico) in the mastaba-tomb of Ptahshepses, Middle of Dyn. V, at Abusir. See TopBib iii2.342(8) and (9).

Correspondence

Professional and personal correspondence, the majority of letters date between 1946-1970 and are addressed to J. Černý in London, Oxford, Prague and other European, American and Egyptian addresses and locations. The letters contain Egyptological information regarding text readings, translations, exchange of information on objects in museums or in situ, sites and texts.

Anthes, Rudolf - correspondence

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.

Index for graffiti from the Valley of the Kings, Thebes, recorded by Howard Carter

Index of over 20 cards with handwritten copies of hieratic graffiti, some transcriptions, annotated.
Index for graffiti from the Valley of the Kings, based on H. Carter records.
Excerpts of graffiti from Carter's records; graffiti mentioning the scribes Kenhirkhopeshef, Harsheri, Hori, Amennakht, Djehutimose, Butehamun, as well as other scribes and workmen connected with the community of workmen and other institutions at West Thebes.

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