Alfred Lucas typewritten letter dated 01/11/1920 regarding the analysis of the contents of selected vessels.
Part of Carter's records for the cache of Merenptah and Ramesses II vessels found near the entrance of KV 8, Merneptah, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Alfred Lucas notebook on ‘Examination of Materials: (a) Tutankhamen. (b) Various.’

• Notebook with 99 rule-lined pages with enclosures
• Manuscript
• Lucas's index of categories:
  • Gold
  • Leather
  • Varnish
  • Gesso
  • Faience
  • Resin
  • Dyes
  • Precious and semi-precious stones
  • Contents of jars
  • Textile fabrics
  • Stopping
  • Oils and fats
  • Copper or bronze
  • Silver
  • Beeswax
  • Stone
  • Gypsum and gypsum plaster
  • Lead
  • Pigments and media
  • Natron (salt)
  • Fungus
  • Glass
  • Materials employed
  • Miscellaneous
  • Eyes
  • Glue
  • Pottery
  • Fossil bone
  • Plaster and mortar
  • Cement
  • Kohl
  • Sulphur: Riebeckite
  • Black cores from bronze objects
  • Wood patch
  • Wine lees
  • Blackened rocks and efflorescence
  • Wood
  • Solder
  • Papyrus
  • Pink colour
  • Temperature
  • Black organic material
  • Bow, compound

Alfred Lucas's notes on the conservation of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, compiled between 1922 and 1931.

• Alfred Lucas's manuscript conservation notes
• Arranged by Lucas in six sections
• See below under "Notes" for transcription of Lucas's typewritten label affixed to the notebook cover
• Contents include:
  • ‘Methods and Treatment used. [Antechamber objects]’;
  • ‘Scarlet colour on gold’;
  • ‘Objects and Treatment in Burial Chamber and Antechamber’;
  • Luxor Season 1925-6.
  • Account and treatment of Coffins and Mummy;
  • Seasons 1926-7, 1927-8;
  • Account and treatment of Coffins (contd.) and objects in Treasury, beginning of Annexe;
  • Season 1928-9;
  • Account and treatment of objects in Annexe.

Materials. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• An offprint of an article: Lucas, A. 1933. 'Ancient Egyptian materials and industries about 1350 B.C.' in The Analyst 58 (692), pp. 654-664 (OEB 164072).

Alfred Lucas notebook on ‘Archaeology, Register of samples, and analyses. Tutankhamen and others’

• Lucas's manuscript with analysis of samples from:
  • (a) Tutankhamun's tomb
  • (b) Various