Tutankhamun excavation journal 1922-1925, and miscellaneous notes

• 148 numbered pages
• Manuscript entries, with some drawings and pages with affixed newspaper cuttings

Howard Carter's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-1925, covering the first-third seasons

• Most entries are by Carter
• Entries between December 5th and 27th, 1922 (pages 43 to 47) are by Arthur Mace

Also, Carter's miscellaneous notes on Tutankhamun and other subjects:

• Notes on Synopsis
• The Legend of Osiris
• Nomenclature of certain Districts of the Theban Necropolis
• Records of Royal Tomb Robberies
• The First Theban Kingdom
• Protocol of Tut-Ankh-Amen

Newspaper cuttings

• The Times
  • 31 May 1923
  • 23 July 1923
  • 24 July 1923
  • 5 January 1924
  • 7 January 1924
  • 12 February 1924
  • 14 February 1924

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• An Egyptian team member carrying a tray containing the four 'candlesticks' (Carter 41a-d), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory. Each 'candlestick' is in the form of an anthropomorphic ankh with arms raised to either hold a bronze torch-cup or a small pottery cup.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Egyptian team members transporting one of Tutankhamun's elaborate vessels (Carter 57) from the King's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of King Sethos II (KV15). The large vessel, carved from a single piece of Egyptian alabaster, originally contained unguent, its contents stolen by the tomb robbers who entered the tomb in antiquity. The vessel's body is flanked by openwork side pieces incorporating bound papyrus and lotus flowers, symbolising Upper and Lower Egypt and its unification, as well as representing the King's sovereignty. The vessel's body is decorated with Tutankhamun's cartouches; the incised decoration has been filled with black pigment.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• View of the modern enclosure wall of Tutankhamun's tomb, erected by Howard Carter following the discovery of the King's tomb in November 1922, with the tomb's entrance visible in the foreground (left of centre).

• Comic postcard.
• "Tu tanks have just arrived!".
• Issued by Inter-Art Co., London.
• "Comique" Series no. 4491.
• Mailed on Thursday, 27 May 1926.
• Postcard sent by R. Wilman to Miss D. Dixon, 7 Victoria Buildings, Morecambe.

Views of the pyramid field at Dahshur (TopBib iii2.876):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 11.2 x 8.5 cm
• [on sketch] '1 Mustaba Faraoon' (pencil note)
  -[on sketch] '1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5' (pencil note)

View of the Mastabet Faraun at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.434):

• pencil drawing on paper
• loose
• 11.2 x 8.6 cm

Plans with measurements and inscriptions of tiled rooms I and II of step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.400):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 17.1 x 11.3 cm
• [on sketch] 'height of room A 7„4 / doors 5 feet' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '4 repetitions' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'hieroglyphs over door 22' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'passages blocked up all dismantled masonry stones / masonry destroyed / cavern' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] '3.8 wide / masonry / masonry' (pencil note)

Section with measurements of the Step pyramid in the enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2. 400):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 11.1 x 8.5 cm

View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 19 x 10 cm
• [on sketch] 'Medum.' (pencil note, not by Bonomi)

Scene with Ramesses II, fanbearers, soldiers, and captives on the Inner face of the First Pylon of the Ramesseum, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.433(4)):

• pencil drawing on airmail paper
• loose
• 27.6 x 43 cm

View of North face of Tenth Pylon of Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.186):

• pencil sketch on paper
• mounted
• 29.8 x 14.9 cm
• [on mount] 'Karnak' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] encircled '3' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] '6' (black ink note, previously '4', almost certainly by Bonomi)

View from top of mountain at Deir el-Bahari, on the West Bank of Thebes, looking East:

• pencil drawing on paper
• loose
• 36.9 x 23.3 cm
• [on drawing] 'A Propylon of Karnak / B Ptolemaic gateway / C Luxor / D E F The 3 remarkable mountains behind Luxor /G Dra Abu Neger/ H the road that leads up to the small temples under the mountains of the valley of Tombs Biban el Moluk/ J K The crude bricks for pylon/ L Crude brick buildings /M the large crude brick propylon/ N Village' (pencil note, by Bonomi) [key to places shown in drawing]
• [on drawing] encircled '5' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

View of stone-built archway with stela(?) beyond at Deir el-Bahari on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.340) (?):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 36.9 x 23.3 cm

View of the Luxor Temple on the East Bank in Thebes (TopBib ii2.301):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 32.3 x 12.8 cm
• [on sketch] 'Luxor' (pencil note, almost certainly by Bonomi)
• [on sketch] 'Luxor' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on sketch] encircled '8' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

View (and study) of the Hypostyle hall in the Temple of Khons at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.232):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 12.8 x 32.3 cm

Copy of a column of text from an unidentified Egyptian inscription, and individual hieroglyphs:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 10.3 x 12.6 cm

Sketches of broad and narrow faces of the the obelisk of Sesostris I at Abgig or Begig in El-Faiuym, with measurements (TopBib iv.99):

• pencil sketches on paper
• loose
• 25.6 x 40.6 cm
  -[on sketches] '1/3 of an inch to a foot' (pencil note)

Egyptian coffin, not identified, unfinished painted tracing:

• pencil tracing with blue, green, yellow, brown, orange and pink watercolour on tracing paper
• loose
• 9.9 x 28.6 cm

False-door of deceased in the chapel of the tomb G 5210 of Khemtnu, in the South part of the Cemetery en Echelon, on the West Field of the Necropolis in the Pyramid-field at Giza (TopBib iii2.155(4)), with measurements:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 23.8 x 19.1 cm
• [on sketch] '1.3 / 2.9 / 1.3 / 1.8 / 22 1/2' (pencil notes)

Wall with measurements, perhaps of Tomb G 5210 at Giza (Bonomi MSS 3.24 (recto)):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 23.8 x 19.1 cm

Lower part of a stela showing the king with five dogs [only four here reproduced], year 50, from the Tomb of Antef (Wahankh) in the Antef Cemetery at Dra Abu el-Naga & el-Tarif on the West Bank of Thebes, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 20512, with number and letter labels (TopBib: i2.595-596):

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 11.5 x 8.9 cm

Egyptian single feather fan:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 5.5 x 13.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'p / w / q / w / p / y / y' (pencil note)

Gold ring "of Khufu", belonging to a priest of Isis, Dyn. XXVI, from tomb near Campbell's Tomb at Giza, now in Brooklyn NY, Brooklyn Museum of Art, 37.734E (sketches, inscription and notes) (TopBib iii2.312.omitted):

• pencil sketches and text on paper
• loose
• 5.5 x 14.8 cm
• [text]:

'The Sun has a hole in it The
[F35] has various lines in the expanded
part 2 lines crossing the Top
of the handle
The Vase for the heart is also
decorated with the usual ornament
The ring of the name […] is made
like a rope The handles of the
hatchets are made […] not exactly
dots and lines in the
[N1] lines in the fox dots
in the [N25]
No horns in the snake a great
omission no lines in the OSH'

Calculations, notes, and sketch of probably Bes in profile as an archer, not identified:

• pencil text and sketch on paper
• loose
• 5.5 x 14.8 cm
• [text]: '(?) 48 26 / Paid (?) 20 -' (pencil notes)

Miniature sketch of a lotus flower:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 5.4 x 10.1 cm

[Upper] Three sketches of feet trampling enemies. [Lower] Sketch of sandal with bound captive on the insole:

• pencil sketches on blue ledger paper
• loose
• 7.6 x 12.6 cm
• [on lower sketch] 'Case 69 / Har-Sent-aff / 6679' (pencil notes)

Auction notice regarding the sale of the collection of Rev. R.T. Lieder:

• printed text on paper
• loose
• 12.6 x 20 cm

View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Bottom]
• 5.3 x 5.5 cm
• [on sketch] 'Monday sunrise 8 of October' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)

Egyptian name in hieroglyphs of Medinet el-Faiyum (Shedet - Crocodilopolis):

• pencil sketch on paper
• partially mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 4.3 [Top and Bottom]
• 5.3 x 6.1 cm
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)