Griffith Institute Archive

Statue base with feet of standing statue, inscription with cartouches on front of base, faience, New Kingdom, found during excavation of Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Thebes. Birabi. Asasif. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Site 14. Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs: statue base, photograph

Carter MSS i.J.237
Item
c. 1907-1911

Howard Carter's photograph, statue base with feet of standing statue, inscription with cartouches on front of base, faience, New Kingdom, found during excavation of Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Stela, Akhamenerau before Osiris and four sons of Horus, probably 26th Dynasty, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 44268.

Thebes. Birabi. Asasif. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Site 14. Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs: stela, photograph

Carter MSS i.J.236
Item
c. 1907-1911

Part of Howard Carter Collection

Howard Carter's photograph, stela of Akhamenerau, Servant of Amun, Chamberlain, son of Paheri, before Osiris and four sons of Horus, probably 26th Dynasty, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 44268, Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Copper implements, including a knife or razor, perhaps from a toilet set?

Thebes. Birabi. Asasif. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Site 14. Cemeteries: copper implements, photograph

Carter MSS i.J.235
Item
c. 1907-1911

Part of Howard Carter Collection

Howard Carter's photograph, copper implements, includes a knife or razor, from a toilet set?, labelled "14", Cemeteries, Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes duplicate photograph.

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon excavations: Gardiner's transcription of lion-hunt ostracon

Carter MSS i.F.131-132
Item
09 July 1923

Part of Howard Carter Collection

Letter from Alan H. Gardiner to Howard Carter, 9 July 1923, with Gardiner's transcription and translation for the lion-hunt ostracon, found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon excavations: photograph lion-hunt ostracon, verso

Carter MSS i.F.124
Item
c. 1920-1922

Part of Howard Carter Collection

Howard Carter's photograph of the text on verso of the lion-hunt ostracon found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon excavations: photograph lion-hunt ostracon

Carter MSS i.F.123
Item
c. 1920-1922

Part of Howard Carter Collection

Howard Carter's photograph of the lion-hunt ostracon, found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Thebes: component parts of royal hypogea of the XVIIIth Dynasty

Carter MSS i.A.02
Item
c. 1899-1922

Part of Howard Carter Collection

Howard Carter's manuscript on 'Component parts of royal hypogea of the XVIIIth Dynasty' with sketches of sample tomb plans. For royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Carter MSS i.A.0.001.1 - sample for group

Thebes: evolution of the Theban royal tombs

Carter MSS i.A.01
Item
1923

Part of Howard Carter Collection

Howard Carter's annotated typescript with notes on royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Titled 'The evolution of the Theban Royal Tombs', dated 11/06/1923.

Carter MSS viii.2. Portrait of Howard Carter. Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford.

Howard Carter Collection

Carter MSS
Collection
1899-1939

Notebooks, loose notes, maps, plans, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver desk-set. The documentation was created during Carter's career between 1899-1939. This material excludes material connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun, see the Tutankhamun Archive.

Carter, Howard

Correspondence

Calverley MSS i
Series
1928-1958

Part of Amice Mary Calverley Collection

Correspondence:

MSS i.1 = A. M. Blackman - 1 letter (1928);
MSS i.2 = A. Digby - 1 letter (1938);
MSS i.3 = H. Junker - 5 letters (1928-1936);
MSS i.4 = M. Junker - 1 letter (1928);
MSS i.5 = A. Lucas - 2 letters (1929-1931);
MSS i.6 = P. E. Newberry - 7 letters (1931-1945);
MSS i.7 = G. H. F. Nuttall - 5 letters (1929-1931);
MSS i.8 = J. Pendlebury - 3 letters (1934);
MSS i.9 = H. Plenderleith - 5 letters (1937-1958).

Amice Mary Calverley Collection

Calverley MSS
Collection
c. late 1920s-late 1950s

Over one thousand colour slides (group III), several hundred black and white photographs (group II), and correspondence (group I).

Calverley, Amice Mary

Summaries of the letters

Broome Summaries
Item

Part of Myrtle Florence Broome Collection

Myrtle Florence Broome Collection

Broome MSS
Collection
1927-1937

415 items of correspondence written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.

Fifteen items are groups of two letters (16, 35, 51, 55, 97, 111, 154, 198, 227, 268, 306, 319, 325, 363, 408, and 414, not all of them by Miss Broome), four of which are actually cards/postcards (16A, 306A, and 414A-B); item 156 is a group of three letters [= 429 letters and 4 cards/postcards in total].

A few letters include drawings/maps; seven letters include photographs (111, 123, 273-276, and 279); letter 337 includes a newspaper cutting; many of the letters include the original envelopes in which they were sent; some other letters mention the enclosure of additional items which are now lost.

Broome, Myrtle Florence