Portfolio titled 'Antiques Various JB.' (ink)
Pencil note: '2'
Ink table of contents (not complete) on piece of paper partially glued to cover:

• '1 Halicarnassus frieze part of / CL'
• '2 Tracing from Halicarnassus frieze part of / CL'
• '3 Tracing from Halicarnassus frieze / CL'
• '4 Halicarnassus frieze part of / CL'
• '7 Camera lucida drawing of an antique figure at Malta'
• '8 Camera lucida sketch Elgin frieze / two figures'
• '9 Camera lucida sketch Elgin frieze'
• '10 Camera lucida Townley cariatedes canefora'
• '11 Camera lucida. Profile of the the Townley basket bearer'

Pencil / inked pencil notes partially covered by piece of paper glued to cover: 'Antique Dress / Not Complete / Vol.'.

Head of reclining woman asleep:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose, together with Bonomi MSS 38.6
• 16.5 x 17.8 cm

Back view of torso of marble sculpture, probably from the Parthenon (438-432 BC) :

• pencil drawing on card
  -l oose, together with Bonomi MSS 38.7-8 and 38.10
• 7.3 x 9.2 cm

Marble relief of standing female figure from Block V from the East frieze of the Parthenon (London, British Museum, reg. 1816,0610.19 - BM Sculpture 324 fig. no. 32, 438-432 BC):

• camera lucida pencil tracing/drawing on paper
• mounted
• 18.2 x 26.5 cm
• [on mount] '9' (ink note)

Sketches of details of centaurs from the pediment of the temple of Jupiter at Elis, Arabic text and incomplete English text:

• ink sketches on paper
• loose
• 21.6 x 7.3 cm

Half of lid of sarcophagus and front of sarcophagus:

• pencil drawings on paper
• loose
• 12.9 x 19.6 cm
• [on drawing] 'No 726. C, half of the lid.' (pencil note)
• [on drawing] 'h' / 'x' / 'N' (pencil labels)
• [on drawing] 'No 708 A; - the front' (pencil note, with remains of erased previous note)
• [on drawing] 'D M DOCTANI ACMARI' (pencil note)

Relief depicting men pulling ropes, c. 700-692 BC; tracing mounted on sketch in grid from gypsum slab from Court VI in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124822 = 1851,0902.4:
from Court VI of the Southwest Palace in Nineveh in Iraq:

• Pencil tracing on tracing paper, mounted on pencil sketch in grid on paper
• loose
• 13.8 x 15.8 cm (18.2 x 22.6 cm with mount)
• [on tracing] 'JB/ JBonomi' (pencil note)

Handwritten text:

• pencil text on paper
• loose
• 18.2 x 22.6 cm
• [text]:

'If any man wants [?] {[?]} [?] of the truth of {the} [?]

here it is if he cannot find in history if he cannot

find it in his own heart or if refuses to seek for it then

became he wants an [?] not to look for it then

here is abundance say there books are only words which

[?] him another thing him [?] [?] being

subject to errors of various kinds the [?] of

[?] the [?] of [?] the [?]

of ad(d)itions for [?] of years and offer all

on oldest copy are not another is any

years old which years [?] [?] [?]

except it [?], and year [?] [?] first

year seeing the middle [?]

but is like a middle [?]

The [?] [?] on certainly managed to carry

The expression of age and fatigue of [?] and [?]

are the conclusion[?] the strenuous efforts'

Relief depicting a male servant carrying dried locusts, c. 704-681 BC; sketch from gypsum slab from Room LI (North) in the South-West Palace of Sennacherib at Nineveh in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124798 = 1851,0902.11:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 7.7 x 17.5 cm
• [on sketch] '[?] / 23 Harley[?] (underlined) Holles / 29 B[?]'

Relief depicting an eunuch attendant (head and shoulders) with fly-flapper facing left, c. 865-860 BC; sketch/tracing from gypsum slab fragment from Room G in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, currently in an unknown location:

• pencil sketch/tracing on paper
• mounted
• 12.2 x 9.1 cm

Text (22 lines) in cuneiform script with annotations, now in the British Museum (not identified):

• print with pencil and brown pencil annotations on paper
• loose
• 10.7 x 18.9 cm

Names of kings, gods and places in cuneiform with their English equivalents:

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 25 x 20.2 cm
• [text]:

'at (underlined) AT country / Assyrian Ninevite /

Lane / n.133. / 126. / Niebuhr A. / Niebuhr G. /

1 / Darius in Persepolitan /

2. / Heroes in Persepolitan from / the Alabaster Vase in the three / writings and with hieroglyphs / at Paris /

King Persian khsayathiya (underlined) /

King Achemenian /

King Ninevite ~malca?~ (underlined) MALCA /

King Median ~ku~ (underlined) KU (underlined) / (Westergard) /

Khsayathiya. King. Persian'

View of the west wall of Medinet Nimrood (Nimrud) in Iraq:

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 24.2 x 9.8 cm
• [on sketch] 'MEDINET NIMROOD' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'The west wall of Timei[?]' (pencil note)

Iraq. Nineveh. South-West Palace of Sennacherib. Room XXXIII. Panels 4-6. Relief depicting an Assyrian eunuch general with three Elamite captives, c. 660-650 BC; unfinished sketch in grid from gypsum slab now in London, British Museum, BM 124802.a = 1851,0902.7.a:

• pencil sketch in grid on paper, with pricked marks for pouncing technique
• loose
• 21.6 x 17.8 cm

Relief depicting archers shooting from tower, Neo-Assyrian; three sketches from gypsum slab (not identified). Similar to relief depicting Ashurnasirpal II besieging a strongly-walled town which is being defended by archers, c. 865-860 BC; gypsum slab (panel 18 <top>) from Room B in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124536 = 1847,0623.6:

• pencil sketches on tracing paper
• loose
• 5.8 x 13.3 cm

Relief depicting two men holding sacks, c. 710-705 BC; incomplete sketch/tracing from gypsum slab from the North-West Wall of Court VIII in the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad in Iraq, current location not known:

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 7.2 x 11.5 cm

Relief depicting two Assyrian archers shooting three enemies in the water, c. 875-860 BC; sketch from gypsum slab (panel 17 <top>) from Room B in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum BM 124538 = 1849,1222.10:

• pencil sketch on paper (with strip of different paper fixed with glue to left side)
• loose
• 28 x 18.2 cm

Relief depicting two ships rowing away from palace surrounded by sea creatures, c. 730 BC; tracing after Henry Layard's drawing of gypsum wall panel from the Central Palace of Tiglath-Pileser III at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now partially in London, British Museum, BM 102981 = 1908,1010.1:

• pencil tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 25.1 x 19 cm

Sculpture depicting winged bull with human head (lamassu), c. 710-705 BC; tracing from gypsum sculpture in one of the gates of the Palace of Sargon II at Khorsabad in Iraq:

• pencil tracing on paper
• loose
• 15.7 x 14.8 cm

Relief depicting Ashurnasirpal II or his son and heir, Shalmaneser III, in his chariot on a lion hunt, c. 875-860 BC; drawing/tracing from gypsum slab from possibly Room WM on the West Wing in the North-West Palace at Nimrud (Kahlu) in Iraq, now in London, British Museum, BM 124579 = 1849,1222.8 (reversed):

• pencil drawing/tracing on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 32.35
• 25.5 x 21.3 cm

Two albums containing plans and drawings of Egyptian monuments.

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.

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.

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.

Diary kept from 4 May 1922 to 20 October 1926 by the wife of the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940). The diary contains detailed daily entries recording social engagements and memorable events, including the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter’s team, of which her husband was a member. The diary details her life and travels with her husband at home in Florence, their stays in Egypt (especially Luxor, but also Cairo), the trip they made across the US and to Hollywood in 1924, and various holidays in Europe (London, Salzburg, St. Moritz, etc.), as well as trips to friends in Italy. Lined account book, 400 pages, 8vo (179 x 110 x 28 mm).

Front end paper with pasted note:

• 'This volume was re-bound through the generosity of AEMES (Ancient Egypt & Middle East Society, Lincolnshire), Manchester Ancient Egypt Society and the Society for the Study of Ancient Egypt (Derbyshire) in August 2002' (printed).

Nine sketches:

• top left: pencil sketch of donkey
• top middle: pencil sketch of mountains above Denderah
  • [on mount] 'Mountains above Denderah.' (ink note)
• top right: pencil sketch of man wading
• middle left: pencil sketch of two figures
• middle middle: pencil sketch of three men at Beni Suef
  • [on sketch] 'Benisouf' (pencil note)
• middle right: pencil sketch of seated figure
• bottom left: pencil sketch of male figure standing
  • [on mount] 'Georgi Hassan' (ink note)
• bottom middle: pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyyas
  • [on mount] 'Nerghaileh. W. Bank.' (ink note).

Four pencil sketches:

• top centre: two men with staffs; one standing, one sitting
• middle left: man standing
• middle middle: five men sitting and standing
• middle right: man standing
• bottom: three men and two camels.

Pencil and watercolour sketch of dahabiyya near Aswan:

• mounted
• [on mount] 'Native Boat. Assouan.' (ink note).

Two pencil and watercolour sketches:

• upper: building next to river
  • [on mount] 'Ruins of Coptic Convent. (near Philae.)'
• lower: structure with two male figures
  • [on sketch] 'Soudan traders at Manhatta. Jan 21.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'Trader's Camp: Manhatta.' (ink note).