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Jaroslav Černý Collection
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Williams, Evelyn M. - correspondence

2 letters from E. M. Williams, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to E. M. Williams.
Ostraca and other objects from collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in particular objects from the Theodore M. Davis excavations in the Valley of the Kings.

Wilson, John A. - correspondence

1 letter from Wilson, 4 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Wilson.
Professional and personal matters:

  • Černý's visit to Chicago in 1955
  • inscriptions in the temple of Amada, TopBib vii.73

Wit, Constant de - correspondence

1 letter from de Wit, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to de Wit.
Studies and work of de Wit; decision to abandon plans to study in the UK after accepting a position in Musées Royaux in Brussels.

Yoyotte, Jean - correspondence

18 letters from Yoyotte.
Professional and personal matters:

  • exchange of offprints and publications
  • QV 53 publication by Yoyotte, see Yoyotte, J., 'The Tomb of a Prince Ramesses in the Valley of the Queens (No. 53)', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 44 (1958), 26-30 (OEB 6811)
  • Yoyotte's visits to the UK
  • situation of IFAO after the Suez crisis
  • personal matters

Jaroslav Černý Collection

  • Černý MSS
  • Collection
  • 1918-1988

Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.

  • Series 1 to 4, 6, 7 contain photographs, copies, transcriptions and translations of Egyptian texts, and photographs of objects and sites.
  • Series 5 contains articles and lectures, some unpublished.
  • Series 5 and 10 contain notes on Egyptian history.
  • Series 8, 14, 22, 24, 26 contain notes and indexes on lexicography and grammar and card indexes for a late Egyptian and general hieroglyphic dictionary.
  • Series 17 contains notebooks with transcriptions of texts from ostraca, graffiti, papyri and other monuments. There is a card index of ostraca with references to notebooks in series 28.
  • Series 18 and 23 contain Coptic notes and a card index for Coptic grammar.
  • Series 25 contains data on Egyptian personal names.
  • Series 33 is an etymological card index.

Černý, Jaroslav

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

History of Dynasty XXI

Notes, mainly on Dynasty XXI. Includes photographs of a Late Period block from Saqqara, with four rows of ancestors, 'Genealogy of a Memphite Priest', in Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, 23673 (see TopBib iii2.751).

Translations of ostraca and papyri

Workmen in the Place of Truth.
Translations of parts of:

  • O. DM 45, 14 ff.
  • O. Berlin 12630
  • O. Berlin 12654
  • O. Cairo 25515
  • O. BM [50722]
  • O. Leipzig 2
  • O. Turin 9753
  • unnumbered ostracon from Chicago
  • unnumbered ostracon from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • "Lettre du scribe Djary"
  • Takhentshepsi and Heria
  • papyri 49 and unnumbered
  • O. Gardiner 90, Testament of Ken

Les équipes de Deir el Médineh

Two notebooks of L.-A. Christophe , Les équipes de Deir el Médineh:

  • Notebook I: Ramesses III - An XXIV - An XXXI.
  • Notebook II: Ramesses IV - An I - III.

Christophe, Louis-Antoine

Drafts for The Valley of the Kings

  • Early incomplete drafts for different chapters of The Valley of the Kings (Černý MSS 43.1).
  • Draft of chapter on 'Draughtsmen and their Work' for The Valley of the Kings not published (Černý MSS 43.2).
  • Draft and notes for a chapter on 'Tools' for The Valley of the Kings, not published (Černý MSS 43.3).
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