1. List of Mahas Nubian geographical words and place names in and around Serra East. List of family names and two personal names; the second, Daud Kubara at Halfa, said to have been writing a history of Nubia. Mahas Nubian phrases.
2. Words in Old Nubian and in modern Mahas, Kenzi and Dongolese Nubian.

Notice by Ernest Breton in Nouvelle Biographie Générale on the life of François-Chrétien Gau (1790-1853), copied by Miss Porter.
The group includes a postcard from Griffith to Miss Porter.

Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas documentation on wood from the tomb.

• Correspondence and related material on wood, including:
  • 16 letters exchanged between Alfred Lucas and Laurence Chalk discussing wood specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun;
• 3 offprints, Lucas articles:
  • Lucas, A. 1932. The Occurrence of Natron in Ancient Egypt. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 18 (1/2), 62-66 (OEB 144143);
  • Lucas, A. 1936. The Wood of the Third Dynasty Ply-wood Coffin from Saqqara. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 36, 1-4 (OEB 144160);
  • Lucas, A. 1924. Note on the Temperature and Humidity of Several Tombs in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 24, 12-14 (OEB 144136).

Howard Carter's additional notes to his notebook with an inventory of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb with recording and conservation schedule, 1922-1930

• Howard Carter's manuscript notes on objects or subjects
• Supplements Carter's notebook, see TAA i.2.13
• Includes notes on:
  • 2 pages with notes on the magical figures from niches in the wall of sarcophagus chamber, Carter 257-260
  • 2 pages with notes relating to the sarcophagus, Carter 240, with copies of texts extracted from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906. Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822)
  • 2 pages with notes on gilded wood emblems, Carter object 196, and the clay brick stands for these emblems, Carter 198a
  • 1 page with notes on ritual emblems in the burial chamber and the disturbance of these objects by tomb robbers
  • 1 page with notes on beads and part of necklace dropped by tomb robbers, Carter 172
  • 1 page with general notes on Anubis animal, i.e. jackal
  • 1 page with a list and photograph? number: gloves, general view of the tomb, carved ivory box, and head of the king
  • 1 page with a list of Tutankhamun object numbers

Howard Carter's notes on objects found in the Annexe, manuscript for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5, and notes on deterioration and chemical change

• Unbound group of 91 rule-lined, loose pages
• Some pages crossed through (cancelled) by Carter
• Includes some correspondence, list separately below
• Notes, some with drawings on various topics including:
  • Egyptian slings;
  • Boxes and caskets found in the Annexe;
  • ‘Note upon Older or Ancestral objects in Royal Tombs’;
  • Alabaster and stone vessels;
  • Baskets;
  • 'Breakage of objects (in the Annexe)’;
  • Chairs;
  • Footstools;
  • Archery;
  • Weapons, arms and armour;
  • Game boxes;
  • Bread;
  • Wine jars;
  • ‘Robes of Dalmatic type’;
  • Fire apparatus;
  • Fan;
  • Minerals.
• Carter's manuscript for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5:
  • Sections beginning or titled:
  • 'This Annexe was intended for a Store-Room' [etc.];
  • 'Notes. Re Arts, Crafts and design.';
  • 'The existence of damp in the tomb' [etc.];
  • 'The possible sources of water from above, behind and sides of the foot-hill.'
• ‘Deterioration and chemical change’.
• Correspondence within this group:
  • J. S. M. Rennie, of J. S. M. Rennie, Limited, to The Editor of the Illustrated London News, dated 17-08-1929, concerning Egyptian slings (TAA i.2.10.1);
  • Berkeley Moynihan, to Howard Carter, dated 13-01-1929, mentioning a visit to the tomb and questions about the two foetuses found in the tomb, and the calcite boat.

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.

Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas conservation notes, 1926-1927.

• Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes.
• ‘Materials Employed’ during the fifth season 1926-1927.
• Two pages.

13.23-39: Draft notes for a 1922 dissertation.
13.40: List of words, not related to previous.

Howard Carter's miscellaneous records, including his collected notes on ancient weights and measures.

Notes on walking excursions taken in the Lake District (England) and Snowdonia (Wales); 03/06/1905 – Easter 1906.

Notes on various items partly published in chapter 10 titled The Language of the Texts in Crum & Winlock, The Monastery of Epiphanius (New York, 1926).

Research material with note made during previous archival processing which reads 'vol. IV 187 1892-3 Notes for E.E.F. [Egypt Exploration Fund] by Newberry et al later used by Davies when writing Rock Tombs of Sheikh Said'.

Notes on rock tombs at Sheikh Said including copy of inscriptions from tombs 1 and 2, and tombs numbered by Norman de Garis Davies 15,18, 19 and 20 (TopBib iv.189-190). Also includes list of the tombs at Sheikh Said numbers 1-25.

Includes reference to NB [Notebook] 5/17.

This material was previously housed in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Sites (except Theban tbs [tombs])'.

Related Publications:

Davies, Norman de Garis, 'The rock tombs of Sheikh Saïd', (London, 1901) (OEB 137917)