8 letters from H. S. Smith, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to H. S. Smith. 4 letters exchanged between Černý and Brian Downs (1893-1984), Master of Christ's College, regarding H. S. Smith's application for the Lady Wallis Budge Fellowship in Cambridge. H. S. Smith's professional development and research work; some notes Smith prepared for Černý on Coptic and Coptic etymologies; book exchange. In 1964, Smith discussed with Černý the plan for the A. H. Gardiner library bequest; which was shared between the Griffith Institute, Oxford, University College, London, Cambridge University and Liverpool University.
Correspondence from Sidney Smith (British Museum) relating to: ancient building materials; the Sed festival; 5th or 6th dynasty fragment found at a dealers in Paris; purchases for the British Museum; Steindorff and repression of Jews in Germany (1939); a Note by Newberry on box wood; Newberry's corrections to a publication by Smith (1942).
1 letter from Sollberger, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary) to Sollberger, sent in Černý's absence. Ostraca in Geneva - photographs for Černý.
Griffith MSS 1.17.1, 2, 5, 5 verso, 7, 8: Stelae in Oxford, Queen's College, Nos. 1110 to 1113 [on loan to the Ashmolean Museum]. Smither, Paul C. and Alec N. Dakin, 'Stelae in the Queen's College, Oxford', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 25 (2) (1939), 157-165 (OEB 150464), plates XX [1, 2], XXI [5, 4].
Griffith MSS 1.17.3, 4: Stelae in Brighton Museum - Ram of Amun in papyrus, XVIIIth Dynasty and Minhotep, XIIth Dynasty. Weigall, Arthur E., The funeral tablets in the Brighton Museum, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 22 (1900), 272-273, with plates I and II (OEB 152091).
Griffith MSS 1.17.4: Block statue of Minmosi, temp. Rameses II, in Brighton Museum. Clère, J. J., 'Deux statues 'gardiennes de porte' d'époque ramesside', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 54 (1968), 135-148 (OEB 12800), esp. 135-8, 142-5 with fig. 1 and plate XXI.
Griffith MSS 1.17.4a verso: Ushabti in Brighton Museum.
Griffith MSS 1.17.4b: Notes on objects in Brighton Museum.
Griffith MSS 1.17.2 verso: Wooden mummy case in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum.
Notebooks, notes, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, and correspondence. There is a small amount of material amongst these papers relating to Westminster Abbey (correspondence).
View of a funeral procession at the southern cemetery of Cairo. The cemetery is also known as Qarafa:
black ink, monochrome watercolour
mounted
17.5 x 10 cm [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Southern Cemetery of Musr, called El-Ckara'feh - a, the tomb of the Im'am Es'h Sha'fe'ee' (pencil note)
Enamel decoration on upper surface, design from top: on handle, a modelled profile view of 'guardian statue' [Carter 22] (design includes the linen found draped over arm when discovered), standing on top of a winged scarab; on stem, geometric pattern on handle; on bowl, enamel-painted scene with a king or deity facing left, standing holding a staff, with pseudo-hieroglyphic texts above.