Three studies of foxes at Abu Zaabal. Top scene: fox, presumably dead, lying on the ground; middle scene: dead fox, strung-up by back-legs; bottom scene: a mountainous desert scene with two foxes:
watercolours
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 039, Lloyd MSS 040 and Lloyd MSS 042
12.2 x 17.5 cm
[on recto of watercolour] 'Abu Zaabel.' (pencil note)
[on watercolour/mount] '41' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] '[Abu Zaabel. 14th Jan: 1843.]' (pencil note)
Thutmosis III, accompanied by his ka, purifying ithyphallic Amun-Re with water, scene from the Festival Temple (Akhmenu) in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak (specific scene not identified):
pencil drawing
mounted
35.5 x 26 cm
[on mount] 'Thothmes 3d from the Palace Karnac' (pencil note)
[on mount] '7' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Thothmes 3rd / From a bas relief in the private apartments of the Palace / of Thothmes 3rd. Karnac 5th July 1843.' (pencil note)
Three female musicians seated on the ground, one playing the double-pipe and the other two clapping, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 2nd Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
[on mount] '25' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'These women are under the others which I have copied / playing on the Harp, the double pipe, the lute and / the onestringed mandolin. Their faces have been / I believe also purposely defaced, and whoever traced / those above has used sealing wax to fasten the / paper.' (pencil note)
Two princesses holding fans, detail of a scene from room VIII on the second storey of the Tower of the Pavilion or East fortified gate of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:
pencil drawing
mounted
35 x 24.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Medinet Abu.' (pencil note)
The standing Obelisks of Tuthmosis I and Hatshepsut, viewed from the west, with the ruins of the 4th Pylon between them, in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
unfinished pencil drawing
mounted
35.5 x 25.9 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Obelisks at Karnac. 11 June 1843'. (pencil note)
Upper part of Shoshenq I and his son, the High priest of Amun, Iuput, from a scene showing the king receiving the heb-sed from Amun, on a pilaster in the Portico of the Bubastides, in Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 112
25.7 x 17.8 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Sheshonk. I.' (pencil note)
[on mount] 'Schischak and his Son. Great Hypostile Karnac.' (ink note)
[on mount] '53' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Schischak and his son. / From a bas-relief on the eastern side of the Northern / part of the Gate leading into the lower Western corner / of the Great Hypostyle, at Karnac. / 18th May 1843. / G Lloyd.' (pencil note)
Two female guests with two female attendants pouring water or oil onto the head of one of them, detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Ptahemhet (TT 77), later usurped by Roy, temp. Tuthmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (right <twice> and bottom)
mounted
66.2 x 46 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Lady in a bath. / Tomb at Thebes. No. 15 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
Memorial portrait of George Lloyd. Lloyd is portrayed reclining on a rug, wearing Arab clothing and holding the mouth-piece of a hookah-pipe in his right hand. The scene is set in a desert campsite, perhaps fictional, in Egypt, with a man standing with three camels in the background. The drawing this lithograph was based on was created by É. Prisse d'Avennes sometime between 1843 and 1848:
three colour tinted lithograph
loose item, perhaps not originally with the album but placed with it later
41.5 x 30.5 cm (print area of 36.1 x 27.7 cm)
[on recto of lithograph] 'Drawn on stone by Lemoine. [caption]
[on recto of lithograph] 'Portrait of the late George Lloyd Esqr' [caption]
[on recto of lithograph] 'James Madden_London' [caption]
[on verso of lithograph] '330' and enclosed ',1039' (pencil notes)
Ferdinand (Ferdy) Platt's correspondence relates to two excursions to Egypt, in 1896 and 1907-1908.
First group: eighteen letters and postcards, sent during Platt's first independent visit to Egypt in early 1896, when he initially travelled with a friend. Dating between 26 January and 19 April, the letters are addressed to Platt's mother and brother Erny. They record meeting Flinders Petrie and other notables.
Second group: thirty-one letters sent during Platt's second trip to Egypt in 1907-1908, when he accompanied the eighth Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, their relations Lord and Lady Gosford with their daughter Lady Theo, Sir Charles Cradock-Hartopp. Dating between 4 November 1907 and 8 February 1908, they are addressed to Platt's wife, Mabel (May). They record Platt's encounters with Winston Churchill, Alan Gardiner, James Quibell, George Reisner, Archibald Sayce and Arthur Weigall, among others. The letters also mention a meeting with Howard Carter when the latter was still earning a living as an artist, producing paintings for tourists; the letters provide important insights into Carter's life just before he began his partnership with Lord Carnarvon.
Faulkner's translation (not published) of the stela of King Kamose [Kamosi], with an account of a victory over the Hyksos, found in the foundations of the Second Pylon, Karnak, and two additional blocks (found separately), found in the vicinity of the Third Pylon, now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo [TopBib ii2.37, 73]. 6 manuscript pages with later annotations (changes and corrections).
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2005), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, IV: Elkab: the rock tombs. Berchem (Antwerp): Graffito Graffiti (OEB 177623).
El-Kab: the rock tombs [see TopBib v.176-185].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
It includes: the insertion of numbers, sometimes crossed out and corrected, on the pages with illustrations, together with a loose page at the end of the publication containing a list of the numbers given to the illustrations and two sticky notes attached to the title page and the verso of p. 6 (in the PDF, the illustrations are all moved to the end); inserted loose page between p. 2-3 with a review of this book by A. Bednarski published on www.PalArch.nl, webbased Netherlands scientific journal (2006) (see PDF p. 93); and a loose envelope between p. 12-13 containing an invitation from KU Leuven to a 2017 Egyptology lecture by Willy Clarysse.
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2006), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, V: Thebes: the Temples of Medinet Habu. Mortsel (Antwerp): Graffito Graffiti (OEB 175493).
Theban Temples: Medinet Habu [ii2.460-532].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
It includes: the insertion of numbers on the pages with illustrations together with a loose page between p. 4-5 containing a list of numbers probably given to the illustrations (in the PDF, the majority of the illustrations are moved to the end); a sticky note attached to the verso of p. 32 with the annotation "S. 41 EST Mc VICKAE H / 1838 / PL XXVII / M Me VICKAE / 1838"; a loose entrance ticket to Medinet Habu between p. 37-38; inserted loose pages at the end with "Additional information" on Edward Joy Morris, Henry B. Humphrey, Lieutenant James MacKenzie, Captain J. Clunes, P. C. Trench, W. F. Williams, Duncan Pirie, M. Joseph, Giovanni Fiamingo, William Nathaniel Peach and Miles Ponsonby, numbered as p. 69-75; and the printed version of an unidentified drawing.
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2008), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, VI: Thebes: the mortuary temple of Sethos I (Qurna), the temple of Hathor (Deir el-Medina). Mortsel (Antwerp): Graffito Graffiti (OEB 170639).
Temple of Sethos I (Qurna Temple) [see TopBib ii2.407-421] and Temple of Hathor (Deir el-Medina) [see TopBib ii2.401-407].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2009), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan VII: Karnak, Great Temple of Amun: Festival Temple-pillared hall (Tuthmosis III). Hypostyle-great columns 1-12 in central aisle (Ramesses III and IV), smaller columns 75 and 76 (Ramesses II and IV, Sethos I). Berchem (Antwerp): Graffito Graffiti (OEB 167462).
Karnak, Great Temple of Amun: Festival Temple (Pillared Hall) [see TopBib ii2.110-111], Hypostyle-great columns 1-12 in central aisle (Ramesses III and IV) and smaller columns 75 and 76 (Ramesses II and IV, Sethos I) [TopBib ii.2.50-51].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
It includes: the insertion of numbers, sometimes crossed out and corrected, on the pages with illustrations, together with two loose pages at the end of the publication containing a list of numbers given to the illustrations (in the PDF, the illustrations are all moved to the end); p. 79 with contact information and a list of the published volumes, and p. 80 "In memoriam" for his wife Helena (both omitted from the PDF); inserted loose pages at the end with an Internet article titled "Eureka in a Box" by Curtis Runnels published in Bostonia Winter 03-04 (three pages), email correspondence concerning a "Champoleon" graffito (two pages), an extract from Height, Sarah Rogers 1840. Letters from the Old World by a Lady of New York. New York: Harper & Brothers, p. 212-214 (3 pages), and a page titled "Karnak vol. VII. Addenda for Graffiti on Thutmosis III Festival Hall" (= PDF p. 82).
The PDF includes additional pages not present in the print volume: biographical note and portrait of Sarah Rogers Haight (1808-1881) (p. 83); title page of Height, Sarah Rogers 1840. Letters from the Old World by a Lady of New York. New York: Harper & Brothers (p. 84); and information on graffiti by Richard K. Haight and Sarah Rogers Haight (p. 85-86).
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2010), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan VIII: Elkab: the temple of Amenophis III. Mortsel (Antwerp): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 164354).
El-Kab: Temple of Amenophis III [see TopBib v.188-189].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
It includes: annotations in the form of checkmarks and crosses on p. 23, 24, 44; inserted loose pages between p. 37-38 with the printed portraits of John Palmer Bruce Chichester and his wife Caroline Thistlethwayte, and attached extract of his article Keersmaecker, Roger O. de 2009. Two travellers' graffiti in the temple of Amenhotep III at Elkab. In Claes, Wouter, Herman de Meulenaere, and Stan Hendrickx (eds), Elkab and beyond: studies in honour of Luc Limme, 187-194. Leuven: Peeters (OEB 167998); p. 44 with contact information and a list of the published volumes, and p. 45 with the author's biographical information (both omitted from the PDF); and inserted loose pages at the end containing additional information on Elbert Ellery Anderson's graffiti, his portrait and an obituary (5 pages), and email correspondence (3 pages).
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2013), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, additional volume III: Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt. Soldiers, artists and scholars. [Part I]. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 204639).
Most of the graffiti date from the nineteenth century.
In the print volume two pages are numbered as p. 64 (the numbering is correct in the PDF).
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2024), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan. [London]: Blurb (OEB 334316).
Content of the former website www.egypt-sudan-graffiti.be [no longer active], by Roger O. de Keersmaecker (1931-2020), with a collection of articles on specific travellers or groups of graffiti, a number of reviews of the author's previous publications, and some additional information supplementing the published volumes. This is supplemented with reprints of ASTENE Bulletin 77 (2018), p. 14 [review; see De Keersmaecker MSS 7.2 and 7.2A]; 82 (2020), p. 4-7 [obituary], and G/Geschiedenis 2020 (3), p. 64 [transfer of the archive to the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
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