Upper part of the goddess Hathor, wearing a headdress with horns supporting a solar-disk, from an unidentified scene in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 102
17.8 x 25.8 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Athor. / From a Bas Relief in a Chamber near to the Colonnade of Thothmes 3rd Karnac. / 12th May 1843. G Ll.' (pencil note)
Slain Libyan enemies, detail from a battle-scene in the Second Court of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:
watercolour with pencil details
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 106
17.6 x 26 cm
[on recto of watercolour] 'Robou. / From the Battle scene in the Great Court / at Medinet Abu. 13th Aug 1843.' (pencil note)
[on recto of watercolour] '"The Assyrians her neighbours, which were / clothed with blue. / She saw men portrayed upon the wall the / images of the Chaldeans portrayed with ver- / milion" / Ezekiel c.23.v.5.6.14.15.' (pencil note)
Upper part of Tuthmosis II, from an unidentified scene probably in one of the rooms North of the Granite Sanctuary (near the Pillars of Upper and Lower Egypt), in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 105
17.7 x 25.7 cm
[on recto of drawing] '<cartouche> / Thothmes 2nd / Chamber near the Lotus Pilasters Karnac. / 11 May 1843 G Ll.' (pencil note)
Oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides (called 'obelisk'), with dedication texts of Seti I and Ramesses II to Horus of Mesen commemorating Ramesses I, once at Tell Abu Seifa in el-Qantara, and now in Ismailia Museum, 2249; front, with remains of five columns of text and two lines of text at the bottom:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 108
17.8 x 25.8 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Half of the underside of the Obelisk at Abu Saiffie. / 13th Feb 1843. / x' (pencil note)
Man fishing with a harpoon while seated on the riverbank at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes; next to him is a rod and line which has a live mouse suspended from it, presumably the mouse is being used as bait or a lure:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 114
25.7 x 17.7 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'Gurna. Thebes. 20th Aug. 1843.' (pencil note)
Three officials carrying fans, forming part of a procession celebrating the Festival of the god Min, detail from a wall scene in the Second Court of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:
"The Shady side", two men, one holding a gun and the other a stick, with a captured fox between them, and a third man kneeling on the ground at Abu Zaabal:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 132 and Lloyd MSS 133
17.8 x 12.7 cm
[on mount] '72' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Abu Zaabel. 16th Jan. 1843. / "The Shady side"' (pencil note)
Three musicians (woman with harp, man with lute and woman with double-pipe), detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
Tutankhamun journal with an inventory of objects sent to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, between 1922 and 1929
Pages 1-17
Arthur Mace's manuscript records
Mace's heading on the title page (page 0), "Tut-Ankh-Amun"
Mace's heading on page 1, "Catalogue of objects sent to Cairo Museum. Season 1922-1923"
Mace's final entry, "34 packages containing 89 boxes", and signed by A.C.M. (Arthur C. Mace) and H.C. (Howard Carter), dated "12 May 1923."
Page 18
Unidentified hand, manuscript notes, French
French manuscript heading, "Liste des Caisses parties de la Vallée des Rois le 1er Avril, a 10 h. 15 a.m."
Carter's manuscript annotation at top of the page, "Cases and antiquities removed by the Service des Antiquities Spring 1924 from No. 15 and No. 4 Biban el Maluke"
Pages 19-21
Carter's manuscript records
Carter's final entry, "Nineteen cases handed over to M. Baraize for transport to Cairo March 31st 1925. Howard Carter [signature]. These cases were carried by hand and(?) to River Early morn of the 1st April"
Page 22
Carter's manuscript column headings, but no entries
Page 23
Carter's manuscript records
Carter's final entry, "The above objects enclosed in sixteen cases (one of which No. 16 to be brought by Mr. Carter). Howard Carter [signature] April 16th 1927."
Page 25
Typewritten list affixed to page
Cases "XXIII" to "XXXVIII"
All objects are from the Treasury
Not dated
Pages 26-32
Carter's manuscript records
Objects are from the Treasury and Annexe
"List of cases of antiquities sent to the Cairo Museum March [day not entered] th., 1929."
Carter's final entry, "Ninety cases of antiquities as for above list. delivered to the Chief Inspector for transport March ... 1929. H.C."
Objects found between the sarcophagus (240) and shrines (207), (237), (238) and (239). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
i. Carter's report on objects nos. 242 (fan), 250 (djad emblem), 249 (bundle of reeds), 251(rags and chips of wood) , 245 (fan), 244, 246 (long bows), 243 (arrows) and 241, 247 (long bows), and 248 (ten arrows).
ii. Harry Burton's photographs of 242, 245 (fans), 244, 246 (long bows), 243 (arrows) and 250 (djad pillar).
Shawabti (ushabti) figures. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
i. Carter's typewritten general notes on shawabtis.
ii. Carter's manuscript report with transcriptions, and notes, for shawabtis from Tutankhamun's tomb, including lists with shawabtis grouped by type, their object excavation number, material, and the chamber they were found.
Later film negatives, made from original Burton photographs
Some are original Harry Burton negatives.
Carter's negatives are views of the area around the tomb entrance and the outer sealed doorway when the tomb was found in 1922 and before Burton joined the Tutankhamun excavation team in December 1922.
Glass and film negatives.
Approximately 1000 negatives (400 glass and 600 film)
Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (large, see TAA i.5)
A few original negatives in this series were created by Howard Carter, see above.
Many of the negatives were made later in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from photographs supplied by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, following an exchange of images in the 1950s.
Includes modern film negatives made in the Ashmolean Museum photographic studio from the original Harry Burton photographic prints in the Tutankhamun Archive, Griffith Institute.