Correspondence from/to Anbar, Moshe.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes on ancient Near Eastern measurements, including measuring rods, most in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
The cubit rods are recorded as follows:

• Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod, granite, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45933 [see TopBib v.116A].
• Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod, granite, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45932 [see TopBib v.116A].
• Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod of Panas, basalt, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45931 [see TopBib v.116A].
• Carter MSS v.2 [d] - Cubit measuring rod, wood, found in the tomb of Sennedjem, Dyn. XIX, TT1, Thebes, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 1941 [see TopBib i2.4].
• Carter MSS v.2 [i] - Cubit measuring rod of Osorkon I, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.2 [see TopBib ii2.300].
• Carter MSS v.2 [j-k] - Cubit measuring rod of Nektanebos II, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.1 [see TopBib ii2.300].
• Carter MSS v.2 [l-m] - Cubit measuring rod, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum [see TopBib ii2.300].

Howard Carter's manuscript index-card catalogue of Egyptian weights in museums, private collections and publications.
Arranged by the size of weight.
The data for each weight has been arranged by Carter under the following sections:

• Weight size
• Shape
• Marked
• Weight (sic)
• [current provenance]
• [bibliography]
• [date]

Folder titled 'Hamites. Lybians' containing notes on ancient peoples, including notes on Libya, or Tehenu-land, and its inhabitants.

Includes:
-Draft on the <i>pdtiu</i> or 'bow people', with tracing of the standards on the uppermost register of the Scorpion King's macehead (Ashmolean Museum, AN1896-1908.E3632)
-Notes on bows
-Notes on Libyans and Libyan tribes
-Notes on 'The Nine Bows' including copies of inscriptions from the Temple of Horus at Edfu (TopBib vi.164(320 }-(323)) taken from Rougé, Jacques de (ed.) 1880. <i>Inscriptions et notices recueillies à Edfou (Haute-Égypte) pendant la mission scientifique de M. le vicomte Emmanuel de Rougé</i>, 2 vols. Paris: Ernest Leroux, plates CXIII-CXV (OEB 148961)
-Notes on the land of Medja (a region in modern northern Sudan)
-Part of a draft on inhabitants of the north west Delta region
-Notes on the history of Tehenu-land including tracings and cutting of an ivory cylinder found at Hieraconpolis with Narmer depicted as a catfish striking his Libyan enemies (Ashmolean Museum, E.3915)
-Notes on berbers
-Part of a draft titled 'Tehenu-land; its situation, history, cults, and products'
-Notes on Tehenu-land
-Drawing of a reconstruction of three ivory fragments featuring men carrying handled vases, published in Petrie, F. 1901. <i>The Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties</i>, Plate IIIa no.2 and Plate IV no.s 6 and 15 (OEB 147184)
-Cutting of an image of a vase fragment featuring a soldier (Egyptian Museum of Berlin, 15084)
-Cutting of an image of a basalt statuette known as the 'MacGregor Man' (Ashmolean Museum, 1922.70) (TopBib v.119A)
-Draft on Tehenu-land including tracing of a scene from the Mortuary Temple of Sahure, published in Borchardt, L. 1913. <i>Das Grabdenkmal des Königs Sáḥu-re: Die Wandbilder: Abbildungsblätter</i>, Volume II, Plate I, Leipzig: Hinrichs (OEB 134997)

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Geographical 2'.

Correspondence from/to Anderson, Robert (1927-2015).

Correspondence from/to Andrae, Walter (1875-1956).

Correspondence from Mrs Emma B. Andrews (Associate of Theodore M. Davis) mostly referring to travel and books Newberry had sent.

Note:
MSS 3/3 is also numbered 39
MSS 3/4 is also numbered 32
MSS 3/7 is also numbered 33
MSS 3/9 is also numbered 14
MSS 3/11 is also numbered A.244
MSS 3/13 is also numbered 368

Folder titled 'Antelopes, Ass, Bovidae, Crocodile, Dog, Elephant' containing six handbound notebooks titled with each animal.

Notebook titled 'Antelopes' contains notes, tracings and drawings relating to the Addax, Oryx, and Nome of the Oryx. Also includes photograph of two antelope heads with their lower jaws.

Notebook titled 'Ass' contains notes and a tracing relating to the domesticated and wild ass.

Notebook titled 'Bovidae' contains notes, tracings and cuttings relating to cattle including castration, Mneris, oxen, cow, and words connected with oxen, cows and calves.

Notebook titled 'Crocodile' contains notes relating to crocodiles including names, personal names, the crocodile cult and Sobek.

Notebook titled 'Dog' contains notes relating to dogs including dog breeds and names of breeds, dog burial and mummification, hunting hounds in North Africa and pet names of dogs. Also includes typed draft titled 'Ancient Egyptian breeds of dogs' with figures, lists of references to dogs, tracings and drawings.

Notebook titled 'Elephant' contains notes relating to elephants including taming and hamstringing elephants, their distribution in Africa and Syria, and prehistoric drawings. Also includes two tracings and a drawing.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 2'.

Folder titled 'Fishes, Dolphin, Goat and Sheep, Giraffe' containing four handbound notebooks titled 'Fishes - Dolphin', 'Frog - Scorpion - Insects', 'Goats and Sheep', and 'Giraffe'.

Notebook titled 'Fishes - Dolphin' contains notes on fish including notes on catfish and fishing. Also includes a draft titled 'The Catfish', tracings and drawings of fish including catfish, cuttings of fish from the Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari (TopBib ii2.344-347(10)-(11), organised by plate number taken from Naville, Edouard 1895. The temple of Deir el Bahari, 6 vols. Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund [13]; [14]; [16]; [19]; [27]; 29. London: Egypt Exploration Fund. (OEB 146237) Volume 3, plates 69, 72, 73, and notes on dolphins.

Notebook titled 'Frog - Scorpion - Insects' contains notes on reptiles and insects including frogs and scorpions.

Notebook titled 'Goats and Sheep' contains notes on goat and sheep including on domestication, origin, breeds, distinction between the two, herds, associated cults, Mendes, and Khnum. Also includes tracings, cuttings and drawings of goats and sheep, and a photograph of goats in a tree taken in Morrocco.

Notebook titled 'Giraffe' contains notes and cuttings on giraffes.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 2'.

Folder numbered '3' and titled 'Hippopotamus, Horse and Chariot, Lion, Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer, Ostrich' containing five handbound notebooks titled 'Hippopotamus', 'Horse and Chariot', 'Lion', 'Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyaena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer' and 'Ostrich'.

Notebook titled 'Hippopotamus' contains typed notes and a draft on the hippopotamus.

Notebook titled 'Horse and Chariot' contains notes on the horse and the chariot, including their introduction to Egypt, early references to them, representations in art, as well as notes on mules and charioteers. Also includes:

• Cutting of an image of a side of a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen showing Tutankhamen in a chariot (Cairo Museum, JE 61467)

• Cuttings of images of the interior and exterior of a chariot of Tuthmosis IV (Cairo Museum, JE 46097)

Notebook titled 'Lion' contains notes on lions including hunting lions, references to and representations of lions, their distribution and behavior. Also includes cutting of an image of a side of a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen showing Tutankhamen shooting lions from his chariot (Cairo Museum, JE 61467).

Notebook titled 'Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyaena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer' includes:

• Notes on different species of baboon and monkey, including cutting with drawings of two baboon-shaped objects

• Notes on the bat

• Notes on the cheetah, including a photograph of Newberry with a cheetah

• Notes on the jerboa

• Notes on references to the hyena

• Notes on references to the bear

• Notes on references to the porcupine, including cutting of a porcupine inscription (Egyptian Museum of Berlin, 1132)

• Draft on the fallow deer, including tracing and drawings

Notebook titled 'Ostrich' includes notes on the ostrich, including their distribution and on ostrich feathers worn in the hair. Also includes:

• Cuttings from The Illustrated London News, 22 January 1927, a fan made out of ostrich feathers and a fan handle found in the tomb of Tutankhamun (TopBib i2.583 [242])

Folder titled 'Rekhyt bird, Rhinoceros, Snakes, Graffiti of animals, Libyan Desert, Various Mammals' containing five handbound notebooks titled 'The Rekhyt-Bird', 'Rhinoceros', 'Snakes', 'Graffiti of Animals - Libyan Desert', 'Various Mammals' and some loose notes.

Notebook titled 'The Rekhyt-Bird' includes notes and draft on the rekhyt-bird and Newberry's identification of it with the Crested Bustard rather than the Plover. Also includes:

-Notes on bustards including photograph

-Use of the hieroglyphic sign in the name of King Aha

-Drawings and tracings of the rekhyt-bird

-Cuttings from publications of depictions of the rekhyt-bird in tomb scenes

-Rubbing and cutting of a slate palette fragment (Cairo Museum, CG 14238 bis) (TopBib v.105A)

Notebook titled 'Rhinoceros' contains notes on the rhinoceros and tracings.

Notebook titled 'Snakes' contains notes on snakes including references to snakes or the serpant god, snake cults, cobras, and winged snakes. Notes include a reference to 'small card index "snakes"' and 'folder serpents'. Notebook also includes two loose pages which appear to have been inserted by Diana Magee. These pages are a handwritten draft of Newberry, Percy, 'Fy "cerastes"', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 34 (Dec., 1948), p. 118 (OEB 1466).

Notebook titled 'Graffiti of Animals - Libyan Desert' contains notes on rock graffiti and prehistoric rock engravings, notes on the Libyan Desert including a bibliography and a draft titled 'On the former fertility of the Libyan desert'.

Notebook titled 'Various Mammals' includes notes on cats including a tracing, the wolf, fox and jackal including tracing, the mouse, the rat, the hedgehog or porcupine, mythical animals and domestication of animals. Also includes:

-Cutting of images of a carved handle of a ceremonial knife (Metropolitan Museum, 26.7.1281)

-Drawings on a board of animal heads including oryx, ibex and dorcas gazelles.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Flora and Fauna 2'.

16 letters from Anthes and 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Anthes.
Majority of the content is personal; Anthes communicated his wartime circumstances and subsequent career development, as well as the German Egyptology situation after the war (WWII). Černý provided professional information, as well as material assistance in the form of food rations sent to Anthes in the 1940s.
Anthes and Černý exchanged information on ostraca discoveries, Černý updating Anthes on new finds at Deir el-Medîna during the 1940s and 1950s. Anthes recipricated by supplying information regarding finds during excavations at Mît Rahîna.

1 letter from Antonovyč, a Czech student in Strasbourg.
Acknowledgement of Černý's help and advice.

Letter from Edward H. Appleton relating to the loan of two tents.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 110

Letter from F. Gerald Apthorpe mainly describing his work and giving his new address.

• Griffith MSS 14.36: Arabic text on Nubian History, later published by W. E. Crum in Studies Presented to F. Ll.Griffith (1932), p. 137-148: "A Nubian Prince in an Egyptian Monastery".
• Griffith MSS 14.35: Letter from W. E. Crum dated 26 December 1927 enclosing an abstract.
• Griffith MSS 14.37: Letter from W. E. Crum dated 10 February 1926 with comments on the stories.
  -Griffith MSS 14.38: MS Marsh 287 - names and dates in Crum's hand. Note by Griffith on the Nubian Prince stories.

Letter from Charles George Arbuthnot (1846-1928) relating to a forthcoming visit by Newberry.

Archaeological Institutes:

Regulations of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.

Newspaper Cuttings:

• Brodie, Neil, "Indiana Jones image all wrong", THES (1994), p. 12.
• Finkel, Andrew, "Byzantium's 'last frontier' explored by British expert", The Times (?), p. 12.
• Hammond, Norman, "Where the Ten Thousand cried 'the sea, the sea'", The Times (30 November 1996), p. 16.
• Johns, Jeremy, "'Dining club' archaeology bites back", The Guardian (30 June 1994), p. ? [two copies].
• MacLeod, Donald, "'Dining club' archaeology under fire", The Guardian (27 June 1994), p. 6.
• (?), "Let bygones be bygones", The Times Higher Education Supplement (17 June 1994), p. 13, 17-18.

Letter from A. Archer-Betham thanking Newberry for the loan of a book and Newberry's reply (perhaps not sent) relating to his research on oils in the Amamu papyrus.

1 letter. Raymond Clare Archibald is the sender.