Howard Carter's annotated manuscript report on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913. Group includes:
"Note on the Capital of the 17th Nome, Sebennytos Inferior. Pa-aa-n-amen. Diospolis Kato. H. Carter Ap. 6. 1915".
Carter's transcriptions of site names, copied from various sources.
The report contains 30 numbered paragraphs that mention several finds including inscribed blocks, the base of a statuette, and a stela. The report has the following section headings:
General description
History
Excavations
Antiquities
18 lined pages with affixed photographic prints accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these pages as plates ii-xviii and they were intended to accompany this report, see Carter MSS iv.3-20.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 14 to 16 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, trench 5 within the Great Enclosure wall, Tell el-Balamūn.
(14) View of trench no. 5, within the Great Enclosure, with excavation in progress.
(15) View of aqueduct in trench no. 5
(16) View showing stone slabs crossing the aqueduct in trench 5.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 20 and 21 with manuscript captions, finds in trench no. 3, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
(22) Trench 3, two stone headrests.
(23) Trench 3, a red brickwork chamber, possibly belonging to the tomb of Demetrius of Phalerum.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 24 and 25 with manuscript captions, finds from trench no. 3, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
(24) Carter's inked drawing of a fragment with inscriptions, for the lower part of a green basalt statuette of [Dhjeuti]emsaf holding statuette of Osiris, 26th Dynasty, in Carnarvon collection H 3.
(25) Lower part of a stela, remains of scene, a king offering image of Maet to Amun-Re and two [seated deities], and two crocodiles with painted demotic text below, Ptolemaic.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 31 and 32 with manuscript captions, finds in trenches nos. 3, 3a, 3b and 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
(31) Trenches 3, 3a and 3b, pottery vessels.
(32) Trench 5, pottery vessels.
Some of the vessels shown in (31) also feature in another photograph, see Carter MSS iv.40.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 33 and 34 with manuscript captions, finds in trenches nos. 3 and 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
(33) Trench 3, two pottery vessels, right pot "contained debased silver jewellery of Ptol. XIII Period."
(34) Trench 5, pottery vessels.
Another photograph with a different view of the same group of vessels in (34), see Carter MSS iv.41.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 35 and [36] with manuscript captions, finds from trenches nos. 2 and from Temple and Palace area site, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
(35) Trench 2, pottery vessel, Greek period.
[36] From various parts of the site, pottery vessels.
Howard Carter's photographs, views of a town on the Mediterranean coast, probably Damietta. The photographs are part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
Howard Carter's autobiography, draft typescript, a notebook containing a draft manuscript, and an annotated newspaper cutting. The typescript has the following section/chapter headings:
The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
5 pages, annotated typescript, pages [59]-61 are crossed through (cancelled)
1 section/chapter title page
4 typescript pages, numbered [59]-62
A History of the Theban Royal Mummies
Decadence and Destiny: I to IX
"Sketch IX" (Carter's annotation on page [63]
82 pages, annotated typescript, most pages, except title pages, are crossed through (cancelled)
4 section/chapter title pages
78 typescript pages, numbered [63]-136
Notebook
19 pages, draft manuscript, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
4 loose pages with additional manuscript notes, all pages are crossed through (cancelled)
draft manuscript used for the preparation of part of the preceding typescript
Newspaper cutting
Egyptian Mail Jan. 5. 1937 (Carter's annotation)
"Mummies May Be Re-Buried In Valley Of Kings | Selim Bey Hassan's Proposal"
Cutting from a single page, page number not recorded
Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing manuscript for Sketches I-II, also some enclosures including loose manuscript notes, a typewritten note, and a newspaper cutting.
Sketches
72 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
Carter's annotated page numbers, "1" to "72"
A Summary of Egyptian Chronology
Pages 1-2
Sketch I - Introductory
Pages 3-18
Contains one subsection, II, the title of this subsection, The Temporary Dwellings, is crossed through (cancelled)
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:
4 pages of manuscript notes on inscriptions from Tutankhamun rings, and arguments for and against Tutankhamun being the son of Amenophis III (Amenhotep III)
4 pages of manuscript notes with the heading "Note re King Ay", discusses gold-leaf fragments with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ay, found in KV 58, Valley of the Kings
18 pages of manuscript notes, many of the pages are crossed through (cancelled), perhaps notes for a lecture, including extracts from Theodore M. Davis's publication for KV 57, Tutankhamun's marriage to Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's age at death, his parentage and succession, dated objects found in Tutankhamun's tomb, etc.
Newspaper cutting with a report of this lecture titled 'Secrets of Tomb of Tutankhamen. Dr. Howard Carter on the end of a Dynasty'. No record of which newspaper this comes from.
Howard Carter's notes for a lecture given at University College London, July 21, 1931.
Press cuttings collected by Howard Carter, some mentioning Carter's archaeological work, including Tutankhamun, and Carter manuscript note from original housing.
Carter MSS vi.7.1.1
The Times Educational Supplement
6 July 1929
Pages 307-8
'Side Windows on history' (from a correspondent)
Mentions Carter
Carter MSS vi.7.1.2
Liverpool Post
20 June 1929
'A cosmetic 3,000 year old'
Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb (see following)
Carter MSS vi.7.1.3
Daily Chronicle
20 June 1929
'Cosmetic from Luxor Tomb. | Shown to women in London. | After 3,300 years.'
Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb, analysed by Mr A. Chaston Chapman and Dr H. J. Plenderleith (see preceding)
Carter MSS vi.7.1.4
Morning Post
8 January 1929
'The King's Epiphany gifts
Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter
Carter MSS vi.7.1.5
The Times (?)
Summer 1930
'The Royal Academy | I.—Pictures and the public | A varied exhibition (By our Art Critic)'
Howard Carter's pencil sketch of some of the columns in the processional colonnade in Luxor Temple, with columns from a Coptic(?) building in the foreground.
Notebooks, loose notes, maps, plans, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver desk-set. The documentation was created during Carter's career between 1899-1939. This material excludes material connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun, see the Tutankhamun Archive.
Diary kept from 4 May 1922 to 20 October 1926 by the wife of the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940). The diary contains detailed daily entries recording social engagements and memorable events, including the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter’s team, of which her husband was a member. The diary details her life and travels with her husband at home in Florence, their stays in Egypt (especially Luxor, but also Cairo), the trip they made across the US and to Hollywood in 1924, and various holidays in Europe (London, Salzburg, St. Moritz, etc.), as well as trips to friends in Italy. Lined account book, 400 pages, 8vo (179 x 110 x 28 mm).
9 mounted photographs made from drawings of el-Kâb, Philae, and Amada. Microfilm roll with copies of the Burton MSS once in the British Museum and now in the British Library.
Photographic records made during the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun, consisting of approximately 1400 black and white glass negatives. 10 albums of original prints made from these negatives for Carter, and original prints made for and kept with the object card index for the excavation.
Keersmaecker, Roger O. De 2003. Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan II: the temples of Semna and Kumma. Berchem (Antwerp): Graffito Graffiti (OEB 181113).
Semna West [see TopBib vii.144-151] and Semna East (Kumma) [see TopBib vii.151-156].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
It includes: annotations in the form of crossed out text on p. 2, highlighted lines on p. 17 and checkmarks on p. 22 and p. 38 (= PDF p. 40); inserted loose pages between p. 15-16 containing biographical information on George Waddington and Barnard Hanbury [an extract from Waddington, George and Barnard Hanbury 1822. Journal of a visit to some parts of Ethiopia. London: John Murray, p. 1-52; and a 2018 Wikipedia page on George Waddington]; and inserted loose pages at the end with "Additional information" on Elbert Ellery Anderson's graffiti at the temple of Kumma, biographical information, a portrait, and an obituary numbered as p. 47-52 (= PDF p. 61-66).
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2004), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, III: Philae: The kiosk of Trajan. Berchem (Antwerp): Graffito Graffiti (OEB 179470).
Kiosk of Trajan [see TopBib vi.250].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
It includes: inserted loose pages between p. 64-65 (= PDF not numbered) with printed resources from the Internet [a WorldCat search on the publication and a 2019 Wikipedia page on Trajan's Kiosk]; and an extra p. 72 (omitted from PDF) containing "Additional Information from Andrew Oliver, USA" on the graffiti by Joseph Crenier and Friedrich Maximilian Hessemer on the monument.
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2011), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan X: the temple of Kalabsha, the temple of Beit el-Wali. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 169306).
Great Temple of Mandulis (Kalabsha) [see TopBib vii.10-21] and Rock Temple of Beit el-Wali [see TopBib vii.21-27].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
It includes: author's personal stamp with address details on cover page; an attached page between p. 37-38 with two pictures of the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem on the recto and a picture of Cornelius Bradford's grave inscription on the verso (omitted from the PDF); and an attached page at the end with the author's biographical information (omitted from the PDF).
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2011), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, XI: Gebel el-Silsila: Great Speos of Haremhab, shrines, quarry and rock-stelae. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 169307).
Gebel el-Silsila: Great Speos of Haremhab [see TopBib v.208-213], shrines and rock-stelae [see TopBib v.213-218 and 220] and Quarries [see TopBib v.221].
Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
It includes: annotations in the form of checkmarks on p. 6-9, "o" marks on p. 9-10, and text on p. 7 with "DK 2011 (2) DK / DK 2011 (3) 2011 (4)"; and an attached page at the end with the author's biographical information (omitted from the PDF).
De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2012), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, additional volume [I]: the temples of Abu Simbel. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 169314).
The Temples of Abu Simbel [see TopBib vii.95-117].
Most of the graffiti date from the nineteenth century.
It includes: the annotation "I" on cover page; inserted loose pages between p. 37-38 with biographical information on Giovanni d'Athanasi (Dimitrios Papandriopulo) (1798-1854), together with an annotated card titled "1824 ABU SIMBEL" containing a list of four individuals with their dates and number references; inserted loose pages between p. 59-60 with information on graffiti by H. B. Humphrey's / [HB H] BO USA 1840, together with an extract from email correspondence; and an attached page at the end with the author's biographical information (omitted from the PDF).
