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Egypt, portrait of a young woman holding two cockerels

Portrait of a young woman holding two cockerels(?) [unfinished], the women is wearing a brown galabiya, a long white and red headscarf, earring, a double-stranded bead necklace, and three bracelets, Egypt:

  • watercolour with pencil details
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 019
  • 17.6 x 25.5 cm
  • [on mount] encircled '20' (pencil note)

The Graffiti Archive Roger O. De Keersmaecker

  • De Keersmaecker MSS
  • Collectie
  • 1965-2019

Corpus of early traveller’s graffiti from selected sites and monuments in Egypt and Sudan, including transcriptions and photographs of graffiti, collated by Roger De Keersmaecker between 1965 and the 2010s, then published by him between 2001 and 2019.

De Keersmaecker, Roger O.

Guy Brunton Collection

  • Brunton, G. MSS
  • Collectie
  • 1937-1948, card index 1958

Drawings (by Winifred M. Brunton), letters, and working notes for a publication on button seals.
Negatives taken during the Matmar excavations in 1928-30.
Card index created 1958.

Brunton, Guy

Minnie Burton Diary

  • Burton, M. MSS
  • Collectie
  • 1922-1926

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).

Burton, Minnie Catherine

Winifred Mabel Brunton Collection

  • Brunton, W. M. MSS
  • Collectie
  • c. 1910s

Watercolour showing the initial stages of one of Howard Carter's excavations.

Brunton, Winifred Mabel

Calling cards

Photographs or calling cards of members of Newberry's extended family. Some are named on the back by Newberry with a note on genealogy. Includes photographs of: Newberry's mother Sarah Newberry, 1905; Newberry's Uncle F.J. Newberry; Newberry's Grandfather F.W. Newberry; Mrs Sarah Pine born Kenward (1790-?); Mrs Thomas Kenward; William Munk; James Newberry (1781-); Elizabeth Newberry (1791-); Thomas Kenward (1788-); Mrs James Newberry born Dixy. Also includes receipt for 12 calling cards, 1867.

Man walking ahead of another man on horseback

Street scene, probably in Cairo, with a man wearing a blue garment and a white turban, walking and holding aloft a long stick in his right hand, preceding another man wearing a green garment and red turban riding a horse.

  • watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.7 x 10.1 cm
  • no annotations

Southern Cemetery at Cairo, with funeral procession

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)

Hawara pyramid

View of the pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara:

  • pencil, black ink (probably), monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.7 x 10 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Pyramid of Hawa'rah — a, Small canal — b Remains of columns & architraves.' (pencil note)

Tomb wall scene, hoeing and ploughing, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures hoeing and ploughing:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 9.9 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Ploughing & Sowing.' (pencil note)
  • Detail from agricultural scenes, two groups of men hoeing and men with oxen ploughing (first group), west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, treading and winnowing grain, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures treading and winnowing grain:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.7 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Treading out the corn, & Winnowing.' (pencil note)
  • Detail from agricultural scenes, oxen threshing corn and men winnowing, west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Temple wall scenes, Karnak

Temple wall scenes from the hypostyle hall in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak
Left scene, Seti I spears Libyan chief on the battlefield, north exterior wall
Right scene, Ramesses II binding Syrian captives, south exterior wall

  • Two pencil drawings
  • Drawings are mounted side-by-side
  • 17.7 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Kar'nak' (pencil note)

Third copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962)

Third copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

With an unsigned dedication on the front matter by Mr Rolf Gardiner:

"For the Library of the Griffiths[sic] Institute
on the occasion of a Memorial Dinner
held, by invitation of the Provost, at the
Queen's College, Oxford, in commemoration of
Sir Alan Gardiner
on Saturday 23 May 1964

Followed by the signatures of the attendees.

With an enclosure at the back containing the souvenir booklet printed by Oxford University Press on the occasion of the Memorial Dinner (sections: "Menu", "Sir Alan Gardiner, Kt.", a portrait photograph, and "Sir Alan Gardiner's Publications"), and a loose calling card of Rolf Gardiner.

Myrtle Florence Broome Collection

  • Broome MSS
  • Collectie
  • 1927-1937

415 items of correspondence written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.

Fifteen items are groups of two letters (16, 35, 51, 55, 97, 111, 154, 198, 227, 268, 306, 319, 325, 363, 408, and 414, not all of them by Miss Broome), four of which are actually cards/postcards (16A, 306A, and 414A-B); item 156 is a group of three letters [= 429 letters and 4 cards/postcards in total].

A few letters include drawings/maps; seven letters include photographs (111, 123, 273-276, and 279); letter 337 includes a newspaper cutting; many of the letters include the original envelopes in which they were sent; some other letters mention the enclosure of additional items which are now lost.

Broome, Myrtle Florence

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