Tutankhamun notebook, Howard Carter's copies of selected object cards

• Selected object cards, Alan H. Gardiner's transcriptions copied by Carter from original object cards (see TAA i.1.1-620)
• Carter's manuscript with transcriptions
  • Antechamber, object nos. 37, 38
  • Treasury, object nos. 261-337
  • Annexe, object nos. 338-420
  • 1 enclosure, letter from Percy Newberry to Howard Carter, dated 13-09-1928, with transcription and translation of texts from the model figure of Tutankhamun, lying on a funeral bier [Carter 331a], now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60720.

Howard Carter's notebook with ‘Notes on Glass’. Now transferred to Carter MSS vi.5.5.

Howard Carter's excavation journal, 1926 to 1930, covering the fifth to ninth seasons.

• 65 numbered pages
• Mostly manuscript (Carter) with some typescript pages
• Includes a note dated May 1926, in which Carter notes a sighting of a black jackal at Thebes.

Arthur C. Mace's journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1923-1924, covers part of the second season.

• 32 numbered pages
• Manuscript (Mace)
• Complements Howard Carter's journal for the same dates. See TAA i.2.1

Howard Carter's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1925-1926, covering the fourth season.

• 111 numbered pages
• Manuscript (Carter)

16 journals, diaries and notebooks.

• Several tin plate canisters for 8- by 10-inch glass-plate negatives.
• Measurements (a) 25.6 x 19.6 x 11.3 cm; (b) 25.8 x 19.6 x 9.1 cm [TAA ii.25.1-2].
• Bear labels including: 'Sensitive to Light! To be opened only in the presence of the receiver'
• Originally contained the negatives created by Harry Burton during the Tutankhamun excavation. The canisters no longer contain the negatives.

• Photograph of Professor R. G. Harrison, Derby Professor of Anatomy, University of Liverpool, with Dr Z. Iskander and others, examining Tutankhamun's remains in the king's tomb, KV62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
• The original photograph was taken on 4 December 1968 by Mr Lynton Reeve, Department of Anatomy, University of Liverpool.

Documentation and correspondence regarding the planned Tutankhamun publication project by the Griffith Institute.

• Complete set of three volumes of Howard Carter's popular account of the discovery and excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb, all first editions, no dust jackets:
  • Carter, Howard and Mace, A. C. 1923. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 1 [discovery, Antechamber and opening of the Burial chamber]
  • Carter, Howard 1927. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 2 [Burial chamber, opening the sarcophagus, the state chariots, opening of the three coffins and examination of Tutankhamun's mummy]
  • Carter, Howard 1933. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume 3 [Treasury and Annexe]

• Letters and documents relating to Howard Carter's dispute with the Egyptian Government after the European team members' wives were barred from entering the tomb to view the contents of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus after the lid had been lifted (12 February 1924).
• The dispute on the following day, 13 February 1924, eventually resulted in Howard Carter and the rest of the team being locked out of the tomb until 13 January 1925.
• Includes correspondence between Sir Alan Gardiner and the Foreign Office, Egyptologists and others in 1924.
• Referred to as the "Carter Affair" or "Tutankhamun Affair".

• P. E. Newberry's copy of The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: Statement with documents, as to the events which occurred in Egypt in the Winter of 1923-24 leading to the ultimate break with the Egyptian Government.
• "Published for private circulation only by Cassell and Company, London, etc. 1924."
• Incorporates Howard Carter's original documentation, see TAA ii.21.

• Set of contact prints made from The Times Tutankhamun photographs.
• Most of the photographs were taken by The Times photographer.
• There are also a significant number of copies of Harry Burton's photographs within this group.
• Many of the contact prints are made from 35mm film, as well as a variety of larger prints.

A set of lithographs made for the Tutankhamun exhibition held in the British Museum, London, in 1972.

Colour photograph of Tutankhamun's mask, taken by Miss J. E. Shepherd in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, in 1990.

• Fourteen postcards, many feature Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Some were produced by Lehnert & Landrock.
• Others produced by Bruce Co., London.
• Showing various objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Digital image.
• Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Postcard caption: 013 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES GOLD PORTRAIT MASK OF KING
• Original postcard features an edited version of Burton photograph P0757.
• Mask of Tutankhamun (256a), gold inlaid with coloured glass and semi-precious stones, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60672.

• Digital image.
• The original negative was made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Postcard caption: 018 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES THE TUTELARY GODDESS SELKIT
• Original postcard features Burton photograph P1550.
• Statue of the goddess Selkis from Tutankhamun's canopic shrine (266), gilded wood, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60686.

• Digital image.
• Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Original postcard features Burton photograph KV79.
• Postcard caption: 003 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES ENTRANCE TO TOMB
• View of the modern enclosure wall protecting the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Photograph showing Howard Carter (left) and an Egyptian team member carrying one side of the hippopotamus couch (137) out of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Negative made from an original photograph.
• Original photograph, photographer not known. Taken in early 1923.
• Labelled: ‘At the Luxor Tomb. At the Exit from the tomb. Mr. H. Carter helping to carry out a section of one of the couches’.

• Professor H. Beinlich's photographs and his transcription of its texts
• Innermost coffin (255) of Tutankhamun, gold, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60671.
• TAA ii.14.1-56 (photos), 57 (transcriptions).

• Photographs and colour transparencies of a scale model of the tomb of Tutankhamun, created for a display in Highclere Castle in 1988.
• Model created by Orchard Brothers, Historical model makers.

• Copies of notes and photographs for boxes from Tutankhamun's tomb.
• The measurements of the boxes, etc., were copied from the original Tutankhamun Archive documentation by A. H. Gardiner for Myrtle Broome.

Rainbow McLean's photographs of box (21), from the tomb of Tutankhamun, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61467.

• Photographs of six cubit rods from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• All rods are made of wood.
• Carter object numbers:
  • (50dd'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61315.
  • (50dd''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61316.
  • (50ee'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61317.
  • (50ee''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61318.
  • (50ff'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61319.
  • (50ff''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61320.

• Tutankhamun documentation: five photographs:
  • Three photographs show objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun in Cairo, Egyptian Museum.
  • Two photographs show floral collars, probably not from Tutankhamun's tomb, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Four photographs of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Produced by Lehnert & Landrock, part of their 'Tut Ankh Amun Series' photographs.

Twelve photographs, all black and white, of various objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun. All made by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Perhaps created in the 1940s or 1950s.

• Photograph, black and white, photographer not known.
• Made by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
• Effigy of Tutankhamun lying on bier [Carter 331a], in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60720.