This group of material relates to Egyptian objects and antiquities including Newberry’s research on scarabs and seals.

Tracings, rubbings and drawings of seals and scarabs, possibly all from the Kelekian Collection sold to Brooklyn Museum.

Also includes:

-Receipt signed by John D. Cooney, Brooklyn Museum, for the Kelekian Collection of cylinders, scarabs and seals, 12 July 1944

-Draft letter from Newberry to Dikran Kelekian relating to his collection of cylinders, scarabs and seals and describing his contribution to the war effort, c.1945

-Letter from John D. Cooney relating to the Lieder catalogue and Kelekian Collection of cylinders, scarabs and seals, 21 June 1944

-Letter from Dikran Kelekian relating to his collections and asking after Newberry's health, 17 May 1941

-Letter from Dikran Kelekian relating to his collection of cylinders, scarabs and seals, 12 June 1944

-Letter from John D. Cooney arranging to collect the Kelekian Collection, 9 July 1944

Descriptive notes and copies of inscriptions on statuettes and other objects in the Amherst and Lee Collection (purchased by Lord Amherst).

Notes, drawings and rubbings of fragments in the Cairo Museum some of which published in Gunn, Battiscombe 1928. Inscriptions from the Step Pyramid site Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'égypte (OEB 221815). Most items are identified with a museum reference number. Also includes a list created during previous archival processing of the museum reference numbers with Topographical Bibliography references.

Includes:

Copies of inscriptions:
-Fragment of clay sealing (Cairo Museum, JE 36867) (TopBib iii.340)
-Diorite bowls from the Step Pyramid of Neterikhet: (Cairo Museum, JE 55282; JE 55271; JE 55269) (TopBib iii.404)
-Inscribed fragments of bowl from Saqqara (Cairo Museum, JE 55258; JE 55259; JE 55256; JE 55254; JE 55255; JE 55260; JE 55261; JE 55262; JE 55263) (TopBib iii.402-3)

Rubbings from Cairo Museum:
JE 55258 (TopBib iii.402)
JE 55279 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55269 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55271 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55292 (TopBib iii.402)
JE 59143 (TopBib iii.403)
JE 59142 (TopBib iii.403)
JE 59140 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55282 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55277 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 44367 (TopBib iii.439)
JE 55292 (TopBib iii.402)
JE 55285 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55273 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55274 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55276 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55277 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55275 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55278 (TopBib iii.403)
JE 55279 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55280
JE 55281 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55286 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55277 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55275 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55273 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 45170 (TopBib iii.440)
JE 55282 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55283 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55284 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55285 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55286 (TopBib iii.404)
JE 55287 (TopBib iii.403)
JE 55288 (TopBib iii.403)
JE 55289 (TopBib iii.404)

Notes, rubbings, copies of inscriptions and drawings of objects, some of which have been identified during previous archival processing and sorted according to Topographical Bibliography volume numbers.

Includes copies of inscriptions from the following:
-Stick of Harmosi, Servant in the Place of Truth (TopBib i.749)
-Pen-case of Teti, Scribe of the Lord of the Two Lands
-Statue of Djehutmosi from TT32 Djehutmosi (TopBib i.50)
-Statue of Teti-soneb (TopBib i.788) (Hanover Kestner Museum, 1935.200.106)
-Statue of Espekashuti (TopBib i.790) (British Museum, EA1225)
-Block Statue Minmosi (TopBib ii.283) (Cairo Museum, CG 638)
-False door from TT397 Nakht (TopBib ii.294)
-Stela of Thonufer (TopBib ii.395) (British Museum, EA56921)
-Canopic jar of Psammethek-sineit (TopBib iii.772) (Louvre Museum, N2975-8)
-Statue of Ptahmosi (British Museum, EA1119)
-Statue of Amenhotep, Vizier temp. Amenophis III (TopBib iv.31) (Cairo Museum, CG 590)
-Fragment of Sarcophagus of Pairkap (TopBib iv.48)
-Object from Abydos in Marseille Museum (TopBib v.102A)
-Stela of Haremhet in Turin Museum (TopBib v.103A)
-Sealing of Peribsen (TopBib v.81A)
-Stelae from Umm el-Qa’ab, Abydos (TopBib v.89A)
-Statuette of Sebekhetep in Marseilles Museum (TopBib vii.193A)
-Steatite bowl of Panufer (TopBib vii.139)
-Stela of Semtu-tefnakht [rubbing] (TopBib vii.418)
-Text of Djehutardais on a statue of a baboon in a garden at Mellawi
-Unidentified object of Siesi, baker of cakes of Osiris (called no. 31)
-Sandstone squatting statue of Iabu (TopBib viii.394) (Louvre Museum, E 10974)
-Palette fragment of Nebueteru
-Vessel bearing the name of Ria
-Stela of Iuenamun
-Stela of Ipepi (Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 24031) (TopBib viii.206)
-Text of a statue of Mentuhotep
-Block from tomb of Iyemi’atib
-Coffin lid of Zeesesankh
-Palette of Djehuti
-Top of bronze trumpet with Abdel Megid inscribed
-Slate pencase of Ra’hotep
-Stela of Amosis (Hanover Kestner Museum, 1935.200.209)
-Mummy case of ‘Ankh-Khons
-Stela of Zeheres’ankh
-Titles from objects in the Leyden Museum
-Wooden coffin of Djeesesankh
-Pyramidion of Roy
-Fragmentary statue of Pedemihos (National Archaeological Museum of Naples, 1064)
-Stela of Amennakht (Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico, 1904)
-Statue of Senebhenaf (Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico, 1839)
-Stela of Menkh-sobek (Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico, 1910)
-Stela of Bebi (Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico, 1927)
-Stela of Iki (Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico, 1921)
-Stela of Mentuhotep-Ressenbu (Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico, 1930)
-Statue base with name of Pesesh (Leiden Museum, F.1938/7.26)
-Statuette of Rensoneb, Chief of the Tens
-Base of statue of Amenemhet, son of Djehout
-Stela of Sebkiri (Bologna Museo Civico Archeologico, 1933)
-Stela of Amosis (Hanover Kestner Museum, 1935.200.209)
-Statuettes of Bakt (Hanover Kestner Museum, 1935.200.107-8)
-Scarab of Ini (Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 9079)
-Scarab of Khyan (Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 18653)
-Scarab of Nebu (Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 16395)
-Scarab of Sehetepibre (Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 15367)
-Scarab of Soneb (Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 1273)
-Scarab (Berlin Ägyptisches Museum, 14949)

Also includes tracings of papyri and one page on standards of boats on Naqada II pottery from the Hague Scheurleer Museum.

Copies of inscriptions and notes on objects in the MacGregor collection including letter from Newberry to Howard Carter enclosing these notes, 28 July 1921.

Photographs of objects including reliefs, rock inscriptions, busts, statues, pots, jewellery, furniture, vases, palettes, bricks, wand, daggers, chariot side and obelisks.

Includes photographs of:
-Copy of inscriptions by Robert Hay on a slab of stone from the tomb of a Royal Scribe (British Museum)
-Jamb from tomb of Maya (Rochester University Memorial Art Gallery, New York, 42.55) (TopBib iii.661)
-Stela of Sobekhotep III (TopBib vii.277)
-Head of Amenophis III (Berlin Museum, 21299) (TopBib iv.203)
-Wooden kohl-pot in form of kneeling man with vase on head (Cairo Museum, JE 31382)
-Three Naqada pots in the Ashmolean from Flinders Petrie’s 1895 Excavations (Ashmolean Museum, 1895.591, 1895.592 and 1895.583)
-Jewellery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
-Egyptian Chair (Brooklyn Museum, 37.40E)
-Vase of Memeptah (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 23.5)
-Bricks of Amenophis I and Ahmosi Nefertere (TopBib ii.343)
-Ebony wand with names and titles of King Meryebre Khety (TopBib iv.258) (Cairo Museum, JE 42835)
-Palette with hunting-scene (two fragments at British Museum, 20790, 20792) (one fragment at Louvre Museum, E. 11254)
-Bracelet of Ahmose I (Cairo Museum, CG 52069) (TopBib i.600)
-Bed (Cairo Museum, CG 51110) (TopBib i.564)
-Chair of Teye (Cairo Museum, CG 51112) (TopBib i.563)
-Label of King Den (British Museum, 55586) (TopBib v.84)
-Dagger hilt of Nehemen (Cairo Museum, CG 52768) (TopBib iii.552)
-Dagger of Asmosis (Cairo Museum, CG 52658) (TopBib i.601)
-Pectoral of Ahmosi I (Cairo Museum, 52004) (TopBib i.600)
-Piece of wood with name of Khui (Cairo Museum, JE 43108) (TopBib iv.259)
-Mummified hawk’s head (Cairo Museum, CG 14717) (TopBib v.191)
-Chariot of Tuthmosis IV (Cairo Museum, CG 46097) (TopBib i.560)
-Cubit-measure, Nakhy (Liverpool Museum, M.13825) (TopBib i.748)
-Obelisk of Hatshepsut (Cairo Museum, CG 17012) (TopBib ii.218)
-Two wooden tablets ('Carnarvon Tablets') with hieratic texts (JE 43261 and JE 56802) (TopBib i.618-9)
-Photographs of a naos previously part of the Amherst collection (Copenhagen Museum, AE.IN 1555)
-Photograph of a model boat (Cairo Museum, CG 4918) (TopBib iv.265)
-Photograph titled on the back 'rectangular upright oblong box' (Cairo Museum, CG 51034)
-Two photographs of a jar and small mummy (Cairo Museum, CG 51018-21; CG 51022) (TopBib i.563)

Newspaper cutting on the sale of Egyptian antiquities, 31 August 1922.

Includes: drafts on gold working, minerals and lapis lazuli; draft letter to Sir Henry George Lyons on gold beating, 27 May 1925; and notes on malachite used for eye paint.

Notes on the hieroglyphic symbol X1 and the composite symbol which Newberry believes to be a grindstone.

This group of material relates to Newberry's research on texts and publications including papyri, hieratic texts and publications by classical authors.

Handwritten copies and translations of papyri. Notes by Diana Magee suggest that these are second hand copies or copies of copies done by somebody else.

Includes:

-Handwritten copy of the text and translation of 'The Destruction of Mankind' (PEN/G.II/E.G.)

-Handwritten translation of Papyrus Berlin 9784

-Handwritten copy of British Museum Medical Papyrus mentioning name of Khufu and tracing (PEN/G.II/E.F.)

-Handwritten copy of the Tale of the Eloquent Peasant

-Handwritten notes and extracts including chronology from 'Obeliscus pamphilius' by Athanasius Kircher (1650).

-Extract in Coptic titled 'Sections of Acts of Apostles missing in Hosner supplied by the MS of Chester Beatty'.

Newberry's correspondence was sorted and listed after his death by Warren Dawson and donated along with the rest of his material to the Griffith Institute Archive in 1950. The correspondence was arranged alphabetically by surname, with the exception of Arabic names which were arranged by first name. In the new numbering system these Arabic names have also been arranged by surname. A few letters have also been added to this series which were previously among the research material.

Dawson's reference codes have been included as alternative identifiers and his catalogue of correspondence has been included as the first item in this series.

Towards the end of his life Newberry began to organise his papers including listing and numbering some of his correspondence. These numbers have been included in the description of items. The letter lists are in items NEWB1/03 and NEWB1/04.

Notebook containing the catalogue of correspondence written by Warren Dawson. A note on the first page states that it was presented to the Griffith Institute by Mrs Newberry in 1950. The letters are organised alphabetically by the correspondent's surname, and appear to have been subsequently numbered, possibly on accession to the Archive. Arabic names have been sorted according to the first name.

Also includes a description of the biographical and diary notes in the collection (NEWB1/03-06), and calling cards which have been glued into the notebook.

Letter from Professor Thomas Bertrand Abell relating to the presentation to Liverpool University of the Great Eastern.

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

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

Letter from John Jacob Astor arranging a meeting and thanking Newberry for proposing Astor as a Vice-President of the Egypt Exploration Society.

Note:
This letter is also numbered 21

Correspondence from Mohammed Aswad including arranging to visit Newberry and regarding a student wishing to study at the University of Oxford.

Correspondence from Mohammed Ab Del Aziz, a student of Newberry's, relating to visiting Newberry.

Correspondence from Herbert Brereton Baker (d. 1935) relating to Newberry giving a lecture to a Science Society and relating to a picture from a tomb possibly of glass blowing.

Correspondence from Henry Balfour (1863-1939) thanking Newberry for his interpretation of an inscription on a cup and relating to fans.

Note:
MSS 4/30 is also numbered A 356
MSS 4/31 is also numbered A 365

Two letters, including one from D.H. Bangham to Professor Oliver, regarding the appointment of Newberry to the Egyptian Education Office.

Letter from R. W. Barnett (British Museum) regarding a slate palette.

Letter from Elsie T. Baumgartel referring to research.

Letter from Georges Aaron Bénédite (1857-1926) [in French].

Note:
This letter is also numbered A.52

Letter from E. Benson including request for information about British administration in Kenya.

Correspondence from Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing relating to Newberry's excavations and other finds and seeking Newberry's opinion on texts and articles.

Note:
MSS 5/4 is also numbered 46
MSS 5/5 is also numbered 26
MSS 5/6 is also numbered 27
MSS 5/6A is also numbered 24

Correspondence from Thomas Bodkin (Birmingham University) seeking Newberry's advice on an Egyptian head purchased for the Barber Institute.

Note:
MSS 5/39 is also numbered 7

Letter from Alfred K. Bovill to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer relating to gum labdanum.