Copies of zettel for the Wisdom of Amenemope

Copy of Barns, J. W. B. [1973]. Egyptians and Greeks: an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 25 November 1966. [Oxford]: Privately printed [OEB 16076]. Accompanied by a print letter by Barns dated April 1973, with some additional context on the publication.

Three framed portraits, two of which are on porcelain:

1. Jane Collins, née Jane Lane (no date, probably c. 1876-1885)
2. George Collins (as c. 1870, although also c. 1876-1885 since 1 and 2 are a set) [first husband]
3. George Lane (1887) [father]

Fourth copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968).

Incomplete second copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968) [preface and pp. 1-27].

Typescript, annotated by Gardiner himself.

My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner.

[Ballaghaue, Andreas Isle of Man, 1986. Typed, photocopied and bound by John Gardiner].

Exactly the same as the copy in the Sackler Library, 318 Gar, except for the missing preface and end page. Includes Henry John Gardiner... a very few reminiscences by his younger son, and The Tutankhamun Tomb, by Margaret Gardiner.

Photographs and postcards of statues from museums, mostly Cairo Museum. The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references written on the back.

Includes:

• Green schist statue of Mentuhotep VI (TopBib 800-440-100) (British Museum, EA 65429)
• Head of Amun with features of Tutankhamun (TopBib 802-049-080) (Brussels, Musées Royaux d'Art, E.5698)
• Psammethek in front of Hathor Cow [postcard] (TopBib iii.671) (Cairo Museum, 784)
• Senenmut with Princess Neferure (TopBib ii.134) (Cairo Museum, 42114)
• Nufer [postcard] (TopBib iii.723) (Cairo Museum, CG 145)
• Head of Tii (also known as the head of Mut) [postcard] (TopBib ii.84)
• Ramesses IV with captive [postcard]
• Head, possibly Amenophis I (TopBib ii.72) (Cairo Museum, JE 52364)
• Statues previously in the Amherst Collection
• Block Statue of Vizier User (TopBib ii.127) (Louvre Museum, A.127)
• Statuette of Reshef (TopBib 802-044-250) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 89.2.215)
• Bust of Iker (TopBib i.651) (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 26.7.1393)
• Statue of a boar (British Museum, 51094)
• Painted statues of Prince Rahotpu and his wife Princess Nofrit (TopBib iv.91) (Cairo Museum, 3 and 4)
• Sesostris I (TopBib iv.84) (Cairo Museum, CG 44951)
• Wehebre (TopBib iv.47) (Cairo Museum, CG 672)
• Anubis [postcard] (TopBib iv.26A) (Cairo Museum, CG 38517)
• Ptah [postcard] (TopBib iii.833) (Cairo Museum, CG 38429)
• Statue called The Cheikh-el-Beled or head man of the Village [postcard] (TopBib iii.459) (Cairo Museum, CG 34)
• Osiris and Isis (TopBib iii.670) (Cairo Museum, CG 38884 and 38358)
• Statuettes from tomb of Hesi (TopBib iii.286) (Cairo Museum, JE 72225-6)
• Triple statue of Mersuankh (TopBib iii.270) (Cairo Museum, JE 66618)
• Statue of a female brewer (TopBib iii.270) (Cairo Museum, JE 66624)
• Face of a male statue (TopBib iii.268) (Cairo Museum, JE 66625)
• Triple statue of a man, standing, from the tomb of Mersuankh (TopBib iii.268) (Cairo Museum, JE 66616)
• Triple statue of Rawer (TopBib iii.266) (Cairo Museum, JE 66615)
• Khafre [postcard] (TopBib iii.22) (Cairo Museum, CG 14)
• Head of Taharqa (TopBib ii.533) (Cairo Museum, CG 560)
• Colossus of Merneptah [postcard] (TopBib ii.448) (Cairo Museum, CG 607)
• Tuthmosis III [postcard] (TopBib ii.137) (Cairo Museum, CG 42053)
• Incomplete group statue of Ramesses III crowned by Horus (TopBib ii.526) (CG 629 and 1100)
• Tueris as hippopotamus [postcard] (TopBib ii.285-286) (Cairo Museum, CG 39145)
• Double statue of Sennufer and wife Sentnay with daughter Mutnefert (TopBib ii.283) (Cairo Museum CG 42126
• Amenophis II [postcard] (TopBib ii.282) (Cairo Museum, CG 39394)
• Senenmut (TopBib ii.262) (Cairo Museum, CG 579)
• Dhout [postcard] (TopBib ii.202) (Cairo Museum, CG 42123)
• Pedeamun-nebnesuttaui (TopBib ii.155) (Cairo Museum, JE 36908)
• Pedamenopet (TopBib ii.154) (Cairo Museum, JE 37341)
• Harkhebi (TopBib ii.150) (Cairo Museum, CG 42231)
• Nekhtefmut (TopBib ii.148) (Cairo Museum, CG 42207)
• Neferpert [postcard] (TopBib ii.144-5) (Cairo Museum, CG 42121)
• Queen Esi (TopBib ii.144) (Cairo Museum, CG 42072)
• Bronze schilbe fish from the top of a standard (British Museum, EA37449)
• Syria (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.45.3.121)

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 ‘Dynasty XVIII T.IV A.III Amarna excluding Ay’. The folder contains several envelopes, listed below, with material relating to the 18th Dynasty.

Envelopes include:

1. Notes on the tomb of Tuthmosis IV (TopBib i.559), including sketches of the tomb, notes and sketches of items found in the tomb, including a throne and wooden boats.
   Includes:

   • Notes and copy of hieroglyphs on wooden panels from sides of a throne (Right side: Boston Museum, 03.1131; Left side: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 30.8.45) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketch, a fragment of a wooden fan (Cairo Museum, 46095) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketches on the back of a throne (Cairo Museum, 46096) (TopBib i.561)
   • Notes and sketch, right side of a chariot interior (Cairo Museum, 46097) (TopBib i.560)

2. Notes relating to inscriptions in tomb TT64 belonging to Hekerneheh (TopBib i.128), including inscriptions from the vestibule of the tomb used in Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV.' Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 82-85 (OEB 146401). Also includes a letter from H.E. Winlock on work in TT64 (2nd April 1925).

3. Notes and inscriptions relating to Tuthmosis IV and his family. This material also references and relates to Newberry, Percy E. 1903. Extracts from my notebooks (VII). Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 25, 357-362 (OEB 187707).
   Including:

   • Copy of inscription on statuette of Hekerneheh found by Newberry in 1898 in tomb TT63.
   • Notes, tracings, drawings and translations of wooden mummy labels with hieratic inscriptions (National Museum Scotland, 1956.154-67) found by Alexander Rhind in the tomb of Amenophis III (TopBib i.671)
   • Drawing of a wooden label of Amenemapet, daughter of Tuthmosis IV, purchased by Newberry at Thebes in 1901
   • Photographs of ostracon with hieratic inscription (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 90.6.3)

4. Notes, drafts and copies of inscriptions relating to Amenhotep III, including on his wife Queen Tyi [Tiy; Tiye], father Tuthmosis IV, and daughters.

5. Notes on Amenhotep IV [or Akhenaton], Nefertiti, Semenkhkare, Yuya, tombs at El Amarna and history of the 18th Dynasty.
   Includes:

   • Notes relating to Newberry, Percy E. 1928. Akhenaten's eldest son-in-law 'Ankhkheprurē'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 3-9 (OEB 146342), and Tomb 139 (TopBib i.252), including tracing of slab (shown in figure 4, p.8).
   • Family tree of Amenhotep III
   • Notes on the chronology of tombs at El Amarna
   • Notes on Petrie, W. M. Flinders 1894. Tell el Amarna. London: Methuen & Co. (OEB 147222)

6. Notes on Tutankhamun, including on the tomb and copies of inscriptions.
   Includes:

   • Letter from Howard Carter to Newberry on the identity of Tutankhamun and the meaning of an inscription on a whip from his tomb, 3rd December 1931
   • Copy of inscription from the vestibule of TT64 used in Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV.' In: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 82-85 (OEB 146401) (see item 2 in this folder).
   • Notes on botanical specimens found in the tomb and letter from Royal Botanic Gardens Kew on the analysis of a piece of wood from the shrine of Tutankhamun, 3rd July 1925

7. Notes, sketches and copies of inscriptions from the Rock Chapel of Min at el-Salamuni, Akhmin (TopBib v.17). Also includes notes, not by Newberry, titled ‘Suggestions as to P.E.N.’s copy of Ay inscription, Akhmin’.

8. Notes, sketches, sketch plans of the tomb, copies of inscriptions from KV23 of Ay (TopBib i.550).

9. Handwritten and typed drafts, notes and copies of inscriptions relating to Tiy, Ay, Tutankhamun, Amenhotep III, and their relationship to one another. Includes typed drafts titled ‘The problem of Ay and his Queen Tyi’.

10. Letter from Norman de Garis Davies to Newberry on tomb TT192 belonging to Kheruef, the Steward of Queen Tiy.

11. Letter from Henry Hall to Newberry on a stela depicting Seker and Tutu (British Museum, EA 211), 31st January 1923, with a rubbing of an inscription on a granite fragment (identified during previous archival processing as a fragment of the sarcophagus in the tomb of Ay (Cairo Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1) (TopBib i.551). The letter has been labelled as ‘King Ay’ by Newberry.

12. Notes relating to Ay, including reference cards with copies of inscriptions and notes on the tomb.

13. Notes and reference cards relating to Tyi, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti.

Correspondence from Alfred Lucas including relating to: arranging to visit Newberry; cleaning an inscribed bowl; response to criticisms by Newberry of a book by Lucas; wish to see a wooden tongue from Tututankhamun's shrine; Walter Segal and his study of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

Note:
MSS 29/50 is also numbered 217a
MSS 29/51 is also numbered 217
MSS 29/52 is also numbered 13
MSS 29/55 is also numbered A.107

Includes:

• Cutting of an image of a clay sealing
• Notes on Morgan, J., 'L'Humanité prehistorique', Paris 1924 (OEB 145667)
• Notes on a bow from the tomb of Tutankhamun
• Notes on a chisel-ended arrowhead in Woolley, 'Excavations at Ur, 1929-30', (London, 1930) p.387
• Handwritten and typewritten notes on the Gebel el 'Arak knife handle (Louvre Museum, E 11517) (TopBib v.107).
• Typed and handwritten notes on types of predynastic pottery
• Notes on a model sarcophagus in the Museum of Cairo

Correspondence from Bruce Stirling Ingram (Editor, The Illustrated London News) relating to photographs and illustrations for publication and lectures by Newberry. Includes references to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun and Howard Carter's negotiations with the Egyptian authorities.

Press cuttings and miscellaneous notes.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript drafts, unpublished articles and lectures.

Howard Carter's notebook, containing 118 pages, manuscript notes on hieroglyphic inscriptions, some accompanied by drawings, copied primarily from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906: Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822), as well as other publications.

Howard Carter's notes on glass.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty.

Howard Carter's drafts of his autobiography were intended for publication, but not completed or published. Carter referred to these drafts as "autobiographical sketches", and the manuscripts and typescripts were most likely composed in the 1930s.

• Earlier annotated manuscript
  • 6 notebooks
  • 219 pages
  • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
    • Sketch I. Introductory
    • Sketch II. An Account of Myself
    • Sketch III. Thebes
    • Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse
    • Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee hearth
    • Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
    • Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
    • Sketch VIII. The Valley and the Royal Tomb
    • Sketch IX. Tomb-Robberies and the Fate of the Royal Mummies
    • Sketch XI. The Finding of the tomb of Amenophis I
• Later annotated typescript
  • 8 folders
  • 236 pages
  • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
    • Autobiographical preface
    • The Excavator and his Task
    • The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple
    • Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment
    • Sketch of Thebes
    • The Theban Necropolis
    • The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
    • A History of the Theban Royal Mummies Decadence and Destiny I-IX
    • El-Bab El-Hosân 'The Tomb of the Horse'
    • Summer life in Egypt
    • The Rat and the Snake
    • A Fortuitous Discovery [The discovery of Queen Hatshepsut's tomb]
    • Three Milk White Camels
    • The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis the First
    • The Cemetery of the Queens'

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, recorded in a notebook and 15 loose pages, on ancient Near Eastern weights.

8 letters from Sir Alan Gardiner to Howard Carter, mostly regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, but also mention other subjects.
The first letter is dated 24 August 1916 and the last in the group is dated 13 July 1918.

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].

Two draft letters from Howard Carter to Alan Gardiner regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, including a proposed schedule and Carter's description of the wall scenes.
The earlier draft letter is not dated, the second draft letter is dated 1 May 1917.

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]

Howard Carter's documentation relates to the so-called "Saqqara affair" (Saqqara incident; Sakkarah incident; Sakkara) which led to Carter's resignation from the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1905.
Including:

• 44 letters, most addressed to Carter as well as copies of Carter's replies.
• Copy of Carter's resignation letter.
• Carter's manuscript report, 41 pages, contains his account of the event, extracts from the letters, and French newspaper reports on the incident.
• The documentation includes letters from:
  • A. Jouraud, on behalf of the French party
  • Emile Brugsch
  • Gaston Maspero
  • James E. Quibell
  • Theodore Davis
  • William E. Garstin
  • Édouard Naville

Letter and photograph regarding a brick found at E. & W. Lake Ltd, Park Road, Newhall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. These premises were formerly the site of a brickworks owned by Lord Carnarvon, that produced the bricks which were shipped to Egypt for the construction of Carter's house "Castle Carter" (Castle Carter II) at Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.

• Photograph of a sample brick stamped "MADE AT BRETBY ENGLAND FOR HOWARD CARTER A.D. THEBES 1910".
• Photocopy of the letter from Mr P. M. White to the Keeper of the Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, dated 16 February 1985.

Howard Carter's sketches of pottery found in tombs, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Groups N and O, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's manuscript index for object numbers including concordance with negative numbers.
Part of Carter's records, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's draft plans with measurements, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Group B, Cemetery, Meir.