Typed and handwritten notes on the history of Egypt including <i>smsw-Hr</i> or 'Followers of Horus', 'the Scorpion King', early kingdoms and predecessors of Menes.

Also includes:
-Typed notes on Breasted, J.H. 'The Predynastic Union of Egypt', Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 30 (1931), pp. 709-724 (OEB 135364)
-Typed copy of Phythian-Adams, 'Aiguptos: a derivation and some suggestions', in <i>The Journal of The Palestine Oriental Society</i>, 1922 (OEB 147278)

Research material with note made during previous archival processing which reads 'vol. IV 187 1892-3 Notes for E.E.F. [Egypt Exploration Fund] by Newberry et al later used by Davies when writing Rock Tombs of Sheikh Said'.

Notes on rock tombs at Sheikh Said including copy of inscriptions from tombs 1 and 2, and tombs numbered by Norman de Garis Davies 15,18, 19 and 20 (TopBib iv.189-190). Also includes list of the tombs at Sheikh Said numbers 1-25.

Includes reference to NB [Notebook] 5/17.

This material was previously housed in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Sites (except Theban tbs [tombs])'.

Related Publications:

Davies, Norman de Garis, 'The rock tombs of Sheikh Saïd', (London, 1901) (OEB 137917)

Contains copy of inscriptions from tomb of Neka-'ankh at Deir el Bersha including sketches (TopBib iv.131).

Notes, tracings, rubbings and drawings of inscriptions from the Pyramidion of King Mernefere Ay (from Faqus) (Cairo Museum, JE 43267) (TopBib iv.10A).

Copy of inscription and notes on stela of Kebsi referred to by Newberry as the Karnak Stela (Cairo Museum, JE 52453) (TopBib ii.52). Also includes sketch family trees.

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 titled 'XII-XVIII - Illustrations' including tracings, rubbings and cuttings of inscriptions which are possibly in preparation for plates. These have been identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references.

Includes copy of inscriptions from stelae and other objects from the Cairo Museum, Fitzwilliam Museum, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Leyden Museum, Liverpool Museum, British Museum, Marseille Museum, Louvre, Turin Museum, Vienna Museum and Amherst Collection.

Also includes:
-Copy of inscriptions and notes from lintel and jambs in tomb of Rensonb, El Kab (TopBib v.184)
-Copy of inscriptions from tomb of Sebeknekht, El Kab (TopBib v.184-5)
-Copy of inscription from Stela of Rehuankh, temple Sebkhotep IV, formerly in the Anastasi collection (Egyptian Museum of Berlin, 7311) (TopBib v.97A)
-Copy of inscription on a lintel from Abydos (Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, E.5265)
-Copy of inscriptions from Peet, T., Naville, E. Cemeteries of Abydos, Volumes I-III, 1909-1913 (OEB 146102)
-Rubbing and tracing from a statue of the Vizier Iymeru-neferkarec (Cairo Museum, CG 42034) (TopBib ii.143)
-Rubbing and tracing from stela of Amenysonb (Louvre, C.11) (TopBib v.46)

This group of material relates to ancient Egyptian religion and culture including Newberry's research on the cults of ancient Egypt and so-called 'Arts of Life' such as making fire and keeping bees.

Research material on personal and place names. It appears the folder may have been reused as there is the reference PEN/G.IV/F.E on the cover which has been crossed out and inside the folder there is a list titled PEN/G.IV/F.E on tomb scenes, which does not relate to the contents.

The folder contains:
-Card catalogue and notes on personal names. The cards include hieroglyph transcriptions for personal names, variations of names, and references to occurences and published sources. There are small and large cards. The large cards appear to have been organised alphabetically and some of the smaller cards have been inserted accordingly.
-Card index titled 'Hieroglyphic' on personal names. Cards include hieroglyphs, their transcription, published sources, and notes on their meaning.
-Notebook containing notes in German on hieroglyphs, possibly personal names. The title page lists the following publications: Hoffman, Konrad, 'Die theophoren Personennamen des älteren Ägyptens' (1915) (OEB 141591) and Sethe, Kurt, 'Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und altertumskunde Äegyptens' (1896) (OEB 150123).
-Envelope containing notes on Ranke, Hermann, 'Keilschriftliches Material zur Altägyptischen Vokalisation' (1910) (OEB 147958).
-Envelope containing loose notes on personal names.
-Envelope containing notes relating to names including on minerals and stones, compounds with King's names, animal names, and names relating to deities.
-Loose notes on personal and place names.

Various research notes relating to religion and culture. Includes:
-typed paragraph on the dessication of the Sahara Plateau
-a note on bukalamun
-a footnote relating to Moringa
-typed notes relating to the olive and the use of olive oil
-note on the administration of justice
-notes on titles
-notes on expressions in hieroglyphs including to filter and negative expressions
-notes on the offering formula

Typed and handwritten extracts from and notes on classical authors.

Includes:
-Typed and handwritten extracts from Claudius Aelianus, 'De Natura Animalium' ('On the Characteristics of Animals'), a collection of seventeen books on natural history. Extracts are headed with book and verse numbers and there are handwritten notes in the margins.
-Extracts from Hellanicus Lesbius, Lucian and Porphyry of Tyre.
-Handwritten index, mainly of plants and animals, to the Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus of Naucratis
-Handwritten index to 'Bibliotheca Historica' by Diodorus Siculus
-Typed notes on Diodorus Siculus
-Handwritten index to work by Plutarch
-Handwritten index to Geographica by Strabo
-Typed notes on Clement of Alexandria
-Extracts from works by Lucian

This series includes material created by Newberry and material related to Newberry created by others. It includes newspaper cuttings, letter lists, diary notes, photographs, and material relating to Newberry's genealogical research.

This series also includes Newberry's excavation diary during his work for Lord Northampton from 1898 to 1899.

Folder containing 3 black and white group photographs which include Percy Newberry, and all appear to have been taken in Egypt.

Photographs include the following information:

• A note on the back suggests it was taken in the 1920s and names Abu Bakr, Hermann Grapow, Percy Newberry, Georg Steindorff, Hermann Junker and Selim Hassan.
• The back of the photograph is date stamped 17 January 1930, and a note reads 'A Benni Hassane' [at Beni Hasan].
• Note on the back of the photograph suggests that it was taken at Cairo University in the 1920s and lists the people seated left to right as: 1. [?], 2. [?], 3. Selim Hassan 4. Newberry 5. [?] 6. Junker 7. Vikentiev 8. Henri? Frankfort 9. [?] and in the front row 1. Baudouin? Van de Walle, 2. [?], 3. [?].

Document relating to the sale of land at Binfield, Berkshire by Humfrey Newbery, Francis Broughton, Richard Radish and William Hawthorne to Alexander Hayes, 1629.

Folder titled by John Harris 'PRESS CUTTINGS' with newspaper cuttings glued or fastened on to each page.

Newpaper cuttings are on a range of topics relating to ancient Egypt and Egyptology including congresses taking place, exhibitions such as the exhibition of Egyptian Art at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, book reviews, news relating to Percy Newberry, current research, obituaries, Sudan, Libya and the Libyan Desert.

Correspondence from Sir Leslie Patrick Abercrombie relating to a joint press publication scheme, Liverpool University Press Association, and negotiations with Sir Ernest Hodder Williams.

Letter from Percy Stafford Allen (1869-1933) relating to a paper, letter is headed Third International Congress of the History of Religions, Oxford, September 1908.

Correspondence from Lady Mary Rothes Margaret Amherst (eldest daughter of Lord Amherst of Hackney; marriage 1885, Lord William Cecil; in 1909 succeeded as Baroness Amherst of Hackney) on topics including relating to the purchase of items in Egypt; the sale of the families book collection to Liverpool; the identification of museum papyri.

Note:
MSS 2/48a is also numbered 1/50 and A.96

Correspondence from Anthony John Arkell arranging a visit to see Newberry and relating to research including on trees, plants, predynastic period and the Sudan.

Invitation from Helen S. Armstrong to lunch.

Correspondence from W. E. Armstrong relating to a talk at the Anthropological Club, Cambridge.

Note:
MSS 3/34 is also numbered 20a
NSS 3/35 is also numbered 20

Correspondence from Iskander Assad, an Egyptian student, including arranging to meet Newberry in London and asking for help on his appointment to Keeper of the Ancient Egyptian Department of the Agricultural Museum, Cairo.

Note:
MSS 26/3 is also numbered A.181

Letter from Mary Atkinson asking Newberry to give a friend, Brian Melland, an introduction at Tel el Amarna, and a following letter thanking him for his help.

Letter from J. Aubin relating to Newberry becoming a member of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften [in German].

Correspondence from A. Badawi thanking Newberry.

Correspondence from G. P. Baker including relating to Egyptian embroideries, plants, gardening, and the Kotivus tree from Olympia.

Correspondence from Mrs S. G. Bax-Ironside regarding Newberry taking charge of her daughter's box of belongings.

Note:
MSS 4/45 is also numbered 67
MSS 4/46 is also numbered 15

Letter of thanks from Norman Hepburn Baynes.

Note:
MSS 4/47 is also numbered 13

Letter from Reverend Robert Douglas Beloe (1868-1931) inviting Newberry to give a lecture.

Note:
MSS 4/64 is also numbered A 186