Griffith Institute Archive

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Giza

Horeau MSS 46.1
Stuk

Part of Hector Horeau Collection

View of the pyramids at Giza and the Nile:

watercolour
mounted
[on mount, bottom edge] 'Vue des pyramides de Gyzeh'. (pencil note)
[on mount, verso] '1. Pyramides de Gyzeh'. (ink note)
17.4 by 12.4 cm

Hector Horeau Watercolour - Philae

Horeau MSS 47
Stuk

Part of Hector Horeau Collection

Details of six columns from the Hathor temple at Philae, with faint details of the Hathor face and intricate painted details of the capitals. In between the columns on the right side of the paper is a faint pencil sketch of a column structure:

watercolour
mounted
[on recto, centre] 'CHAPITEAUX du TEMPLE d'HATOR PHÏÆ 1er au Nord, 2e, 4e, 3e, 5e, 6e au Sud'. (pencil note)
[on mount, verso] 'CHAPITEAUX. TEMPLE D'ATHOR Ile de Philae'. (ink note)
35.9 by 45.6 cm

Hector Horeau Drawing - Philae

Horeau MSS 47 verso-2
Stuk

Part of Hector Horeau Collection

Detail of a column capital from the Hathor temple at Philae, including faint notes of measurements:

ink drawing
mounted
[on mount, verso] 'Chapiteaux restaurés Temple de Vénus Athor'. (ink note)
26.5 by 24.9 cm

Man walking ahead of another man on horseback

E. W. Lane MSS 8.01
Stuk
c. 1825-1876

Part of Edward William Lane Collection

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

E. W. Lane MSS 8.07
Stuk
c. 1825-1876

Part of Edward William Lane Collection

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

E. W. Lane MSS 8.13
Stuk
c. 1825-1876

Part of Edward William Lane Collection

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

E. W. Lane MSS 8.17
Stuk
c. 1825-1876

Part of Edward William Lane Collection

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

E. W. Lane MSS 8.19
Stuk
c. 1825-1876

Part of Edward William Lane Collection

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

E. W. Lane MSS 8.21
Stuk
c. 1825-1876

Part of Edward William Lane Collection

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)

Gertrude Caton-Thompson Collection

Caton-Thompson MSS
Collectie
c.1920-1985

Notes, papers, correspondence, etc., on prehistoric Faiyûm.

Caton-Thompson, Gertrude

Petrie Journal 1886 to 1887 pages 1 to 50

Petrie MSS 1.6.1-50
Deel

Part of William Matthew Flinders Petrie Collection

Petrie Journal 1886 to 1887 pages 51 to 99

Petrie MSS 1.6.51-99
Deel

Part of William Matthew Flinders Petrie Collection

Petrie Journal 1887 to 1888 (Medinet el-Faiyum and Hawara)

Petrie MSS 1.7
Bestanddeel
1887-1888

Part of William Matthew Flinders Petrie Collection

Journal letters.
December 5, 1887, through to May 12, 1888.
Handwritten.
Petrie begins the season excavating in the temple of Sobek at Medinet el-Faiyum, then moves on to Hawara where he surveys the pyramid, as well as finding many mummy-portraits from the Roman Period cemetery there.
Main sites: Medinet el-Faiyum and Hawara.
Other sites: Byahmu (Biyahmu), Medinet el-Gurob (Ghurab; Gourob).