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Howard Carter Collection

  • Carter MSS
  • Collection
  • 1899-1939

Notebooks, loose notes, maps, plans, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver desk-set. The documentation was created during Carter's career between 1899-1939. This material excludes material connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun, see the Tutankhamun Archive.

Carter, Howard

Thebes. Valley of the Kings. Carnarvon excavations: Gardiner's transcription of lion-hunt ostracon

Letter from Alan H. Gardiner to Howard Carter, 9 July 1923, with Gardiner's transcription and translation for the lion-hunt ostracon, found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson

Thebes. Birabi. Asasif. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Site 14. Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs: stela, photograph

Howard Carter's photograph, stela of Akhamenerau, Servant of Amun, Chamberlain, son of Paheri, before Osiris and four sons of Horus, probably 26th Dynasty, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 44268, Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Weight of Shepses and a scarab of Amenophis III: notes with drawings

Howard Carter's manuscript notes with sketches.

  • Transcriptions of royal attributes for Ramesses IV, from his tomb, KV 2, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
  • Weight of Shepses, stone, Old Kingdom, from Edfu, bought by Carter in Cairo. [see TopBib v.205A]
  • Lion-hunt scarab of Amenophis III, blue glazed steatite, found during excavations in Luxor temple in 1917 and purchased by Carter "for C.". A very similar scarab, or the same one, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 74392.

'Heretic Family' (Amarna Period)

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on the 'Heretic Family' (Amarna period kings), part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty. This group includes:

  • Typewritten genealogical table (folding) for Amenophis III (Amenhotep III), Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton), Smenkhkare, and Tutankhamun. Accompanied by 5 typewritten pages of accompanying notes, incorporating the comments of Dr Douglas Derry and Carter
  • Typewritten table with dates of accession and death for 18th Dynasty kings, excluding Neferneferuaten and Haremhab (Horemheb). - Accompanied by several pages of manuscript notes on regnal years, relevant bibliography, and miscellaneous notes
  • Letter to Carter from H. E. Winlock, dated 20-12-1925, regarding a discussion on Tutankhamun's parentage
  • Notes on dated monuments of Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton)
  • Letter to Carter from P. E. Newberry, dated 20-12-1931, responding to Carter's enquiry whether Amenophis III (Amenhotep III) had a son named Thutmose, off-print enclosed of Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), pp. 82-85 figs pl. xii (OEB 146401).

Sarah Joanne Clackson Collection

  • Clackson MSS
  • Collection
  • late 1980s - 2003

Notes, transcriptions, translations, article drafts, lecture drafts, card index, photographs, slides, overhead projector sheets, electronic data files, microfilm, correspondence, annotated photocopies and off-prints, relating to Coptic and Greek documents and Coptic archaeology.

Clackson, Sarah Joanne

Jacques Jean Clère Collection

  • Clère MSS
  • Collection
  • mid 1940s-1989

Notebooks, loose notes, drafts of articles, teaching notes, photocopies, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, impressions, photographs, negatives, transparencies (cut into strips and in rolls), videotape recording, tracings, drawings, and correspondence.

Clère, Jacques Jean

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford Collection

  • Crawford MSS
  • Collection
  • 1950-1952

Maps, plans and drawings, original and fair copies created by Crawford and Frank Addison for Crawford, O. G. S. 1951. The Fung kingdom of Sennar: with a geographical account of the Middle Nile Region.

  • Sennar roll 1:
    • Addison and Crawford drawings for figs. 1-4;
    • Northern Fung region, discussed in Chapter ii, figs. 17, 24;
    • Southern Fung region, discussed in Chapter ii, figs. 8, 14, 16, 21, 28.
  • Sennar roll 2:
    • Drawings for figs. 1-8, and part of figs. 10, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25;
    • Two maps used in the field (1951-1952) for naming sites:
    • — Korgus to Kuddik;
    • — Kuddik to 'Usheir.

Crawford, Osbert Guy Stanhope

Walter Ewing Crum Collection

  • Crum MSS
  • Collection
  • c.1890-1944

Card indexes used in compilation of the <i>Coptic Dictionary</i>, photographs, photostats, notebooks, notes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, negatives, and casts.

Crum, Walter Ewing

Notebook 71

Copy, notes, etc. of Kircher’s Scala with letters from Windstedt on Bodleian 325 and others.
Magical words.
Copies of ostraca published in Theban Ostraca (Toronto, 1913) .

Notebook 72

Copy, notes, etc. of Kircher’s Scala with letters from Windstedt on Bodleian 325 and others.
Magical words.
Copies of ostraca published in Theban Ostraca (Toronto, 1913).

Norman de Garis and Nina Davies Collection

  • Davies MSS
  • Collection
  • c.1900-1940

Papers, including notebooks, notes, tracings and squeezes, made in Theban tombs and elsewhere, photographs, collection of coloured hieroglyphic signs, indexes of scenes in Theban tombs, etc.

Davies, Norman de Garis

The Graffiti Archive Roger O. De Keersmaecker

  • De Keersmaecker MSS
  • Collection
  • 1965-2019

Corpus of early traveller’s graffiti from selected sites and monuments in Egypt and Sudan, including transcriptions and photographs of graffiti, collated by Roger De Keersmaecker between 1965 and the 2010s, then published by him between 2001 and 2019.

De Keersmaecker, Roger O.

Volume I

Print and bound publication:

  • De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2001), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, I: the kiosk of Qertassi. Berchem (Antwerp): Graffito Graffiti (OEB 184624).
  • Early travellers' graffiti at Qertassi [see TopBib vii.6-8].
  • Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
  • It includes: the annotation "ACCESSION" on p. 6 (= PDF p. 8) and an annotated sticky note on p. 20 (= PDF p. 23).

Volume X

Print and bound publication:

  • De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2011), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan X: the temple of Kalabsha, the temple of Beit el-Wali. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 169306).
  • Great Temple of Mandulis (Kalabsha) [see TopBib vii.10-21] and Rock Temple of Beit el-Wali [see TopBib vii.21-27].
  • Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
  • It includes: author's personal stamp with address details on cover page; an attached page between p. 37-38 with two pictures of the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion in Jerusalem on the recto and a picture of Cornelius Bradford's grave inscription on the verso (omitted from the PDF); and an attached page at the end with the author's biographical information (omitted from the PDF).

Volume XI

Print and bound publication:

  • De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2011), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, XI: Gebel el-Silsila: Great Speos of Haremhab, shrines, quarry and rock-stelae. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 169307).
  • Gebel el-Silsila: Great Speos of Haremhab [see TopBib v.208-213], shrines and rock-stelae [see TopBib v.213-218 and 220] and Quarries [see TopBib v.221].
  • Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
  • It includes: annotations in the form of checkmarks on p. 6-9, "o" marks on p. 9-10, and text on p. 7 with "DK 2011 (2) DK / DK 2011 (3) 2011 (4)"; and an attached page at the end with the author's biographical information (omitted from the PDF).

Volume XII

Print and bound publication:

  • De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2011), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, XII: the Luxor Temple. Mortsel (Antwerp): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 169308).
  • Luxor Temple [see TopBib ii.2.301-339].
  • Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
  • It includes: annotations on p. 55 with crosses and text "S. WEIR LEWIS / OF PHILADELPHIA, AGE 26 / WITH MAX"; a sticky note attached to the verso of p. 88 with the annotation "DR. DANIEL C. / McLEOD / US NAVAL / SURGEON"; and an attached page at the end with the author's biographical information (omitted from the PDF).
  • The PDF includes additional pages not present in the print volume: additional information on different individuals received from different sources (p. 111-115); biographical information on J. G. Vassar, with a portrait and the cover and an extract from Vassar, John Guy 1861, Twenty Years around the world. New York: Rudd & Carleton (p. 116-120); and additional information on G. W. Pratt (p. 121-122).

Index to volumes I-XII

Print and bound publication:

  • De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2011), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, supplement: total index for the 12 volumes. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 169305).
  • Most of the graffiti date to the nineteenth century.
  • It includes: index sections for the additional volumes I, II, III part I and II (Abu Simbel, Dendera, Napoleon Bonaparte in Egypt and "Index-DUTERTRE") (22 pages in total, all omitted from the PDF), with an annotation in the form of a cross next to "Platt, W. H." in the Abu Simbel section.

Additional volume I

Print and bound publication:

  • De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2012), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, additional volume [I]: the temples of Abu Simbel. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 169314).
  • The Temples of Abu Simbel [see TopBib vii.95-117].
  • Most of the graffiti date from the nineteenth century.
  • It includes: the annotation "I" on cover page; inserted loose pages between p. 37-38 with biographical information on Giovanni d'Athanasi (Dimitrios Papandriopulo) (1798-1854), together with an annotated card titled "1824 ABU SIMBEL" containing a list of four individuals with their dates and number references; inserted loose pages between p. 59-60 with information on graffiti by H. B. Humphrey's / [HB H] BO USA 1840, together with an extract from email correspondence; and an attached page at the end with the author's biographical information (omitted from the PDF).

Additional volume II

Print and bound publication:

  • De Keersmaecker, Roger O. (2012), Travellers' graffiti from Egypt and the Sudan, additional volume II: the temple complex of Dendara. Mortsel (Antwerpen): Graffito-Graffiti (OEB 185328).
  • The Temple Complex of Dendera [see TopBib vi.41-110].
  • Most of the graffiti date from the nineteenth century.
  • It contains: attached pages at the end with the printed article Hallof, Jochen 1996. Besucherinschriften in den Tempeln von Dendera. Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 96, 229-244 (OEB 40093) (omitted from the PDF).
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