(a) Approximately 3,500 negatives recording scenes from private tombs at Thebes, accompanied by a concordance in five notebooks . (b) There are also several hundred photographs which were received in exchange with the Abteilung Ägyptologie, Trier. (c) Microfilm roll with copies of the negatives.
Papers of William Matthew Flinders Petrie including journals covering 38 seasons (1880-1929) and photographs of excavations. The collection also includes secondary material associated with Petrie's journals, photographs of objects in museums, souvenir photographs and photocopies of material held at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London.
(1) Excavation journals for 1899-1901 (working with W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-1903 (working with G. A. Reisner). (2) Personal correspondence exchanged between Mace and his wife Winifred during the Winter season 1922-1923, Winifred Mace and her mother during the Winter season 1923-1924, and other correspondence related to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. (3) Two typewritten articles by Mace on work in Tutankhamun's tomb: "DESPATCH No. 5" (3 pages), and "THE CLOSING OF THE TOMB" (incomplete, first page only + newspaper cutting of The Times article); both submitted to The Times and subsequently published on 31/01/1923 and 28/03/1923. (4) 39 photographs, most are original Burton images, some of which have been annotated by Howard Carter; they may have been used during the preparation of H. Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen i (1923). (5) Newspaper cuttings, most from The Times, published between 1922 and 1925.
(y) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - typewritten version (TAA iv.1). Diary for 1922-3 (TAA iv.2). (z) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - original handwritten version (TAA iv.3).
4 albums containing rubbings mainly of objects in the British Museum, and also other museums and private collections including those in the J. Lee collection.
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.
3 copies (1 typescript and two carbon copies) of a transcript made from Linant de Bellefonds' diary (1821-1822).
Titled: "Journal d'un Voyage en Ethiopie dans les Annees 1821 & 1822."
279 typescript pages
Not Griffith Institute copyright. See below for details.
14 glass plate negatives, two sizes, with a set of modern prints made from the larger-sized negatives (1818-1826). Not Griffith Institute copyright. Negatives made from the originals in the Louvre.
The negatives are copies of the following MSS:
B.15 (parts A and B)
Triple statue (same as following), not identified, with texts
B.26
Maison du Melek d'Argos
B.30
Gebel Barkal. View of Pyramid field (North and South groups)
TopBib vii.208, 203
= Bankes MSS XV.C.7
B.32
Gebel Barkal. Temple B.300. View of interior
TopBib vii.209
= Bankes MSS XV.C.2
B.32 bis
Gebel Barkal. Great Temple B.500. Sketch, general view showing granite stand of Taharqa, with Nile-gods binding sma-symbol etc.
TopBib vii.216A & 209(43)
B.36
Gebel Barkal. Great Temple B.500. Inner Court. Meroitic battle scene, including man on horseback and archer
TopBib vii.219(30)
= Bankes MSS XV.A.28
B.38 bis
Gebel Barkal. Temple B.700. Pylon (destroyed). West wing, outer face, Senkamanisken smites captives before Amun-Re
TopBib vii.214
= Bankes MSS XV.C.8 [middle]
B.45
Gebel Barkal. Temple B.300. Third Hall. View
TopBib vii.209
B.62
Musauwarat el-Sofra. Great Temple. Views
TopBib vii.264
= Bankes MSS XVII.B.15
B.68
Musauwarat el-Sofra. South-East Temple. Interior. North-East row of columns. Column 2, three registers
TopBib vii.267
= Bankes MSS XVII.B.6
B.69
Musauwarat el-Sofra. South-East Temple. Interior. North-East row of columns. Column 1, two registers
TopBib vii.265
= Bankes MSS XVII.B.5
B.73
Naga'. General view
TopBib vii.267
B.105
Naga'. Lion Temple of Apedemak. Exterior. King, Queen and Prince, before Isis holding captives, Mut, Hathor and Satis
TopBib vii.269(21)-(22)
= Bankes MSS XVII.C.7-8
Linant de Bellefonds, (Bey and Pasha) Louis Maurice Adolphe
Notebooks, notes, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, and correspondence. There is a small amount of material amongst these papers relating to Westminster Abbey (correspondence).
Copies, transcriptions, facsimiles, drawings and some photographs of mummy labels in Demotic, Greek or bilingual, presented as loose sheets in folders arranged by cities/museums/collections, housed in five slip-cover boxes. They were collected by Möller from printed sources and from several collections he visited on research journeys. One folder in box V is by W. Spiegelberg (1893).
The Percy Newberry Collection has been listed thanks to a cataloguing grant from the The National Archives in 2015. The collection comprises a wide range of material on topics including Predynastic Egypt, Theban tombs, Egyptian flora and fauna, early Egyptian travellers, ancient Egyptian religion and culture, as well as Newberry's genealogy. Formats include notebooks, research notes, photographs, tracings, rubbings and newspaper clippings.
The collection has been divided into 5 series: Biographical Material; Correspondence; Research Notebooks; Subject Files, and Research Material.
1) Photograph album of a family holiday to Abu Qir, erroneously titled ‘Abusir. Summer 1923’, also including other older photographs (1918 to 1923). 2) Photograph album of family portraits [non-Egyptological]. 3) Copy of the Arabic publication 'Arab Architecture in Egypt: The Principal Structural Characteristics of the Style Classified'; by Wilfrid Joseph Dilley (...); with plates prepared by F. Chatterton (...); translated by Mahmoud Ahmed (...); Cairo: National Printing Press, 1923; including 2 manuscript English translations of Arabic title page [non-Egyptological] [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869282469]. 4) An additional folder with photographs, 2 postcards and a small group of family papers.
Thebes, private tombs: one incomplete set of Series T photographs [15 boxes] and a few duplicate photographs of the same [2 boxes], there are also some glass negatives of some of the same [1 box]
Thebes, Valley of the Kings, royal tombs: an incomplete set of photographs [1 box]
Thebes. Valley of the Queens, the tomb of Nefertari (QV 66), photographs [1 folder, in the same box as Valley of the Kings]
Deir el-Bahari (Deir el-Bahri), Temple of Hatshepsut, incomplete set of photographs [1 box]
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.
Diary kept from 4 May 1922 to 20 October 1926 by the wife of the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940). The diary contains detailed daily entries recording social engagements and memorable events, including the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter’s team, of which her husband was a member. The diary details her life and travels with her husband at home in Florence, their stays in Egypt (especially Luxor, but also Cairo), the trip they made across the US and to Hollywood in 1924, and various holidays in Europe (London, Salzburg, St. Moritz, etc.), as well as trips to friends in Italy. Lined account book, 400 pages, 8vo (179 x 110 x 28 mm).
9 mounted photographs made from drawings of el-Kâb, Philae, and Amada. Microfilm roll with copies of the Burton MSS once in the British Museum and now in the British Library.
Photographs of Nubian Temples made during Breasted's expedition, 1905-6. Photostats of temple plans annotated with Chicago, Oriental Institute photograph numbers.