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Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, unidentified private tomb, two men carrying a large wine-jar

Two men carrying a large wine-jar with painted grape-vine decoration, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

  • pencil and watercolour tracing with right edge folded in twice
  • mounted
  • 58.5 x 42.1 cm
  • [on recto of tracing] 'Gurna. / 25th Sept 1843' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '5' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of tracing] 'No 9 -' (pencil note)

Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, young shepherd hauling a sheep towards water

Young shepherd hauling a sheep by its forelegs towards a pool of water at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 130 and Lloyd MSS 132
  • 12.7 x 8.8 cm
  • [on mount] '73' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'Near the Memnonium / Qurna. Thebes / 6th Oct 1843.' (pencil note)

Thebes, Valley of the Queens

View of the Valley of the Queens at Thebes:

  • pencil sketch
  • mounted
  • 35 x 24.9 cm
  • [on recto of sketch] 'Valley of the Tombs of the Queens. Thebes. / 24th July 1843.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'Valley of the Tombs of the Queens - Babel El Hadgee Acmet.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '33' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of sketch] 'Valley of the / Tombs of the Queens. / Bab El Hadgee Achmet. / 24th July 1843.' (pencil note)

Thebes, unidentified private tomb, decorative pattern from a boat-cabin

Decorative pattern from a boat-cabin, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:

  • pencil and watercolour drawing
  • mounted
  • 35 x 24.9 cm
  • [on recto of drawing/watercolour] 'Tomb near 9. / Gurna. Thebes. / 25th Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'W.C. / [encircled] 58' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing/watercolour] 'Part of a Naos in a boat. / This would make a handsome Lambris arranged in a straight / line. / 25th Sept 1843.' (pencil note)

Thebes, unidentified private tomb, woman carrying a menat and a floral bouquet

Woman carrying a menat and floral a bouquet, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 25 x 34.9 cm
  • [on mount] 'From a Tomb.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '18' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'From a tomb to the N. perhaps No 5. or / near it. / 11 July 1843. / The paintings are stiff but the style is not bad. / The details are very much worked out. All the / heads of the women were effaced, it is said by / Mr. Hay's draughtsman. I have restored the face, the / band round the head, and the feet.' (pencil note)

Thebes, unidentified temple or tomb, barque of Amun-Re

[Priests] carrying the barque of Amun-Re, detail of a scene in an unidentified temple or tomb at Thebes:

  • pencil drawing with edges folded in on two sides (top and bottom edges of album page)
  • mounted
  • 68 x 28.8 cm
  • [on verso of drawing] 'No 4' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] '77' (pencil note)

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.

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

Three seated figures with four attendants

Three seated figures with four attendants:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose, adjacent to p. 7; too small to be the item originally mounted there
  • 8.5 x 6.2 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Ld Prudhoe Champollion Defterdar bay / and the artist drinking coffee' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] 'South of Nour' (pencil note) [does not refer to sketch]
  • [on mount] 'glazed' (pencil note) [does not refer to sketch]
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