Texts in Arabic and part of column:

• pencil sketch and texts on paper
• loose
• 19 x 10.3 cm

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.

The Tenantry Column at Alnwick in Northumberland:

• watercolour sketch on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 52.1
• 28.6 x 22.6 cm
• [on sketch] 'Alnwick / juin 23 1856' (pencil note)

The sacred bull Apis predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• loose, adjacent to page 11
• 37.0 x 22.3 cm
• [on sketch] 'Germanicus consults the Bull Apis by offering him food' (ink note)
• [on sketch] 'the Bull Apis returns an unfavourable answer to Germanicus by refusing to eat out of / his hands' (ink note)

The sacred Apis bull predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus, with bull's head detail:

• inked pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 48.3 x 29.0 cm
• [on sketch] 'No 22' (pencil note)

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Two Egyptian team members, accompanied by Howard Carter [wearing hat and waistcoat, left foreground], carry trays containing objects from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb while being pursued by tourists. The man on the left carries a decorated box (Carter 44), probably a footstool or stool, while the tray conveyed by the man contains two items, perhaps a box lid and a vessel (not identified). The objects are being transported to the nearby 'Laboratory' (the tomb of King Sety II, KV15).

Portfolio titled 'Thebes' (ink)
Pencil note: 'Medamoud, Karnak and Luxor' (almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'C' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).

Female lute player, detail from a scene with female musicians performing for guests at a banquet in the tomb of Kha (TT 8), temp. Amenhotep II, Tuthmosis IV and Amenhotep III, at Deir el-Medina in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with right edge folded in twice [right side of album page]
• 41.8 x 66 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Woman playing and dancing. / 19th (or perhaps 10th) July 1843 [lower part of date lost]' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] '9' (pencil note)

Merytre holding a Hathor-head sistrum and menat, detail from a scene on the right (North) thickness of the entrance to the Hall of the tomb of Merytre's husband, Neferhotep (TT 49), probably temp. Ay, at El-Khokha in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 25 x 34.9 cm
• [on mount] 'C. 2. / Tomb near a Assasief / 26th July 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '20' (pencil note)

A woman drinking from a jar while standing by the side of two pomegranate trees, detail of a scene from the tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49), probably temp. Ay, at El-Khokha in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 111
• 25.7 x 17.7 cm
• [on mount] '54' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'Woman drinking. / From a painting in a tomb near the one marked A. / Assasief. / 15th July 1843. / This is also copied from a hasty sketch in my note book, and it / would be difficult to trace it as it is much decayed, except / the face and legs.' (pencil note)

The solar disk, emerging above the horizon of the mountains, is held by the arms of Nut and those of a personified ankh, with a dressed personified djad pillar supporting the whole group; this central group is adored by four baboons, kneeling Isis and Nephthys and two ba-birds, from a painted wall scene in the Ramesside tomb of Nefersekheru (TT 296), at El-Khokha in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 122
• 17.7 x 25.7 cm
• [on mount] '63' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'From a tomb near the Scheich El Beleds. / Gurna. / 15th July 1843. / This is not very correct as I drew it from a rough sketch / in my Note Book, and as the place was extremely hard to / get to, I did not take the trouble of going there again. / It is painted, but I saw no cartouche. The style of the / tomb is bad, as are the statues in it. The tomb is possibly / of the time of Amenoph 3rd but it is impossible to judge / from the style the period. / G Ll.' (pencil note)

The 'Colossi of Memnon', viewed from the South, in the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes:

• unfinished pencil drawing
• mounted
• 25.4 x 35.5 cm
• [on mount] 'Memnon. / Gurna. 21st Aug. 1843' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '40.' (pencil note)

Statue of Queen Teye next to the right leg of the southern colossus of Amenhotep III (Memnon Colossi), in the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 24.9 x 35 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Taia. / 8th Aug: 1843.' (pencil)
• [on mount] 'The Wife of Amenophth 3rd. Height about 18 ft.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '17' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'Taia the wife of Amenophth 3rd / From the S. colossal statue. Gurna. / The other statue is the Memnon. 8 Aug. 1843 / The height of this beautiful and unfortunately / mutilated figure is about 18 ft.' (pencil note)

Osiride Pillars and fallen Colossi of Ramesses II in the Second Court of the Ramesseum in Thebes:

• watercolour with pencil details
• mounted
• 35.4 x 25.4 cm
• [on recto of watercolour] 'Memnonium. Thebes. / 26th Aug 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on recto of watercolour] 'colossi' [faded] (pencil note)
• [on mount] '54' (pencil note)

Thebes, upper part of Ramesses II offering, detail of an unidentified scene, perhaps from one of the Osiride pillars in the Second Court or a column in the Hypostyle in the Ramesseum:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 25 x 35 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Ramases the great. / <<cartouches of Ramesses II>> / Memnonium. / 26th Aug. 1843.' (pencil)
• [on mount] '24' (pencil note)

Three men fishing with basket-traps in the flooded canals at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 116
• 25.7 x 17.7 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Fishing with a Basket in the flooded canals. / Gurna. Thebes. 20th Aug: 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '57' (pencil note)

Man fishing with a harpoon while seated on the riverbank at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes; next to him is a rod and line which has a live mouse suspended from it, presumably the mouse is being used as bait or a lure:

• pencil drawing
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 114
• 25.7 x 17.7 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Gurna. Thebes. 20th Aug. 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '55' (pencil note)

Two rows of female mourners squatting on the ground, detail from a funerary scene in the tomb of Haremhab (TT 78), temp. Tuthmosis III to Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (top and right <twice>)
• mounted
• 38.1 x 44.8 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Women mourners wailing. / Tomb at Thebes. / No. 16 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
• [on recto of tracing] '4' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] 'N 7 -' (pencil note)

A priest, wearing a long cloak and carrying a staff, and a priestess, from the funeral cortege accompanying the sarcophagus which is being dragged to the tomb, in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing
• mounted
• 30.5 x 36.9 cm
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] 'No 13.' (pencil)

Female servant bringing a gazelle and a tray laden with grapes, from a wall painting in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing
• mounted
• 30.4 x 43 cm
• [on recto of tracing] encircled '1' (pencil)

Three musicians (woman with harp, man with lute and woman with double-pipe), detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with right edge folded in
• mounted
• 55.2 x 36.9 cm
• [on mount] '7' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] 'No 11.' (pencil note)

Five female musicians playing the harp, lute, double-pipe, lyre and tambourine, accompanied by a small female dancer, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 35 x 24.9 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 1st Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '12' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'Female Minstrels. / Tomb to which there is a forced passage from / No 17. / 1st Sept / 2nd Sept / } / 1843. / With exception of the first face on the left, all the others have been / carefully injured. I have restored these. The date of the tomb / I do not know, but it is probably about Amenophth 3rd. The / paintings are very badly done, and the tomb is unfinished. / The colours however are very fresh. There is in this as in other / tombs different colours for the females. The harper is yellow, / but the next woman is rather copper coloured, so is the / little girl, and the lute player. Were they women from the / Upper country, brought expressly for their national instru / ments? The girdle was not confined to the Upper country / women. Sotennofrä wears it.' (pencil note)

Thebes, a harp with the uppermost terminal decorated with the head of Tuthmosis IV, detail from a scene of presentation of royal gifts to the Temple of Amun, in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 24.9 x 35 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Harp. / Tomb, near 17. / 1st Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '29' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'This is one of the most exquisite things / I have seen in the tombs. It is not finished / for the tomb has never been completed. / The headdress is blue, the band and pendants / and serpent yellow or gold, the staff of the / Harp gold, and the base, silver or white.' (pencil note)

Three female musicians seated on the ground, one playing the double-pipe and the other two clapping, from a scene in the tomb of Amenhotep-si-se (TT 75), temp. Thutmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 35 x 24.9 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Tomb near 17. / 2nd Sept 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '25' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'These women are under the others which I have copied / playing on the Harp, the double pipe, the lute and / the onestringed mandolin. Their faces have been / I believe also purposely defaced, and whoever traced / those above has used sealing wax to fasten the / paper.' (pencil note)

The young Amenhotep II seated on the lap of the royal nurse Amenemopet and holding captives, from a scene of the tomb of Amenemopet's son, Kenamun (TT 93), temp. Amenhotep II, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
-pencil drawing

• mounted
• 24.9 x 34.9 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Amenophth 2nd and Ramaithä / Tomb 33. 17th July 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '6' (pencil note)

Amenhotep III seated in a kiosk, from a scene in the tomb of Khaemhet (TT 57), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 24.8 x 34.9 cm
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note)

Agricultural scenes including waiting mule-chariot, man asleep under tree, boy playing pipe, men carrying and threshing grain, from the tomb of Khaemhet (TT 57), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes::

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 34.9 x 24.9 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Tomb. 5. / 8th Oct. 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '31' (pencil note)

Female musicians and dancers, detail from a scene in the tomb of Mery (TT 95), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with right edge folded in twice
• mounted
• 66.3 x 42.2 cm
• [on recto of tracing] '10' (pencil note)

Female musicians and dancers, detail from a scene in the tomb of Mery (TT 95), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 34.5 x 25 cm
• [on recto of drawing] 'Women dancing / Tomb S of 34. 18 July 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '2' (pencil note)
• [on verso of drawing] 'The dress is the Greek Cimberia(?)' (pencil note)

Two female guests with two female attendants pouring water or oil onto the head of one of them, detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Ptahemhet (TT 77), later usurped by Roy, temp. Tuthmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (right <twice> and bottom)
• mounted
• 66.2 x 46 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Lady in a bath. / Tomb at Thebes. No. 15 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] 'No. 10 -' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] '8' (pencil note)