Two men in a pool collecting water in large jars (for brick-making), detail from a scene in the tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100), temp. Tuthmosis III to Amenophis II, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (top and right)
• mounted
• 35.2 x 45.6 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Taking fish out of a tank. / Tomb at Thebes. / No. 35 ? / 10th July 1843.' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '3' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] 'No. 12' (pencil note)

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)

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)

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)

Man on horseback in conversation with another man and woman seated on the ground outside the walls of an ancient temple, probably at Thebes:

• watercolour
• loose item with own mount
• 16.9 x 14 cm (19.4 x 16.4 cm with mount)

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)

Two women, each holding a sistrum and a bouquet, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:

• pencil tracing with right edge folded in [right side of album page]
• mounted
• 42.9 x 55 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Women making an offering / Tomb 4.' (pencil note)
• [on verso of mount] '6' (pencil note)

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)

[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)

Howard Carter's photograph, copper implements, includes a knife or razor, from a toilet set?, labelled "14", Cemeteries, Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes duplicate photograph.

Howard Carter's photograph, statue base with feet of standing statue, inscription with cartouches on front of base, faience, New Kingdom, found during excavation of Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

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.

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.

Howard Carter's photograph of 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.

Howard Carter's photograph of the text on verso of 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.

Part of the funeral procession scene (dragging of the sarcophagus) in the passage of the Tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82) at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, on the West Bank of Thebes (TopBib i2.165(10).III):

• pencil sketch/tracing on tracing paper
• loose
• 30.9 x 15.1 cm

Howard Carter's manuscript on 'Component parts of royal hypogea of the XVIIIth Dynasty' with sketches of sample tomb plans. For royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's annotated typescript with notes on royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Titled 'The evolution of the Theban Royal Tombs', dated 11/06/1923.

Thickness showing the upper part of Maet, from Thebes, Valley of the Kings, Royal Tomb 17, Sethos, entrance to room N, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 2469.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Maat from tomb of Seti I F'.

Third copy of My Early Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1968).

Third copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

With an unsigned dedication on the front matter by Mr Rolf Gardiner:

"For the Library of the Griffiths[sic] Institute
on the occasion of a Memorial Dinner
held, by invitation of the Provost, at the
Queen's College, Oxford, in commemoration of
Sir Alan Gardiner
on Saturday 23 May 1964

Followed by the signatures of the attendees.

With an enclosure at the back containing the souvenir booklet printed by Oxford University Press on the occasion of the Memorial Dinner (sections: "Menu", "Sir Alan Gardiner, Kt.", a portrait photograph, and "Sir Alan Gardiner's Publications"), and a loose calling card of Rolf Gardiner.

Index of Late Egyptian Grammar, index for Egyptian Dictionary, and various other indexes. 18 notebooks containing copies of hieratic papyri and ostraca. Small watercolour. 2 boxes of family papers and ephemera, including personal correspondence, certificates, photographs, notes for Peet’s books on Neolithic Italy, a couple of pages from an inaugural lecture, newspaper cuttings, a travel record small notebook, a Latin and Greek classes notebook, etc.

Three architectural sketches:

• pencil sketches on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 44.6 and Bonomi 44.7
• 18.8 x 12.0 cm
• [on mount] '2' (ink note)

Three designs featuring the goddess Britannia:

• partially inked pencil drawings on paper
• loose, adjacent to Bonomi MSS 40.6
• 17.7 x 22.0 cm

Three designs featuring the goddess Britannia:

• pencil sketches on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 50.2
• 22.5 x 13.4 cm

Three designs from the life of Christ:

• ink sketches on paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 40.10
• 11.2 x 11.2 cm

Three designs of female figure pouring oil into a lamp and holding ewer and lamp:

• pencil sketches on tracing paper
• loose
• 21.6 x 20.0 cm

Three designs of woman holding ewer and lamp (mirror views; one on recto, two on verso):

• pencil tracings on tracing paper
• loose
• 26.4 x 21.9 cm

Three designs of woman pouring oil into a lamp (mirror views):

• pencil tracings/sketches on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 46.18
• 27.1 x 19.1 cm

Three designs of woman pouring oil into a lamp (two in mirror view):

• pencil tracings on tracing paper
• mounted, together with Bonomi MSS 46.14
• 14.2 x 19.1 cm