Chariots. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Includes Carter's drawings with reconstructions of the chariots and harnesses, comparisons with chariots from other tombs and depictions of chariots from temple and tomb wall scenes.
An essay on Tutankhamun's chariots (TAA i.3.8.10-17), based on Howard Carter's notes, probably edited by Mrs Jane Waley in 1946-1947. Mrs Waley worked for the Griffith Institute and created the first catalogue for the Tutankhamun records.
Canopic equipment. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Carter's eight annotated typewritten pages with a description of the equipment and two scale drawings:
Carter's typewritten report on the canopic equipment;
Carter's typescript notes on the miniature gold coffin from the north-east receptacle;
Carter's drawing, the canopic canopy (266), shrine (266a), and chest (266b), plan with orientation, position of the goddess statues, scenes on shrine noting goddesses and genii, etc.;
Carter's drawing, section showing the canopic canopy (266), shrine (266a), and chest (266b).
Howard Carter's notebook with notes on hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects in Lacau, Pierre, Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire 2 volumes (1904) (1906) (OEB 142822). Now transferred to Carter MSS vi.8.
Tutankhamun notebook, Howard Carter's copies of selected object cards
Selected object cards, Alan H. Gardiner's transcriptions copied by Carter from original object cards (see TAA i.1.1-620)
Carter's manuscript with transcriptions
Antechamber, object nos. 37, 38
Treasury, object nos. 261-337
Annexe, object nos. 338-420
1 enclosure, letter from Percy Newberry to Howard Carter, dated 13-09-1928, with transcription and translation of texts from the model figure of Tutankhamun, lying on a funeral bier [Carter 331a], now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60720.
Howard Carter's 'Notes upon Objects in the Store-room [Treasury], 1926-1927', forming parts of chapters 1 and 2 in volume iii of The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Madrid lecture, and notes on damp in the tomb
81 numbered pages
Carter's manuscript drafts (partial) for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 1 and 2.
Manuscript notes for a lecture in Madrid, May 1928.
Manuscript notes regarding the 'Existence of damp in the tomb'.
Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1924
Notes on Carter's activities in Egypt in early 1924, which include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and lecture venues and dates. Also contains a few notes on negotiations with British officials and the Egyptian authorities, between December 1924 and January 1925, regarding the dispute and closure of Tutankhamun's tomb.
Also entries for:
Lecture tour, North America, 12 April (depart London) to 2 July (depart New York).
Some lectures, England, October to early November.
Lecture, Madrid, Residencia de Estudiantes, 24 November.
Howard Carter's notes on objects found in the Annexe, manuscript for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5, and notes on deterioration and chemical change
Unbound group of 91 rule-lined, loose pages
Some pages crossed through (cancelled) by Carter
Includes some correspondence, list separately below
Notes, some with drawings on various topics including:
Egyptian slings;
Boxes and caskets found in the Annexe;
‘Note upon Older or Ancestral objects in Royal Tombs’;
Alabaster and stone vessels;
Baskets;
'Breakage of objects (in the Annexe)’;
Chairs;
Footstools;
Archery;
Weapons, arms and armour;
Game boxes;
Bread;
Wine jars;
‘Robes of Dalmatic type’;
Fire apparatus;
Fan;
Minerals.
Carter's manuscript for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5:
Sections beginning or titled:
'This Annexe was intended for a Store-Room' [etc.];
'Notes. Re Arts, Crafts and design.';
'The existence of damp in the tomb' [etc.];
'The possible sources of water from above, behind and sides of the foot-hill.'
‘Deterioration and chemical change’.
Correspondence within this group:
J. S. M. Rennie, of J. S. M. Rennie, Limited, to The Editor of the Illustrated London News, dated 17-08-1929, concerning Egyptian slings (TAA i.2.10.1);
Berkeley Moynihan, to Howard Carter, dated 13-01-1929, mentioning a visit to the tomb and questions about the two foetuses found in the tomb, and the calcite boat.
Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.
Howard Carter's records for objects found in the Valley during earlier excavations, now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Typewritten letter from H. E. Winlock to Carter, dated 25 June 1915, in response to Carter's request for a list of objects from the Valley of the Kings, now in the Metropolitan Museum
13 pages, typewritten list of finds from the Valley of the Kings, now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, with descriptions, some transcriptions, drawings, museum numbers, and bibliography.
Records for ostraca found during Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Thebes, including those from the Valley of the Kings, 1911-1922.
Two typewritten letters from Battiscombe Gunn to Carter, dated 25 and 27 July 1931, concerning Gunn's work on the ostraca
Gunn's typewritten report, "The Ostraka", 26 pages, with translations and commentary
Carter's manuscript draft letter, dated 7 August 1931, addressed to Gunn, acknowledging receipt of Gunn's report, and the intention to include it in a planned publication for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations between 1911 and early 1922.
Howard Carter and Émile Baraize's hand-drawn draft sketch map of the 'Northern end of the Theban Necropolis', covering the area between Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari) and Dra Abu el-Naga including El-Taraf.
Howard Carter and Émile Baraize's hand-drawn draft sketch map of the 'Northern end of the Theban Necropolis', covering the area between Deir el-Bahari (Deir el-Bahri) and Dra Abu el-Naga including El-Taraf.
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.
