Correspondence concerning whm amulet
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Part of Tutankhamun Archive
Correspondence between Howard Carter, A. H. Gardiner, P. Lacau, and P. Engelbach, concerning a whm amulet from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Carter, Howard
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Correspondence concerning whm amulet
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
Correspondence between Howard Carter, A. H. Gardiner, P. Lacau, and P. Engelbach, concerning a whm amulet from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Carter, Howard
Letters written to Howard Carter following the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
Letters sent to Howard Carter at the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. These letters were almost immediately passed on by Carter to A. C. Mace to deal with.
Carter, Howard
Penelope Fox's notes on furniture
Part of Tutankhamun Archive
Penelope Fox's notes on furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Perhaps for a planned publication.
Fox, Penelope
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Portfolio titled 'Drawings Egypt / JB' (ink)
Pencil note: '15'
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'E' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss)
Pencil note: 'Various - mostly Thebes' (underlined) (almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Ink table of contents with some pencil notes on piece of paper partially glued to cover:
Pencil notes partially covered by piece of paper glued to cover: 'This is a / rubbing / from some / Hieroglyphics / found among / the ruins of / Carthage / Given to me in Egypt'
Pencil note on small piece of paper mounted on verso of cover: 'Ask Prisse where lives / the man who cuts paper / inscriptions'
Pencil note on small piece of paper mounted on verso of cover: 'Lahaf / Vermilion / House'.
Part of Joseph Bonomi Collection
Portfolio titled 'Tracings Egypt / JB.' (ink)
Ink note: 'Tracings Egypt'
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'J' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss)
Pencil note: 'Nubia & one Dendera' (originally all underlined, now only 'Nubia') (almost certainly by Dr Moss).
Back cover:
Pencil note: 'Tracings Egyptian' (almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Pencil note: 'Sketches / Complete'.
Raymond Oliver Faulkner Collection
Sections of Faulkner, Raymond O. 1962. A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian (OEB 9012). Entries for parts of m, nrw and sḥtp. 13 manuscript pages with later annotations (changes and corrections).
Raymond Oliver Faulkner Collection
Zettel for the Wisdom of Amenemope
Part of Jaroslav Černý Collection
Copies of zettel for the Wisdom of Amenemope
Part of Jenny Lane Collection
Three framed portraits, two of which are on porcelain:
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Photographs and postcards of statues from museums, mostly Cairo Museum. The photographs have been identified during previous archival processing with Topographical Bibliography references written on the back.
Includes:
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder numbered '3' and titled 'Hippopotamus, Horse and Chariot, Lion, Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer, Ostrich' containing five handbound notebooks titled 'Hippopotamus', 'Horse and Chariot', 'Lion', 'Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyaena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer' and 'Ostrich'.
Notebook titled 'Hippopotamus' contains typed notes and a draft on the hippopotamus.
Notebook titled 'Horse and Chariot' contains notes on the horse and the chariot, including their introduction to Egypt, early references to them, representations in art, as well as notes on mules and charioteers. Also includes:
Cutting of an image of a side of a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen showing Tutankhamen in a chariot (Cairo Museum, JE 61467)
Cuttings of images of the interior and exterior of a chariot of Tuthmosis IV (Cairo Museum, JE 46097)
Notebook titled 'Lion' contains notes on lions including hunting lions, references to and representations of lions, their distribution and behavior. Also includes cutting of an image of a side of a painted box from the tomb of Tutankhamen showing Tutankhamen shooting lions from his chariot (Cairo Museum, JE 61467).
Notebook titled 'Monkey, Bats, Cheetah, Hyaena, Bear, Jerboa, Porcupine, Deer' includes:
Notes on different species of baboon and monkey, including cutting with drawings of two baboon-shaped objects
Notes on the bat
Notes on the cheetah, including a photograph of Newberry with a cheetah
Notes on the jerboa
Notes on references to the hyena
Notes on references to the bear
Notes on references to the porcupine, including cutting of a porcupine inscription (Egyptian Museum of Berlin, 1132)
Draft on the fallow deer, including tracing and drawings
Notebook titled 'Ostrich' includes notes on the ostrich, including their distribution and on ostrich feathers worn in the hair. Also includes:
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Folder titled ‘Dynasty XVIII T.IV A.III Amarna excluding Ay’. The folder contains several envelopes, listed below, with material relating to the 18th Dynasty.
Envelopes include:
Notes on the tomb of Tuthmosis IV (TopBib i.559), including sketches of the tomb, notes and sketches of items found in the tomb, including a throne and wooden boats.
Includes:
Notes relating to inscriptions in tomb TT64 belonging to Hekerneheh (TopBib i.128), including inscriptions from the vestibule of the tomb used in Newberry, Percy E. 1928. 'The sons of Tuthmosis IV.' Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1/2), 82-85 (OEB 146401). Also includes a letter from H.E. Winlock on work in TT64 (2nd April 1925).
Notes and inscriptions relating to Tuthmosis IV and his family. This material also references and relates to Newberry, Percy E. 1903. Extracts from my notebooks (VII). Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 25, 357-362 (OEB 187707).
Including:
Notes, drafts and copies of inscriptions relating to Amenhotep III, including on his wife Queen Tyi [Tiy; Tiye], father Tuthmosis IV, and daughters.
Notes on Amenhotep IV [or Akhenaton], Nefertiti, Semenkhkare, Yuya, tombs at El Amarna and history of the 18th Dynasty.
Includes:
Notes on Tutankhamun, including on the tomb and copies of inscriptions.
Includes:
Notes, sketches and copies of inscriptions from the Rock Chapel of Min at el-Salamuni, Akhmin (TopBib v.17). Also includes notes, not by Newberry, titled ‘Suggestions as to P.E.N.’s copy of Ay inscription, Akhmin’.
Notes, sketches, sketch plans of the tomb, copies of inscriptions from KV23 of Ay (TopBib i.550).
Handwritten and typed drafts, notes and copies of inscriptions relating to Tiy, Ay, Tutankhamun, Amenhotep III, and their relationship to one another. Includes typed drafts titled ‘The problem of Ay and his Queen Tyi’.
Letter from Norman de Garis Davies to Newberry on tomb TT192 belonging to Kheruef, the Steward of Queen Tiy.
Letter from Henry Hall to Newberry on a stela depicting Seker and Tutu (British Museum, EA 211), 31st January 1923, with a rubbing of an inscription on a granite fragment (identified during previous archival processing as a fragment of the sarcophagus in the tomb of Ay (Cairo Museum, Temp. No. 3.8.39.1) (TopBib i.551). The letter has been labelled as ‘King Ay’ by Newberry.
Notes relating to Ay, including reference cards with copies of inscriptions and notes on the tomb.
Notes and reference cards relating to Tyi, Amenhotep III, Akhenaten, Amenhotep IV and Nefertiti.
Lucas, Alfred - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Alfred Lucas including relating to: arranging to visit Newberry; cleaning an inscribed bowl; response to criticisms by Newberry of a book by Lucas; wish to see a wooden tongue from Tututankhamun's shrine; Walter Segal and his study of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Note:
MSS 29/50 is also numbered 217a
MSS 29/51 is also numbered 217
MSS 29/52 is also numbered 13
MSS 29/55 is also numbered A.107
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Includes:
Ingram, Bruce Stirling - correspondence
Part of Percy Edward Newberry Collection
Correspondence from Bruce Stirling Ingram (Editor, The Illustrated London News) relating to photographs and illustrations for publication and lectures by Newberry. Includes references to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun and Howard Carter's negotiations with the Egyptian authorities.
Press cuttings and miscellaneous notes
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Press cuttings and miscellaneous notes.
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript drafts, unpublished articles and lectures.
Notes on hieroglyphic texts: copied from publications
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's notebook, containing 118 pages, manuscript notes on hieroglyphic inscriptions, some accompanied by drawings, copied primarily from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906: Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822), as well as other publications.
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's notes on glass.
Royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty: records
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty.
Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): drafts (notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts)
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's drafts of his autobiography were intended for publication, but not completed or published. Carter referred to these drafts as "autobiographical sketches", and the manuscripts and typescripts were most likely composed in the 1930s.
Weights of the ancient Near East: notes
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's manuscript notes, recorded in a notebook and 15 loose pages, on ancient Near Eastern weights.
Luxor. Temple - Festival of Opet procession: correspondence, Alan H. Gardiner to Howard Carter
Part of Howard Carter Collection
8 letters from Sir Alan Gardiner to Howard Carter, mostly regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, but also mention other subjects.
The first letter is dated 24 August 1916 and the last in the group is dated 13 July 1918.
Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson
Ancient Egyptian measurements: notes
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's manuscript notes on ancient Near Eastern measurements, including measuring rods, most in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
The cubit rods are recorded as follows:
Luxor. Temple - Festival of Opet procession: draft correspondence, Howard Carter to Alan H. Gardiner
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Two draft letters from Howard Carter to Alan Gardiner regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, including a proposed schedule and Carter's description of the wall scenes.
The earlier draft letter is not dated, the second draft letter is dated 1 May 1917.
Ancient Egyptian weights: card catalogue
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's manuscript index-card catalogue of Egyptian weights in museums, private collections and publications.
Arranged by the size of weight.
The data for each weight has been arranged by Carter under the following sections:
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's documentation relates to the so-called "Saqqara affair" (Saqqara incident; Sakkarah incident; Sakkara) which led to Carter's resignation from the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1905.
Including:
Carter House: photograph, stamped brick
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Letter and photograph regarding a brick found at E. & W. Lake Ltd, Park Road, Newhall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. These premises were formerly the site of a brickworks owned by Lord Carnarvon, that produced the bricks which were shipped to Egypt for the construction of Carter's house "Castle Carter" (Castle Carter II) at Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.
Meir. Tombs. Groups N and O. Carnarvon-Carter excavations. Finds: pottery found in tombs, records
Part of Howard Carter Collection
Howard Carter's sketches of pottery found in tombs, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Groups N and O, Cemetery, Meir.