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)

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)

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)

Two studies of female nudes:

• carbon sketches on paper
• mounted
• 33.0 x 20.6 cm
• [on sketch] 'Nollekens' (pencil note)

Four women in black descending stairscase:

• pencil and watercolour sketch on paper
• loose
• 29.5 x 23.3 cm

Diary kept from 4 May 1922 to 20 October 1926 by the wife of the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940). The diary contains detailed daily entries recording social engagements and memorable events, including the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter’s team, of which her husband was a member. The diary details her life and travels with her husband at home in Florence, their stays in Egypt (especially Luxor, but also Cairo), the trip they made across the US and to Hollywood in 1924, and various holidays in Europe (London, Salzburg, St. Moritz, etc.), as well as trips to friends in Italy. Lined account book, 400 pages, 8vo (179 x 110 x 28 mm).

Journal 1841-1842 and some correspondence.

A waterwheel, or sakia [sakieh], beneath a Rhamnus tree (a species of buckthorn), at Bilbeis:

• watercolour
• mounted
• 35.4 x 25.7 cm
• [on mount] 'Water wheel at Belbies under a large Rhammas Tree.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '1' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Water wheel at Belbeis, under a large Rhamnus Tree. / On the S. side of the village. / 22nd January 1843.' (pencil note)

Halt whilst boar hunting in the salt marshes near Salhieh (Salhiya):

• watercolour
• mounted
• 35.3 x 25.8 cm
• [on mount] 'Halt whilst Boar shooting. Salt marshes near Salhich.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '3' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Halt whilst Boar shooting. / Salt marshes near Salhieh. 5 Feb 1843.' (pencil note)

View from within the ruins of Tell el-Yahudiya (Leontopolis):

• watercolour with pencil details
• mounted
• 35.6 x 26.1 cm
• [on mount] 'Ruins of Tel Euhudicah, looking Westward.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '14' (pencil note)
• [on verso of watercolour] 'Ruins of Tel Juhudieah / from the summit looking to the Westward. / 27th Feb 1843.' (pencil note)

Portrait of a Bedouin sheikh with a gun and a sword:

• watercolour
• mounted
• 17.6 x 25.6 cm
• [on recto of watercolour] '28th Dec. 1842' (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'Bedamee. Sheikh Havsein. Tûree.' (ink note)
• [on mount] encircled '17' (pencil note)

Portrait of a young woman holding two cockerels(?) [unfinished], the women is wearing a brown galabiya, a long white and red headscarf, earring, a double-stranded bead necklace, and three bracelets, Egypt:

• watercolour with pencil details
• mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 019
• 17.6 x 25.5 cm
• [on mount] encircled '20' (pencil note)

Street scene, probably in Cairo, with a man wearing a blue garment and a white turban, walking and holding aloft a long stick in his right hand, preceding another man wearing a green garment and red turban riding a horse.

• watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10.1 cm
• no annotations

View of a funeral procession at the southern cemetery of Cairo. The cemetery is also known as Qarafa:

• black ink, monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.5 x 10 cm
  [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Southern Cemetery of Musr, called El-Ckara'feh - a, the tomb of the Im'am Es'h Sha'fe'ee' (pencil note)

View of the pyramid of Amenemhat III at Hawara:

• pencil, black ink (probably), monochrome watercolour
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Pyramid of Hawa'rah — a, Small canal — b Remains of columns & architraves.' (pencil note)

Tomb wall scene, figures hoeing and ploughing:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.8 x 9.9 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Ploughing & Sowing.' (pencil note)
• Detail from agricultural scenes, two groups of men hoeing and men with oxen ploughing (first group), west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Tomb wall scene, figures treading and winnowing grain:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 17.7 x 10.2 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Eilethyia — The Treading out the corn, & Winnowing.' (pencil note)
• Detail from agricultural scenes, oxen threshing corn and men winnowing, west wall in hall, tomb of Paheri, El Kab

Temple wall scenes from the hypostyle hall in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak
Left scene, Seti I spears Libyan chief on the battlefield, north exterior wall
Right scene, Ramesses II binding Syrian captives, south exterior wall

• Two pencil drawings
• Drawings are mounted side-by-side
• 17.7 x 10.2 cm
• [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculptures at Kar'nak' (pencil note)

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.

Album of drawings and watercolour sketches made in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and Palestine in 1853.

Notebooks, notes, copies of texts, photographs, lecture notes, drafts of articles, and facsimiles.

Over one thousand colour slides (group III), several hundred black and white photographs (group II), and correspondence (group I).

Howard Carter's manuscript notes with sketches.

• Transcriptions of royal attributes for Ramesses IV, from his tomb, KV 2, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
• Weight of Shepses, stone, Old Kingdom, from Edfu, bought by Carter in Cairo. [see TopBib v.205A]
• Lion-hunt scarab of Amenophis III, blue glazed steatite, found during excavations in Luxor temple in 1917 and purchased by Carter "for C.". A very similar scarab, or the same one, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 74392.

Detail of the head of a seated statue of Redidj, diorite, Dyn. III, provenance not known, now in Turin, Museo Egizio, 3065.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'head'.

Circular offering-table of Amenhotep son of Amenakht, New Kingdom, from Deir el-Medina, now in Turin, Museo Egizio, 22039 (Cat. 1762).

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Altar of [Jmn-nḫt] Cat. 1762 [For the inscr. see opposite] T'.

Inscription on opposite page '[sš-nsw n nb tȝwjj Jmn-nḫt | sn=f sš Ḥrj-šrj mȝʿ-ḫrw jrt n bȝk jm=k wȝb n nb tȝwjj m st-nfr (sic = st-mȝʿt) Jmn-ḥtp]'.

Vase of Merenre, calcite, Dyn. VI, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 3252.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Alabaster vase of [Mr-n-Rʿ]. F.'.

Stela of deceased, year 46 of Mentuhotep III, from Thebes, Tomb 240, Meru, now in Turin, Museo Egizio, Sup. 1447.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Tablet of [Mrw] T'.

Sarcophagus of Amenirinpu, Middle Kingdom, provenance not known, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 1958.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Wooden coffin of [Jmnjj]. Bologna.'.

Sarcophagus of Ibi, Middle Kingdom, provenance not known, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 1959.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Wooden coffin of [...] Bologna.'.