Howard Carter's manuscript card-index with transcriptions and notes for monuments and objects from the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Records royal and private names, and objects of interest. Most copied from publications including:
Newberry, P. E. 1906. Scarabs.
Northampton, W. C., Marquis of, W. Spiegelberg and P. E. Newberry 1908. Report on some excavations in the Theban necropolis during the winter of 1898-9.
Gardiner, A. H. and A. E. P. Weigall 1913. A topographical catalogue of the private tombs of Thebes.
Newberry, P. E. 1899. The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Egyptian papyri in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A., at Didlington Hall, Norfolk: with an appendix on a Coptic papyrus.
Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (1914).
Newberry, P. E. 1900. The life of Rekhmara, vezîr of Upper Egypt under Thothmes III and Amenhetep II (circa BC 1471-1448).
Legrain, G. 1908. Répertoire généalogique et onomastique du Musée du Caire: monuments de la XVIIe et de la XVIIIe dynastie.
Howard Carter's notes on Ahnasia el Medina (Ahnas el Medina; Ihnâsya el-Medîna; Ihnasya el-Medina; Heracleopolis Magna) ("K. 608"), West Bank, Middle Egypt.
Howard Carter's sketch map for the Meir, El Qusia and Rizqet el Deir el Maharraq area, with sites plotted between Meir (northernmost) to Minshat Khashabah (southernmost).
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 12 and 13 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, within the Great Enclosure wall, Tell el-Balamūn.
(12) Trench no. 6. A detached house within the Great Enclosure wall.
Howard Carter's photograph numbered 17 with manuscript caption, general view of trenches nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4 across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
Howard Carter's photographs numbered 18 and 19 with manuscript captions, general views of the excavation of trench no. 1, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
(18) View of trench no. 1, excavation in progress.
(19) Another view of trench no. 1, excavation in progress.
Howard Carter's photographs, Carter's camp in the marshes, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn. For other views of the camp, see Carter MSS iv.3 (1) and (2).
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:
Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod, granite, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45933 [see TopBib v.116A].
Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod, granite, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45932 [see TopBib v.116A].
Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod of Panas, basalt, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45931 [see TopBib v.116A].
Carter MSS v.2 [d] - Cubit measuring rod, wood, found in the tomb of Sennedjem, Dyn. XIX, TT1, Thebes, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 1941 [see TopBib i2.4].
Carter MSS v.2 [i] - Cubit measuring rod of Osorkon I, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.2 [see TopBib ii2.300].
Carter MSS v.2 [j-k] - Cubit measuring rod of Nektanebos II, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.1 [see TopBib ii2.300].
Carter MSS v.2 [l-m] - Cubit measuring rod, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum [see TopBib ii2.300].
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.
Howard Carter's draft pencil sketches of the upper part of a musician holding clappers and various hands, details from the Festival of Opet scenes, Eastern Wall of the Processional Colonnade in Luxor Temple.
Howard Carter's autobiography, a notebook containing Carter's annotated manuscript recording his discovery in 1898, and excavation of, in 1900, the tomb of Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (Mentuhotp-Nebhepetre), Bâb el-Ḥoṣân (Bab el-Hosan), Deir el-Bahri (Deir el-Bahari).
Titled El Bab El Hosân ["The Tomb of the Horse"]
13 numbered pages/openings, arranged with main text on right and notes on left
Carter's annotated page numbers, "1"-"23"
All pages are crossed through (cancelled)
Continuation, see Carter MSS vi.2.12
Earlier draft of Carter MSS vi.2.10 (pages 87-102): "Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse"
Howard Carter's annotated typescript, the draft for an unpublished article on art during the reign of Tutankhamun, with references to objects found in all four rooms of the king's tomb, including:
Throne (Carter object 91)
Small gold shrine (Carter object 108)
Decorated casket or box (Carter object 540 and 551)
Stick(s) with a figure of the king (Carter objects 235a and 235b)
Painted box (Carter object 21)
Statues of the canopic goddesses (Carter object 266)
Statue(s) of the king on a leopard (Carter objects 289a and 289b)
Ka statues (sentinel or guardian statues) (Carter objects 22 and 29)
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 hand-drafted plan with measurements on both sides of the page for the burial chamber in the tomb of Tuthmosis III, KV 34, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Howard Carter's manuscript notes on the royal names recorded in the tomb, including part of the protocol of Tuthmosis III. Part of the records for the tomb of Tuthmosis III, KV 34, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Also notes the inscription from a sledge fragment found in the tomb of Sennedjem, TT 1, at Thebes, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 24965.
Howard Carter's records for the tomb of Amenophis II, KV 35, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Carter's manuscript note on the robbery of the tomb of Amenophis II in November 1901.
Offprint of Carter, Howard 1902. 'Report on the robbery of the tomb of Amenothes II, Biban el Moluk'. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 3, 115-121.