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Luxor. Temple - Festival of Opet procession: draft correspondence, Howard Carter to Alan H. Gardiner

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

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:

  • Weight size
  • Shape
  • Marked
  • Weight (sic)
  • [current provenance]
  • [bibliography]
  • [date]

Saqqara affair: documentation

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:

  • 44 letters, most addressed to Carter as well as copies of Carter's replies.
  • Copy of Carter's resignation letter.
  • Carter's manuscript report, 41 pages, contains his account of the event, extracts from the letters, and French newspaper reports on the incident.
  • The documentation includes letters from:
    • A. Jouraud, on behalf of the French party
    • Emile Brugsch
    • Gaston Maspero
    • James E. Quibell
    • Theodore Davis
    • William E. Garstin
    • Édouard Naville

Carter House: photograph, stamped brick

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.

  • Photograph of a sample brick stamped "MADE AT BRETBY ENGLAND FOR HOWARD CARTER A.D. THEBES 1910".
  • Photocopy of the letter from Mr P. M. White to the Keeper of the Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, dated 16 February 1985.

Meir. Tombs. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: wives, princes, princesses and private names recorded in tomb texts

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, including transcriptions, names and epithets of wives, princes, princesses and private names mentioned in tomb texts at Meir. Copied from Blackman's publications.
Part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.

Meir. Tombs. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: description of necropolis and definitions of cemetries A-E and O-P

Howard Carter's annotated typescript, with some additional manuscript notes, with a general description of the necropolis at Meir, and cemetery group areas A-E and N-P.
Dated 15 and 16 December 1918.
Part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.

Meir. Tombs. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: notes on the site

Howard Carter's manuscript general records for the site.
Part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.

  • List of rock tomb chapels
  • Brief description of site
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Cusae (El Quseyya; El-Qûṣîya)

Sepulchral shrines - third shrine (238): Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Third shrine (238). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Carter's report on the shrine, its construction, measurements, copies of ‘guide’ marks, note on seal impressions, drawing of roof and cornice showing tongues for attachment. Not published by Carter.
  • ii. Carter's drawing of shrine detail, noting construction.
  • iii. Harry Burton's photographs of the shrine. Taken in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Carter, Howard

Sepulchral shrines - fourth (innermost) shrine (239): Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Fourth (innermost) shrine (239). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Carter's annotated typewritten report, all pages cancelled (crossed through).
  • ii. Four Carter drawings with details of the shrine's construction.
  • iii. Harry Burton's photographs of the shrine, taken in Cairo, Egyptian Museum.
  • iv. Carter's transcriptions of the texts from the shrine.

Carter, Howard

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