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

1) Original measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [corrected version].
2) Drawings of Eighteenth Dynasty tombs (incomplete original set and complete sets of photocopies/prints) (1980s).
3) Prints of the measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [version with error].
4) Drawings of reconstructions of Egyptian boats (1993-4).
5) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for plaque depicting a scene from the lid of box from the tomb of Tutankhamun (c. 1979) - the plaque has been sold in the British Museum shop since the late 1990s (copyright issued in the late 1990s for a while, then reissued c. 2010).
6) Model, plaster and resin moulds and casts for the mask of Tutankhamun (1978).
7) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for small figurines (2 seated Isis suckling Horus, Bes amulet and scarab, 1970s).
8) Album of newspaper cuttings titled "Illustrations", mostly from the Illustrated London News, bound in illustrated binding by Harold Parkinson (c. 1930).
9) Copy of Simplified Hieroglyphs arranged according to Gardiner's Signlist. Drawn in both left and right directions together with samples of cursive hieroglyphs and hieratic signs. Hieratic versions are drawn from Möller Hieratische Paläographie Vol. I (6th to 13th dynasties), of which 'Sinuhe' provides the majority of the examples, by R. B. & H. Parkinson (1988-1989).
10) Original measured perspective drawing of the White Chapel at Karnak, by H. & R. B. Parkinson (c. 1989-1990).

Various New Kingdom texts:

• monuments from Uppsala, Victoriamuseet för Egyptiska fornsaker
• hieratic text in Tura quarries
• a group of records created from older notes including objects seen with dealers in Berlin, Akhmim and Cairo
• copied from publications
• copied from A. H. Gardiner's notes
• note with a query concerning a graffito from Thebes

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

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• (Carter 116)
• An Egyptian team member carrying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun, the so-called "mannequin", from the King's tomb to the nearby "Laboratory" tomb (KV 15, of Sethos II) for cleaning and conservation.
• The portrait bust of Tutankhamun [Carter 116] was found in the tomb's Antechamber. The King is portrayed wearing a yellow flat-topped crown featuring the centrally positioned uraeus on the crown's temple band. The King also wears a close-fitting white garment.
• The bust's purpose is unclear, but it probably displayed part of the King's regalia. A recent proposal is that it may have been originally used for supporting and storing the King's gold corset (Carter 54k) in the tomb. When thieves ransacked the tomb in antiquity, these robbers likely removed the corset from the bust before breaking the heavy regalia into smaller, portable pieces.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Four Egyptian members of the excavation team carrying trays of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb, escorted by Arthur Callendar (on left, wearing a pith helmet) and armed guards. The men at the front transport a wheel from one of the King's chariots, followed by two men, each carrying a tray containing smaller items, including a reed basket or tray (Carter 119) with partitions.

• Comic postcard.
• "What do yer think, Bill? —when I opened up this morning, there was Tutankamen in the Case with Cleopatra again!".
• Issued by Micks Comics.
• 110.
• Published by E. A. Eden (Offset) Ltd, [London].
• Printed in England.
• Not mailed.

• Comic postcard.
• "A Dream comes to Tutankhamen."
• Image signed: "H.S."
• Published by Gaddis & Seif, Luxor.
• Series: HUMOUR IN EGYPT
• Not mailed.

Harry Burton's large glass plate negatives.

• Taken by Harry Burton during the excavation, clearance and recording of Tutankhamun's tomb
• Approximately 860 negatives
• Number ranges 1-2024 and i-xcvii
• The negative number ranges comprise both the small and large negatives (small, see TAA i.6)

Ten albums containing original photographic prints made by Harry Burton [TAA i.6.1-10].

• Arranged by chamber and by object type
• Annotated headings and negative numbers, probably by Harry Burton or his wife Minnie B.
• Howard Carter's set of albums

Originally belonging to Howard Carter.

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1922

• Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1922
• Carter's activities in Egypt include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and his excavations
• Contains the first records on the tomb of Tutankhamun and its discovery
• Significant dates include:
  • 4th November 1922: "First steps of tomb found"
  • 5th November 1922: "Discovered tomb under tomb of Ramses VI Investigated same & found seals intact."
  • 26th November 1922: "Open second doorway about 2 4 5 pm. Advised Engelbach."

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 "autopsy" drawings, recording objects in situ on Tutankhamun's body and within the body wrappings.

• 18 annotated pencil drawings of groups of objects found in the body wrappings and on the body of Tutankhamun, recorded during the autopsy of the King's body, 11-19 November 1925
• All by Howard Carter

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Members of the Egyptian team manoeuvring a large carrying tray out through the entrance to the modern enclosure wall constructed shortly after Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered. The team are carrying two black shrine-like boxes (Carter 37) and (Carter 38) and a gabled-roofed box (Carter 32), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Two Egyptian team members carrying a white chest (Carter 50) up the rock-cup steps leading out of Tutankhamun's tomb, with Howard Carter assisting (head visible behind the left shoulder of the man at the front). This chest contained many items of Tutankhamun's wardrobe.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• (Carter 116)
• Howard Carter (second from right, striding, wearing a hat with a black band) accompanying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun (the so-called "mannequin"; Carter 116), which is carried by an Egyptian member of the team transporting the object to the "Laboratory" tomb (KV 15, of Sethos II) for cleaning and conservation.
• Also present in the photograph is Lord Carnarvon (sitting on the wall at the far left), who watches as the group passes by. The man walking to the left of the Earl is Arthur Weigall (dark hat with a darker headband), a former Egyptian Antiquities Service Inspector now engaged as a journalist reporting on the excavation. The other Europeans present here are also journalists or tourists.
• The portrait bust of Tutankhamun [Carter 116] was found in the tomb's Antechamber. The King is portrayed wearing a yellow flat-topped crown featuring the centrally positioned uraeus on the crown's temple band. The King also wears a close-fitting white garment.
• The bust's purpose is unclear, but it probably displayed part of the King's regalia. A recent proposal is that it may have been originally used for supporting and storing the King's gold corset (Carter 54k) in the tomb. When thieves ransacked the tomb in antiquity, these robbers likely removed the corset from the bust before breaking the heavy regalia into smaller, portable pieces.

View of the Pyramid of Snefru at Maidum (TopBib iv.89):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 12.2 x 7.9 cm

View of the North Pyramid of Amenemhet I at El-Lisht (TopBib iv.77):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 19 x 8.1 cm
• [on sketch] 'LISHT' (pencil note)

Plans with measurements of underground rooms of step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.401-402):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 17.2 x 11 cm
• [on sketch] 'tuffle' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'block / block' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'North east / corner' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'blocked / tuffle' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'tuffle' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'blocked / up north / stairs' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'North(?) / first / room' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'blocked / middle / rubbish' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'end of masonry' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'blocked / stones / slight corner of 4 feet' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'cavern / ascending / well / blocked / rubbish / stones' (pencil note)
• [on sketch] 'of stone(?) stairs / Ceilings rough rock / never been smooth / ornaments following(?) the / irregularities of the rock' (pencil note)

Illegible text:

• rubbed out pencil text on paper
• loose
• 10.8 x 15.7 cm

Profile of a female head (design or Modern Egypt):

• pencil sketch on paper
• loose
• 7.8 x 7 cm

Portfolio titled 'Thebes' (ink)
Pencil note: 'Medamoud, Karnak and Luxor' (almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'C' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).

Top: view of a boat being towed (Modern Egypt); second from top: unclear subject, not finished; second from bottom and bottom: views of Philae temple from West (TopBib vi.205):

• pencil sketches on paper
• mounted
• 22.2 x 32.2 cm
• [on sketch] 'passed the / cataracts / Thursday 15 October / 1826' (pencil note, inked year)
• [on sketch] 'Ruined Pylon / Karnac.' (black ink note)
• [on mount] 'Temple near Cataract.' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] encircled '2' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
• [on mount] '5' (black ink note, almost certainly by Bonomi)

Note on signet rings:

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 13.1 x 21.3 cm
• [page number] '36'
• [text]:

'Signet ring of fine gold weighing nearly 3 sovereigns

bearing the name of Shufu the (Suphis) of the Greeks

This remarkable piece of antiquity is in the highest state

preservation and said to have been found at Gezeh

in a tomb near that to the excavation of Col Campbell The work

in The style of the hieroglyphics is perfectly that of those

sculptors hieroglyphics of the tombs about the

great pyramid all the details are eminently executed

The heaven is engraved with minute stars; The Fox or Jackall has

significant lines within its con[t]our; The hatchets have

their handles bound with thongs as usual in the sculptures; The volumes have the

string that binds them differently hanging below the

roll differently placed from any example in sculptured or

painted hierogs in the tombs; The determinative for country

is studded with dots representing the sand of the mountainous

margins of the side valley of Egypt The sign [F35] has the

tongue and semilunar mark of the longer examples as also

the vase in the shape of the heart. The Name is surmounted

by the usual globe and feathers decorated in the usual way except

that the lines are more horizontal than in the sculptured examples,

and the ring of The cartouch is engraved with lines representing

a rope of of which decoration I know no of the line inclosing

the hieroglyphics of a royal name I know of no example but

this; the [Aa1] in the name is placed as in the tombs not in

the centre as of the cartouch; the chickens have their unfledged

wings The serastes its horns to be seen only with the magnifying

glass Of the variations in from the usual made of representing

a volume and the inclosure of Royal names are circumstances

favorable to the genuineness of this remarkable piece of antiquity

for when taken into consideration with the style of the work which

is infinitely more difficult to imitate than little little x(?)

in which details from in which the fabricator would not have

ventured to differ from the known examples'

Note on signet rings (continuation):

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 13.1 x 21.3 cm
• [page number] '37'
• [text]:

'Ring of fine gold found in a wooden box at Thebes in a tomb at Thebes

Gold ring with a figure of Isis sitting
it is massive and of that shape called Opisphendone Thebes Sakkara

Ring of fine gold with the figures of 2 goddesses
engraved in two cartouches surmounted with the
feathers Sakkara

Scarabeus set in gold on a pivot

Ring of pure(?) gold in which is tastefully inserted
2 blue stones and one red one

Ring of gold with a pyramidal stone in it

Ring of gold with a x plate

Ring of gold with a carnelian scarabeus

Ring of silver massive and of the greek form

Sakkara'

Notes on the wooden sarcophagus and two coffins of Ir, Dyn. XXVI, from Thebes, formerly in H. Salt, J. Lee and Lord Amherst collections and at Sotheby's in 1921, current location not known (TopBib i2.835):

• ink text on paper
• loose
• 20.6 x 33.2 cm
• [text]:

'Harwell House October 21 1850
The great Sarcophagus in the Chapel
The Goddess Neith N Neith [X1*W24:N1] who is depicted in
full length on the inside of the upper half of the
third coffin is compounded of the hieroglyphic [V39]
in the same manner as the god [Q1\:D4\:A40], likewise depicted
full length, is corresponded of the hieroglyphic [R11].

In Sarcophagi from the necropolis of Thebes it is
usual to find the same Goddess in the likeness of a beautiful
woman, usually, with her arms streached over the deceased
as the heavens streached over the earth. That she represents
the heavens the determinative of her name [N1] is a
voucher, and her figure [C199] in this position over astronomi
cal signs. But if other proof were wanting there is a
stone sarcophagus in the British Museum where she
is sculptured streached out, as the heavens over the
earth, and giving birth to the Planets. In the lower half
of Sarcophagi from Thebes it is usual to find an other
Goddess female figure and not the figure of a man or one man or god in the
likeness of a man or compounded of the [R11] as in the Hartwell
Coffin; and this goddess [X1\:H8-Q1] is the goddess of the earth. as might be naturally suppose(?) This figure She extends her arms up each side of the coffin as if
embracing the deceased or receiving the deceased into her bosom

That the stone Sacrophagus here quoted came from Thebes
I my self can assert being present where the officers of the
Luxor brought it out of the pit

Whence then is the great Sarcophagus in the Chapel
of Hartwell house? The answer is, most probably from Lower Egypt. Most probably from the great necropolis
of Lower Egypt there namely the Necropolis desert of Sakkara of Memphis. First
because Pthah of to whom(underlined) the sign R11 is peculiar(underlined) had a celebrated
Temple at in the city of Memphis and secondly because the hierogly
phics are of the form or style of writing peculiar to
this region of Egypt and thirdly because the form of the outer
case is of the ancient form [Q6] most usual from in this nearby(?)
the most ancient times to the most recent in that
district of Egypt (See ancient inscription in the same
collection)'

Two squeezes and nine sketches of Egyptian amulets in Dr Lee's collection:

• squeezes and pencil sketches on paper pieces mounted on paper
• loose
• 22.8 x 29.6 cm
• [above squeezes and sketches] 'Plate III' (pencil note)