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Tell el-Yahudiya (Leontopolis), view from within the ruins

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)

Tell el-Yahudiya (Leontopolis), view of the ruins

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

  • watercolour with pencil details
  • mounted
  • 35.6 x 26.2 cm
  • [on mount] 'Tel Euhudicah, from the Necropolis on the Eastward.' (ink note)
  • [on mount] encircled '15' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of watercolour] 'Tel Juhudieah / From the Necropolis on the Eastward. / 27th Feb 1843.' (pencil note)

Temple wall scene with Seti I in a chariot, Karnak

Drawing of a detail from a battle scene, Seti I in a chariot charging Libyans on the battlefield, on the north exterior wall of the hypostyle hall in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak:

  • black ink drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 10.2 cm
  • Below the drawing are two small cartouches of the king (in ink)
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculpture at Kar'nak' (pencil note)

Temple wall scene, tribute, Beit el-Wali

Part of a temple wall scene from the forecourt of the Beit el-Wali temple at Kalabsha, two registers of Nubians, including women and children, bringing tribute with animals, [to Ramesses II]:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 17.8 x 10.2 cm
  • [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'Sculpture on the left side-wall of the court before the rock-temple of Ckala'b'sheh.' (pencil note)

Temple wall scenes, Karnak

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)

Ten photograph albums

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.

Burton, Harry

Text

Handwritten text:

  • pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 18.2 x 22.6 cm
  • [text]:

'If any man wants [?] {[?]} [?] of the truth of {the} [?]

here it is if he cannot find in history if he cannot

find it in his own heart or if refuses to seek for it then

became he wants an [?] not to look for it then

here is abundance say there books are only words which

[?] him another thing him [?] [?] being

subject to errors of various kinds the [?] of

[?] the [?] of [?] the [?]

of ad(d)itions for [?] of years and offer all

on oldest copy are not another is any

years old which years [?] [?] [?]

except it [?], and year [?] [?] first

year seeing the middle [?]

but is like a middle [?]

The [?] [?] on certainly managed to carry

The expression of age and fatigue of [?] and [?]

are the conclusion[?] the strenuous efforts'

Text

Text:

  • pencil and coloured (black) pencil text on paper
  • loose
  • 11.1 x 9.0 cm
  • [text]: 'The cost of die / the sign of a medal / for 10 pounds and / the cost of a die / for such a medal'

Text on church at Alnwick

Text on church at Alnwick:

  • ink text on paper
  • loose
  • 15.7 x 11.5 cm
  • [text]:

'The church at Alnwick a gothic building

once a beautiful and highly adorned

edifice but now from the injuditious

additions and alterations especially

that usual one of taking away

pillars in order to make the pulpit

more generally seen from all corners

of the church thus by throwing two arches

into one thus weak increas

ing the lateral pressure endangering

the roof which perhaps on that

account has been restored in the it was found

ornamental gothic necessary

to restore in the side isles

however the original oak beams remain'

The Damascus Gate; men riding donkeys; a shaduf; camels; and water bearers

Nine mounted pencil sketches:

  • top left: man on donkey
  • top middle: shaduf
    • [on mount] 'The Shadoof' (ink note)
  • top right: man on donkey
  • middle left: man
  • middle middle: Damascus Gate, Cairo
    • [on mount] 'The Bab en Nasr - or Damascus Gate. Cairo' (ink note)
  • middle right: man
  • bottom left: two camels
  • bottom middle: man
  • bottom right: camel, man and three women with water jars
    • [on mount] 'Going to fetch water from the Nile' (ink note)

The Graffiti Archive Roger O. De Keersmaecker

  • De Keersmaecker MSS
  • Collection
  • 1965-2019

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.

De Keersmaecker, Roger O.

The Rosengarten; unidentified building

Four mounted sketches:

  • top left: watercolour of the Rosengarten from the bridge in Bolzano
  • top right: watercolour of the Rosengarten from the bridge in Bolzano
  • middle: watercolour of an unidentified building
  • bottom: pencil drawing of the Rosengarten from the bridge in Bolzano

The sacred Apis bull predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus

The sacred bull Apis predicts the downfall of emperor Germanicus:

  • inked pencil sketch on paper
  • loose, adjacent to page 11
  • 37.0 x 22.3 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Germanicus consults the Bull Apis by offering him food' (ink note)
  • [on sketch] 'the Bull Apis returns an unfavourable answer to Germanicus by refusing to eat out of / his hands' (ink note)

The team transporting two trays

  • 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, accompanied by Howard Carter [wearing hat and waistcoat, left foreground], carry trays containing objects from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb while being pursued by tourists. The man on the left carries a decorated box (Carter 44), probably a footstool or stool, while the tray conveyed by the man contains two items, perhaps a box lid and a vessel (not identified). The objects are being transported to the nearby 'Laboratory' (the tomb of King Sety II, KV15).

Thebes

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).

Thebes, Deir el-Medina, tomb of Kha (TT 8), female lutist

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)

Thebes, El-Khokha, tomb of Neferhotep (TT 49), Merytre holding a sistrum and menat

Merytre holding a Hathor-head sistrum and menat, detail from a scene on the right (North) thickness of the entrance to the Hall of the tomb of Merytre's husband, Neferhotep (TT 49), probably temp. Ay, at El-Khokha in Thebes:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted
  • 25 x 34.9 cm
  • [on mount] 'C. 2. / Tomb near a Assasief / 26th July 1843.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '20' (pencil note)
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