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Thebes. Graffiti

Howard Carter's records, including transcriptions, for graffiti from Thebes.

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)

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.

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.

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.

Ancient Egyptian measurements: notes

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].

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]

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

8 letters from Sir Alan Gardiner to Howard Carter, mostly regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, but also mention other subjects.
The first letter is dated 24 August 1916 and the last in the group is dated 13 July 1918.

Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson

Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): drafts (notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts)

Howard Carter's drafts of his autobiography were intended for publication, but not completed or published. Carter referred to these drafts as "autobiographical sketches", and the manuscripts and typescripts were most likely composed in the 1930s.

  • Earlier annotated manuscript
    • 6 notebooks
    • 219 pages
    • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
      • Sketch I. Introductory
      • Sketch II. An Account of Myself
      • Sketch III. Thebes
      • Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse
      • Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee hearth
      • Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
      • Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
      • Sketch VIII. The Valley and the Royal Tomb
      • Sketch IX. Tomb-Robberies and the Fate of the Royal Mummies
      • Sketch XI. The Finding of the tomb of Amenophis I
  • Later annotated typescript
    • 8 folders
    • 236 pages
    • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
      • Autobiographical preface
      • The Excavator and his Task
      • The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple
      • Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment
      • Sketch of Thebes
      • The Theban Necropolis
      • The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
      • A History of the Theban Royal Mummies Decadence and Destiny I-IX
      • El-Bab El-Hosân 'The Tomb of the Horse'
      • Summer life in Egypt
      • The Rat and the Snake
      • A Fortuitous Discovery [The discovery of Queen Hatshepsut's tomb]
      • Three Milk White Camels
      • The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis the First
      • The Cemetery of the Queens'
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