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Egyptian Antiquities

Portfolio titled 'Egyptian Antiquities. / JB' (ink)
Pencil note: 'Thebes (underlined) & Various Uncertain. / Also about Dr Lee's Collections / Hartwell House' (almost certainly by Dr Moss)
Red pencil note at top right corner: encircled 'D' (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).

Designs

Portfolio titled 'Designs. / JB' (ink)
Ink table of contents (not complete) on piece of paper partially glued to cover:
-'Designs'
-'1'
-'2'
-'3 Angel good'
-'4 Designs Mother and Child'
-'5'
-'6'
-'7'
-'8 Chair'
-'9 Mother and Child'
-'10 Exhibition Book'
-'11'

Pencil notes partially covered by piece of paper glued to cover: 'Various designs / Complete'.

Designs

Portfolio titled 'Designs / JB.' (ink)
Pencil notes: 'Designs / Designs & Mottos / Complete / Vol 1'.

Journal 2

Journal covering the period from 1 May to 29 June 1874.
Dark blue cover, 18 x 11.7 x 0.9 cm, 70 pages.

Raymond Oliver Faulkner Collection

  • Faulkner's translation (not published) of the stela of King Kamose [Kamosi], with an account of a victory over the Hyksos, found in the foundations of the Second Pylon, Karnak, and two additional blocks (found separately), found in the vicinity of the Third Pylon, now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo [TopBib ii2.37, 73]. 6 manuscript pages with later annotations (changes and corrections).

Seal impressions: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
  • ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
  • iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
  • v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
  • Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
  • Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.

Breasted, James Henry

Third copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962)

Third copy of My Working Years by Sir Alan Gardiner (1962).

With an unsigned dedication on the front matter by Mr Rolf Gardiner:

"For the Library of the Griffiths[sic] Institute
on the occasion of a Memorial Dinner
held, by invitation of the Provost, at the
Queen's College, Oxford, in commemoration of
Sir Alan Gardiner
on Saturday 23 May 1964

Followed by the signatures of the attendees.

With an enclosure at the back containing the souvenir booklet printed by Oxford University Press on the occasion of the Memorial Dinner (sections: "Menu", "Sir Alan Gardiner, Kt.", a portrait photograph, and "Sir Alan Gardiner's Publications"), and a loose calling card of Rolf Gardiner.

Petrie Journal 1893 to 1894 (Koptos)

  • Journal letters.
  • November 27, 1893, through to February 23, 1894.
  • Handwritten.
  • Petrie is at Koptos for the whole season where he was assisted by James Edward Quibell and Bernard Pyne Grenfell. Petrie discovered three temples and found evidence of constant occupation at the site, from the Predynastic period through to the Roman era. Petrie also discovered three Predynastic colossal statues of Min beneath a Ptolemaic pavement, one statue is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and the other two are in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Petrie's excavations at this site initiated the formation of the highly-regarded Egyptian workforce specialising in archaeological excavation and referred to as "Quftis".
  • Site: Koptos (Coptos; Qift; Quft).

Designs

Portfolio titled 'Designs / JB' (ink)
Pencil notes: 'Complete / Sketches / Complete'.

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