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Smith, Cecil Harcourt - correspondence

Correspondence from Cecil Harcourt Smith (VictoriaAlbert Museum) relating to a lecture by Newberry on the tombs of the Kings.

Note:
MSS 40/52 is also numbered A.313
MSS 40/53 is also numbered A.314
MSS 40/55 is also numbered A.315

Smith, Harry S. - correspondence

8 letters from H. S. Smith, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to H. S. Smith.
4 letters exchanged between Černý and Brian Downs (1893-1984), Master of Christ's College, regarding H. S. Smith's application for the Lady Wallis Budge Fellowship in Cambridge.
H. S. Smith's professional development and research work; some notes Smith prepared for Černý on Coptic and Coptic etymologies; book exchange. In 1964, Smith discussed with Černý the plan for the A. H. Gardiner library bequest; which was shared between the Griffith Institute, Oxford, University College, London, Cambridge University and Liverpool University.

Smith, Sidney - correspondence

Correspondence from Sidney Smith (British Museum) relating to: ancient building materials; the Sed festival; 5th or 6th dynasty fragment found at a dealers in Paris; purchases for the British Museum; Steindorff and repression of Jews in Germany (1939); a Note by Newberry on box wood; Newberry's corrections to a publication by Smith (1942).

Note:
MSS 40/68 is also numbered A.306

Smith, William Stevenson - correspondence

2 letters from W. S. Smith, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to W. S. Smith.
Professional as well as personal matters:

  • Old Kingdom archaeology - Queen Meresankh, attribution of pyramids at Dahshur and Maidum
  • ostraca research, Černý asking for a photograph of an ostracon in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 11.1498

Sohag: notes

Howard Carter's brief manuscript notes for Sohag (Sohâg) ("K. 227"), West Bank, Middle Egypt.

Sollberger, Edmond - correspondence

1 letter from Sollberger, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Barbara Sewell (Griffith Institute secretary) to Sollberger, sent in Černý's absence.
Ostraca in Geneva - photographs for Černý.

Some descriptions and texts

  • Griffith MSS 1.17.1, 2, 5, 5 verso, 7, 8: Stelae in Oxford, Queen's College, Nos. 1110 to 1113 [on loan to the Ashmolean Museum]. Smither, Paul C. and Alec N. Dakin, 'Stelae in the Queen's College, Oxford', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 25 (2) (1939), 157-165 (OEB 150464), plates XX [1, 2], XXI [5, 4].
  • Griffith MSS 1.17.3, 4: Stelae in Brighton Museum - Ram of Amun in papyrus, XVIIIth Dynasty and Minhotep, XIIth Dynasty. Weigall, Arthur E., The funeral tablets in the Brighton Museum, in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology 22 (1900), 272-273, with plates I and II (OEB 152091).
  • Griffith MSS 1.17.4: Block statue of Minmosi, temp. Rameses II, in Brighton Museum. Clère, J. J., 'Deux statues 'gardiennes de porte' d'époque ramesside', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 54 (1968), 135-148 (OEB 12800), esp. 135-8, 142-5 with fig. 1 and plate XXI.
  • Griffith MSS 1.17.4a verso: Ushabti in Brighton Museum.
  • Griffith MSS 1.17.4b: Notes on objects in Brighton Museum.
  • Griffith MSS 1.17.2 verso: Wooden mummy case in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum.
  • Griffith MSS 1.17.6: Unidentified text.

Somers Clarke Collection

  • Clarke MSS
  • Collection
  • 1880s-1926

Notebooks, notes, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, and correspondence. There is a small amount of material amongst these papers relating to Westminster Abbey (correspondence).

Clarke, Somers

Southern Cemetery at Cairo, with funeral procession

View of a funeral procession at the southern cemetery of Cairo. The cemetery is also known as Qarafa:

  • black ink, monochrome watercolour
  • mounted
  • 17.5 x 10 cm
    [Lane's caption on page verso, at top left corner] 'The Great Southern Cemetery of Musr, called El-Ckara'feh - a, the tomb of the Im'am Es'h Sha'fe'ee' (pencil note)

Souvenir model of "wishing cup"

  • Decorative souvenir ornament of the so-called "wishing cup", [Carter 14].
  • White glazed porcelain with transfer print decoration.
  • English heraldic souvenir ware; crested china; English crested ware.
  • Coat of arm for Hinckley (Somerset) on front.
  • Text on foot of cup, at front: "Model of king's wishing cup found in king Tut-Ankh-Amen's tomb at Luxor".
  • Manufacturer stamp on base: "Arcadian – Stoke-on-Trent – Registered Number 678582".
  • Date uncertain, produced in the 1920s or 1930s.

Souvenir spoon

  • Decorative souvenir spoon
  • Gold-tone metal with enamel decoration
  • Enamel decoration on upper surface, design from top: on handle, a modelled profile view of 'guardian statue' [Carter 22] (design includes the linen found draped over arm when discovered), standing on top of a winged scarab; on stem, geometric pattern on handle; on bowl, enamel-painted scene with a king or deity facing left, standing holding a staff, with pseudo-hieroglyphic texts above.
  • Manufacturer not known.
  • Date uncertain, probably 1920s.

Spain. Cabo de Gata

Coastline view of the Cabo de Gata in Spain:

  • watercolour on paper
  • loose
  • 20.5 x 8.5 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Cape de Gat NE 9 miles off' (ink note)

Spain. Grosa island, Cape Palos and Cabo de Gata

Four coastline views of Grosa island, Cape Palos and Cabo de Gata in Spain:

  • pencil sketches on paper
  • loose
  • 14.3 x 22 cm
  • [on sketch] 'GROSSA W&S 3 miles off' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'NNE / CASTLE OF C PALOS / GROSSA' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'CAPE DE CAT / NW' (pencil note)

Spain. Tarifa

Coastline view of Tarifa in Spain:

  • watercolour on paper
  • loose
  • 12 x 7.1 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Tarifa' (ink note)
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