Letter from Daniel Talbot Rice relating to meeting Newberry to discuss working in Cairo.

Correspondence from Charles Eugéne Revillout (1843-1912) including relating to Newberry visiting the Louvre Museum [in French].

Note:
MSS 38/72 is also numbered A.355

All reviews of T. E. Peet, The Stone and Bronze Ages in Italy and Sicily (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1909), except where indicated otherwise.

• Review of Carter, H. 1927. The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen Volume ii [OEB 136412].
• Review by Warren R. Dawson in The Asiatic Review (Oct. 1927), pp. 657-72 [OEB 261818].

Notes on the reversing of the names of Horus of Behdet and Hathor in Ptolemaic.

Copies: papyrus fragments which belonged to the Rev. G. Horner some of which are now British Library Or. 4831-4835.
Some published in W. E. Crum, <i>Short Texts from Coptic Papyri and Ostraca</i> (London, 1921) [=O.CrumST].

Reused block of Neferseshem-psammethek showing two offering-bringers, Dyn. XXX, from Mit Rahina, Kom el-Fakhry, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 10977.

Reused block of Neferseshem-psammethek showing the presentation of jewellery, Dyn. XXX, from Mit Rahina, Kom el-Fakhry, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 10978.

Reused block of Neferseshem-psammethek showing the presentation of jewellery, Dyn. XXX, from Mit Rahina, Kom el-Fakhry, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 10978.

Reused block of Neferseshem-psammethek showing offering-bringers, Dyn. XXX, from Mit Rahina, Kom el-Fakhry, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 10976.

Reused block of Neferseshem-psammethek showing offering-bringers, Dyn. XXX, from Mit Rahina, Kom el-Fakhry, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 10976.

Restricted access file.

Research material on tomb and rock inscriptions including at Aswan and Sehel

Includes:
-Cartouches of Neferhotep I and Sesostris III from rock texts at Sehel Island (TopBib v.250), text of Haankhef from rock text at Konosso (TopBib v.254), and text of Neferhotep I and family from rock text at Aswan (TopBib v.246)
-Copy of text from the 'famine stela' (Brooklyn Museum, 9.4.004) (TopBib v.252(81))
-Copy of names and titles from tombs at Aswan including Mekhu and Sabni (TopBib v.231(1-2)), Heqaib (TopBib v.232), Sirenput II (TopBib v.233), Aku (TopBib v.234), Khui (TopBib v.235), Khunes (TopBib v.235), Khenuseu (TopBib v.235), Herkhuf (TopBib v.237), Pepynakht (TopBib v.237), Senmosi (TopBib v.237), Sirenput I (TopBib v.238), Sebkhotp (TopBib v.239), Khuenkhnum (TopBib v.240), Thethi (TopBib v.240), Sen (TopBib v.240), Iba (TopBib v.240) and extract from a letter from Professor Elmar Edel to whom these notes had been sent for consultation in connection with his work (in German)
-Copy of inscriptions including from Aswan, Bijeh, and Sehel copied from Morgan, J. de, Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l'égypte antique. Première série, Haute égypte, (1894) (OEB 136449)

Various research notes relating to religion and culture. Includes:
-typed paragraph on the dessication of the Sahara Plateau
-a note on bukalamun
-a footnote relating to Moringa
-typed notes relating to the olive and the use of olive oil
-note on the administration of justice
-notes on titles
-notes on expressions in hieroglyphs including to filter and negative expressions
-notes on the offering formula

Envelope containing notes on viziers including on the title vizier, lists of viziers, officials of the vizier, the ceremony to install a vizier, and the history of the position.

Also includes cutting of Spiegelberg, W., 'The Viziers of the New Empire', in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology, Vol. XV. 23rd Session, pp.522-526, (1893) (OEB 150895).

Research material on titles and officials, most of which appear to be from the same notebook.

Notes include reference to a notebook on titles.

Research notes and draft on the production of fire.

Research notes and tracings on the white crown of Upper Egypt [S1] or hedjet and crown insignia. Also includes letter from John Linton Myers relating to a boar-tusk helmet, 5 November 1924.

Research material relating to religion in ancient Egypt, including notes housed in an envelope on Alan Gardiner's entry 'Egypt: Ancient Religion' in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition (1911).

Includes draft contents page for a publication which correlates with the subject of the notes:

The Cults of Ancient Egypt

1. Introduction

2. Totemism and Survivals of Totemism: Syncretism

3. Evolution of the Anthropological God

4. Temple and Priesthood

5. The Egyptian belief in a Future life and belief in the Soul

6. Cults: 1. Stone Cults 2. Trees and Plants 3. Animal Cults a) quadrupeds b) birds c) reptiles d) Insects 4. Split totems 5. Artificial Objects

7. Cosmic Deities: The Egyptian Cosmos

8. Evolution of Ethical Ideas

9. Egyptian Religion and its influence on the ancient world

Miscellaneous notes relating to places and sites in Egypt. Includes:
-Copy of inscription from a kneeling figure found in the tomb of Sebekhetep and sketches of decoration in the Palace of Amenhetep III
-Copy of an inscription relating to Sheshank III
-Newspaper article titled 'The Origin of Lake Mareotis'
-Note on the 'town of the lofty mountain'
-Notes on Lake Manzala

Envelope labelled 'Magical bricks for walls' and numbered A 130 (possibly during archival processing). Contains handwritten notes on magical bricks.

Typed and handwritten notes on the history of Egypt including <i>smsw-Hr</i> or 'Followers of Horus', 'the Scorpion King', early kingdoms and predecessors of Menes.

Also includes:
-Typed notes on Breasted, J.H. 'The Predynastic Union of Egypt', Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale 30 (1931), pp. 709-724 (OEB 135364)
-Typed copy of Phythian-Adams, 'Aiguptos: a derivation and some suggestions', in <i>The Journal of The Palestine Oriental Society</i>, 1922 (OEB 147278)

Notebook titled 'Cults: Introduction' and beneath 'Miscellaneous' although this has been crossed out. Contains notes and beginnings of a draft on deities and religion. Roughly a third of the notebook has been used.

Also includes note at the front of the notebook on a conversation with Eduard Meyer before the First World War, with reference to intention of writing a volume on Egyptian deities and the religion of ancient Egyptians.

This folder was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Religion 3'.

Research notes on Hathor, Anukis, Satis and Sekhmet and their origins sorted into four paper folders.

Notebook titled on inside page '1908-9 - Percy E. Newberry - University of Liverpool - c/o Thomas Cook and Sons - Cairo or Luxor'. It has also been labelled during previous archival processing 'Miscellaneous - Mainly sealings and other early dynastic material'.

Notebook contains short notes on a range of different topics, copies of inscriptions, drawings, cuttings and rubbings of scarabs and seals.

Includes notes on religion, geography, museum collections and objects, genealogy of the Newberry family, nome ensigns or standards, cult symbols and architecture.

This notebook was previously in a box labelled, during previous archival processing, 'Sealings, Scarabs, Cylinders'.

Research notes, tracings and drawings relating to throw sticks and boomerangs, and the associated ensigns and cults. Includes tracings of a boomerang on the mast head of a boat.

Includes:
-Draft titled The Cult of the Boomerang
-Notes relating to occurrences of the boomerang and throw stick ensigns on Predynastic pottery
-Cutting of Eggers, H., 'A Study of the Boomerang', in Proceedings of United States National Museum, (1888), pp.363-367
-Photographs of throw sticks including man holding two throw sticks