Folder titled 'Predynastic Kings names Palermo and Cairo fragments', containing material relating to Predynastic Egypt.

Includes:

• Drafts on the history of Predynastic Egypt

• Notes on 'paleolithic implants' in Egypt

• Typed notes on the 'Predynastic Population'

• Handwritten notes on flints

• One page of a handwritten draft and notes on the Chalcolithic Period

• Notes on Predynastic pottery

• Tracings of Predynastic pottery depicting boats

• One page of a handwritten draft titled 'Some Cults of Prehistoric Egypt'

• Three pages of a handwritten draft on cult insignia

• Draft letter to Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards on research activity, 30 December 1947

Folder titled 'Deforestation : Dessication' containing research notes on deforestation, dessication and climate changes in Egypt.

Includes

• Notes on the Libyan Desert or Sahara including on deforestation

• Notes in preparation for a lecture titled 'Taming the land and interpretation of nature'

• Notes on articles by Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

• Notes on deforestation

• Notes on the former fertility of Egypt

• Newspaper cutting on soil erosion in Africa by Elspeth Huxley from The Times, 10 June 1937

• Notes on the geology of Egypt

• Typed lecture notes on deforestation, flora and fauna in Egypt

• Notes on desiccation or drying up of lakes and rivers

• Typed draft titled 'Deforestation of Mediterranean Lands'

• Notes on deserts

Diary titled by Newberry 'The Theban Necropolis - Excavations 1898-1899 - Account of Men's wages for the Marquis of Northampton'.

Front section contains lists of men, the days worked and their wages.

On the front page of the diary Newberry has written 'Small service is true service whilst it lasts - of friends however humble scorn not one - The daisy by the shadow that it casts - Protects the lingering dew drop from the sun' and below 'If by such rose we see - A thorn there grows - Strive that no thorn shall be - Without its rose'.

Diary contains a brief daily log of activities and details of payments made, 1 January 1899 to 9 April 1899.

This item has been digitised and transcribed.

The Percy Newberry Collection has been listed thanks to a cataloguing grant from the The National Archives in 2015. The collection comprises a wide range of material on topics including Predynastic Egypt, Theban tombs, Egyptian flora and fauna, early Egyptian travellers, ancient Egyptian religion and culture, as well as Newberry's genealogy. Formats include notebooks, research notes, photographs, tracings, rubbings and newspaper clippings.

The collection has been divided into 5 series: Biographical Material; Correspondence; Research Notebooks; Subject Files, and Research Material.

The following key subject terms collate material on the same subject, which have been listed in different series:
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/nome-ensigns-percy-newberry-collection">Nome Ensigns</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/flora-and-fauna-percy-newberry-collection">Flora and Fauna</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/predynastic-egypt-percy-newberry-collection">Predynastic Egypt</a>
<a href="http://archive.griffith.ox.ac.uk/index.php/scarabs-and-seals-percy-newberry-collection">Scarabs and Seals</a>

1) Photograph album of a family holiday to Abu Qir, erroneously titled ‘Abusir. Summer 1923’, also including other older photographs (1918 to 1923).
2) Photograph album of family portraits [non-Egyptological].
3) Copy of the Arabic publication 'Arab Architecture in Egypt: The Principal Structural Characteristics of the Style Classified'; by Wilfrid Joseph Dilley (...); with plates prepared by F. Chatterton (...); translated by Mahmoud Ahmed (...); Cairo: National Printing Press, 1923; including 2 manuscript English translations of Arabic title page [non-Egyptological] [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/869282469].
4) An additional folder with photographs, 2 postcards and a small group of family papers.

Notes, copies of inscriptions, photographs, etc. of objects and sites, mostly concerning ancient Egyptian monuments from the Memphite area.

Two folders containing correspondence and notes:

• Correspondence with other Egyptologists (now deceased) and some miscellaneous correspondence. Includes Eaton-Krauss's exchanges with Cyril Aldred, Martha Bell, Bernard V. Bothmer, Jochen Briegleb, Helmut Brunner, Henry Fischer, Wolfgang Helck, William Murnane, and James Romano.
• Notes and correspondence relating to articles and publications, peer-reviewed by Eaton-Krauss.
• Recommendations for appraisals of academic posts.
• Correspondence with Marc Gabolde between 1987 and 2023 about a research project to study the monuments associated with king Tutankhamun in the Temple of Karnak; accompanied by a chronological summary to facilitate use.

Papers relating to Joan Crowfoot Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1993; reprinted with addenda, 2000), including notes, lists, registers of graves and objects, and annotated maps (photocopies).

Copies, notes, transcripts, photographs, and correspondence relating to the surviving fragments of the New Testament in the Faiyumic dialect of Coptic. Continuing the work of P. E. Kahle, see Kahle MSS 2/13 New Testament Faiyumic Texts.

Includes correspondence from:

• Paul Eric Kahle, 1959
• Elinor Husselman (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan), 1959-1961
• Walter Till (Department of Coptic Studies, University of Manchester), 1958-1959
• Theodore Petersen (St Paul’s College, Washington), 1965
• R. Kasser (Professor of Coptic Language and Literature, University of Geneva), 1987

Greek dictionary card index, used in compiling W. E. Crum, A Coptic Dictionary (Oxford, 1929-39).

Glass negative of Plate III, 8 of Bala’izah.

Copies, transcriptions, facsimiles, drawings and some photographs of mummy labels in Demotic, Greek or bilingual, presented as loose sheets in folders arranged by cities/museums/collections, housed in five slip-cover boxes. They were collected by Möller from printed sources and from several collections he visited on research journeys. One folder in box V is by W. Spiegelberg (1893).

Correspondence.

Complete working papers, including notebooks, notes, card indexes, slides, photographs, correspondence and teaching notes.

Complete working papers, including notebooks, notes, card indexes, drawings of scenes and inscriptions, plans, slides, photographs, and correspondence.

Research papers
Includes relevant notes, concordances, photocopies, letters, emails, negatives, photographs, and small-scale tracings.

• Scarabs and seals.
• Brooklyn Museum scarabs and seals.
• New Kingdom reliefs.
• Valley of the Kings.
• El-Lisht.
• Tutankhamun shabtis.
• Amarna Royal Tomb/Necropolis.
• Research for articles.
• Photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings.
• Miscellaneous papers.
• Three photograph albums.

Slides
10,000+ slides, the majority created by Martin, 1960s onwards. They include archaeological sites in Egypt, reliefs and objects, rephotographed publication illustrations, and commercially-produced slides.

Framed watercolour
Watercolour painting, perhaps by Annie Quibell. The upper part of an angel is probably inspired by (or copied from) one of the paintings in the Monastery of Apa Jeremias at Saqqara.

KV57: tomb of Horemheb, Valley of the Kings
Includes research papers, a small box of photographs, and Martin's epigraphic drawings of Horemheb's sarcophagus.

Original epigraphic drawings and scanned reductions of originals

• Epigraphic drawings of loose Memphite blocks used for Vols. I and II of Martin's Corpus of Memphite Blocks. Vol. I, published. Vol. II, in preparation (info. August 2022).
• Reduced line drawings of reliefs from published Memphite New Kingdom tombs, including the tomb of Horemheb and possibly the tomb of Maya.
• Drawings without labels, not yet identified—some Amarna.

Large photographs
Includes the Step Pyramid complex and Unas Causeway, some taken from the summit of the Step Pyramid, or perhaps aerial photographs. Some show tomb reliefs.

Miscellaneous

• PhD dissertation, G. T. Martin (two bound volumes on scarabs and seals. The second volume has been published. The first volume is not published).
• Brooklyn Museum manuscript (bound unpublished manuscript for scarabs and seals in the Brooklyn Museum).
• Three photograph albums (photographs of sites, buildings and street scenes mostly in and around Cairo in 1942. The albums were given or bequeathed to Martin).
• Manuscript ("The Memphite Tomb of Horemheb. A Palaeography (Catalogue of Signs)". Unfinished).
• Photocopied line drawings (these are probably duplicates of a published set of line drawings from a known New Kingdom Memphite tomb or are from Vol. I of Martin's Corpus of New Kingdom Memphite Blocks).
• Three bound volumes (miscellaneous postcards, photographs, etc.).
• Amarna Royal Tomb Project (selected material, copies of graffiti, ostraca, etc., represents a small section of the information gathered by the team when Martin was Field Director).
• Memphite New Kingdom Prosopography (card index with the names and other details of known tomb owners and other officials mentioned in reliefs, paintings, statuary, etc., in or from around the Memphite cemeteries).
• Photographs, newspaper cuttings, letters etc. (including a letter from Lord Mountbatten of Burma, also newspaper cuttings from international papers, primarily referring to the discoveries of Horemheb and Maya and the relationship of these officials to Tutankhamun).

Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.

Two notebooks

• Diary with brief retrospective entries dated 6th January 1920 to 13th January 1939.
• Notebook containing Dawson's list of his publications, 1903 to 1936.

Notes, notebooks, photographs, negatives, proofs, transparencies, xeroxes, and correspondence.

Documentation used for the preparation of publications.

Egypt Exploration Society Committee documentation.

Publications (offprints of articles and reviews).

Doctoral thesis working notes, arranged thematically.

Doctoral thesis photographs (negatives, contact sheets and prints) and slides.

Tell Edfu stelae.

Two chapters on Beni Hassan (probably from a doctoral thesis, unknown author).