Notes by Griffith on the archaeology of El-Qanṭara (Tell Abû Seifa) [TopBib 401-120] & Tell Dafana (Daphnae) [TopBib 401-130] & Bibliographical Notes

El-Qanṭara (Tell Abû Seifa) [TopBib 401-120]
-Front Cover: Contents page of notebook.
-p1: “Accounts” page with lists of expenses of Griffith and Petrie April 15-19.

-p2: Copy of Roman inscription.

-p3: List of expenses April 25-27 and May 3rd.
-p4-5: List of workers and wages assigned to each.
-p6: List of expenses 3rd May and 8-9 May.
-p7: List of expenses 14-15 May and 18th May.

-p8: Sketch of two square bases and one “lion” in relation to one another and their orientation. Presumably those mentioned in publication as “Ramesside blocks”, “square limestone base” and “recumbent lion”.
-p9: Note; “Qantarah mound = Tell abu Sêfre” (El-Qanṭara and Tell Abû Seifa of TopBib iv.6).
p9reverse: Notes, including measurements, and inserted sketches of two built-features in the Kom.
-p9a: Crossed-through note.
-p10: Notes, including orientation and exposure time, for 4 numbered photographs.
-p12-13: Notes and calculations concerning workmen.
-p14: Notes on bearings; “from a high spot E of Qantara” and “from Tell al Her”(Tel el Hér in -publication), including orientations to other features of the landscape.

-p15: Crossed-through notes and calculations concerning workmen.

-p16: Notes on “cemetery E valley”; “pot burials”, “bones”, “skeletons” and “Roman amphora”.
-p18: Notes and orientations of surrounding landscape and built features; from “low strip around end of Pelusian mound”, “from NW corner of mound” and transect of features “going Eastwards”.
-p19: Copy of unlabelled inscription not in publication.
-p20-22: Continuation, from end of page 18, of description of landscape and built features “going eastwards”, presumably the mound described is Qantara. Features described include; “W wall of Arch citadel”, gateways, brickwork, “columns”, some of which were “half buried” and blocks of granite - all distances and orientations labelled in relation to one another.

-p23: Calculations.
-p24: Numerical list of items.
-p25: Crossed-through notes concerning workmen.

Tell Dafana (Daphnae) [TopBib 401-120]
-p28: Copy of inscription from “sandstone block at Menaget el Kebire”(El Menâgi of publication), “south of cemetery”, including block measurements. A further note mentions a granite block on west side.

-p30: Note concerning boxes and letters.
-p31: Index of cases 1-22 detailing contents.

El-Qanṭara (Tell Abû Seifa) [TopBib 401-130]
-p32-37: Preliminary draft of articles 96.-98. in publication, with alterations subsequently made.
-p40: Preliminary draft of article 99. in publication, with alterations subsequently made.
-p42: Draft of description of visiting “Farama” from “Qantarah”, presumably for publication.
-Preliminary draft of article 100. in publication, description of Tel el Faḍḍa and Tel el Ḥêr.
-p43: Draft of the end of article 99. in publication, description of “Medieval Fort”.
-p44-46; 48; 50: Preliminary draft of further content of article 100. in publication, description of Tel Ḥabwe and Tell Abû Seifa [“Tell abu Sêfe”] (el-Qanṭara [“el Qadym”]).
Multiple alterations subsequently made as well as omissions from the publication.
-p52: Brief note; “distance being 22(?) miles was a straight–line”.
-p54: Note concerning; “Nebesheh temple bricks in antechamber”.

-p56: Expenses list for May 20-22.

-p59: Corpus d orientalists(?) (bibliographical reference to).
-p60: Tiele, Devéria, Quaterirre(?) (select bibliographies of).
-p61: Pleyte & Lieblein (select bibliographies of).
-p63: Piégut(?), Rosei(?), Gribaut &Rosellini (select bibliographies of).
-p65: Naville, Goodwin & Chabas (select bibliographies of).
-p67: Reference to a Zeitschrift article.
-p69: Birch & Lepsius (select bibliographies of).
-p71: Champollion le Jeune & Champollion-Figeac (select bibliographies of).
-p73: Ebers (select bibliography of).
-p75: Maspero (select bibliography of).
-p77: Mariette (select bibliography of).
-p79: Rougé & Wilkinson (select bibliographies of).
-p80a-80c: Duemichen (select bibliography of).
-p80e: Brugsch (Heinrich) (select bibliography of).

-p80f: Crossed-through notes and calculations.

El-Qanṭara (Tell Abû Seifa) [TopBib 401-130]
-p80g: Notes concerning the surrounding areas of the “Pelusium E mound”, “Arab fortress”, -“high hill Abul Aruq” and “Tell Her” with distances and orientations measured. First seems to be content of article 99. in publication whereas second two sections are unclear.
-p82-83: Note concerning; “May 20. Zagagig.”
-Cat cemetery at NW side of “Kom Qaithen(?)”.
-Temple in depression in middle of southern half. Few inscribed granite blocks.
-On E outside town, remains of mummies in wall, late tombs, Ptolemaic & Roman in vaults or square chambers on outside of wall.

-p86: List of calculations.

Nabêsha (Tell Faraûn) [TopBib 401-150]
-p87: List of workmen and values with total for Nabêsha [“Nebesheh”].
-p88: Notes concerning; measured distances “from about 1mile SW of Pelusium mound” of landscape features, e.g. “break in low mounds” and “opening between mounds”. Presumably features described are near Nabêsha.

El-Qanṭara (Tell Abû Seifa) [TopBib 401-130]
-p90: Notes on two squeezes which entered article 101. in publication. Transcriptions of inscriptions translated in the article relating to Prisse Monuments xix.
-p92-93: Sketch of inscriptions of “back”, “right” and “left” side of Prisse Monuments xix, as translated in article 101. in publication.
-p94: Notes concerning; “limestone base in temple”, measurements of the mound and note in French.
-p95: Note concerning; “five pieces of inscribed sandstone lion found” and descriptions and comments on each fragment as well transcribed hieroglyphs.
-p96-97: Description and transcription of hieroglyphs from “monument in Qantareh” – “w. Side = back”, “N side” and “base S. side” & “N. side”. (not in publication).
-p98-99: Sketch map “from (?) Tell NE of Qantarah Tell el Her?” with “canal”, “former lake”, “low ground” and “Pelusium?” labelled.
-p100: Note concerning; bricks from Tell el Her, Tell Semut, Tel el Hir(?) and descriptions of landscape features in relationship to these and also “old Qantara” and “Qantareh”.

-Back Cover: Lists of workmen and expenses calculations.