Raccolta Parkinson, H. MSS - Harold Parkinson Collection

2 oversize boxes, 2 parcels and 1 large folder

1) Donated by Mr Harold Parkinson in 1983.
2) Donated by Mr Harold Parkinson in September 1989.
3-7) Presented by his son Professor Richard B. Parkinson in December 2013.
8) Presented by his son Professor Richard B. Parkinson in August 2019.
9) Transferred from Magee MSS in October 2023.
10) Presented by his son Professor Richard B. Parkinson in August 2019.

1) Original measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [corrected version].
2) Drawings of Eighteenth Dynasty tombs (incomplete original set and complete sets of photocopies/prints) (1980s).
3) Prints of the measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [version with error].
4) Drawings of reconstructions of Egyptian boats (1993-4).
5) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for plaque depicting a scene from the lid of box from the tomb of Tutankhamun (c. 1979) - the plaque has been sold in the British Museum shop since the late 1990s (copyright issued in the late 1990s for a while, then reissued c. 2010).
6) Model, plaster and resin moulds and casts for the mask of Tutankhamun (1978).
7) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for small figurines (2 seated Isis suckling Horus, Bes amulet and scarab, 1970s).
8) Album of newspaper cuttings titled "Illustrations", mostly from the Illustrated London News, bound in illustrated binding by Harold Parkinson (c. 1930).
9) Copy of Simplified Hieroglyphs arranged according to Gardiner's Signlist. Drawn in both left and right directions together with samples of cursive hieroglyphs and hieratic signs. Hieratic versions are drawn from Möller Hieratische Paläographie Vol. I (6th to 13th dynasties), of which 'Sinuhe' provides the majority of the examples, by R. B. & H. Parkinson (1988-1989).
10) Original measured perspective drawing of the White Chapel at Karnak, by H. & R. B. Parkinson (c. 1989-1990).

Kept as received.

Property of the Griffith Institute. No restrictions.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford. Permission must also be arranged with Professor Richard B. Parkinson.

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These are originals and copies made by author.

2) Photocopies of KV 55 in the possession of Dr C. N. Reeves.

Other Archives:

• 4) Complete, final set in the possession of Dr. D. Jones.

• 1) M. A. Littauer and J. H. Crouwel, Chariots and Related Equipment from the Tomb of Tutʿankhamūn (Oxford, 1985), pl. i; C. N. Reeves, Valley of the Kings: the decline of a royal necropolis (London and New York, 1990), pl. iv; A. Wiese, 'Tutankhamun - Just a Conventional "Tomb Treasure" of the 18th Dynasty? On the Tomb Equipment of Royal and Non-royal Personages in the Valley of the Kings', in A. Wiese and A. Brodbeck (eds.), Tutankhamun - The Golden Beyond: Tomb Treasures from the Valley of the Kings (Basel, 2004), figs. 1, 15; W. M. Weiss, Tutanchamun. Sein Grab und die Schätze (Bayreuth, 2008), fig. on 55 [upper].
• 2) KV 46: A. Wiese, 'Tutankhamun - Just a Conventional "Tomb Treasure" of the 18th Dynasty? On the Tomb Equipment of Royal and Non-royal Personages in the Valley of the Kings', in A. Wiese and A. Brodbeck (eds.), Tutankhamun - The Golden Beyond: tomb treasures from the Valley of the Kings (Basel, 2004), fig. 76.
• 4) D. Jones, Boats (London, 1995), figs. frontispiece, 20, 28, 29, 43.
• 10) R. B. Parkinson, Voices from Ancient Egypt: An Anthology of Middle Kingdom Writings (London, 1991), fig. on p. 123.

• Photograph provided by Professor Richard B. Parkinson (son).