- Carter MSS vi.1
- Stuk
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Carter's autobiography, notes on royal geneaology, glass, lectures etc.
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Howard Carter's various notes on the following:
Luxor. Temple - Festival of Opet procession: correspondence, Alan H. Gardiner to Howard Carter
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8 letters from Sir Alan Gardiner to Howard Carter, mostly regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, but also mention other subjects.
The first letter is dated 24 August 1916 and the last in the group is dated 13 July 1918.
Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson
Ancient Egyptian weights: card catalogue
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Howard Carter's manuscript index-card catalogue of Egyptian weights in museums, private collections and publications.
Arranged by the size of weight.
The data for each weight has been arranged by Carter under the following sections:
Weight of Shepses and a scarab of Amenophis III: notes with drawings
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Howard Carter's manuscript notes with sketches.
Ancient Egyptian measurements: notes
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Howard Carter's manuscript notes on ancient Near Eastern measurements, including measuring rods, most in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
The cubit rods are recorded as follows:
Carter House: photograph, stamped brick
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Letter and photograph regarding a brick found at E. & W. Lake Ltd, Park Road, Newhall, near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire. These premises were formerly the site of a brickworks owned by Lord Carnarvon, that produced the bricks which were shipped to Egypt for the construction of Carter's house "Castle Carter" (Castle Carter II) at Dra Abu el-Naga, Thebes.
Notebook: hieratic palaeographic notes with hieroglyphic transcriptions
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Howard Carter's notebook of hieratic palaeographic notes on individual signs, groups, royal names and a few longer texts, with hieroglyphic transcriptions.
Perhaps compiled during Carter's excavations and explorations (graffiti and inscribed objects).
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Howard Carter's documentation relates to the so-called "Saqqara affair" (Saqqara incident; Sakkarah incident; Sakkara) which led to Carter's resignation from the Egyptian Antiquities Service in 1905.
Including:
Luxor. Temple - Festival of Opet procession: Carter's draft sketches of details
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Howard Carter's draft pencil sketches of the upper part of a musician holding clappers and various hands, details from the Festival of Opet scenes, Eastern Wall of the Processional Colonnade in Luxor Temple.
Luxor. Temple - Festival of Opet procession: draft correspondence, Howard Carter to Alan H. Gardiner
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Two draft letters from Howard Carter to Alan Gardiner regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, including a proposed schedule and Carter's description of the wall scenes.
The earlier draft letter is not dated, the second draft letter is dated 1 May 1917.
Weights of the ancient Near East: notes
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Howard Carter's manuscript notes, recorded in a notebook and 15 loose pages, on ancient Near Eastern weights.
Notes on weights and measurements, Festival of Opet drawings, and Saqqara affair documentation
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Howard Carter's miscellaneous records, including his collected notes on ancient weights and measures.
Tell el-Balamūn. Great Enclosure wall. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs of trench no. 5
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Howard Carter's photographs numbered 14 to 16 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, trench 5 within the Great Enclosure wall, Tell el-Balamūn.
Tell el-Balamūn. Great Enclosure wall. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs of trenches 5 and 6
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Howard Carter's photographs numbered 12 and 13 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, within the Great Enclosure wall, Tell el-Balamūn.
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Howard Carter's photographs numbered 10 and 11 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Girdle Wall, Tell el-Balamūn.
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Howard Carter's photographs numbered 7 to 9 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Palace buildings, Tell el-Balamūn.
Tell el-Balamūn. Temple. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs, inscribed temple block
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Howard Carter's photographs numbered 5 and 6 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Temple area, Tell el-Balamūn.
Damietta. Modern town: photographs, views
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Howard Carter's photographs, views of a town on the Mediterranean coast, probably Damietta.
The photographs are part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
Tell el-Balamūn. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs, general views of site
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Howard Carter's photographs, general views of the site, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
For other general views, see Carter MSS iv.4.
Tell el-Balamūn. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs, views of Carter's camp
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Howard Carter's photographs, Carter's camp in the marshes, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
For other views of the camp, see Carter MSS iv.3 (1) and (2).
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Howard Carter's photograph of pottery vessels found in trench no. 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
Another photograph with a different view of the same group of vessels, see Carter MSS iv.19 (34).
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Howard Carter's photograph of pottery vessels found in trenches nos. 3, 3a and 3b, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
These vessels were also photographed as part of a larger group, see Carter MSS iv.18 (31).
Tell el-Balamūn. Temple. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs of, and from temple site
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Howard Carter's photographs numbered 3 and 4 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Temple area, Tell el-Balamūn.
Tell el-Balamūn. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs of excavations in progress
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Howard Carter's photographs of the local Egyptian team showing them excavating, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
Tell el-Balamūn. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs
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Howard Carter's photographs of the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913.
Carter MSS iv.3-20
18 lined pages with affixed photographs accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these as plates ii-xviii to accompany his report, see Carter MSS iv.2.
Carter MSS iv.21-50
30 loose photographs, including some duplicates of photographs in Carter MSS iv.3-20.
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Howard Carter's photographs, numbered 1 and 2 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
Tell el-Balamūn. Temple and Palace area. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: photographs, duplicates
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Some duplicates of Howard Carter's photographs of the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn. Also, a note from the original housing for Carter MSS iv.21-50.
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Howard Carter's photographs numbered 35 and [36] with manuscript captions, finds from trenches nos. 2 and from Temple and Palace area site, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
Tell el-Balamūn. Carnarvon-Carter excavations: report
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Howard Carter's annotated manuscript report on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913.
Group includes:
18 lined pages with affixed photographic prints accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these pages as plates ii-xviii and they were intended to accompany this report, see Carter MSS iv.3-20.