Tutankhamun Excavation. Howard Carter's notes on various subjects.
i. General note on tomb robbery.
ii. Jewellery. References to pectoral (261P(2)), docket from box (267), etc.
iii. Three pages of manuscript notes on 'The last and final season's work in the Tomb of Tutankhamun', including references to the sarcophagus, shrines, etc.
iv. A note on the contents of rooms and disturbance by ancient robbers.
v. Two handwritten notes concerning tomb plan development in the New Kingdom.
P. E. Newberry's copy of The Tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: Statement with documents, as to the events which occurred in Egypt in the Winter of 1923-24 leading to the ultimate break with the Egyptian Government.
"Published for private circulation only by Cassell and Company, London, etc. 1924."
Incorporates Howard Carter's original documentation, see TAA ii.21.
Letters and documents relating to Howard Carter's dispute with the Egyptian Government after the European team members' wives were barred from entering the tomb to view the contents of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus after the lid had been lifted (12 February 1924).
The dispute on the following day, 13 February 1924, eventually resulted in Howard Carter and the rest of the team being locked out of the tomb until 13 January 1925.
Includes correspondence between Sir Alan Gardiner and the Foreign Office, Egyptologists and others in 1924.
Referred to as the "Carter Affair" or "Tutankhamun Affair".
Letters sent to Howard Carter at the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun. These letters were almost immediately passed on by Carter to A. C. Mace to deal with.
Twelve photographs, all black and white, of various objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun. All made by the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Perhaps created in the 1940s or 1950s.
Photographs, all black and white, collected by J. Černý during his preparation of Černý, J. 1965. Hieratic inscriptions from the tomb of Tutankhamun [OEB 11213].
Photocopy of P. E. Newberry's copy of The tomb of Tut-ankh-amen: statement with documents, as to the events which occurred in Egypt in the Winter of 1923-24 leading to the ultimate break with the Egyptian Government.
Family papers relating to the donation of Howard Carter's papers to Oxford University.
Antiquities returned to Egypt following Howard Carter's death.
Objects presented to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Family portraits: Samuel Carter (Howard Carter's father); Howard Carter; Amy Walker (née Carter, Howard Carter's sister); and Phyllis Walker (Howard Carter's niece).