Collection of antiquities and miscellanea collected by Miss Lane during her trips, including stone wall fragments, some with remains of decoration, Greek and Egyptian pottery fragments (modern and ancient), rough pottery oil lamps, shells, botanical specimens, strings of mummy beads, a decorated wooden spoon with an inscription to Miss Lane, a fabric sample and an ink well in the form of a boat.
Album (43.5 x 33.5 cm) of approx. 134 studio (including Beato) and smaller, possibly amateur photographs, put together following Miss Lane's two trips to Egypt and the Near East between 1873 and 1876. Locations include a number of cities in Egypt, Beirut, Damascus, Athens and Rome.
38 letters from Iversen, 13 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Iversen with copies of Sidgwick & Jackson correspondence concerning Iversen's publication plans. 3 letters from Sidgwick & Jackson, concerning a publication of Iversen's (Iversen, E. The Myth of Egypt and its Hieroglyphs in European Tradition (1961) (OEB 8508)). Iversen's research and publications, but also some references to personal matters:
Iversen's study of p. Carlsberg VII
Iversen's publications on pigments, paint and Egyptian hieroglyphs used in European tradition
stamp collecting; Iversen supplied Danish stamps to Černý
2 letters from Hurst, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Hurst. Egyptian king-lists as supporting evidence for dating and analysing Nile flood levels.
Rendering of the Greek and Latin graffiti from the colossi of Memnon, located at the site of the temple of Amenhotep III at Kom el-Hetan on the west bank at Thebes:
Drawing of a seated man and his wife behind him from an unidentified tomb in Thebes. A faint border for hieroglyphs is visible along the top edge, and a small star shape is visible on the top left corner:
Drawing of a row of baboons found detailed across the base of the east obelisk at Luxor temple. In between the baboons are details of the king's cartouche, and along the edge of the base is a row of hieroglyphs containing the royal titulary:
pencil drawing
mounted
[on recto, left side] Several notes of measurements (pencil notes)
[on recto, right side] Technical details (pencil notes)