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Autobiography (Autobiographical Sketches): drafts (notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts)

Howard Carter's drafts of his autobiography were intended for publication, but not completed or published. Carter referred to these drafts as "autobiographical sketches", and the manuscripts and typescripts were most likely composed in the 1930s.

  • Earlier annotated manuscript
    • 6 notebooks
    • 219 pages
    • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
      • Sketch I. Introductory
      • Sketch II. An Account of Myself
      • Sketch III. Thebes
      • Sketch IV. The Tomb of the Horse
      • Sketch V. Summer life and a Tale from the Coffee hearth
      • Sketch VI. Three Milk White Camels
      • Sketch VII. A Fortuitous Discovery
      • Sketch VIII. The Valley and the Royal Tomb
      • Sketch IX. Tomb-Robberies and the Fate of the Royal Mummies
      • Sketch XI. The Finding of the tomb of Amenophis I
  • Later annotated typescript
    • 8 folders
    • 236 pages
    • Section/chapter headings within this group include:
      • Autobiographical preface
      • The Excavator and his Task
      • The Ancient Egyptian Dwelling, Tomb and Temple
      • Ancient Egyptian Funerary Equipment
      • Sketch of Thebes
      • The Theban Necropolis
      • The Valley of the Tombs of the Kings
      • A History of the Theban Royal Mummies Decadence and Destiny I-IX
      • El-Bab El-Hosân 'The Tomb of the Horse'
      • Summer life in Egypt
      • The Rat and the Snake
      • A Fortuitous Discovery [The discovery of Queen Hatshepsut's tomb]
      • Three Milk White Camels
      • The Finding of the Tomb of Amenophis the First
      • The Cemetery of the Queens'

Ancient Egyptian measurements: notes

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 MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod, granite, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45933 [see TopBib v.116A].
  • Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod, granite, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45932 [see TopBib v.116A].
  • Carter MSS v.2 [a, b] - Cubit measuring rod of Panas, basalt, Ptolemaic, found at Dendera, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 45931 [see TopBib v.116A].
  • Carter MSS v.2 [d] - Cubit measuring rod, wood, found in the tomb of Sennedjem, Dyn. XIX, TT1, Thebes, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 1941 [see TopBib i2.4].
  • Carter MSS v.2 [i] - Cubit measuring rod of Osorkon I, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.2 [see TopBib ii2.300].
  • Carter MSS v.2 [j-k] - Cubit measuring rod of Nektanebos II, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 31.12.22.1 [see TopBib ii2.300].
  • Carter MSS v.2 [l-m] - Cubit measuring rod, schist, found at Karnak, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum [see TopBib ii2.300].
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