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Howard Carter's sketch map with plans of tombs KV 34 (Tuthmosis III), KV 38 (Tuthmosis I) and KV 42 (Tuthmosis II?), Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's hand-drawn plan for Carnarvon excavations, 1920-1921, Valley of the Kings, Thebes, with plans for KV 48 to KV 52.
NB The numbering of Carter's tombs 48 and 49, are different to the modern numbering system: Carter 48 = KV 49 and Carter 49 = KV 48.

Lindsley Foote Hall and Walter Hauser's preliminary tracing recording the position of sticks (no. 48) in situ on top of bed (no. 47), found in Antechamber, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Used for compiling the draft and final plans of Antechamber, see Carter MSS i.G.10 and 11.

Miscellaneous objects owned by and related to Howard Carter.

Howard Carter's pencil sketch of some of the columns in the processional colonnade in Luxor Temple, with columns from a Coptic(?) building in the foreground.

Howard Carter's watercolour of a 'Theban landscape with figures and tent'.

Howard Carter's album of watercolours:

• Containing 16 pages with 30 watercolour illustrations
• Birds and animals and their hieroglyphic equivalents
• Full catalogue with descriptions for each watercolour, see online publication weblinks below

Howard Carter's artworks, all feature ancient Egyptian or Egypt-related subjects:

• an album of watercolours of birds and animals
• a watercolour painting of a Theban landscape
• a pencil sketch drawing of columns in the Luxor temple

Howard Carter's manuscript corrections for the draft or proofs of Carnarvon, Earl of and Howard Carter (eds) 1912. Five years' explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911 (OEB 136376).

Howard Carter's notebook, containing 118 pages, manuscript notes on hieroglyphic inscriptions, some accompanied by drawings, copied primarily from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906: Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822), as well as other publications.

Two pages of Howard Carter's manuscript notes on Osiris and 'The wish for an Osiride burial and the retention of every royal prerogative'.

Press cuttings collected by Howard Carter, some mentioning Carter's archaeological work, including Tutankhamun, and Carter manuscript note from original housing.

• Carter MSS vi.7.1.1
  • The Times Educational Supplement
  • 6 July 1929
  • Pages 307-8
  • 'Side Windows on history' (from a correspondent)
  • Mentions Carter
• Carter MSS vi.7.1.2
  • Liverpool Post
  • 20 June 1929
  • 'A cosmetic 3,000 year old'
  • Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb (see following)
• Carter MSS vi.7.1.3
  • Daily Chronicle
  • 20 June 1929
  • 'Cosmetic from Luxor Tomb. | Shown to women in London. | After 3,300 years.'
  • Cosmetic specimen from Tutankhamun's tomb, analysed by Mr A. Chaston Chapman and Dr H. J. Plenderleith (see preceding)
• Carter MSS vi.7.1.4
  • Morning Post
  • 8 January 1929
  • 'The King's Epiphany gifts
  • Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter
• Carter MSS vi.7.1.5
  • The Times (?)
  • Summer 1930
  • 'The Royal Academy | I.—Pictures and the public | A varied exhibition (By our Art Critic)'
  • Not obviously related to Egypt or Carter

Press cuttings and miscellaneous notes.

Howard Carter's annotated draft typescript, for an article titled 'Notes. Egyptian Art - Origin, History, Intention and Interpretation', not published and no mention of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter numbered most of the pages: "1" to "29"
• The typescript contains the following headings:
  • [title page] Notes. Egyptian Art - Origin, History, Intention and Interpretation
  • Introductory
  • Origin
  • Generation
  • Deterioration
  • History
  • The Art of the Middle Kingdom, 2160 - 1780 B.C.
  • The Art of the New Empire, First and Second Period - 1580-1350-1150 B.C.
  • Intention
  • Interpretation. Cause of certain effects in delineation
  • Renaissance

Howard Carter's annotated typescript, the draft for an unpublished article on art during the reign of Tutankhamun, with references to objects found in all four rooms of the king's tomb, including:

• Throne (Carter object 91)
• Small gold shrine (Carter object 108)
• Decorated casket or box (Carter object 540 and 551)
• Stick(s) with a figure of the king (Carter objects 235a and 235b)
• Painted box (Carter object 21)
• Statues of the canopic goddesses (Carter object 266)
• Statue(s) of the king on a leopard (Carter objects 289a and 289b)
• Ka statues (sentinel or guardian statues) (Carter objects 22 and 29)
• Mask (Carter 256a)

Howard Carter's manuscript draft(s) for a publication or lecture, or perhaps for his intended autobiography.
The draft contains the following headings:

• The District now known as Medinet Habou
• Notes Episodes to introduce [perhaps related to autobiography?]
• Luxor
• Ramesseum
• The temple of Qurna

An article, annotated by Carter, titled 'Egypt Calls' by Sir Evelyn Wrench and published in The Spectator, 6 September 1935, page 370, in which Wrench mentions his encounter with Howard Carter at Luxor.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript drafts, unpublished articles and lectures.

Howard Carter's notebook, manuscript notes on glass and other subjects. The notebook forms part of Carter's records on glass.
Includes:

• Heading on the first page, "Notes on glass"
• 2 loose pages with notes on two magical figures, almost certainly from Tutankhamun's tomb
• Notes on general glass-making techniques and decoration, extracted from publications
• Notes on 'Red Jungle Fowl'
• Draft of Carter, Howard 1923. 'An ostracon depicting a red jungle-fowl (the earliest known drawing of the domestic cock)'. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 9 (1/2), 1-4 (OEB 136396)
• Manuscript draft of a proposed article on glass, for the typescript of this article see Carter MSS vi.5.3

Manuscript letter from R. Bethell, dated 27 May 1921, to Howard Carter, regarding Carter's proposed article on glass (see Carter MSS vi.5.3), part of Carter's records on glass.

Howard Carter's proposed article on glass with references to pieces in the Carnarvon collection.
Includes:

• a 15-page typescript, with notes in pencil made by R. Bethell
• an accompanying colour plate illustrating a Cypriote vessel in Egyptian opaque glass, supplied by Mr White, The Studio (magazine), London
• 1 page of related notes

Howard Carter's notebook on glass vessels excavated at Enkomi, Curium and Amathus, titled 'Cameiros in Rhodes', contains manuscript notes and traced drawings copied from publications, part of Carter's records on glass.

Howard Carter's annotated typewritten lecture notes on 'The Contribution of Ancient Egypt to Progress of the World', part of Carter's records on glass.
Sections titled:

• The Calender
• Glass
• Linen weaving
• Liturgical vestments
• The Crosier
• The Wedding Ring

Howard Carter's notes on glass.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes on Haremhab, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty.
This group includes:

• Carter's calculations noting the length of reigns for Amenophis IV (Amenhotep IV; Akhenaton; Ikhnaton), Smenkhkare, Tutankhamun and Ay
• Note on Haremhab's reign

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Ay and Ankhesenamun, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty.
This group includes:

• Letter from Percy E. Newberry regarding a ring with the cartouche of Ankhesenamun alongside the prenomen of Ay
• Ay's titlary from his tomb, KV 23, Valley of the Kings, Thebes

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript records on Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun, part of Carter's records on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty.
This group includes:

• 4 pages of manuscript notes on inscriptions from Tutankhamun rings, and arguments for and against Tutankhamun being the son of Amenophis III (Amenhotep III)
• 4 pages of manuscript notes with the heading "Note re King Ay", discusses gold-leaf fragments with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ay, found in KV 58, Valley of the Kings
• 18 pages of manuscript notes, many of the pages are crossed through (cancelled), perhaps notes for a lecture, including extracts from Theodore M. Davis's publication for KV 57, Tutankhamun's marriage to Ankhesenamun, Tutankhamun's age at death, his parentage and succession, dated objects found in Tutankhamun's tomb, etc.
• Newspaper cutting with a report of this lecture titled 'Secrets of Tomb of Tutankhamen. Dr. Howard Carter on the end of a Dynasty'. No record of which newspaper this comes from.
• Howard Carter's notes for a lecture given at University College London, July 21, 1931.