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Tutankhamun Archive

  • TAA
  • Colección
  • 1922-2014

Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.

Carter, Howard

Notes: 1926-1927 (5th season), Alfred Lucas

Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas conservation notes, 1926-1927.

  • Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes.
  • ‘Materials Employed’ during the fifth season 1926-1927.
  • Two pages.

Lucas, Alfred

Notes: wood, correspondence and related material, Alfred Lucas

Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas documentation on wood from the tomb.

  • Correspondence and related material on wood, including:
    • 16 letters exchanged between Alfred Lucas and Laurence Chalk discussing wood specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun;
  • 3 offprints, Lucas articles:
    • Lucas, A. 1932. The Occurrence of Natron in Ancient Egypt. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 18 (1/2), 62-66 (OEB 144143);
    • Lucas, A. 1936. The Wood of the Third Dynasty Ply-wood Coffin from Saqqara. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 36, 1-4 (OEB 144160);
    • Lucas, A. 1924. Note on the Temperature and Humidity of Several Tombs in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 24, 12-14 (OEB 144136).

Lucas, Alfred

Notes: Alfred Lucas, Tutankhamun conservation, 1922-1931

Alfred Lucas's notes on the conservation of objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, compiled between 1922 and 1931.

  • Alfred Lucas's manuscript conservation notes
  • Arranged by Lucas in six sections
  • See below under "Notes" for transcription of Lucas's typewritten label affixed to the notebook cover
  • Contents include:
    • ‘Methods and Treatment used. [Antechamber objects]’;
    • ‘Scarlet colour on gold’;
    • ‘Objects and Treatment in Burial Chamber and Antechamber’;
    • Luxor Season 1925-6.
    • Account and treatment of Coffins and Mummy;
    • Seasons 1926-7, 1927-8;
    • Account and treatment of Coffins (contd.) and objects in Treasury, beginning of Annexe;
    • Season 1928-9;
    • Account and treatment of objects in Annexe.

Lucas, Alfred

Notebook: Alfred Lucas, Examination of Materials: (a) Tutankhamun. (b) Various

Alfred Lucas notebook on ‘Examination of Materials: (a) Tutankhamen. (b) Various.’

  • Notebook with 99 rule-lined pages with enclosures
  • Manuscript
  • Lucas's index of categories:
    • Gold
    • Leather
    • Varnish
    • Gesso
    • Faience
    • Resin
    • Dyes
    • Precious and semi-precious stones
    • Contents of jars
    • Textile fabrics
    • Stopping
    • Oils and fats
    • Copper or bronze
    • Silver
    • Beeswax
    • Stone
    • Gypsum and gypsum plaster
    • Lead
    • Pigments and media
    • Natron (salt)
    • Fungus
    • Glass
    • Materials employed
    • Miscellaneous
    • Eyes
    • Glue
    • Pottery
    • Fossil bone
    • Plaster and mortar
    • Cement
    • Kohl
    • Sulphur: Riebeckite
    • Black cores from bronze objects
    • Wood patch
    • Wine lees
    • Blackened rocks and efflorescence
    • Wood
    • Solder
    • Papyrus
    • Pink colour
    • Temperature
    • Black organic material
    • Bow, compound

Lucas, Alfred

Gold: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Gold. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  1. Carter's manuscript, eight pages, 'Notes upon the remarkable rose-coloured gold employed in jewellery and other ornaments of the Theban Egyptian New Empire' etc., including:
    • (i) Copy of Alfred Lucas' account in Carter, Howard, The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen ii (1927), pp. 172 ff;
    • (ii) Copy of Dr Alexander Scott's notes on rose gold;
    • (iii) Copy of the jeweller's J. R. Ogden typewritten analysis of one sequin;
    • (iv) Carter's summing up of the evidence.
  2. Letters addressed to Howard Carter from:
    • (i) Dr Alexander Scott, May (typewritten, with manuscript draft of Carter's reply), June (manuscript), and August 1933 (manuscript), regarding gold in the tomb;
    • (ii) The jewellers J. R. Ogden concerning gold, with their analysis, typewritten;
    • (iii) W. F. Hume, December 1930, typewritten, on his publication about gold in ancient Egypt;
    • (iv) Copy of letter from Howard Carter to W. F. Hume, May 1933, on rose gold;
    • (v) Alfred Lucas to Howard Carter, November 1933, manuscript, on rose gold.
    • (vi) Carter's draft/copy manuscript letter addressed to A. Lucas, 15 May 1933.
  3. Newspaper cutting from Illustrated London News, April 1934, with articles by E. T. Lewis and W. T. Blackband on 'Rediscovery of the lost Etruscan art of granulation'.
    The following items were also filed by Carter in this group:
    • Printed calling card: Mr Alfred Dobrée, Le Fainel, St Martins, Guernsey. Savile Club.
    • Manuscript note with contact details for Dr [Cecil H.] Desch. F.R.S. National Physical Laboratory, Teddington', on Savile Club headed notepaper.

Lucas, Alfred

Gesso: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Gesso. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Typescript letter from Dr Alexander Scott, December 1930, to Howard Carter, on animal tissue with gesso used under gold on the burial shrines. Also, see Chemistry notes (TAA i.3.9).
  • ii. Photograph of a microscope slide, sample with animal hair follicles, enclosed with Scott's letter.
  • iii. Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes on the analysis of gesso, which mentions a layer of ‘course woven fabric’ found under gesso.
  • iv. Howard Carter's manuscript notes on components of gypsum, whiting and chalk.

Scott, Alexander

Alfred Lucas Collection

  • Lucas MSS
  • Colección
  • 1922-1933

Notebook on 'Archaeology, Register of samples, and analyses. Tutankhamen and others.' (TAA i.2.11). Notebook on 'Examination of Materials: (a) Tutankhamen. (b) Various.' (TAA i.2.12).

Lucas, Alfred