Oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides (called 'obelisk'), with dedication texts of Seti I and Ramesses II to Horus of Mesen commemorating Ramesses I, once at Tell Abu Seifa in el-Qantara, and now in Ismailia Museum, 2249; front, with remains of a scene with kneeling Seti I offering water to Horus:
pencil drawing
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 133
17.8 x 25.8 cm
[on recto of drawing] 'The underside of the Obelisk at Abu Saiffie / 13th Feb 1843. / x' (pencil note)
Female servant bringing a gazelle and a tray laden with grapes, from a wall painting in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
A priest, wearing a long cloak and carrying a staff, and a priestess, from the funeral cortege accompanying the sarcophagus which is being dragged to the tomb, in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
Two men in a pool collecting water in large jars (for brick-making), detail from a scene in the tomb of Rekhmire (TT 100), temp. Tuthmosis III to Amenophis II, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (top and right)
mounted
35.2 x 45.6 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Taking fish out of a tank. / Tomb at Thebes. / No. 35 ? / 10th July 1843.' (pencil note)
Two rows of female mourners squatting on the ground, detail from a funerary scene in the tomb of Haremhab (TT 78), temp. Tuthmosis III to Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (top and right <twice>)
mounted
38.1 x 44.8 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Women mourners wailing. / Tomb at Thebes. / No. 16 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
Three musicians (woman with harp, man with lute and woman with double-pipe), detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), temp. Tuthmosis III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
Two female guests with two female attendants pouring water or oil onto the head of one of them, detail from a banquet scene in the tomb of Ptahemhet (TT 77), later usurped by Roy, temp. Tuthmosis IV, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:
pencil tracing with edges folded in on two sides (right <twice> and bottom)
mounted
66.2 x 46 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Lady in a bath. / Tomb at Thebes. No. 15 ? / 11th July 1843' (pencil note)
Female lute player, detail from a scene with female musicians performing for guests at a banquet in the tomb of Kha (TT 8), temp. Amenhotep II, Tuthmosis IV and Amenhotep III, at Deir el-Medina in Thebes:
pencil tracing with right edge folded in twice [right side of album page]
41.8 x 66 cm
[on recto of tracing] 'Woman playing and dancing. / 19th (or perhaps 10th) July 1843 [lower part of date lost]' (pencil note)
Design for a title-page for Lloyd's 'Sketches of Ancient Egyptian Sculpture and Painting' with the goddess Seshat and Maat, which are based on two other drawings in the same album (see Lloyd MSS 103 and Lloyd MSS 104):
pencil drawing
loose item, originally a tipped-in page perhaps for this album, with remains of mounting-strip on right side of verso
25 x 34.9 cm (excluding mounting-strip)
[on drawing] 'SKETCHES OF ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SCULPTURE AND PAINTING' (pencil note)
loose item, originally a tipped-in page perhaps for this album, with remains of mounting-strip on right side
25.5 x 34.9 cm (including mounting-strip)
[text] 'I have drawn this simply as a title for my sketches. / The semicircle at the top, excepting the Cartouches / is from the doorway of the first vaulted Chamber / in the temple of El Assasief erected by Amensä / the mother of Thothmes 3rd. The other part is mere / composition. On the right is Thmai or Truth, and / on the left Safrä, the Goddess of Letters. The characters / are ornamented with the emblems of Lower and / Upper Egypt. The Cartouches are for Our Lady / Victoria, when I can get those from Birche's work. / 27th July sketched / 1st August finished / } / 1843 / { / G Lloyd. / Gurna / Thebes.'
Memorial portrait of George Lloyd. Lloyd is portrayed reclining on a rug, wearing Arab clothing and holding the mouth-piece of a hookah-pipe in his right hand. The scene is set in a desert campsite, perhaps fictional, in Egypt, with a man standing with three camels in the background. The drawing this lithograph was based on was created by É. Prisse d'Avennes sometime between 1843 and 1848:
three colour tinted lithograph
loose item, perhaps not originally with the album but placed with it later
41.5 x 30.5 cm (print area of 36.1 x 27.7 cm)
[on recto of lithograph] 'Drawn on stone by Lemoine. [caption]
[on recto of lithograph] 'Portrait of the late George Lloyd Esqr' [caption]
[on recto of lithograph] 'James Madden_London' [caption]
[on verso of lithograph] '330' and enclosed ',1039' (pencil notes)
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.
Note on the back names some of the people as Abu Bakr, Hermann Grapow, Percy Newberry, Georg Steindorff, Hermann Junker, Selim Hassan and Banub Habachi.
Note on the back of the photograph suggests that it is a photograph taken at Cairo University in the 1920s, and lists the people seated left to right as: 1. [?], 2. [?], 3. Selim Hassan 4. Newberry 5. [?] 6. Junker 7. Vikentiev 8. Henri? Frankfort 9. [?] and in the front row 1. Baudouin? Van de Walle, 2. [?], 3. [?].
Small painting of a chalice of Tuthmosis III published in Newberry, Percy E., 'A Glass Chalice of Tuthmosis III' in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jul., 1920), pp. 155-160 (OEB 146363).