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Work and excavations in Thebes:

• royal tombs
• private tombs
• caches
• graffiti
• inscriptions
• ostraca
• maps and plans
• excavations
• notes and records

Howard Carter's excavation records and notes on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.
Carter excavated at the site between 1 December 1918 and 15 January 1919.

Howard Carter's manuscript records for sites in Middle Egypt. The notes are recorded on index slips, and list site names, map references, and brief descriptions of each site's ancient monuments. Compiled by Carter in 1918.

Howard Carter's excavation records, notes, map and photographs, for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn, in the Delta, in April 1913.

Howard Carter's miscellaneous records, including his collected notes on ancient weights and measures.

Howard Carter's various notes on the following:

• Drafts for his unpublished autobiography (manuscripts and typescripts), comprising 8 folders and 6 notebooks
• Notes on the royal genealogy of the late 18th Dynasty
• Notes on glass
• Lecture notes
• Drafts of articles

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

Miscellaneous objects owned by and related to Howard Carter.

Notes and annotated photocopies relating to the Apa John archive in the John Rylands Library, including an unpublished draft of ‘The Archive of Apa Johannes’, by Dr Malcolm Choat, of Macquarie University, Sydney, with annotations by Sarah Clackson.

Photographs of papyri, annotated photocopied articles, lecture notes titled: ‘Between Byzantium and Islam: Coptic society as seen through the papyri’ (part of the Cambridge seminar series ‘Scribes and Scribblers: Reading written communication in Late Antiquity and Byzantium’).
Drafts of articles ‘Coptic pre-marriage agreement in the Schøyen collection’ and ‘Schøyen Coptic marriage contract. P. Schøyen ms. 1980’.

Annotated drafts of a paper for a conference in Trier in 2000, ‘Bilingualism in Late Antique Egypt: The Coptic and Greek evidence’ and an uncorrected copy of ‘Coptic or Greek? Bilingualism in the Papyri’.
Notes.
Annotated photocopies of articles and lectures.

Correspondence.
Copies of papyri.
Transcriptions.
Photocopied articles and unpublished articles by various scholars.
Photographs (b&w) of papyri, including Corpus Christi Hoskyns ms. 541 folder xxxvi and a hypocephalus.

Material for contribution to Gedenkschrift Ulrike Horak, ‘Greek and Coptic medical prescriptions from the Michaelides collection in Cambridge University Library’.
Notes.
B&w photographs of papyri.
Correspondence.
Transcriptions.
Annotated copies of ‘Greek and Coptic Pharmaceutical Manuscripts in Cambridge University Library. Folio from a Greek pharmaceutical codex CUL Michael. 1073'.

Documentation for article on the Synodontis schall fish, published in ZÄS 129 (2002).
Annotated photocopies; notes; correspondence.

Annotated copy of ‘An unedited Coptic leaf of Genesis in Cambridge University Library (P. Camb. UL Or. 1699 P i)’, published in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998).
Annotated copy of review of K.-H. Schüssler’s Biblia coptica: Die koptischen Bibeltexte, puiblished in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998)
Photocopies and photographs (colour & b&w); notes and photocopied articles; correspondence; drafts.

Correspondence.

Addenda to Schiller’s checklist of Coptic bibliography.
Annotated photocopied articles.

Notes; bibliography; annotated photocopied articles.
Draft copies of chapters 2, 4 and 6.

Includes some texts in demotic and Arabic.

Abstracts of papers.
Annotated drafts, text and OHPs of ‘A mid-Eighth Century trilingual tax demand issued to a Bawit monk’.

Notes for paper on ‘Who was who in Late Antique Egypt: Modern appropriations of cultural perspective’.

Paper on ‘Archimandrites and Andrismos: A preliminary survey of taxation at Bawit’.

Notes; photocopied annotated articles; transcriptions; photocopies of papyri.
Plates - b&w photographs, printouts of colour scans and b&w photocopies of papyri.