Two albums containing plans and drawings of Egyptian monuments.

1) Two typescripts with pages from the published edition, and handwritten notes and editing marks, together with a small box of glass negatives of plates marked 'Plates for Part 2'. Both titled ''Egypt's Beginnings', being the third edition of The Cultures of Prehistoric Egypt by Elise J. Baumgartel.' Also notes on the manuscript by Barry Kemp, dated 1975.
2) Collected notes and photographs relating to Predynastic material in The Brooklyn Museum. Two reports: one a copy of 'Report of Henry de Morgan on his researches in the Nile Valley between Esneh and Gebel-Silsilèh, during the winter of 1907-1908'; the other, no title or date, addressed 'To A. Augustus Healy, Esq., President of the Brooklyn of Arts & Sciences' [sic].
3) Seven card index boxes:
a) Naqada and Ballas Site Index [4 boxes]: Identified contents of grave groups from numbered tombs in Predynastic cemetery at Naqada, also Naqada town site, and Ballas (excav. Petrie, 1895), with current museum location; arranged by tomb number and cross referenced to Naqada and Ballas (London, 1896). The card index was created by Elise J. Baumgartel as the basis for her Petrie's Naqada Excavation. A Supplement (London, 1970); subsequently maintained and updated by Joan Crowfoot Payne, ‘Appendix to Naqada Excavations Supplement’, JEA 73 (1987), 181-9.
b) Petrie’s Naqada Site Records [2 boxes] (sketches of numbered graves showing disposition of bodies and grave goods): photocopies of the entries in site notebooks, filed by tomb number.
c) Petrie’s Ballas Site Records [1 box] (sketches of numbered graves showing disposition of bodies and grave goods): photocopies of the entries in site notebooks, filed by tomb number.

Drawings (by Winifred M. Brunton), letters, and working notes for a publication on button seals.
Negatives taken during the Matmar excavations in 1928-30.
Card index created 1958.

Watercolour showing the initial stages of one of Howard Carter's excavations.

Notebooks, loose notes, maps, plans, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver desk-set. The documentation was created during Carter's career between 1899-1939. This material excludes material connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun, see the Tutankhamun Archive.

Howard Carter's annotated typescript with notes on royal tombs, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Titled 'The evolution of the Theban Royal Tombs', dated 11/06/1923.

Notes, transcriptions, translations, article drafts, lecture drafts, card index, photographs, slides, overhead projector sheets, electronic data files, microfilm, correspondence, annotated photocopies and off-prints, relating to Coptic and Greek documents and Coptic archaeology.

Howard Carter's photograph, statue base with feet of standing statue, inscription with cartouches on front of base, faience, New Kingdom, found during excavation of Ptolemaic Vaulted Tombs (over Valley Temple of Hatshepsut), Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.

Papers of William Matthew Flinders Petrie including journals covering 38 seasons (1880-1929) and photographs of excavations. The collection also includes secondary material associated with Petrie's journals, photographs of objects in museums, souvenir photographs and photocopies of material held at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London.

View of the remains of the Amun temple at Umm-Ebeida, Sîwa Oasis:

• watercolour
• mounted
• 15.4 by 10.5 cm

Three registers of relief scenes from the passage area of the tomb of Rekhmire (TT100) at the west bank of Thebes, including a funeral procession with rows of figures bearing goods and offerings:

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Lower row plate 3'. (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'il resto di questa ligna lavateli fuori'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, bottom left corner] 'Tomb at Thebes contd'. (ink note)
• 44.5 by 31.1 cm

Relief scene from the passage area of the tomb of Ineni (TT81) at the west bank of Thebes of the tomb-owner and his wife seated before a table with offerings, and a lower register with a row of smaller standing and kneeling figures presenting offerings:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] '97'. (pencil note)
• 42.4 by 26.7 cm

Relief scene from the hall of the early 18th Dynasty tomb of Benia Pakehmen (TT383) at the west bank of Thebes of the tomb-owner in a striding pose before three separate registers of workers who are weighing out and recording various items including gold rings. To the left side is a mirror image of the tomb owner, but with his palms held upward in a sign of adoration:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] '93'. (pencil note)
• 43.5 by 28.5 cm

Relief scenes from the 12th Dynasty tomb of Amenemhat (Tomb 2) at Beni Hasan, including four separate registers of male figures in a variety of different wrestling poses, with the top and bottom edges of the paper left blank:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 30.0 by 19.4 cm

Relief scene from the passage of the early 18th Dynasty tomb of Neferhotep (TT50) at the west bank of Thebes, the upper part of a scene with the tomb-owner and his wife seated before a table piled with offerings. At the bottom left corner, the smaller figure of their daughter stands beside them and raises one hand in adoration:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] '84', 'plate 7'. (pencil notes)
• 30.0 by 24.2 cm

Relief scene from the exterior wall (outer face) from the temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu, of the king surrounded by officials and fan-bearers, and before him a large naval battle scene:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'part 2'. (ink note)
• [on mount] 'North side of Medinet Abou'. (ink note)
• 36.0 by 23.5 cm

Relief scene from the exterior wall (outer face) from the temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu. On the right, the king is shown in his chariot hunting lions. Beneath him are rows of smaller soldier figures. On the left is another scene of the king on foot aiming an arrow, surrounded by other archers as well as soldiers and a fan-bearer:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'part 1' (ink note)
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'not finished'. (pencil note)
• [on mount] 'North side of Medinet Abou'. (ink note)
• 43.5 by 24.0 cm

Relief scene from the south sanctuary area of the Hathor temple at Deir el-Medina showing the weighing of the heart, also known as the judgement. Above are two registers of seated deities outlined in faded pencil:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'Nº 1'. (ink note)
• [on mount, bottom edge] 'Judgement scene at Thebes'. (ink note)
• 29.7 by 23.7 cm

Drawing of a column from the outer hypostyle area of the Temple of Haroeris and Sobek Triads at Kôm Ombo:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, lower edge] 'Com Ombos [...] one of the columns of the portico. (pencil note)
• 12.9 by 27.2 cm

Relief scene from the hallway of the early 18th Dynasty tomb of Benia Pahekmen (TT343) at the west bank of Thebes of a large round-topped stela with three-registers on either side, with the tomb-owner shown kneeling and presenting offerings:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 30.0 by 24.3 cm

Relief scene from the inner room of the early 18th Dynasty tomb of Benia Pahekmen (TT343) at the west bank of Thebes of four registers of a funerary procession, including rows of offering-bearers and large barques, before a large figure of a Western goddess. The upper register shows the deceased being transported to the tomb.

• watercolour
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] '88'. (ink note)
• 27.9 by 21.2 cm

Tracing of mythological scenes from a papyri including deities upon a barque and an encircled ba bird:

• pencil tracing
• mounted
• [on recto, top left corner] 'part 1 Papyrus Turin'. (pencil note)
• 53.0 by 22.7 cm

View from the river of the quarries south of El-Khizindariya, at Gebel Sheikh el-Haridi:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, top right corner] 'Opposite Sheik Harridy - Harridy'. (pencil note)
• 27.2 by 13.0 cm

View from Girgeh including a building on the left side with a seated figure looking out to the water, and two small boats on the Nile:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'view from Girgeh mountains of do & an Arab cottage inside'. (pencil note)
• 27.2 by 13.0 cm

View from Girgeh of the bazaar with several figures seated on either side of the pathway:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Bazaar in Girgeh [...] the streets'. (pencil note)
• [on mount, bottom left corner] 'Bazaar Girgeh'. (ink note)
• 27.2 by 13.0 cm

Drawing of several hieroglyph signs, including one combined sign for 'scribe' (ss) which has coloured details:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 26.7 by 21.2 cm

Rough drawing of several hieroglyph signs including various emblems and animals:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 21.0 by 26.4 cm

Drawing of several hieroglyph signs including a detailed owl, and a seated male figure with flagellum:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• 21.4 by 26.7 cm

View of the south gate at Mit Rahîna, including the in-situ colossus of Ramesses II:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on recto, bottom left corner] 'Fragment of colossal statue at Metrahenny - ancient Memphis'. (ink note)
• 29.6 by 24.2 cm

View of the remains of the temple at Qasr Qarun, el-Faiyum:

• pencil drawing
• mounted
• [on mount, top edge] 'Temple in the Fayoom'. (ink note)
• 24.2 by 14.2 cm