Howard Carter's notes listing categories of objects from the Antechamber, Tutankhamun's tomb

• Howard Carter's manuscript list of objects, arranged in categories, listing Carter object numbers with brief descriptions. All objects were found in the Antechamber,
• Supplement to Carter notebook, see TAA i.2.14
• List of categories is arranged as follows:
  • Botanical specimens
  • Nome standards
  • Sandals
  • Boxes
  • Headrests
  • Amulets
  • Jewellery
  • Necklaces
  • Miscellaneous
  • Ushabtis
  • Shrine
  • Implements
  • Vases
  • Stone vessels alabaster
  • Baskets
  • Statues
  • Couches
  • Chariot parts
  • Weapons
  • Arrows and quivers
  • Bows
  • Gloves
  • Textiles
  • Sticks
  • Chairs
  • Stools
  • Footstools
  • Hassocks
  • Bedsteads

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1923

• Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1923
• Carter's activities in Egypt include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and his excavations

Howard Carter's appointment diary for 1924

• Letts's - No. 46 - Indian and Colonial - Rough Diary - 1924
• Notes on Carter's activities in Egypt in early 1924, which include departures and arrivals, lunch appointments, meetings with officials and colleagues, and lecture venues and dates. Also contains a few notes on negotiations with British officials and the Egyptian authorities, between December 1924 and January 1925, regarding the dispute and closure of Tutankhamun's tomb.
• Also entries for:
  • Lecture tour, North America, 12 April (depart London) to 2 July (depart New York).
  • Some lectures, England, October to early November.
  • Lecture, Madrid, Residencia de Estudiantes, 24 November.
  • Lecture, Madrid, Trabro Fontainalla, 26 November.
• Departed for Egypt, 10 December.

Howard Carter's notes on groups of objects intended for the scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb

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

• Letter to Alfred Lucas from Dr W. F. Hume, Geological Survey of Egypt, on specimens of calcite from Tutankhamun's tomb sent by Lucas.

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

• Howard Carter's annotated typewritten notes on the four magical figures, Tutankhamun object nos. (257), (258), (259) and (260), found in sealed niches in the Burial chamber, including Carter's transcriptions for each.

Transferred to Carter MSS i.J.389.

Pall and the pall support. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's annotated three-page typescript with 1 manuscript note.
• Report on the pall and the construction of the pall struts, the attempts to preserve the pall, and its destruction.

General notes on the four sepulchral shrines. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Folder 1: Carter's manuscript report.
• Folder 2: Carter's typescript notes, many cancelled (crossed through).
• Base measurements of shrines after their re-erection in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• Carter's copies of Egyptian words for shrines and their meanings, taken from Gardiner's Grammar.

Second shrine (237). Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• i. Carter's report on the shrine with measurements, wood type, construction, sealings, "guide" marks, and a note on the changes to the cartouches, possibly from those of Smenkhkare.
• ii. Carter's drawing of shrine detail, noting its construction.
• iii. Harry Burton's photographs of the shrine. Taken in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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

• i. Carter's manuscript notes on scarves from Tutankhamun's tomb. Carter suggests they are the forerunners of the Eucharistic vestment called the maniple.
• ii. Copy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 1932, with an article by Herbert E. Winlock on sem-priests' costumes.

Tutankhamun excavation - Harry Burton's original contact prints made from the original glass plate negatives

• Set of original photographic prints.
• Most were created by Harry Burton.
• Some prints were made in the Ashmolean Museum Photographic Studio between the mid-1940s and the 1970s.

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

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

• Telegram (telegraph) from the U.S.A. regarding Tutankhamun discovery.
• 08-02-1923.
• Addressed to Lord Carnarvon from Lefkowitz & Pitofsky.
• Regarding attaining exclusive rights to textiles and designs.

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Removing one of the famous Alabaster Vases. 16 steps into tomb.'
• Arthur Callender and a colleague carrying one of the ornamental alabaster unguent vases (57) found in the Antechamber.

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Removing from the tomb the Portrait Bust of Tut Ankh Amen in wood, painted.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Removal of one side of the 'Regal Couch', Lord Carnarvon & his daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert following.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Box containing the King's Robes.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Four trays containing small treasures from the tomb.'

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Caption: 'Mr. Carter & Callender carry the King's jewel Box.'

• Postcard.
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Photograph taken in early 1923.
• Bedstead (47) with the bows, arrows, quiver and sticks found on top (48), in transit from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, of Sethos II).

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Photograph taken in 1923.
• View of the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun with some tourists standing behind modern tomb enclosure wall.

• Photograph, photographer not known.
• Taken in early 1923.
• Two Egyptian team members transporting trays from Tutankhamun's tomb to the nearby 'laboratory' (tomb KV15, Sethos II). The first tray contains textiles(?), the second tray contains a decorated footstool. Howard Carter walks in the foreground, on the left side.
• Photograph probably The Times.

• Digital image
• Original negative was probably created in 1923.
• Photograph of Alfred Lucas working on a group of small objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun in the laboratory set up in KV15 (Sethos II).
• The photograph was probably taken by the The Times photographer.

• Digital image.
• The original photographer is not known, perhaps taken by The Times photographer.
• Original image was created probably in early 1923.
• Photograph was taken in the Valley of the Kings.
• Members of the Tutankhamun excavation team.
• From left to right, Arthur Callender, Arthur Mace, Harry Burton, Howard Carter, Alan Gardiner, and Alfred Lucas.