Two men carrying a large wine-jar with painted grape-vine decoration, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil and watercolour tracing with right edge folded in twice
• mounted
• 58.5 x 42.1 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Gurna. / 25th Sept 1843' (pencil note)
• [on mount] '5' (pencil note)
• [on verso of tracing] 'No 9 -' (pencil note)

Two women, each holding a sistrum and a bouquet, detail of a scene from an unidentified tomb at Thebes:

• pencil tracing with right edge folded in [right side of album page]
• mounted
• 42.9 x 55 cm
• [on recto of tracing] 'Women making an offering / Tomb 4.' (pencil note)
• [on verso of mount] '6' (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)
• [on verso of tracing] '9' (pencil note)

Female musicians and dancers, detail from a scene in the tomb of Mery (TT 95), temp. Amenhotep III, at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes:

• pencil tracing with right edge folded in twice
• mounted
• 66.3 x 42.2 cm
• [on recto of tracing] '10' (pencil note)

Tutankhamun object cards with accompanying photographs, notes (some group notes listed below) and letters, compiled by Howard Carter and other members of the excavation team [TAA i.1.1-620]

• Most cards are manuscript records, as well as many original typescript records

• Many cards are illustrated with drawings of objects, or details of objects, by Howard Carter and A. C. Mace

  The object cards record:

  • Object number, main description of the object, location in the tomb, measurements, description of the object - Howard Carter and A. C. Mace (1922-1925)
  • Hieroglyphic inscriptions, transcriptions and translations - Mostly Alan H. Gardiner and P. E. Newberry, but some inscriptions are transcribed by Carter
  • Conservation records - Alfred Lucas and A. C. Mace (1922-1925)
  • Botanical and textile notes - P. E. Newberry
  • Photographic documentation - Harry Burton

  Other groups of notes filed with the object cards include:

  • Notes on the [ancient] robberies, by Howard Carter, Alfred Lucas and Lord Carnarvon
  • Notes on various aspects of the Annexe by Howard Carter (1-4, 10-43, 47-64), Alfred Lucas (5-9, 44-6) and A. H. Gardiner (41)
  • Notes and memoranda on various aspects of the tomb by Alfred Lucas
  • Notes on the contents of baskets by Howard Carter
  • Note on a wooden docket by A. H. Gardiner
  • Two letters from Howard Carter to A. H. Gardiner

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

• Includes Carter's drawings with reconstructions of the chariots and harnesses, comparisons with chariots from other tombs and depictions of chariots from temple and tomb wall scenes.
• An essay on Tutankhamun's chariots (TAA i.3.8.10-17), based on Howard Carter's notes, probably edited by Mrs Jane Waley in 1946-1947. Mrs Waley worked for the Griffith Institute and created the first catalogue for the Tutankhamun records.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Two Egyptian team members, accompanied by Howard Carter [wearing hat and waistcoat, left foreground], carry trays containing objects from the Antechamber of Tutankhamun's tomb while being pursued by tourists. The man on the left carries a decorated box (Carter 44), probably a footstool or stool, while the tray conveyed by the man contains two items, perhaps a box lid and a vessel (not identified). The objects are being transported to the nearby 'Laboratory' (the tomb of King Sety II, KV15).

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Egyptian excavation team members transport some of Tutankhamun's food provisions from the King's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of King Sethos II (KV15) in the Valley of the Kings.
• Forty-eight boxes (Carter 62) containing choice cuts of meat and whole geese were prepared to accompany the King's burial and were placed in a neat pile beneath one of the ceremonial couches in the Antechamber. They were some of the first items Howard Carter saw when he looked into the tomb for the first time on 26th November 1922, recording them as "a heap of large curious white oviform boxes".

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• (Carter 116)
• An Egyptian team member carrying the wooden portrait figure of Tutankhamun, the so-called "mannequin", from the King's tomb to the nearby "Laboratory" tomb (KV 15, of Sethos II) for cleaning and conservation.
• The portrait bust of Tutankhamun [Carter 116] was found in the tomb's Antechamber. The King is portrayed wearing a yellow flat-topped crown featuring the centrally positioned uraeus on the crown's temple band. The King also wears a close-fitting white garment.
• The bust's purpose is unclear, but it probably displayed part of the King's regalia. A recent proposal is that it may have been originally used for supporting and storing the King's gold corset (Carter 54k) in the tomb. When thieves ransacked the tomb in antiquity, these robbers likely removed the corset from the bust before breaking the heavy regalia into smaller, portable pieces.

• Postcard
• Photograph, photographer not known.
• The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
• Members of the Egyptian team manoeuvring a large carrying tray out through the entrance to the modern enclosure wall constructed shortly after Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered. The team are carrying two black shrine-like boxes (Carter 37) and (Carter 38) and a gabled-roofed box (Carter 32), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory.

Merchandise pamphlet for the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition at the British Museum in 1972.

• 1 printed, gatefold pamphlet with a list of merchandise, some items illustrated with line drawings

Notebook containing notes on work in Theban tombs, financed by Sir Robert Mond, 1909-1910.

Printout of the booklet "Charles Gordon Jelf. Born June 8, 1886. Killed in Action October 13, 1915" (printed for private circulation, 1915); from Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford copy [http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph013761443&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US].

Papers, including notebooks, notes, tracings and squeezes, made in Theban tombs and elsewhere, photographs, collection of coloured hieroglyphic signs, indexes of scenes in Theban tombs, etc.

Bound manuscript on Egyptian hieroglyphs and related topics (Roman obelisks, Iseum in Rome, Isiac pomp described by Apuleius, Egyptian rites, mummies, etc.). Left unfinished.

Copy, notes, etc. of Kircher’s Scala with letters from Windstedt on Bodleian 325 and others.
Magical words.
Copies of ostraca published in Theban Ostraca (Toronto, 1913) .

Copy, notes, etc. of Kircher’s Scala with letters from Windstedt on Bodleian 325 and others.
Magical words.
Copies of ostraca published in Theban Ostraca (Toronto, 1913).

Copies of texts, mostly from Theban tombs.

Howard Carter's photograph of the lion-hunt ostracon, found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Howard Carter's photograph of the text on verso of the lion-hunt ostracon found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Howard Carter's photograph, copper implements, includes a knife or razor, from a toilet set?, labelled "14", Cemeteries, Site 14, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes duplicate photograph.

Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.

• Series 1 to 4, 6, 7 contain photographs, copies, transcriptions and translations of Egyptian texts, and photographs of objects and sites.
• Series 5 contains articles and lectures, some unpublished.
• Series 5 and 10 contain notes on Egyptian history.
• Series 8, 14, 22, 24, 26 contain notes and indexes on lexicography and grammar and card indexes for a late Egyptian and general hieroglyphic dictionary.
• Series 17 contains notebooks with transcriptions of texts from ostraca, graffiti, papyri and other monuments. There is a card index of ostraca with references to notebooks in series 28.
• Series 18 and 23 contain Coptic notes and a card index for Coptic grammar.
• Series 25 contains data on Egyptian personal names.
• Series 33 is an etymological card index.

Portrait of Howard Carter, oil painting by his brother William C., signed and dated '1924'.

118 glass stereoscopic plate negatives. Most show sites in and around

• Cairo, in and around
  • General views of Cairo
  • Street views
  • Tombs of the Caliphs
  • Tombs of the Mamelukes
  • Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan
  • Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq
  • Tomb of Abouseer
  • Mosque of Khat Bey
  • Al-Hakim Mosque
  • Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
  • The Citadel

• Other sites in Egypt
  • 'Tombs at Thebes'
  • 'Rocks of Abusir', Second Cataract
  • 'Arab village'

• Outside Egypt, mostly Israel and Palestine:
  • Bethlehem
  • Jacob's Well
  • Mount Tabor

Notes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.

Panel showing the deceased and his wife at a table, Dyn. IV, from Saqqara, North of Step Pyramid, Tomb B 3, Shery, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 2554.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Part of tomb of [Šrj]. Florence Catalogue No.1534 [rḫ-nsw nb jmȝḫ Šrj] [mjtrt Ḫnt-kt]'.

Seated statue of Redidj, diorite, Dyn. III, provenance not known, now in Turin, Museo Egizio, 3065.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Black granite statue of [Rdjḏ], and } Turin [Rdjḏ] [sȝt-nsw nt ẖt=f] (see Florence 1537)'.

Uninscribed seated statue, black granite, Dyn. IV, from Giza, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 1826.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Black granite statue. B nameless'.

False door of Simery and his mother Henutsen, dedicated by his father Werkaptah, end of Dyn.V or later, from Saqqara, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 1901.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Tablet of [Simery] B.'.

Stela of Mentuhotep Ressoneb, late Dyn. XII or Dyn. XIII, provenance not known, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 1930.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Tablet of [Mnṯw-ḥtp] B'.