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El-Qantara, Tell Abu Seifa, oblong base of quartzite monument with tapering sides, front - text

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 five columns of text and two lines of text at the bottom:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 108
  • 17.8 x 25.8 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Half of the underside of the Obelisk at Abu Saiffie. / 13th Feb 1843. / x' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '49' (pencil note)

Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, man fishing with a harpoon

Man fishing with a harpoon while seated on the riverbank at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna in Thebes; next to him is a rod and line which has a live mouse suspended from it, presumably the mouse is being used as bait or a lure:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 114
  • 25.7 x 17.7 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Gurna. Thebes. 20th Aug. 1843.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '55' (pencil note)

Tell el-Farama (Pelusium), four fallen columns

Four fallen columns, perhaps from the Roman theatre, at Tell el-Farama (Pelusium):

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 118
  • 25.8 x 17.7 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Four Syenite columns. W of the Fort. Ruins of Pelusium. 17 Feb 1843.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '59' (pencil note)

Salhieh (Salhiya), Rafieah's camel

Rafieah's camel recumbent in the desert at Salhieh (Salhiya):

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 119
  • 25.8 x 17.8 cm
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Salhiah. 3rd Feb. 1843. Rafieah's Dromedary.' (pencil note)
  • [on mount] '62' (pencil note)

Medinet Habu, Great Temple, Second Court, three officials

Three officials carrying fans, forming part of a procession celebrating the Festival of the god Min, detail from a wall scene in the Second Court of the Great Temple of Ramesses III at Medinet Habu:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 124
  • 18 x 26 cm
  • [on mount] '65' (pencil note)

Abu Zaabal, "The Shady side", men capturing a fox

"The Shady side", two men, one holding a gun and the other a stick, with a captured fox between them, and a third man kneeling on the ground at Abu Zaabal:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 132 and Lloyd MSS 133
  • 17.8 x 12.7 cm
  • [on mount] '72' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] 'Abu Zaabel. 16th Jan. 1843. / "The Shady side"' (pencil note)

Karnak, sphinx fragment

Head (top lost) and shoulders of a sphinx at Karnak; king wearing nemes and broad collar, not inscribed (no text recorded), probably New Kingdom:

  • pencil drawing
  • mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 134
  • 8.9 x 12.7 cm
  • [on mount] '75' (pencil note)
  • [on recto of drawing] 'Karnac. 13th June 1843. / G Ll.' (pencil note)

Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, tomb of Amenemhet (TT 82), three musicians

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:

  • pencil tracing with right edge folded in
  • mounted
  • 55.2 x 36.9 cm
  • [on mount] '7' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of tracing] 'No 11.' (pencil note)

Thebes, unidentified temple or tomb, barque of Amun-Re

[Priests] carrying the barque of Amun-Re, detail of a scene in an unidentified temple or tomb at Thebes:

  • pencil drawing with edges folded in on two sides (top and bottom edges of album page)
  • mounted
  • 68 x 28.8 cm
  • [on verso of drawing] 'No 4' (pencil note)
  • [on verso of drawing] '77' (pencil note)

Alexander Colvin Ainslie Collection

  • Ainslie MSS
  • Collection
  • 1853

Album of drawings and watercolour sketches made in Italy, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and Palestine in 1853.

Ainslie, (Revd) Alexander Colvin

Amice Mary Calverley Collection

  • Calverley MSS
  • Collection
  • c. late 1920s-late 1950s

Over one thousand colour slides (group III), several hundred black and white photographs (group II), and correspondence (group I).

Calverley, Amice Mary

Weight of Shepses and a scarab of Amenophis III: notes with drawings

Howard Carter's manuscript notes with sketches.

  • Transcriptions of royal attributes for Ramesses IV, from his tomb, KV 2, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
  • Weight of Shepses, stone, Old Kingdom, from Edfu, bought by Carter in Cairo. [see TopBib v.205A]
  • Lion-hunt scarab of Amenophis III, blue glazed steatite, found during excavations in Luxor temple in 1917 and purchased by Carter "for C.". A very similar scarab, or the same one, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 74392.

Notebook Černý MSS 17.130

Various New Kingdom texts:

  • monuments from Uppsala, Victoriamuseet för Egyptiska fornsaker
  • hieratic text in Tura quarries
  • a group of records created from older notes including objects seen with dealers in Berlin, Akhmim and Cairo
  • copied from publications
  • copied from A. H. Gardiner's notes
  • note with a query concerning a graffito from Thebes

Circular offering-table of Amenhotep son of Amenakht, New Kingdom, from Deir el-Medina, now in Turin, Museo Egizio, 22039 (Cat. 1762)

Circular offering-table of Amenhotep son of Amenakht, New Kingdom, from Deir el-Medina, now in Turin, Museo Egizio, 22039 (Cat. 1762).

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Altar of [Jmn-nḫt] Cat. 1762 [For the inscr. see opposite] T'.

Inscription on opposite page '[sš-nsw n nb tȝwjj Jmn-nḫt | sn=f sš Ḥrj-šrj mȝʿ-ḫrw jrt n bȝk jm=k wȝb n nb tȝwjj m st-nfr (sic = st-mȝʿt) Jmn-ḥtp]'.

[Top left] Fragment of a stela of Bekmin and [his wife?] Sitsobek before [Hathor], Dyn. XVIII, from Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7602; [middle left] stela of Djehutire and his mother Takemi, Dyn. XVII, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 2547; [bottom left] stela of Nakht and presumably his wife In, prob. 2nd. Int. Period, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7604; [middle] jambs with the deceased seated at the bottom, temp. Sesostris II and Sesostris III, from El-Bersha, Tomb 2, Djehutihotep II, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7596; [right] stela of Senbuy, Dyn. XIII or 2nd Int. Period, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7603

[Top left] Fragment of a stela of Bekmin and [his wife?] Sitsobek before [Hathor], Dyn. XVIII, from Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7602; [middle left] stela of Djehutire and his mother Takemi, Dyn. XVII, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 2547; [bottom left] stela of Nakht and presumably his wife In, prob. 2nd. Int. Period, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7604; [middle] jambs with the deceased seated at the bottom, temp. Sesostris II and Sesostris III, from El-Bersha, Tomb 2, Djehutihotep II, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7596; [right] stela of Senbuy, Dyn. XIII or 2nd Int. Period, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7603.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Tablets of [Mnw] / [Ḏḥwtjj-rʿ] / 1549 - Portions of tomb of [Ḏḥwtjj-ḥtp]. Bersheh. - Tablet of [Snbwjj] F.'.

[Upper left] Stela of Tetiankh, Dyn. XVIII, from Thebes, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 6371; [lower left] stela of Minhotep, late Dyn. XII or Dyn. XIII, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 2521; [right] rectangular stela of Khentekhtai, late Dyn. XII or Dyn XIII, reportedly from Thebes, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 2564

[Upper left] Stela of Tetiankh, Dyn. XVIII, from Thebes, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 6371; [lower left] stela of Minhotep, late Dyn. XII or Dyn. XIII, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 2521; [right] rectangular stela of Khentekhtai, late Dyn. XII or Dyn XIII, reportedly from Thebes, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 2564.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'See 52 | 55 / Tablet of [Ḫntj-ẖtj] Cat. 1544 F'.

[Left] Stela of Nebimosi, dedicated by his brother Minnakt, early Dyn. XVIII, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7570; [right] stela of Mentuser, Dyn. XII, from Thebes, Dra Abu el-Naga, Antef Cemetery, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 6365

[Left] Stela of Nebimosi, dedicated by his brother Minnakt, early Dyn. XVIII, provenance not known, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 7570; [right] stela of Mentuser, Dyn. XII, from Thebes, Dra Abu el-Naga, Antef Cemetery, now in Florence, Museo Archeologico, 6365.

Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Tablets of [Nb-ms] [sȝ Mnṯw-wsr] Cat. 1774 F'.

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