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Publication documentation for Uphill, Eric P. 2000. Pharaoh's gateway to eternity: the Hawara labyrinth of king Amenemhat III. Studies in Egyptology. London; New York: Kegan Paul International, OEB 45200. Based on Eric Uphill's M.A. thesis.
423 pages (400 single-sided + 23 double-sided).

• 1.1. Typewritten draft 'Recording the Labyrinth site and earlier views expressed on it', 158 pages with 1 handwritten page for index:
  • Draft reviewed and annotated by Harry Smith;
  • Smith’s report on the same, dated 20-03-1993;
  • Smith's covering letter to Uphill, dated 20-03-1993.
• 1.2. Earlier annotated typewritten draft of 'Recording the Labyrinth site and earlier views expressed on it', 149 pages, with related documentation, typed and handwritten notes, photographs and plans copied from publications.
• 1.3. Typeset proof of Pharaoh's gateway to eternity: the Hawara Labyrinth of king Amenemhat III, xiv + 102 pages.
• 1.4. 3½" floppy disk, 2 files are different versions of the publication text.

Complete working papers, including notebooks, notes, card indexes, slides, photographs, correspondence and teaching notes.

1 draft of a letter from Marie Černý, addressed to multiple recipients(?), possibly T. G. H. James and to the Saunerons.

1 letter to Černý, the sender's signature is illegible.

1 letter from Tunbridge Wells Museum.
Query concerned with stela of Pay, TopBib i2.731.

1 letter from Tufnell, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Tufnell.
Query concerning a Lachish find.

1 letter from Tritsch.
Query concerning an inscribed bowl from Lachish.

7 letters from Till, 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Till, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Jean Tudor-Pole (secretary) to Till, sent in Černý's absence.

• Egyptian books, written culture, Coptic and Coptic etymologies
• exchange of news on the work on grammars, see Till, W. C., Koptische Grammatik (Saïdischer Dialekt) mit Bibliographie, Lesestücken und Wörterverzeichnissen (1955) (OEB 49O12); and Černý, J. and Groll, S. I., A Late Egyptian Grammar (1975) (OEB 18215) published posthumously
• personal matters
• health

2 letters from J. Thorton & Son.
Evaluation of the A. H. Gardiner Library.

Greek dictionary card index, used in compiling W. E. Crum, A Coptic Dictionary (Oxford, 1929-39).

13 letters from Théodoridès, 1 copy of a letter from Černý to Théodoridès.
Professional and personal matters:

• book exchange
• Egyptian measures of capacity
• ostracon BM 5634
• libation formulae
• P. Gurob II, O. Chicago 12.073
• graffiti in the Step pyramid complex (TopBib iii2.412 and libation formulae
• ostracon Deir el-Medîna 225
• Théodoridès' travels to the United Kingdom
• meetings
• personal matters
• Théodoridès comment on the Soviet/Warsaw pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968

1 letter from Terrace.
Consultation regarding a private loan by a sponsor of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

3 letters from Tait.
Objects in the Myers Collection at Eton College; Third Intermediate Period/Late Period chalices, TopBib iv.175A.

A. C. Mace's account of the opening of Tutankhamun's Burial chamber (manuscript)

• Manuscript
• Written on 2 folded sheets of Cataract Hotel, Assouan (Aswan) headed notepaper
• Dated 3 March 1923
• Written a few weeks after the opening of the Burial chamber, which took place on 16 February 1923

Arthur C. Mace's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-1923, recording the first season

• 19 unlined pages
• Manuscript entries

A. C. Mace's account of the opening of Tutankhamun's Burial chamber (typescript)

• Dated 3 March 1923
• Written a few weeks after the opening of the Burial chamber, which took place on 16 February 1923
• Typescript

Primary material. Formerly on loan to the Griffith Institute.

• Two black and white photographic prints:
  • Howard Carter's drawings of harness (from TAA i.3.8).
  • Howard Carter's drawing from object card 333 'portions of the linen housings of the chariot horses' (from TAA i.1.333).
  • Howard Carter's drawing of the second shrine (237) with detail of construction of shrine (from TAA i.3.25).

• Second proof of plates from Desroches Noblecourt, C. 1963. Tutankhamen: life and death of a pharaoh [OEB 9997].

Four plates re-photographed from Carter and Mace, "The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen".

• Set of modern photographic prints made from Harry Burton's original set of large glass plate negatives (TAA.i.5), made before the original negatives were conserved.

• Pendant, display stand, leaflet and box.
• Pendant, miniature replica of Tutankhamun's mask [Carter 256a]:
  • Goldtone metal;
  • Stamped on verso: "© MMA 1976".
• Perspex display stand.
• Information leaflet for pendant.
• Blue card box:
  • Printed on lid: "The Treasures of TUTANKHAMUN";
  • Price label: $25.00.
• All produced by the MMA Reproductions Studio.

• A reversible elasticated belt with a metal buckle decorated with a repeated "TUT" motif.
• Woven blue (background) and gold ("TUT") elasticated fabric with a goldtone metal two-piece clasp buckle and a goldtone metal slide-adjustment bar.
• Manufacturer, not known.

• A round metal and cold enamel pin badge featuring Tutankhamun's mask [Carter 256a].
• Goldtone metal decorated with enamel (black and blue).
• Manufacturer, not known.
• Presented to Dr Lilyquist when the Tutankhamun exhibition was hosted at the New Orleans Museum of Art, from September 15, 1977 to January 15, 1978.

• A shen-amulet lapel, or dress, pin.
• Bronze (shen) and silvertone metal (pin).
• Created by Hermes Knauer, Metropolitan Museum Objects Conservation Department, who made a limited number of pins as presentation pieces for people closely connected with the organisation of the USA Tutankhamun exhibitions. Knauer presented this pin to Dr Lilyquist in New York in 1978.
• The shen-amulet motif was used for other merchandise sold at the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition.

• Replica of a puppy figurine.
• Gold.
• The original puppy figurine, made from black bronze and gold, comes from the tomb of Tutankhamun [Carter 620(51)]. It was formerly in Howard Carter's possession. Carter's niece, Phyllis Walker, presented it to the Metropolitan Museum in 1947 (no. 47.58.1). The Metropolitan Museum returned the figurine to Egypt in 2011. See https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545993.
• A sample replica was considered for reproduction as merchandise as a bracelet charm for the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from December 15, 1978, to April 15, 1979. However, it was not commissioned for commercial production.
• This gold replica was privately commissioned by Dr Lilyquist and created by Bruce Hoheb, MMA Reproductions Studio, c. 1978.

Ephemera connected with the 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' exhibition, which toured the U.S.A. between 1976 and 1979 and was hosted at the following venues: the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Field Museum of Natural History and the Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago; the New Orleans Museum of Art; the Seattle Art Museum; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Replicas of the two sistra found in Tutankhamun's tomb. The replica sistra were commissioned in 2022 and were used in the performances of James Whitburn's composition 'Zahr Al-Khayal', based an Egyptian love poem roughly contemporary with Tutankhamun.

Replicas of objects found in the tomb of Tutankhamun.

DVD copy of 'Tutankhamon: l'ultima mostra' (2022), a documentary on the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 and the preparations for the travelling Tutankhamun exhibition launched in Los Angeles in 2019. The film was released to mark the centenary of the discovery.