Petrie at Maidum for the whole season excavating and recording the tombs, as well as surveying the pyramid. Petrie assisted by G. W. Fraser and F. J. Bliss. In April 1891, Petrie travels to Greece to visit Ernest Gardner, Director of the British School at Athens, where Petrie is able to confirm that the “Aegean” finds from Gurob were manufactured in Mycenae then exported to Egypt.
Small portfolio or file titled 'Pyramids of Sakkara Lisht etc.' (ink) Blue ink note at top right corner: '1' encircled in pencil (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).
1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52]. 2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].
Mausoleum of Amir Tankizbugha in the Northern Cemetery of Cairo:
watercolour
mounted
35.2 x 25.7 cm
[on recto of watercolour] 'النجعاوية' {= Al-Tanjizawia} (ink note)
[on mount] 'The Mosque Etingozamēa to the E. of the Citadel - Cairo.' (ink note)
[on mount] encircled '9' (pencil note) -[on verso of watercolour] 'The Mosque Etingezawēa to the E. of the Citadel / Cairo / 13th Dec 1842.' (pencil note)
Giza, the Pyramids of Khafra [Khephren] and Menkaure with the Tomb of Khentkaus in the foreground:
watercolour
mounted
35.3 x 25.7 cm
[on mount] 'The second & third Pyramids of Gizeh. Sunrise. / The building in the centre is an old Tomb / Sketch taken from the Well S of the great Pyramid.' (ink note)
[on mount] encircled '10' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] 'The second and third Pyramids of Gizeh. / Sunrise. 2 Dec. 1842. The building in the centre is an old Tomb. / Sketch taken from the Well S. of the Great Pyramid, near / our tent.' (pencil note)
Three studies of foxes at Abu Zaabal. Top scene: fox, presumably dead, lying on the ground; middle scene: dead fox, strung-up by back-legs; bottom scene: a mountainous desert scene with two foxes:
watercolours
mounted, together with Lloyd MSS 039, Lloyd MSS 040 and Lloyd MSS 042
12.2 x 17.5 cm
[on recto of watercolour] 'Abu Zaabel.' (pencil note)
[on watercolour/mount] '41' (pencil note)
[on verso of watercolour] '[Abu Zaabel. 14th Jan: 1843.]' (pencil note)
Thutmosis III, accompanied by his ka, purifying ithyphallic Amun-Re with water, scene from the Festival Temple (Akhmenu) in the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak (specific scene not identified):
pencil drawing
mounted
35.5 x 26 cm
[on mount] 'Thothmes 3d from the Palace Karnac' (pencil note)
[on mount] '7' (pencil note)
[on verso of drawing] 'Thothmes 3rd / From a bas relief in the private apartments of the Palace / of Thothmes 3rd. Karnac 5th July 1843.' (pencil note)