Gesso. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.
i. Typescript letter from Dr Alexander Scott, December 1930, to Howard Carter, on animal tissue with gesso used under gold on the burial shrines. Also, see Chemistry notes (TAA i.3.9).
ii. Photograph of a microscope slide, sample with animal hair follicles, enclosed with Scott's letter.
iii. Alfred Lucas's manuscript notes on the analysis of gesso, which mentions a layer of ‘course woven fabric’ found under gesso.
iv. Howard Carter's manuscript notes on components of gypsum, whiting and chalk.
Collars. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb. Carter's manuscript notes with a brief description of two collars found on Tutankhamun's body, object numbers (256o) and (256bb (2)).
Howard Carter's notebook with notes on hieroglyphic inscriptions on objects in Lacau, Pierre, Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire 2 volumes (1904) (1906) (OEB 142822). Now transferred to Carter MSS vi.8.
Tutankhamun notebook, Howard Carter's copies of selected object cards
Selected object cards, Alan H. Gardiner's transcriptions copied by Carter from original object cards (see TAA i.1.1-620)
Carter's manuscript with transcriptions
Antechamber, object nos. 37, 38
Treasury, object nos. 261-337
Annexe, object nos. 338-420
1 enclosure, letter from Percy Newberry to Howard Carter, dated 13-09-1928, with transcription and translation of texts from the model figure of Tutankhamun, lying on a funeral bier [Carter 331a], now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60720.
Howard Carter's 'Notes upon Objects in the Store-room [Treasury], 1926-1927', forming parts of chapters 1 and 2 in volume iii of The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen, Madrid lecture, and notes on damp in the tomb
81 numbered pages
Carter's manuscript drafts (partial) for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 1 and 2.
Manuscript notes for a lecture in Madrid, May 1928.
Manuscript notes regarding the 'Existence of damp in the tomb'.
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.
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,
Tutankhamun journal with an inventory of objects sent to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, between 1922 and 1929
Pages 1-17
Arthur Mace's manuscript records
Mace's heading on the title page (page 0), "Tut-Ankh-Amun"
Mace's heading on page 1, "Catalogue of objects sent to Cairo Museum. Season 1922-1923"
Mace's final entry, "34 packages containing 89 boxes", and signed by A.C.M. (Arthur C. Mace) and H.C. (Howard Carter), dated "12 May 1923."
Page 18
Unidentified hand, manuscript notes, French
French manuscript heading, "Liste des Caisses parties de la Vallée des Rois le 1er Avril, a 10 h. 15 a.m."
Carter's manuscript annotation at top of the page, "Cases and antiquities removed by the Service des Antiquities Spring 1924 from No. 15 and No. 4 Biban el Maluke"
Pages 19-21
Carter's manuscript records
Carter's final entry, "Nineteen cases handed over to M. Baraize for transport to Cairo March 31st 1925. Howard Carter [signature]. These cases were carried by hand and(?) to River Early morn of the 1st April"
Page 22
Carter's manuscript column headings, but no entries
Page 23
Carter's manuscript records
Carter's final entry, "The above objects enclosed in sixteen cases (one of which No. 16 to be brought by Mr. Carter). Howard Carter [signature] April 16th 1927."
Page 25
Typewritten list affixed to page
Cases "XXIII" to "XXXVIII"
All objects are from the Treasury
Not dated
Pages 26-32
Carter's manuscript records
Objects are from the Treasury and Annexe
"List of cases of antiquities sent to the Cairo Museum March [day not entered] th., 1929."
Carter's final entry, "Ninety cases of antiquities as for above list. delivered to the Chief Inspector for transport March ... 1929. H.C."
Howard Carter's additional notes to his notebook with an inventory of objects from Tutankhamun's tomb with recording and conservation schedule, 1922-1930
Howard Carter's manuscript notes on objects or subjects
Supplements Carter's notebook, see TAA i.2.13
Includes notes on:
2 pages with notes on the magical figures from niches in the wall of sarcophagus chamber, Carter 257-260
2 pages with notes relating to the sarcophagus, Carter 240, with copies of texts extracted from Lacau, Pierre 1904-1906. Sarcophages antérieurs au Nouvel Empire (OEB 142822)
2 pages with notes on gilded wood emblems, Carter object 196, and the clay brick stands for these emblems, Carter 198a
1 page with notes on ritual emblems in the burial chamber and the disturbance of these objects by tomb robbers
1 page with notes on beads and part of necklace dropped by tomb robbers, Carter 172
1 page with general notes on Anubis animal, i.e. jackal
1 page with a list and photograph? number: gloves, general view of the tomb, carved ivory box, and head of the king
Howard Carter's notes on objects found in the Annexe, manuscript for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5, and notes on deterioration and chemical change
Unbound group of 91 rule-lined, loose pages
Some pages crossed through (cancelled) by Carter
Includes some correspondence, list separately below
Notes, some with drawings on various topics including:
Egyptian slings;
Boxes and caskets found in the Annexe;
‘Note upon Older or Ancestral objects in Royal Tombs’;
Alabaster and stone vessels;
Baskets;
'Breakage of objects (in the Annexe)’;
Chairs;
Footstools;
Archery;
Weapons, arms and armour;
Game boxes;
Bread;
Wine jars;
‘Robes of Dalmatic type’;
Fire apparatus;
Fan;
Minerals.
Carter's manuscript for The Tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen volume iii, chapters 3, 4, and parts of 5:
Sections beginning or titled:
'This Annexe was intended for a Store-Room' [etc.];
'Notes. Re Arts, Crafts and design.';
'The existence of damp in the tomb' [etc.];
'The possible sources of water from above, behind and sides of the foot-hill.'
‘Deterioration and chemical change’.
Correspondence within this group:
J. S. M. Rennie, of J. S. M. Rennie, Limited, to The Editor of the Illustrated London News, dated 17-08-1929, concerning Egyptian slings (TAA i.2.10.1);
Berkeley Moynihan, to Howard Carter, dated 13-01-1929, mentioning a visit to the tomb and questions about the two foetuses found in the tomb, and the calcite boat.
Tutankhamun excavation: Alfred Lucas documentation on wood from the tomb.
Correspondence and related material on wood, including:
16 letters exchanged between Alfred Lucas and Laurence Chalk discussing wood specimens from the tomb of Tutankhamun;
3 offprints, Lucas articles:
Lucas, A. 1932. The Occurrence of Natron in Ancient Egypt. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 18 (1/2), 62-66 (OEB 144143);
Lucas, A. 1936. The Wood of the Third Dynasty Ply-wood Coffin from Saqqara. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 36, 1-4 (OEB 144160);
Lucas, A. 1924. Note on the Temperature and Humidity of Several Tombs in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 24, 12-14 (OEB 144136).
