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Howard Carter's drawing of a section of the hill, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Group B, Cemetery, Meir.

A photograph of a block, perhaps from a lintel or stela, hieroglyphic inscription with a man [and woman] seated at left, perhaps from Meir?
A manuscript note is written on the front of the photograph: "No. 5. / Meir ? (W H)".
Part of Carter's records, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's manuscript excavation records for pit tomb N.2 (Carter "M.N.2"), including tomb plan and section, and drawings of objects including ivory combs, vessels, red sandstone rubber and beads, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Group N, Cemetery, Meir.

Howard Carter's manuscript general records for Meir.
Includes:

• Notes on the site
• Previous excavations
• Deities and festivals recorded in tomb texts
• Nomarchs and princes recorded in tomb texts
• Wives, princes, princesses and private names recorded in tomb texts
• Titles and attributes recorded in tomb texts
• Description of necropolis and definitions of cemetery groups A-E and O-P

Howard Carter's manuscript general records for the site.
Part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.

• List of rock tomb chapels
• Brief description of site
• Bibliography
• Notes on Cusae (El Quseyya; El-Qûṣîya)

Howard Carter's excavation records and notes on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom tombs, Meir.
Carter excavated at the site between 1 December 1918 and 15 January 1919.

Howard Carter's typescript and manuscript extracts, from Strabo 'Geography'. Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's manuscript note, index card with section heading "Greek and Roman Authors". Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's manuscript brief notes for the tombs of Ramesses IV (KV 2) and Ramesses IX (KV 6). Part of Carter's notes on the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's typescript, notes on dockets from royal mummies, extracted from publications. Part of Carter's notes on the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's unfinished draft manuscript on the Valley of the Kings (22 pages).
Also, Carter's extracts, copied from manuscripts and publications, in reference to the Valley of the Kings, Thebes (79 pages).
Includes:

• Lepsius, R. 1853. Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the peninsula of Sinai
• Rawlinson, George 1887. Ancient Egypt 3rd ed.
• Robert Hay MSS
• James Burton MSS
• Rougé, Emmanuel de 1877. Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques copiées en Égypte pendant la mission scientifique de M. le vicomte Emmanuel de Rougé
• Head, F. B. 1844. The life of Bruce: the African traveller
• Pierret, Paul 1877. Catalogue de la salle historique de la galerie égyptienne
• Denon, Vivant 1802. Voyage dans la basse et la haute Égypte, pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte, volumes i, ii
• Belzoni, Giovanni Battista 1820. Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia
• Head, Charles Franklin 1833. Eastern and Egyptian scenery, ruins, &c.
• Mariette, Auguste 1893. Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte
• Wilkinson, J. G. 1835. Topography of Thebes and general view of Egypt
• Rhind, A. Henry 1862. Thebes: its tombs and their tenants, ancient and present, including a record of excavations in the necropolis
• Dawson, John William 1887. Egypt and Syria: their physical features in relation to Bible history
• Petrie, William Matthew Flinders 1897. A history of Egypt vol. 2
• Lepsius, [C. R.] 1868. 'Grundplan des Grabes König Ramses IV. in einem Turiner Papyrus'. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, hist.-philol. Kl. 1867, pp. 1-21
• Lepsius, R. 1849. Denkmäler aus Ägypten und Äthiopien
• Champollion, Jean-François 1835-1845. Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie
• Saint John, James Augustus [1845]. Egypt and Nubia: their scenery and their people
• Gauthier, Henri 1907-1917. Le livre des rois d'Égypte: recueil de titres et protocoles royaux, noms propres de rois, reines, princes et princesses, noms de pyramides et de temples solaires, suivi d'un index alphabétique

Howard Carter's manuscript brief note on his excavations on behalf of Theodore M. Davis, in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Partial offprint of Carter, Howard 1903. 'Report on general work done in the southern inspectorate'. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 4, pp. 43-50 (pp. 43-44 only).
Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Offprint of Loret, Victor 1898. 'Le tombeau de Thoutmès III à Biban el-Molouk / et la cachette royale de Biban el-Molouk'. Bulletin de l'Institut Égyptien, troisième série 9, pp. 91-112. Annotated by Howard Carter.
Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's annotated typescript. Extracts from Belzoni, G. 1820. Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries within the pyramids, temples, tombs, and excavations, in Egypt and Nubia [etc.]. Part of Carter's records for modern explorers in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's annotated typescript. Extract from Lefébure, E. 1889. Les hypogées royaux de Thèbes iii, p. 172. Part of Carter's records for modern explorers in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's manuscript and typescript notes and extracts, copied from Pockocke, R. 1743. A description of the East, and some other countries, volume i. Part of Carter's records for modern explorers in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's manuscript note, index card with section heading "Modern Explorers". Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Letter from Hugh Gerard Evelyn-White, dated 20-09-1915, and Evelyn-White's manuscript extracts, copied from Greek and Roman authors. Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's typescript extracts from Aelian's 'Characteristics of Animals' (vi.43), Pausanias and Ammianus Marcellinus. Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's typescript extracts from Diodorus. Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's typescript extracts from publications. Part of Carter's notes on the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

• Carter MSS i.K.1-2 - "B.C. 1500. - 1450. Extract from the 'Biographical Inscription Anena'" (2 pages)
• Carter MSS i.K.3 - "B.C. 1340. 'Hieratic Inscription of Hor-em-heb'" (1 annotated page)
• Carter MSS i.K.4 - "In regard to the papyri Abbott, Amherst, and Turin Fragment, recording various robberies" (3 pages)

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, two index cards with section headings, and 1 note from the original housing for Carter MSS i.K.1-20. Part of Carter's records for the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Howard Carter's records and notes on the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Mostly copied from publications. Also includes off-prints of relevant publications.

Howard Carter's photographs of smaller objects including statuettes, boards, vessels and baskets, from tomb 37, no name, Middle Kingdom, Birabi, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes:

• Canopic box of Ahhotp, woman, as Tanedjem(t).
• Statuette of boy Amenemhab, electrum, found in the coffin of father Djhout, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1413.
• Statuette of Huwebenef (brother of preceding), wood, found in the coffin of father Djhout, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1414.
• Three stelae with standing figures and hieratic texts, wood, Hyksos Period, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 43215 (Ihy), JE 43218-19 (no names).
• Pot with a hieratic letter to Ahhotp.
• Female servant statuette, wood, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.181.251.
• Sealing of Tuthmosis I on the door of Room A.

Some of the photographs are duplicates and include cuttings.

Howard Carter's photographs of two writing tablets ('Tablets 26 and 27'), or boards, with hieratic inscriptions, from tomb 37, no name, Middle Kingdom, Birabi, Asasif, Thebes.
Duplicates of each photograph.

Howard Carter's photographs of coffins and mummies from tomb 37, no name, Middle Kingdom, Birabi, Asasif, Thebes.
Includes:

• Rîshi coffins, Nos. 2, 10, 11, 12, 60, 66, 70, Second Intermediate Period, five in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 43634, 43637-40.
• Four rectangular decorated coffins, Nos. 7, 35, 59, 63, Hyksos Period, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 43642-5.
• Coffin of Ahhotp, woman, anthropoid, 18th Dynasty, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.181.303.
• Coffin of Ahmosi, anthropoid, 18th Dynasty, in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 14.10.2.
• Coffin of Mentuhotp, New Kingdom.
• Coffin of Djhuti, anthropoid, New Kingdom.
• Coffin, no name, New Kingdom, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, Temp. No. 5.12.25.1.

The group contains duplicates of some photographs.

Howard Carter's records on his excavations at Asasif, Birabi, Thebes.

Howard Carter's photographs recording the excavation of, and objects from, tomb 37, no name, Middle Kingdom, Birabi, Asasif, Thebes.
Some photographs are annotated on verso.
The group contains duplicates of some photographs.

Howard Carter's photographs recording the excavation of tomb 37, no name, Middle Kingdom, Birabi, Asasif, Thebes.
Some photographs are annotated on verso.
The group contains duplicates of some photographs.