False door of Simery and his mother Henutsen, dedicated by his father Werkaptah, end of Dyn.V or later, from Saqqara, now in Bologna, Museo Civico Archeologico, 1901.
Caption copied by Černý in Petrie MSS 3.2: 'Tablet of [Simery] B.'.
Correspondence from E. Fallaize (British Association for the Advancement of Science and Royal Anthropological Institute) including relating to a presidential address by Newberry, and funding the work of Miss Caton-Thompson in the Northern Fayum.
66 letters from Fairman, 16 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Fairman. Pprofessional and personal matters, book purchases and exchange, books being lent, often to Fairman or Liverpool library. Particular topics: - Černý asked to obtain books on some of his international travels, e.g. books from the IFAO during his Egypt sojourns.
Objects in Manchester Museum,1759 and 4588
Nubian sites, Amara (West) (TopBib vii.159?, 1961), Abu Simbel
Exchange of opinions on papers by E. Edel, B. Grdseloff and others
Černý invited to be an external examiner for Liverpool, exchange of evaluations of individual students, notably K. Kitchen. J. Ruffle, M. A. M. Asfour.
Administration of the Egypt Exploration Society (EES)
Correspondence from Herbert Walter Fairman mainly relating to work and applications for jobs. Includes correspondence relating to: copying inscriptions for Newberry; his application for a job at the British Museum; copying work for Gardiner; work on the Beatty Papyri; the death of Peet; his application for the Cairo professorship; work on the Ay inscription; excavation work at Amarna; travel in Egypt; repeated applications to study at University College; his application for a post at Liverpool University.
Correspondence from Mansour Fahmy (director, Egyptian Education Office) relating to Newberry's appointment as Professor of Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology in Cairo. Also includes contracts of employment for 1929-1932 and 1932-1933.
Summary of the collections and listings by language groupings. B&w scans. Transcriptions and translations. Correspondence. Notes. Photostats of pages of unidentified Coptic literary texts, from J. M. Plumley.
Typed and handwritten extracts from and notes on classical authors.
Includes: -Typed and handwritten extracts from Claudius Aelianus, 'De Natura Animalium' ('On the Characteristics of Animals'), a collection of seventeen books on natural history. Extracts are headed with book and verse numbers and there are handwritten notes in the margins. -Extracts from Hellanicus Lesbius, Lucian and Porphyry of Tyre. -Handwritten index, mainly of plants and animals, to the Deipnosophistae by Athenaeus of Naucratis -Handwritten index to 'Bibliotheca Historica' by Diodorus Siculus -Typed notes on Diodorus Siculus -Handwritten index to work by Plutarch -Handwritten index to Geographica by Strabo -Typed notes on Clement of Alexandria -Extracts from works by Lucian
Griffith's extensive manuscript notes on the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus,and a Kahun papyrus (Pl.VIII, 11.1-10) and Berlin (Schack-Schackenburg in A.Z. XXXVIII.136.
loose item, originally a tipped-in page perhaps for this album, with remains of mounting-strip on right side
25.5 x 34.9 cm (including mounting-strip)
[text] 'I have drawn this simply as a title for my sketches. / The semicircle at the top, excepting the Cartouches / is from the doorway of the first vaulted Chamber / in the temple of El Assasief erected by Amensä / the mother of Thothmes 3rd. The other part is mere / composition. On the right is Thmai or Truth, and / on the left Safrä, the Goddess of Letters. The characters / are ornamented with the emblems of Lower and / Upper Egypt. The Cartouches are for Our Lady / Victoria, when I can get those from Birche's work. / 27th July sketched / 1st August finished / } / 1843 / { / G Lloyd. / Gurna / Thebes.'
Material relating to Evelyn-White, Hugh Gerard, The monasteries of the Wadi ‘n Natrun. Part 1: New Coptic texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (New York, 1926). Includes letter from Evelyn-White, 1921.
Photographic plates from Evelyn-White, Hugh Gerard, The monasteries of the Wadi ‘n Natrun. Part 1: New Coptic texts from the Monastery of Saint Macarius (New York, 1926).
107 postcards collected in Egypt between 1900-1906 by Miss E. Blyth (objects in Cairo Museum, sites, Cairo views, and Nile views) and 1 postcard of Bethlehem in Palestine.
Correspondence from E. E. Evans-Pritchard referring to research and making arrangements to visit Newberry. Also includes correspondence and draft response relating to the use of the sistrum and Major Macpherson's letter on the subject.
Correspondence from Sir Arthur John Evans (1851-1941) including relating to Evans' research, cylinder seals and arranging visits. Also includes letter relating to early Egyptian cults and their symbols which has the following note on the back by Newberry which appears to be an idea for an article: 'Primitive cults of Egypt as Illustrated by Nome Signs'.
Notes: MSS 14/36 is also numbered 15 MSS 14/38 is also numbered 274 MSS 14/39 is also numbered A.33 MSS 14/40 is also numbered A.34
[on sketch] 'Europe uniting Asia and America / She extends to them Commerce and Peace / The wheels indicate the means, viz, the rail road' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'America youthful / attired in the costume / of the Mexicans stands / on the right of Europe / the position that / continent has with / respect to Europe / others the other two' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Asia more matronly / attired in more ample / garments stands on / the left of Europe' (pencil note)
[on sketch] 'Europe younger than / Asia wears the mural / crown surmounted by / a dome and a cross as / this division of the earth / entirely Xtian' (pencil note)
A card index for a Coptic etymological dictionary and a large folder containing handwritten notes on Coptic etymologies, labelled "Devaud - 'Studies and Notes on Egyptian and Coptic Grammar, Lexicography and Palaeography'" (apparently unpublished).