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Tutankhamun's tomb and tomb plan. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's 12-page annotated typewritten discussion on Tutankhamun's tomb and 18th Dynasty royal tomb types.
• Comparisons with other royal tombs and notes on tomb plans from the Turin Papyrus, with the names for the various parts of the tomb.
• Suggestion as to the identity of the architect of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Trumpets.

• Newspaper cutting from The Listener, 19th December 1946. Article on the B.B.C. recording of one of Tutankhamun's trumpets.

Weapons. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's manuscript notes on offensive and defensive weapons, their form and use.
• Four pages.

Calcite. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Letter to Alfred Lucas from Dr W. F. Hume, Geological Survey of Egypt, on specimens of calcite from Tutankhamun's tomb sent by Lucas.

Tutankhamun documentation: Nina de Garis Davies' notes on boxes (21) and (540)+(551).

• Nina de Garis Davies's manuscript notes on the decoration of two boxes:
  • Carter object (21), the "Painted Box" with battle and hunting scenes.
  • Carter objects (540)+(551), with scenes of Tutankhamun and Ankhesenamun in a garden on the lid.
• Includes two small watercolour sketches and a line drawing, all created by Davies.
• This material was created in January and February 1951 when Davies visited the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
• Davies's paintings of box (21) were subsequently published. See below for details.

Chair (351). Howard Carter's collected notes for intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• Carter's typescript description of chair (351).
• 3 pages.
• Carbon copies of originals filed with object cards for (351), annotated by Carter.

Chemistry. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

• H. J. Plenderleith's typescript report on:
  • i. The pigments contained in the palettes from the toy chest found in the Annexe;
  • ii. The paint used on the Burial chamber walls;
  • iii. The metal tongues from the second shrine;
  • iv. The thickness of gold on shrines (also see Gesso notes);
  • v. On animal skin found with gesso. Plenderleith suggests this is to provide a resilient cushion beneath gold for tooling;
• Typescript for a lecture given in 1926 by H. Bunker on 'Scientific Aspects of Tomb'.

Tutankhamun excavation - Harry Burton's original contact prints made from the original glass plate negatives

• Set of original photographic prints.
• Most were created by Harry Burton.
• Some prints were made in the Ashmolean Museum Photographic Studio between the mid-1940s and the 1970s.

Tutankhamun Excavation. Howard Carter's notes on various subjects.

• i. General note on tomb robbery.
• ii. Jewellery. References to pectoral (261P(2)), docket from box (267), etc.
• iii. Three pages of manuscript notes on 'The last and final season's work in the Tomb of Tutankhamun', including references to the sarcophagus, shrines, etc.
• iv. A note on the contents of rooms and disturbance by ancient robbers.
• v. Two handwritten notes concerning tomb plan development in the New Kingdom.

Material other than excavation records.

Penelope Fox's notes on furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Perhaps for a planned publication.

• Photographs of six cubit rods from the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• All rods are made of wood.
• Carter object numbers:
  • (50dd'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61315.
  • (50dd''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61316.
  • (50ee'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61317.
  • (50ee''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61318.
  • (50ff'), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61319.
  • (50ff''), now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61320.

Rainbow McLean's photographs of box (21), from the tomb of Tutankhamun, now in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 61467.

• Copies of notes and photographs for boxes from Tutankhamun's tomb.
• The measurements of the boxes, etc., were copied from the original Tutankhamun Archive documentation by A. H. Gardiner for Myrtle Broome.

• Photographs and colour transparencies of a scale model of the tomb of Tutankhamun, created for a display in Highclere Castle in 1988.
• Model created by Orchard Brothers, Historical model makers.

• Professor H. Beinlich's photographs and his transcription of its texts
• Innermost coffin (255) of Tutankhamun, gold, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60671.
• TAA ii.14.1-56 (photos), 57 (transcriptions).

• Photograph showing Howard Carter (left) and an Egyptian team member carrying one side of the hippopotamus couch (137) out of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Negative made from an original photograph.
• Original photograph, photographer not known. Taken in early 1923.
• Labelled: ‘At the Luxor Tomb. At the Exit from the tomb. Mr. H. Carter helping to carry out a section of one of the couches’.

• Fourteen postcards, many feature Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
• Some were produced by Lehnert & Landrock.
• Others produced by Bruce Co., London.
• Showing various objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Digital image.
• Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Original postcard features Burton photograph KV79.
• Postcard caption: 003 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES ENTRANCE TO TOMB
• View of the modern enclosure wall protecting the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun.

• Digital image.
• The original negative was made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Postcard caption: 018 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES THE TUTELARY GODDESS SELKIT
• Original postcard features Burton photograph P1550.
• Statue of the goddess Selkis from Tutankhamun's canopic shrine (266), gilded wood, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60686.

• Digital image.
• Original negative made from a Lehnert & Landrock postcard, Cairo, probably late 1920s or 1930s.
• Postcard caption: 013 TUTANKHAMEN SERIES GOLD PORTRAIT MASK OF KING
• Original postcard features an edited version of Burton photograph P0757.
• Mask of Tutankhamun (256a), gold inlaid with coloured glass and semi-precious stones, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 60672.

Colour photograph of Tutankhamun's mask, taken by Miss J. E. Shepherd in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, in 1990.

A set of lithographs made for the Tutankhamun exhibition held in the British Museum, London, in 1972.