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Carter MSS i.E.294-305 · Item · c. 1899-1922
Part of Howard Carter Collection

Howard Carter's transcriptions of inscriptions from jars, late 18th Dynasty?, found in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The original envelope containing this group annotated by Carter 'Inscriptions upon pithoi found Biban El Maluke (some of the pithoi were bound with linen others sealed with impressions of the seal "jackal over Nine Prisoners"). (? late XVIIIth). Taken by Winlock fr. N.Y. Museum.' Not clear whether 'taken' applies to the tracings, photograph, or both.

Carter MSS i.E.3-291 · Part · c. 1899-1922
Part of Howard Carter Collection

Howard Carter's manuscript card-index with transcriptions and notes for monuments and objects from the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Records royal and private names, and objects of interest.
Most copied from publications including:

  • Newberry, P. E. 1906. Scarabs.
  • Northampton, W. C., Marquis of, W. Spiegelberg and P. E. Newberry 1908. Report on some excavations in the Theban necropolis during the winter of 1898-9.
  • Gardiner, A. H. and A. E. P. Weigall 1913. A topographical catalogue of the private tombs of Thebes.
  • Newberry, P. E. 1899. The Amherst Papyri, being an account of the Egyptian papyri in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Amherst of Hackney, F.S.A., at Didlington Hall, Norfolk: with an appendix on a Coptic papyrus.
  • Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology (1914).
  • Newberry, P. E. 1900. The life of Rekhmara, vezîr of Upper Egypt under Thothmes III and Amenhetep II (circa BC 1471-1448).
  • Legrain, G. 1908. Répertoire généalogique et onomastique du Musée du Caire: monuments de la XVIIe et de la XVIIIe dynastie.
Carter MSS i.F.131-132 · Item · 09 July 1923
Part of Howard Carter Collection

Letter from Alan H. Gardiner to Howard Carter, 9 July 1923, with Gardiner's transcription and translation for the lion-hunt ostracon, found during Carnarvon excavations in the Valley of the Kings, Thebes. The ostracon was found in 1920, near the, yet to be discovered, entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, is now in New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1453.

Gardiner, (Sir) Alan Henderson
Carter MSS i.F.78-79 · Item · c. 1899-1922
Part of Howard Carter Collection

Two publication cuttings with photographs. Plate i from Carter, Howard 1903. 'Report of work done in Upper Egypt (1902-1903)'. Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 4, see p. 45.
Howard Carter's records on ostraca in Cairo Museum relating to the Valley of the Kings, Thebes.

Carter MSS i.G.12 · Item · 1922-1923
Part of Howard Carter Collection

Lindsley Foote Hall and Walter Hauser's preliminary draft plan for part of the Antechamber recording the couches (lion, cow and hippopotamus) with objects found on top of them, in situ along the West wall, with their assigned numbers, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Used for compiling the draft and final plans of Antechamber, see Carter MSS i.G.10 and 11.

Hall, Lindsley Foote
Carter MSS i.G.13 [recto] · Item · 1922-1923
Part of Howard Carter Collection

Lindsley Foote Hall and Walter Hauser's sketches recording the position of objects (nos. 41-46, 49, 74-76, 78, 138) in situ on top of the lion couch (no. 35), found in the Antechamber, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Used for compiling the draft and final plans of Antechamber, see Carter MSS i.G.10 and 11.

Hall, Lindsley Foote
Carter MSS i.G.14 · Item · c. 1922-1930
Part of Howard Carter Collection

Lindsley Foote Hall and Walter Hauser's sketches recording the position of objects (nos. 77, 79, 153) in situ on top of the cow-headed couch (no. 73), found in the Antechamber, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes.
Used for compiling the draft and final plans of Antechamber, see Carter MSS i.G.10 and 11.
Some calculations on verso, perhaps related to plan on verso.

Hall, Lindsley Foote
Carter MSS i.G.15 · Item · 1922-1923
Part of Howard Carter Collection

Lindsley Foote Hall and Walter Hauser's sketches recording the position of objects (nos. 32-34, 36-40) in situ under the lion couch (no. 35), found in the Antechamber, tomb of Tutankhamun, KV 62, Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Annotated by Howard Carter?
On verso, a sketch of parts of a stool (no. 142b) found under the lion couch (no. 35).
Used for compiling the draft and final plans of Antechamber, see Carter MSS i.G.10 and 11.

Hall, Lindsley Foote