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Howard Carter's photographs numbered 18 and 19 with manuscript captions, general views of the excavation of trench no. 1, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (18) View of trench no. 1, excavation in progress.
• (19) Another view of trench no. 1, excavation in progress.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 20 and 21 with manuscript captions, general views of the excavation of trench no. 2, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (20) View of trench no. 2, excavation in progress.
• (21) Another view of trench no. 1, excavation in progress, with probably Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter standing at right.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 20 and 21 with manuscript captions, finds in trench no. 3, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (22) Trench 3, two stone headrests.
• (23) Trench 3, a red brickwork chamber, possibly belonging to the tomb of Demetrius of Phalerum.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 24 and 25 with manuscript captions, finds from trench no. 3, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (24) Carter's inked drawing of a fragment with inscriptions, for the lower part of a green basalt statuette of [Dhjeuti]emsaf holding statuette of Osiris, 26th Dynasty, in Carnarvon collection H 3.
• (25) Lower part of a stela, remains of scene, a king offering image of Maet to Amun-Re and two [seated deities], and two crocodiles with painted demotic text below, Ptolemaic.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 26 and 27 with manuscript captions, finds from surface of site and during excavations, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (26) Scarabs, numbered 1-16.
• (27) Stone and copper weights, numbered 1-10.

Howard Carter's photograph numbered 28 with manuscript caption, stone hammers, found in Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (28) A group of 15 stone hammers.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 29 and 30 with manuscript captions, finds in trenches nos. 1 and 3a, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (29) Trench 1, pottery vessels in situ.
• (30) Trench no. 3a, pottery vessels in situ.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 31 and 32 with manuscript captions, finds in trenches nos. 3, 3a, 3b and 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (31) Trenches 3, 3a and 3b, pottery vessels.
• (32) Trench 5, pottery vessels.

Some of the vessels shown in (31) also feature in another photograph, see Carter MSS iv.40.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 33 and 34 with manuscript captions, finds in trenches nos. 3 and 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (33) Trench 3, two pottery vessels, right pot "contained debased silver jewellery of Ptol. XIII Period."
• (34) Trench 5, pottery vessels.

Another photograph with a different view of the same group of vessels in (34), see Carter MSS iv.41.

Howard Carter's annotated manuscript report on the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913.
Group includes:

• "Note on the Capital of the 17th Nome, Sebennytos Inferior. Pa-aa-n-amen. Diospolis Kato. H. Carter Ap. 6. 1915".
• Carter's transcriptions of site names, copied from various sources.
• The report contains 30 numbered paragraphs that mention several finds including inscribed blocks, the base of a statuette, and a stela. The report has the following section headings:
  • General description
  • History
  • Excavations
  • Antiquities

18 lined pages with affixed photographic prints accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these pages as plates ii-xviii and they were intended to accompany this report, see Carter MSS iv.3-20.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 35 and [36] with manuscript captions, finds from trenches nos. 2 and from Temple and Palace area site, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (35) Trench 2, pottery vessel, Greek period.
• [36] From various parts of the site, pottery vessels.

Some duplicates of Howard Carter's photographs of the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn. Also, a note from the original housing for Carter MSS iv.21-50.

• Carter MSS iv.21 = Carter MSS iv.11 (19)
• Carter MSS iv.22 = Carter MSS iv.7 (10)
• Carter MSS iv.23 = Carter MSS iv.9 (15)
• Carter MSS iv.24 = Carter MSS iv.15 (26)
• Carter MSS iv.25 = Carter MSS iv.20 [36]
• Carter MSS iv.26 = Carter MSS iv.7 (11) and iv.6 (8)
• Carter MSS iv.27 = Carter MSS iv.16 (28)
• Carter MSS iv.28 = Carter MSS iv.14 (25)
• Carter MSS iv.29 = Carter MSS iv.15 (27)

Howard Carter's photographs, numbered 1 and 2 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (1) View of Tell el Balamūn from the marshes in the north
• (2) View of Carter's camp
  For other views of the camp, see Carter MSS iv.42-44.

Howard Carter's photographs of the Carnarvon-Carter excavations at Tell el-Balamūn, in 1913.

Carter MSS iv.3-20
18 lined pages with affixed photographs accompanied by manuscript captions. Carter numbered these as plates ii-xviii to accompany his report, see Carter MSS iv.2.

Carter MSS iv.21-50
30 loose photographs, including some duplicates of photographs in Carter MSS iv.3-20.

Howard Carter's photographs of the local Egyptian team showing them excavating, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 3 and 4 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Temple area, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (3) Temple site, looking north
• (4) General view of Tell el-Balamūn, from the temple site

Howard Carter's photograph of pottery vessels found in trenches nos. 3, 3a and 3b, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
These vessels were also photographed as part of a larger group, see Carter MSS iv.18 (31).

Howard Carter's photograph of pottery vessels found in trench no. 5, across the Central Approach, between two divisions of the Town, Temple and Palace area, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
Another photograph with a different view of the same group of vessels, see Carter MSS iv.19 (34).

Howard Carter's photographs, Carter's camp in the marshes, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
For other views of the camp, see Carter MSS iv.3 (1) and (2).

Howard Carter's photographs, general views of the site, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.
For other general views, see Carter MSS iv.4.

Howard Carter's photographs, views of a town on the Mediterranean coast, probably Damietta.
The photographs are part of Carter's records for the Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Tell el-Balamūn.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 5 and 6 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Temple area, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (5) "Unearthing an inscribed [Ptolemaic] block on the temple site".
• (6) "Inscribed [Ptolemaic] block from the temple site."

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 7 to 9 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Palace buildings, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (7) View of trench no. 7. in the region of the Palace buildings, with excavation in progress.
• (8) Fragment of pottery with hieratic signs, 17th-19th Dynasty, found under Palace foundations.
• (9) View of trench no. 7 in the region of the Palace buildings.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 10 and 11 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, Girdle Wall, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (10) View of the south-eastern corner of the Girdle Wall.
• (11) Fragment of Greek vessel, from foundations of Girdle Wall.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 12 and 13 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, within the Great Enclosure wall, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (12) Trench no. 6. A detached house within the Great Enclosure wall.
• (13) Trench no. 5. Within the Great Enclosure.

Howard Carter's photographs numbered 14 to 16 with manuscript captions, Carnarvon-Carter excavations, trench 5 within the Great Enclosure wall, Tell el-Balamūn.

• (14) View of trench no. 5, within the Great Enclosure, with excavation in progress.
• (15) View of aqueduct in trench no. 5
• (16) View showing stone slabs crossing the aqueduct in trench 5.

Howard Carter's miscellaneous records, including his collected notes on ancient weights and measures.

Howard Carter's manuscript notes, recorded in a notebook and 15 loose pages, on ancient Near Eastern weights.

Two draft letters from Howard Carter to Alan Gardiner regarding Carter's copying of the Opet Festival scenes in the Processional Colonnade of the Luxor Temple, including a proposed schedule and Carter's description of the wall scenes.
The earlier draft letter is not dated, the second draft letter is dated 1 May 1917.

Howard Carter's draft pencil sketches of the upper part of a musician holding clappers and various hands, details from the Festival of Opet scenes, Eastern Wall of the Processional Colonnade in Luxor Temple.