Graffiti from the necropolis at Thebes with maps and locations for some of the graffiti.
Notebook 1.
Transcriptions of hieratic papyri with a table of contents at the back of the notebook. Some translations and working notes, see enclosures.
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58035-58096 (some omissions).
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58037 recto
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58038 (Boulak 17)
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58039A-F (Boulak 6)
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58041 (Boulak 13)
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58043 (Boulak 8)
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58045
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58050
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58051
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58052
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58053
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58054
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58055
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58056
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58057
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58058 (Boulak 16)
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58059 (Boulak 14)
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58060 (Boulak 15)
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58061
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58070
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58073
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58074
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58075
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58076
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58077
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58078
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58079
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58080
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58081
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58082
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58083
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58084
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58085
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58086
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58087
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58088
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58089
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58091
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 58096 (Boulak 19)
Nubia. Texts and graffiti from:
- Abahûda (TopBib vii.119-21)
- Abû Simbel (TopBib vii.95ff.)
- Amada (TopBib vii.65-73)
- Gebel el-Shems ( TopBib vii.122-3)
- Kasr Ibrîm (TopBib vii.92-4)
- Toshka (TopBib vii.95)
-
Es-Sebua (TopBib vii.53-64)
Coptic parchment leaf belonging to Tano (antiquities dealer).
Turin, Museo Egizio. Transcriptions of hieratic papyri and an ostracon.
Papyri
[published in Pleyte, W. and Rossi, F., Papyrus de Turin, 2 vols. (1869-1876) (OEB 147627)]:
- pl. 32
- pl. 33 (Černý's copy includes an unpublished continuation)
- pl. 61
Ostracon:
- Turin, Museo Egizio, Cat. 2161
Turin, Museo Egizio. Transcriptions of hieratic papyri.
Published in Pleyte, W. and Rossi, F., Papyrus de Turin 2 vols. (1869-1876) (OEB 147627):
- pl. 1
- pl. 2
- pl. 4
- pl. 5
- pl. 11
- pl. 12
- pl. 13
- pl. 20
- pl. 21
- pl. 22
- pl. 23
- pl. 24
- pl. 25
- pl. 26
- pl. 27
- pl. 28
- pl. 29
- pl. 31
- pl. 64
- pl. 78
- pls. 79-82
- pl. 84
- pl. 85
- pl. 86
- pl. 87
- pl. 88
- pl. 89
- pl. 118
- pl. 119
- pl. 120
- pl. 121
- pl. 122
- pl. 123
- pl. 124
- pl. 125
- pl. 135
- pl. 136
- pl. 146
- pl. 147
- pl. 154A
- pl. 154B
Translation of papyrus of Wenamun.
Moscow, State Pushkin Museum, 120 (Papyrus Pushkin 120).
Arts and Crafts.
Lists of references and resources for different areas of Egyptian arts and crafts including:
- sculpture (statuary)
- painting
- architecture
- jewellery
- metalwork
- pottery
- carpentry (woodwork)
- textiles (clothing)
- wickerwork
Concordance. Černý, J., Late Egyptian Grammar (in Czech) with various papyri.
Texts from objects in museums, some texts were copied from publications:
- Cairo, Egyptian Museum
- Florence, Museo Archeologico
- Leiden, Rijksmuseum
- London, British Museum
- Paris, Musée du Louvre
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania University Museum
Old Coptic. Oxyrhynchus papyri (with index-slips, see enclosure). Compiled after: Crum, W. E., 'An Egyptian text in Greek characters', in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 28 (1942), 20-31 (OEB 137503).
Ushebti in Professor Dara collection.
Copy of text by B. Grdseloff with Černý's annotations.
Abydos. Middle Cemetery of Mariette.
Stela of Nehy, with 36 columns of Pyramid Texts, Dyn. XIII-XIV, in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 20520.
TopBib v.73.
Excerpts taken from various publications with Černý's own notes and comments on the papyri:
- Liverpool, World Museum, M11162 (Papyrus Mayer A)
- Liverpool, World Museum, M11186 (Papyrus Mayer B)
- Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 3876 (Papyrus Wien) (after Brugsch, H., 'Hieratischer Papyrus zu Wien', in Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 14 (1876), 1-4 (OEB 135585))
- London, British Museum, EA 10053 (Papyrus Harris A) with comparative notes on other papyri in the British Museum.
Concordances for London, British Museum numbers with three publications:
- Hawkins, E. and Birch, S. (eds.), Tablets and other Egyptian monuments from the collection of the Earl of Belmore, now deposited in the British Museum (1843) (OEB 151236)
- Lieblein, J., Dictionnaire de noms hiéroglyphiques en ordre généalogique et alphabétique: publié d'après les monuments égyptiens, 4 volumes (1871-1892) (OEB 143820)
- Sharpe, S., Egyptian inscriptions from the British Museum and other sources 1st and 2nd Series (1837-1855) (OEB 150253)
Graffiti.
Thebes, hieroglyphic and hieratic.
Notebook 5.
Nos. 2219-2660.
16 letters from Anthes and 2 carbon copies of letters from Černý to Anthes.
Majority of the content is personal; Anthes communicated his wartime circumstances and subsequent career development, as well as the German Egyptology situation after the war (WWII). Černý provided professional information, as well as material assistance in the form of food rations sent to Anthes in the 1940s.
Anthes and Černý exchanged information on ostraca discoveries, Černý updating Anthes on new finds at Deir el-Medîna during the 1940s and 1950s. Anthes recipricated by supplying information regarding finds during excavations at Mît Rahîna.
1 letter from Antonovyč, a Czech student in Strasbourg.
Acknowledgement of Černý's help and advice.
3 letters from Baer.
- monuments and biographies of Butehamun and Djehutimose
- harem conspiracy papyri
3 letters from Bakir.
- texts from Dendera and A. Bakir's thesis
- Černý also consulted Bakir's transcriptions
6 letters from Barns, 1 carbon copy of letter from Černý to Barns
Correspondence mainly Barns consulting Černý regarding research and seeking Černý's advice on philological aspects and transcriptions.
2 letters from Bosticco.
Correspondence concerned with the reading of some stelae in Florence.
3 letters from Bresciani.
Correspondence concerned with philology and Demotic studies, Bresciani visiting Oxford.
3 letters from Brunner-Traut.
Correspondence concerned with Brunner-Traut's work and other professional matters.
1 letter from Brunton.
Correspondence concerned with a memorial volume for I. Rosellini, published as:
Studi in memoria di Ippolito Rosellini nel primo centenario della morte (4 giugno 1843 - 4 giugno 1943), 2 vols. (1949-1955) (OEB 159067).
2 letters from Burton-Brown.
Correspondence concerned with artefacts from the Manchester Museum (University of Manchester) collections, and the potential of infra-red photography.
2 letters from Cenival, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to de Cenival, and 1 reference letter concerning the publication of Abusir papyri.
The publication of Abusir papyri, and Černý recommending their publication.
7 letters from Christophe, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to Christophe.
Deir el-Medîna research, individual workmen, and written culture.
12 letters from Clère.
Excavations; travel plans of both Egyptologists; personal matters; the situation in Czechoslovakia after February 1948 as observed by Clère during the 1949 congress.
1 letter from Dalglish.
Dalglish, a Biblical scholar, was interested in the text of Instructions of Amenemope.
8 letters from N. de Garis Davies, 1 carbon copy of a letter from Černý to N. de Garis Davies.
Publications, professional and personal matters.