Griffith Institute Archive

TAA
Collection
1922-2014

Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.

Carter, Howard

John Gardner Wilkinson Collection

Wilkinson J. G. MSS
Collection

Journal 1841-1842 and some correspondence.

Wilkinson, (Sir) John Gardner

Griffith Institute Lantern Slides Collection

GI Lantern Slides
Collection

Lantern slides from various sources.

Howard Carter Collection

Carter MSS
Collection
1899-1939

Notebooks, notes, maps, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver inkwell. Made during Carter's career between 1899-1939. (This is material other than that directly connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun.)

Carter, Howard

Egyptian texts - Hieratic

Griffith MSS 2
Series
c.1880-1934

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

George Alexander Hoskins Collection

Hoskins MSS
Collection
1832-1833 and 1860-1861

3 albums containing watercolours and sketches.

Hoskins, George Alexander

Myrtle Florence Broome Collection

Broome MSS
Collection
1927-1937

415 items of correspondence written by Miss Broome to her parents whilst working at Abydos between 1927 and 1937.

Fifteen items are groups of two letters (16, 35, 51, 55, 97, 111, 154, 198, 227, 268, 306, 319, 325, 363, 408, and 414, not all of them by Miss Broome), four of which are actually cards/postcards (16A, 306A, and 414A-B); item 156 is a group of three letters [= 429 letters and 4 cards/postcards in total].

A few letters include drawings/maps; seven letters include photographs (111, 123, 273-276, and 279); letter 337 includes a newspaper cutting; some other letters mention the enclosure of additional items which are now lost.

Broome, Myrtle Florence

Index of personal names

Broome Index
Item

Part of Myrtle Florence Broome Collection

Jaroslav Černý Collection

Černý MSS
Collection
1918-1988

Notebooks, notes, card indexes, copies of inscriptions, a corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, correspondence, and personal items.

Series 1 to 4, 6, 7 contain photographs, copies, transcriptions and translations of Egyptian texts, and photographs of objects and sites.
Series 5 contains articles and lectures, some unpublished.
Series 5 and 10 contain notes on Egyptian history.
Series 8, 14, 22, 24, 26 contain notes and indexes on lexicography and grammar and card indexes for a late Egyptian and general hieroglyphic dictionary.
Series 17 contains notebooks with transcriptions of texts from ostraca, graffiti, papyri and other monuments. There is a card index of ostraca with references to notebooks in series 28.
Series 18 and 23 contain Coptic notes and a card index for Coptic grammar.
Series 25 contains data on Egyptian personal names.
Series 33 is an etymological card index.

Černý, Jaroslav

Minnie Burton Diary

M. Burton MSS
Collection
1922-1926

Diary kept from 4 May 1922 to 20 October 1926 by the wife of the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940). The diary contains detailed daily entries recording social engagements and memorable events, including the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun by Howard Carter’s team, of which her husband was a member. The diary details her life and travels with her husband at home in Florence, their stays in Egypt (especially Luxor, but also Cairo), the trip they made across the US and to Hollywood in 1924, and various holidays in Europe (London, Salzburg, St. Moritz, etc.), as well as trips to friends in Italy. Lined account book, 400 pages, 8vo (179 x 110 x 28 mm).

Burton, Minnie Catherine

Robert Hay Collection

Hay MSS
Collection
1824-1834

Typescript copy of Hay's journal from 24th November 1824 to 27th October 1827, photographs of drawings made by Hay in the tomb of Neferhotp (TT49) (Griffith Institute photos. 3070-7), 13 mounted photographs made from Hay's drawings of el-Kâb, Philae, and Amada, and microfilm roll with copies of the Hay MSS once in the British Museum and now in the British Library.

Hay, Robert

Douglas Newbold Collection

Newbold MSS
Collection

Two volumes on the history and archaeology of the Beja tribes of the Eastern Sudan (MSS 1) and small group of detached papers / personal file (MSS 2).

Newbold, (Sir) Douglas

Griffith Notebook Sketches of details from reliefs in various temples and head of one Colossus of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel

Griffith MSS 24.28
Item
n.d.

Part of Francis Llewellyn Griffith Collection

Rustafjaell photographs

Crum MSS 1.3.12
Item
n.d.

Part of Walter Ewing Crum Collection

Rustafjaell photographs. Also photographs of carved wooden door panels from the El Muallaqa (Hanging) church in Cairo and now in the British Museum, with note by Crum.

Note on envelope states that these manuscripts have been published by Budge.

The Graffiti Archive Roger O. De Keersmaecker

De Keersmaecker MSS
Collection
1965-2019

A corpus of traveller’s graffiti from sites and monuments in Egypt, comprising transcriptions and photographs of graffiti that have been collated and published by Roger De Keersmaecker between 1965 and 2019.

De Keersmaecker, Roger O.