Card indexes used in compilation of the Coptic Dictionary, photographs, photostats, notebooks, notes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, negatives, and casts.
Sans titreNotebooks, notes, copies of texts, photographs, lecture notes, drafts of articles, and facsimiles..
Sans titre1) Original measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [corrected version].
2) Drawings of Eighteenth Dynasty tombs (incomplete original set and complete sets of photocopies/prints) (1980s).
3) Prints of the measured perspective drawing of the tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings (1978) [version with error].
4) Drawings of reconstructions of Egyptian boats (1993-4).
5) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for plaque depicting a scene from the lid of box from the tomb of Tutankhamun (c. 1979) - the plaque has been sold in the British Museum shop since the late 1990s (copyright issued in the late 1990s for a while, then reissued c. 2010).
6) Model, plaster and resin moulds and casts for the mask of Tutankhamun (1978).
7) Models, plaster and resin moulds and casts for small figurines (2 seated Isis suckling Horus, Bes amulet and scarab, 1970s).
8) Album of newspaper cuttings titled "Illustrations", mostly from the Illustrated London News, bound in illustrated binding by Harold Parkinson (c. 1930).
9) Copy of Simplified Hieroglyphs arranged according to Gardiner's Signlist. Drawn in both left and right directions together with samples of cursive hieroglyphs and hieratic signs. Hieratic versions are drawn from Möller Hieratische Paläographie Vol. I (6th to 13th dynasties), of which 'Sinuhe' provides the majority of the examples, by R. B. & H. Parkinson (1988-1989).
10) Original measured perspective drawing of the White Chapel at Karnak, by H. & R. B. Parkinson (c. 1989-1990).
11) Drawing in preparation of 6), made from Burton Photograph P0760 (c. 1976).
- Album of drawings and watercolours made during Amelia Edwards's visit to the Dolomites.
- Album of drawings and watercolours made during her visit to Egypt in 1873-4.
- Album with 26 pencil sketches and one watercolour titled 'Small Egyptian Scraps, 1874', made during same visit to Egypt.
- Album, notebook, packet containing an assortment of drawings, letters, and notes, another packet contains copies of deeds and accounts issued following her death.
- Two watercolours of the temples on Philae island, assumed to have been painted by A. Edwards.
- First edition of Amelia B. Edwards, Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers (1891); Kate Griffith's (née Bradbury) copy, with handwritten dedication to ‘My Katie - Novr. 1891 - A.B.E’.
Notes, transcriptions, translations, article drafts, lecture drafts, card index, photographs, slides, overhead projector sheets, electronic data files, microfilm, correspondence, annotated photocopies and off-prints, relating to Coptic and Greek documents and Coptic archaeology.
Sans titrePaper squeezes of monuments made in Egypt in 1850-3.
Sans titreSeven notebooks detailing graffiti in the Temple of Amun and, to a lesser degree, the Temple of Montu, Karnak, organised by location, created between 1968 and 1971. Supported by six boxes of indices, plans, photographs, epigraphic drawings, squeezes, related correspondence, and a folder of analysis drawn from the notebooks.
Sans titreNotes, photographs, squeezes, correspondence, and offprints. Contain, amongst others, references to Assyriological, Greek, Cypriot, and Egyptological material. Includes notes made by Petrie which were with Sayce at the time of his death.
Sans titreComplete papers, including notes, drafts and photographs on ancient Egyptian gardens and cultivation, and some on jewellery.
Sans titre1) Manuscript of The Life of Sinuhe: A Reader's Commentary on the Middle Kingdom Version(s):
- unfinished version, September 2020 (print out and associated Word documents and PDFs);
- updated, still unfinished version, August 2022 (Word documents and PDFs);
- final proofs of completed manuscript, 24 March 2026 (PDF).
2) Drawings of reconstructions of the Theban tomb-chapel of Nebamun, now in the British Museum in London, including sketches, tracings and a measured perspective acrylic (1997).
3) Correspondence: Letter from Esmé Little (née Peet; niece of T. E. Peet) to Richard B. Parkinson dated 30 January 1989.
4) 35mm Kodachrome slides mainly from Nile cruises with Bales Worldwide and British Museum Traveller (c. 2000–2006) [1 oversize box].
See also H. Parkinson MSS 9-10.
Sans titre- MSS 1 (Egyptomania): 12 ring binders, 1 box, and 9 folders of Egyptomania material, including offprints and photocopies of publications, press cuttings, information on exhibitions, photographs, greeting cards, advertising and packaging, etc., some arranged by period or by type (e.g. pyramids, obelisks), with accompanying notes and some correspondence. One of the ring binders contains material relating to Whitehouse's book project on Egyptomania, including notes, some typed pages, and proposed plates/illustrations for the publication as a whole.
- MSS 2 (card index): Card index of occurrences of Egyptomania material (3 small boxes).
- MSS 3 (35 mm slides): 29 sheets of 35 mm colour slides (c. 650), comprising mostly Whitehouse's original photographs, primarily of Egyptomania buildings and monuments in Europe; also including some commercially purchased slides and others made from publications (c. 1969-1989).
- MSS 4 (lectures): Scripts for 20 lectures (1984-2009, five undated).
- MSS 5 (article): Draft article titled "Schiller, Mauro Tesi and the Veiled Statue of Isis", unpublished, with related correspondence, including several rejection letters from publishers (1989).
- MSS 6 (Harris correspondence): Correspondence (letters, postcards, and cards) with John Harris, including discussion of certain objects (c. 1972-1997, but many undated).
- MSS 7 (Seznec's file): Professor John Seznec's (1905-1983) file on an unfinished publication titled On the Impact of Egypt on France/French Imagination in the 19th Century, including research notes, a draft lecture on Isis (likely intended as a chapter of the monograph), offprints and copies of publications, photographs, correspondence with publishers, and additional 1985 correspondence between Whitehouse and Francis Haskell regarding this file.
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).
Sans titre- Correspondence with other Egyptologists (now deceased) and some miscellaneous correspondence. Includes Eaton-Krauss's exchanges with Cyril Aldred, Martha R. Bell, Bernard V. Bothmer, Jochen Briegleb, Helmut Brunner, Ricardo A. Caminos, Henry G. Fischer, Wolfgang Helck, Barry J. Kemp, Christine Lilyquist, Jaromir Malek, Geoffrey T. Martin, William Murnane, James Romano, John Romer, and Walter Segal.
- Notes and correspondence relating to articles and books peer-reviewed by Eaton-Krauss.
- Recommendations for appraisals of academic posts.
- Correspondence with Marc Gabolde between 1987 and 2023 about a research project to study the monuments associated with king Tutankhamun in the Temple of Karnak; accompanied by a chronological summary.
- Folder with items relating to a Festschrift contribution on the el-Tôd Treasure, in press.
- Folder with items relating to Eaton-Krauss's participation in "Transcending Eternity: The Centennial Tutankhamun Conference" (Luxor, 4-6 November 2022).
- Hincks MSS 1: Correspondence, and Warren Dawson's handwritten catalogue for the same ['Box A', 'Box B' and notebook]
- Hincks MSS 2: Notes, unfinished lecture ['Box C']
- Hincks MSS 3: A small number of plaster casts made from Egyptian and Assyrian objects [two small boxes]:
- Egyptian funerary cones (Davies and Macadam, Nos 3 and 20)
- Marriage scarab of Amenhotep III [Amenophis III] (perhaps Blankenberg van Delden A18)
- Hincks MSS 4: A hand copy made by W. R. Dawson of Hincks, 'On Certain Egyptian Papyri in the British Museum', published in Transactions of the British Archaeological Association at its Second Annual Congress held at Winchester, August 1845 [one notebook]
- Hincks MSS 5: Portrait painting (oil on canvas, 79 x 104 cm, 107.5 x 133 cm with frame) by Richard Hooke (1820-1908)
Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.
Notebooks, notes, articles (some unpublished), lecture notes, photographs, correspondence, squeezes, drawings, tracings, and casts.
Sans titrePrints and negatives of scenes in Theban tombs, notebook and notes (some by W. B. Emery and E. J. H. MacKay).
Sans titre- Photographs of Egyptian sites and museum objects, comprising one box containing prints made from Wainwright negatives 1-24, and nine glass plate negatives for Wainwright photographs 6-14.
Some 250 facsimile copies of graffiti and ostraca found by E. Naville at Deir el-Bahari, probably mostly in the Hathor-cow Chapel, in 1906-7.
Sans titre181 paper squeezes
Arranged in five original portfolios containing mounted squeezes, one package containing loose squeezes, and one metal plaque/plate (kept in package with squeezes). These squeezes were made from scenes in three tombs at Thebes: the pharaoh Sethos I (KV 17) and two high-ranking officials, Khaemhet (TT 57) and Paser (TT 106). The squeezes were almost certainly produced and sold as tourist 'souvenirs'. Revd Stobart acquired the paper squeezes during his visit to Egypt in 1854-5.
The squeezes are catalogued as part of the Griffith Institute Squeezes Collection and numbered Griffith Institute Squeezes 4.1-106.
Metal plaque/plate
The plaque measures approximately 36 cm x 25.5 cm and has Coptic text in the Bohairic dialect written on both sides; the lettering was possibly originally painted or inked but is now faded or has peeled/flaked off. A small hole at one edge may indicate that the plate was hung initially, which could relate to the practice of Coptic texts being written on plates and displayed in monasteries. The text on
The text on the better preserved of the two sides, is a Bohairic thanksgiving prayer: ⲉⲑⲃⲉ ⲫⲁⲓ ⲧⲉⲛϯϩⲟ ⲟⲩⲟϩⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲃϩ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉⲕⲙⲉⲧⲁ̀ⲅⲁⲑⲟⲥ ⲡⲓⲙⲁⲓⲣⲱⲙⲓ: ⲙⲏⲓⲥ ⲛⲁⲛ ⲉⲑⲣⲉⲛϫⲱⲕ ⲉ̀ⲃⲟⲗ ⲙ̀ⲡⲁⲓⲕⲉⲉ̀ϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲉⲑⲟⲩⲁⲃ ⲫⲁⲓ: ⲛⲉⲙ ⲛⲓⲉ̀ϩⲟⲟⲩ ⲧⲏⲣⲟⲩ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲡⲉⲛⲱⲛϧ: ϧⲉⲛ ϩⲓⲣⲏⲛⲏ ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲧⲉⲕϩⲟϯ. ⲫⲑⲟⲛⲟⲥ ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ: ⲡⲓⲣⲁⲥⲙⲟⲥ ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ: ⲉ̀ⲛⲉⲣⲅⲓⲁ̀ ⲛⲓⲃⲉⲛ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ⲡ̀ⲥⲁⲧⲁⲛⲁⲥ: ⲡ̀ⲥⲟϭⲛⲓ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ϩⲁⲛⲣⲱⲙⲓ ⲉ̀ⲩϩⲱⲟⲩ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲡ̀ⲧⲱⲛϥ ⲉ̀ⲡ̀ϣⲱⲓ ⲛ̀ⲧⲉ ϩⲁⲛϫⲁϫⲓ ⲛⲏ ⲉ̀ⲧϩⲏⲡ ⲛⲉⲙ ⲛⲏ ⲉ̀ⲑⲟⲩⲱⲛϩ ⲉ̀ⲃⲟⲗ. Ⲁⲗⲓⲧⲟⲩ ⲉ̀ⲃⲟⲗ ϩⲁⲣⲟⲛ etc. Info. Alin Suciu, 19/11/2024, see https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15V2DmnTAB/.
Sans titreConsists of at least two sets of slides which have been combined. Made by a tourist(s), probably between 1910 and 1930. Views include Alexandria, Karnak, Luxor, Ramesseum, objects in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, and scenes of daily life.
Sans titre313 black-and-white glass negatives made during the excavation of Antinoë (modern el-Sheikh Ibâda, opposite el-Ashmûnein, in Middle Egypt) in 1913-14 by John de Monins Johnson for the Graeco-Roman branch of the Egypt Exploration Society. The negatives are not accompanied by any supporting written records or descriptions of the photographed objects.
Sans titre450 negatives of Egyptian sites and monuments, taken before 1914.
Sans titrePhotographs of foreigners as represented on various Egyptian monuments.
Sans titre158 colour slides (35mm) of Theban Tomb scenes, made in Thebes in 1953-4.
Sans titre20 mounted albumen prints of scenes from the Temple of Haroeris and Sobek Triads at Kom Ombo. Some annotations on mounts.
45 photographs.
Sans titre53 black & white photographs.
Sans titre21 photographs. 13 of the Temple of Hibis at el-Khârga Oasis, and 8 of the Temple of Deir el-Hagar at el-Dâkhla Oasis.
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