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Pietro Bracci Manuscript

  • Bracci MSS
  • Collection
  • c. 1750s-1773

Bound manuscript on Egyptian hieroglyphs and related topics (Roman obelisks, Iseum in Rome, Isiac pomp described by Apuleius, Egyptian rites, mummies, etc.). Left unfinished.

Bracci, Pietro

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  • Series 5 contains articles and lectures, some unpublished.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

Oliver Robert Gurney Collection

  • Gurney MSS
  • Collection
  • 1939-2001

Correspondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.

Gurney, Oliver Robert

Wilhelm Spiegelberg Collection

  • Spiegelberg MSS
  • Collection
  • 1895-1899
  • MSS 1: Squeezes made in 1895-1896 of some scenes in Theban Tombs 11, 12, 20, 50, 157, and 163.
  • MSS 2: Squeezes of some scenes and texts in the Island of Biga and Philae (Dodecaschoenus).
  • MSS 3: Two diaries (with continuous pagination) compiled between 7 November 1898 and 9 February 1899 during the Marquis of Northampton's excavations at Thebes.

Spiegelberg, Wilhelm

Tutankhamun 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

Journal: 1922-1925 (1st to 3rd seasons)

Tutankhamun excavation journal 1922-1925, and miscellaneous notes

  • 148 numbered pages
  • Manuscript entries, with some drawings and pages with affixed newspaper cuttings

Howard Carter's excavation journal for the tomb of Tutankhamun, 1922-1925, covering the first-third seasons

  • Most entries are by Carter
  • Entries between December 5th and 27th, 1922 (pages 43 to 47) are by Arthur Mace

Also, Carter's miscellaneous notes on Tutankhamun and other subjects:

  • Notes on Synopsis
  • The Legend of Osiris
  • Nomenclature of certain Districts of the Theban Necropolis
  • Records of Royal Tomb Robberies
  • The First Theban Kingdom
  • Protocol of Tut-Ankh-Amen

Newspaper cuttings

  • The Times
    • 31 May 1923
    • 23 July 1923
    • 24 July 1923
    • 5 January 1924
    • 7 January 1924
    • 12 February 1924
    • 14 February 1924

Carter, Howard

Seal impressions: Tutankhamun excavation documentation - Carter's notes for planned publication

Seal impressions. Howard Carter's collected notes for the intended scientific publication of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • i. Letters from James Henry Breasted to Howard Carter, 1923, on an article in Harpers Magazine, and Tutankhamun's seal impressions.
  • ii. James Henry Breasted's manuscript report on the eight types of seal impression found in Tutankhamun's tomb and 2 letters from Breasted to Carter dated 03-01-1923 and 15-02-1923.
  • iii, iv. Two folders marked "Seals A-H" and "Seals I-S", Carter's annotated typewritten reports with his draft and finished pencil drawings of each type of seal impression, with some manuscript and a few typewritten notes.
  • v. One record card with notes on seals, extracted from a letter from Breasted, dated 16-03-1923, copied by A. C. Mace.
  • Later typed note, dated 1960, with A. H. Gardiner's translation for Seal C.
  • Annotated photograph (Burton (sic) P0274b), almost certainly taken by Carter, of the outermost doorway showing the blocking intact with seals.

Breasted, James Henry

Egyptian team transporting the 'candlesticks'

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the production date of the postcard is not known, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • An Egyptian team member carrying a tray containing the four 'candlesticks' (Carter 41a-d), transporting them from the tomb's Antechamber to the Laboratory. Each 'candlestick' is in the form of an anthropomorphic ankh with arms raised to either hold a bronze torch-cup or a small pottery cup.

Moving an ornamental vessel

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • Egyptian team members transporting one of Tutankhamun's elaborate vessels (Carter 57) from the King's tomb to the nearby 'Laboratory' set up in the tomb of King Sethos II (KV15). The large vessel, carved from a single piece of Egyptian alabaster, originally contained unguent, its contents stolen by the tomb robbers who entered the tomb in antiquity. The vessel's body is flanked by openwork side pieces incorporating bound papyrus and lotus flowers, symbolising Upper and Lower Egypt and its unification, as well as representing the King's sovereignty. The vessel's body is decorated with Tutankhamun's cartouches; the incised decoration has been filled with black pigment.

View of the modern enclosure wall and the entrance of Tutankhamun's tomb

  • Postcard
  • Photograph, photographer not known.
  • The photograph was probably taken in early 1923; the postcard's production date is unknown, but it was almost certainly in the 1920s.
  • View of the modern enclosure wall of Tutankhamun's tomb, erected by Howard Carter following the discovery of the King's tomb in November 1922, with the tomb's entrance visible in the foreground (left of centre).

"Tu tanks have just arrived"

  • Comic postcard.
  • "Tu tanks have just arrived!".
  • Issued by Inter-Art Co., London.
  • "Comique" Series no. 4491.
  • Mailed on Thursday, 27 May 1926.
  • Postcard sent by R. Wilman to Miss D. Dixon, 7 Victoria Buildings, Morecambe.

Lantern slides

Howard Carter's lantern slides featuring Harry Burton's photographs taken during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb.

  • A twelve-drawered wood chest containing over 600 glass lantern slides
  • Belonging to Howard Carter.
  • The lantern slides were made from Harry Burton's images.
  • Used by Carter in his lectures.

Burton, Harry

Pyramids of Sakkara Lisht etc.

Small portfolio or file titled 'Pyramids of Sakkara Lisht etc.' (ink)
Blue ink note at top right corner: '1' encircled in pencil (reference to previous arrangement, almost certainly introduced by Dr Moss).

Egypt. Dahshur. Pyramid Field

Views of the pyramid field at Dahshur (TopBib iii2.876):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 11.2 x 8.5 cm
  • [on sketch] '1 Mustaba Faraoon' (pencil note)
    -[on sketch] '1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5' (pencil note)

Egypt. Saqqara. Step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet. Tiled rooms I and II

Plans with measurements and inscriptions of tiled rooms I and II of step pyramid enclosure of Netjerikhet at Saqqara (TopBib iii2.400):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 17.1 x 11.3 cm
  • [on sketch] 'height of room A 7„4 / doors 5 feet' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] '4 repetitions' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'hieroglyphs over door 22' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] 'passages blocked up all dismantled masonry stones / masonry destroyed / cavern' (pencil note)
  • [on sketch] '3.8 wide / masonry / masonry' (pencil note)

Egypt. Thebes. East Bank. Karnak. Great Temple of Amun. Tenth Pylon

View of North face of Tenth Pylon of Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, on the East Bank of Thebes (TopBib ii2.186):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • mounted
  • 29.8 x 14.9 cm
  • [on mount] 'Karnak' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
  • [on mount] encircled '3' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
  • [on mount] '6' (black ink note, previously '4', almost certainly by Bonomi)

Egypt. Thebes. West Bank. Deir el-Bahari

View from top of mountain at Deir el-Bahari, on the West Bank of Thebes, looking East:

  • pencil drawing on paper
  • loose
  • 36.9 x 23.3 cm
  • [on drawing] 'A Propylon of Karnak / B Ptolemaic gateway / C Luxor / D E F The 3 remarkable mountains behind Luxor /G Dra Abu Neger/ H the road that leads up to the small temples under the mountains of the valley of Tombs Biban el Moluk/ J K The crude bricks for pylon/ L Crude brick buildings /M the large crude brick propylon/ N Village' (pencil note, by Bonomi) [key to places shown in drawing]
  • [on drawing] encircled '5' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Egypt. Thebes. East Bank. Luxor Temple

View of the Luxor Temple on the East Bank in Thebes (TopBib ii2.301):

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 32.3 x 12.8 cm
  • [on sketch] 'Luxor' (pencil note, almost certainly by Bonomi)
  • [on sketch] 'Luxor' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)
  • [on sketch] encircled '8' (pencil note, almost certainly by Dr Moss)

Egypt. Memphis. Pyramid-fied of Giza. Necropolis. West Field. Cemetery en Echelon - South part. Tomb G 5210 of Khemtnu. Chapel. False-door of deceased

False-door of deceased in the chapel of the tomb G 5210 of Khemtnu, in the South part of the Cemetery en Echelon, on the West Field of the Necropolis in the Pyramid-field at Giza (TopBib iii2.155(4)), with measurements:

  • pencil sketch on paper
  • loose
  • 23.8 x 19.1 cm
  • [on sketch] '1.3 / 2.9 / 1.3 / 1.8 / 22 1/2' (pencil notes)
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