Watercolour showing the initial stages of one of Howard Carter's excavations.
Senza titolo- 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)
Three notebooks containing Gell's copies of hieroglyphic inscriptions from objects and publications, also drawings (some coloured) of objects seen by Gell in museums and private collections.
Senza titoloAlbum of watercolours, drawings, and tracings of Egypt produced close to the end of Lloyd's life. It is a folio volume (33 x 44 cm, pages 32.7 x 43 cm), containing 135 watercolours and drawings (74 of which are full-page and 1 folding) and 10 tracings (8 folding). They are all mounted and most are captioned either on the image itself or on the mount. Captions on the mount seem to have been added when the album was put together after Lloyd's death. The album also contains a loose watercolour, a loose drawing and a loose lithographed portrait of George Lloyd by Prisse d'Avennes, who published it in his Oriental Album: Characters, Costumes and Modes of Life in the Valley of the Nile (1848). One of the drawings in the album is a pencil portrait of Lloyd sketched by Prince A. Soltykoff.
Senza titolo1) 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.
Senza titoloFerdinand (Ferdy) Platt's correspondence relates to two excursions to Egypt, in 1896 and 1907-1908.
- First group: eighteen letters and postcards, sent during Platt's first independent visit to Egypt in early 1896, when he initially travelled with a friend. Dating between 26 January and 19 April, the letters are addressed to Platt's mother and brother Erny. They record meeting Flinders Petrie and other notables.
- Second group: thirty-one letters sent during Platt's second trip to Egypt in 1907-1908, when he accompanied the eighth Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, their relations Lord and Lady Gosford with their daughter Lady Theo, Sir Charles Cradock-Hartopp. Dating between 4 November 1907 and 8 February 1908, they are addressed to Platt's wife, Mabel (May). They record Platt's encounters with Winston Churchill, Alan Gardiner, James Quibell, George Reisner, Archibald Sayce and Arthur Weigall, among others. The letters also mention a meeting with Howard Carter when the latter was still earning a living as an artist, producing paintings for tourists; the letters provide important insights into Carter's life just before he began his partnership with Lord Carnarvon.
- 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).
1) Two typescripts with pages from the published edition, and handwritten notes and editing marks, together with a small box of glass negatives of plates marked 'Plates for Part 2'. Both titled ''Egypt's Beginnings', being the third edition of The Cultures of Prehistoric Egypt by Elise J. Baumgartel.' Also notes on the manuscript by Barry Kemp, dated 1975.
2) Collected notes and photographs relating to Predynastic material in The Brooklyn Museum. Two reports: one a copy of 'Report of Henry de Morgan on his researches in the Nile Valley between Esneh and Gebel-Silsilèh, during the winter of 1907-1908'; the other, no title or date, addressed 'To A. Augustus Healy, Esq., President of the Brooklyn of Arts & Sciences' [sic].
3) Seven card index boxes:
a) Naqada and Ballas Site Index [4 boxes]: Identified contents of grave groups from numbered tombs in Predynastic cemetery at Naqada, also Naqada town site, and Ballas (excav. Petrie, 1895), with current museum location; arranged by tomb number and cross referenced to Naqada and Ballas (London, 1896). The card index was created by Elise J. Baumgartel as the basis for her Petrie's Naqada Excavation. A Supplement (London, 1970); subsequently maintained and updated by Joan Crowfoot Payne, ‘Appendix to Naqada Excavations Supplement’, JEA 73 (1987), 181-9.
b) Petrie’s Naqada Site Records [2 boxes] (sketches of numbered graves showing disposition of bodies and grave goods): photocopies of the entries in site notebooks, filed by tomb number.
c) Petrie’s Ballas Site Records [1 box] (sketches of numbered graves showing disposition of bodies and grave goods): photocopies of the entries in site notebooks, filed by tomb number.
Notebooks, negatives, photographs, maps, and drawings made during the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. For other material, refer to the catalogue.
107 postcards collected in Egypt between 1900-1906 by Miss E. Blyth (objects in Cairo Museum, sites, Cairo views, and Nile views) and 1 postcard of Bethlehem in Palestine.
Senza titoloPapers, including notebooks, notes, tracings and squeezes, made in Theban tombs and elsewhere, photographs, collection of coloured hieroglyphic signs, indexes of scenes in Theban tombs, etc.
Senza titoloCard indexes used in compilation of the Coptic Dictionary, photographs, photostats, notebooks, notes, correspondence, newspaper cuttings, negatives, and casts.
Senza titoloOver one thousand colour slides (group III), several hundred black and white photographs (group II), and correspondence (group I).
Senza titoloNotebooks, loose notes, maps, plans, drawings, newspaper cuttings, watercolours, and a silver desk-set. The documentation was created during Carter's career between 1899-1939. This material excludes material connected with the tomb of Tutankhamun, see the Tutankhamun Archive.
Senza titoloCorrespondence and notes relating to the geography of the Hittite Empire, Babylonian music, decipherment, and various other topics.
Senza titoloComplete papers (see catalogue for more details).
Senza titoloA small group of Faulkner's documentation.
- Translation of the stela of King Kamose [Kamosi] (Faulkner MSS 1).
- Sections of Faulkner, Raymond O. 1962. A concise dictionary of Middle Egyptian (Faulkner MSS 2).
- Original housing for the group (Faulkner MSS 3).
Notes, 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.
Senza titolo1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade ‘portfolios’ containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi’s diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].
1) 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).
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; many of the letters include the original envelopes in which they were sent; some other letters mention the enclosure of additional items which are now lost.
Senza titoloTwo albums containing plans and drawings of Egyptian monuments.
Senza titoloMaps, plans and drawings, original and fair copies created by Crawford and Frank Addison for Crawford, O. G. S. 1951. The Fung kingdom of Sennar: with a geographical account of the Middle Nile Region.
- Sennar roll 1:
- Addison and Crawford drawings for figs. 1-4;
- Northern Fung region, discussed in Chapter ii, figs. 17, 24;
- Southern Fung region, discussed in Chapter ii, figs. 8, 14, 16, 21, 28.
- Sennar roll 2:
- Drawings for figs. 1-8, and part of figs. 10, 14, 16, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25;
- Two maps used in the field (1951-1952) for naming sites:
- — Korgus to Kuddik;
- — Kuddik to 'Usheir.
Copies of texts, mostly from Theban tombs.
Senza titoloPapers of William Matthew Flinders Petrie including journals covering 38 seasons (1880-1929) and photographs of excavations. The collection also includes secondary material associated with Petrie's journals, photographs of objects in museums, souvenir photographs and photocopies of material held at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, University College London.
Senza titoloDrawings (by Winifred M. Brunton), letters, and working notes for a publication on button seals.
Negatives taken during the Matmar excavations in 1928-30.
Card index created 1958.
Two portfolios with 45 loose sheets of mounted drawings and watercolours.
Senza titolo3 albums containing watercolours and sketches.
Senza titolo118 glass stereoscopic plate negatives. Most show sites in and around
- Cairo, in and around
- General views of Cairo
- Street views
- Tombs of the Caliphs
- Tombs of the Mamelukes
- Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Hasan
- Mosque-Madrasa of Sultan Barquq
- Tomb of Abouseer
- Mosque of Khat Bey
- Al-Hakim Mosque
- Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha
- The Citadel
- Other sites in Egypt
- 'Tombs at Thebes'
- 'Rocks of Abusir', Second Cataract
- 'Arab village'
- Outside Egypt, mostly Israel and Palestine:
- Bethlehem
- Jacob's Well
- Mount Tabor