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.
Two diaries made in 1898-9 during the Marquis of Northampton's excavations at Thebes, and squeezes made in 1895 of some scenes in TT11, 12, 20, 50, 157, and 163.
3 copies (1 typescript and two carbon copies) of a transcript made from Linant de Bellefonds' diary (1821-1822).
Titled: "Journal d'un Voyage en Ethiopie dans les Annees 1821 & 1822."
279 typescript pages
Not Griffith Institute copyright. See below for details.
14 glass plate negatives, two sizes, with a set of modern prints made from the larger-sized negatives (1818-1826). Not Griffith Institute copyright. Negatives made from the originals in the Louvre.
The negatives are copies of the following MSS:
B.15 (parts A and B)
Triple statue (same as following), not identified, with texts
B.26
Maison du Melek d'Argos
B.30
Gebel Barkal. View of Pyramid field (North and South groups)
TopBib vii.208, 203
= Bankes MSS XV.C.7
B.32
Gebel Barkal. Temple B.300. View of interior
TopBib vii.209
= Bankes MSS XV.C.2
B.32 bis
Gebel Barkal. Great Temple B.500. Sketch, general view showing granite stand of Taharqa, with Nile-gods binding sma-symbol etc.
TopBib vii.216A & 209(43)
B.36
Gebel Barkal. Great Temple B.500. Inner Court. Meroitic battle scene, including man on horseback and archer
TopBib vii.219(30)
= Bankes MSS XV.A.28
B.38 bis
Gebel Barkal. Temple B.700. Pylon (destroyed). West wing, outer face, Senkamanisken smites captives before Amun-Re
TopBib vii.214
= Bankes MSS XV.C.8 [middle]
B.45
Gebel Barkal. Temple B.300. Third Hall. View
TopBib vii.209
B.62
Musauwarat el-Sofra. Great Temple. Views
TopBib vii.264
= Bankes MSS XVII.B.15
B.68
Musauwarat el-Sofra. South-East Temple. Interior. North-East row of columns. Column 2, three registers
TopBib vii.267
= Bankes MSS XVII.B.6
B.69
Musauwarat el-Sofra. South-East Temple. Interior. North-East row of columns. Column 1, two registers
TopBib vii.265
= Bankes MSS XVII.B.5
B.73
Naga'. General view
TopBib vii.267
B.105
Naga'. Lion Temple of Apedemak. Exterior. King, Queen and Prince, before Isis holding captives, Mut, Hathor and Satis
TopBib vii.269(21)-(22)
= Bankes MSS XVII.C.7-8
Linant de Bellefonds, (Bey and Pasha) Louis Maurice Adolphe
J. Lane MSS 1-3: Journals of Jenny Lane, lady's maid to Lucy Renshaw, travelling companion of Amelia A. B. Edwards, describing in detail their various trips including the 1873-1874 journey through France and Italy, crossing from Brindisi to Alexandria on the Simla, thence up the Nile to Dendara, Karnak, Luxor, Aswan, Philae and Abu Simbel, and the return journey via Port Said, through Lebanon to Damascus, Baalbek and Beirut, Constantinople, Athens, and the Rhine. They contain vivid descriptions of the landscape, weather and peoples, and anecdotes and observations of fellow travellers and places visited. They cover the period from 4 September 1873 to 6 March 1876. 286 pages in three volumes, calf, worn, 8vo.
J. Lane MSS 4: Photograph album put together following Miss Lane's two trips to Egypt and the Near East between 1873 and 1876.
J. Lane MSS 5: Collection of antiquities and miscellanea collected by Miss Lane during her trips.
J. Lane MSS 6: Three framed portraits (Jane Collins, née Jane Lane, George Collins [first husband], and George Lane [father]).
J. Lane MSS 7: Photocopy of marriage certificate for George Collins and Jane Lane (20 October 1879).
J. Lane MSS 8: Related documentation (three letters to the Martin family and two papers) by Brenda Moon.
4 albums containing rubbings mainly of objects in the British Museum, and also other museums and private collections including those in the J. Lee collection.
(a) 20 folders containing handwritten notes, pencil drawings, negatives, photographs, and postcards of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun (= MSS 1-20) (1935). (b) 18 folders containing notes, drawings, negatives and photographs of thrones, chairs, stools and footstools mainly from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (1935) and the British Museum in London (1936), as well as from other collections, and material gathered from publications; 1 index card box with Segal's reference notes for his furniture records; and letter from T. G. H. James to M. Eaton-Krauss regarding Segal correspondence in the British Museum along with photocopies of the letters.
Notes collected on Hierakonpolis (The Hierakonpolis finds). Consists of handwritten notes made by M. A. Murray, typescript, and additional notes in a different hand.
(1) Excavation journals for 1899-1901 (working with W. M. F. Petrie) and 1901-1903 (working with G. A. Reisner). (2) Personal correspondence exchanged between Mace and his wife Winifred during the Winter season 1922-1923, Winifred Mace and her mother during the Winter season 1923-1924, and other correspondence related to the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun. (3) Two typewritten articles by Mace on work in Tutankhamun's tomb: "DESPATCH No. 5" (3 pages), and "THE CLOSING OF THE TOMB" (incomplete, first page only + newspaper cutting of The Times article); both submitted to The Times and subsequently published on 31/01/1923 and 28/03/1923. (4) 39 photographs, most are original Burton images, some of which have been annotated by Howard Carter; they may have been used during the preparation of H. Carter and A. C. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen i (1923). (5) Newspaper cuttings, most from The Times, published between 1922 and 1925.
(y) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - typewritten version (TAA iv.1). Diary for 1922-3 (TAA iv.2). (z) Mace's account of the opening of the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - original handwritten version (TAA iv.3).
Notes and related correspondence concerning a prepared monograph on organic materials from the tomb of Tutankhamun. Two photographs showing F. F. Leek.
Correspondence with other Egyptologists (now deceased) and some miscellaneous correspondence. Includes Eaton-Krauss's exchanges with Cyril Aldred, Martha Bell, Bernard V. Bothmer, Jochen Briegleb, Helmut Brunner, Henry Fischer, Wolfgang Helck, William Murnane, and James Romano.
Notes and correspondence relating to articles and publications, 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 to facilitate use.
Maps, 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:
Papers relating to Joan Crowfoot Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford, 1993; reprinted with addenda, 2000), including notes, lists, registers of graves and objects, and annotated maps (photocopies).
Papers 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.
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.
(a) Approximately 3,500 negatives recording scenes from private tombs at Thebes, accompanied by a concordance in five notebooks . (b) There are also several hundred photographs which were received in exchange with the Abteilung Ägyptologie, Trier. (c) Microfilm roll with copies of the negatives.
Three A4 folders containing an unpublished annotated typescript of a monograph on the constellations of the Babylonian and Egyptian sphere and their modifications by the Greeks of the Achaean period.
Photographs from various sources, including 19th Century Studio Photographs by Abdullah Frères, A. Beato, F. Bonfils, W. Hammerschmidt, P. Sébath and others. Includes photographs of Egyptologists.
Notebooks, notes, card indexes of the Pyramid Texts and Late Egyptian, copies of inscriptions, corpus of transcribed hieratic ostraca and papyri, photographs, drawings, correspondence, copies of his own publications, and portraits.
