Visitor's book of the George Foucart family,
Cairo, 1925-1948. G. Foucart (1865-1943) was
Inspector of Antiquities for Lower Egypt, Professor of
Ancient History at the University of Bordeaux, Professor of the History of
Religions at Aix-en-Provence, and then Director of the Institut français
d'Archéologie Orientale in Cairo between 1915 and 1928. The book provides
an interesting insight into the social life of the Egyptological community
in Cairo in the 1920s and 1930s. It contains seventy pages and there are some 680
signatures in it. (Presented by Dr. R. J. Demarée.)
Walter Segal's (1907-1985) notes, drawings, negatives and photographs of furniture from the tomb of Tutankhamun. See now M. Eaton-Krauss, The Thrones, Chairs, Stools and Footstools from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (Oxford: Griffith Institute, 2008, ISBN 978 0 900416 89 7). All this material will shortly be made available on the Griffith Institute's website. (Presented by Dr Marianne Eaton-Krauss.)
Folders with notes, photographs, copies of inscriptions, etc., mostly concerning ancient Egyptian monuments from the Memphite area. Compiled by the late Professor Alan R. Schulman. (Presented by Mrs D. S. Schulman.)
Two sheets with 19th-century engravings showing the pyramidion of Tia, Overseer of the Treasury in the temple of Ramesses II in the domain of Amun, temp. Ramesses II, from his tomb at Saqqâra, formerly in the Lethieullier and Long collections, present location of the monument not known. (Internal transfer, Sackler Library.)
Additional photographic material of John G. Ross
(1920-2006). It consists of
some 40 19th-century prints of Egypt, and others from the British Museum,
Italian museums and Greece, some 100 colour transparencies, about 900 b&w
35 mm negatives, some 140 b&w prints of John Ross's photographs and some
postcards. (Presented by Mrs Judy Ross.)
A CD with digital copies of the plan and 99 views of Somers Clarke's house at el-Kâb. Drawn and photographed by N. Warner in March 2008. (Presented by Mr. Nicholas Warner.)
(December 21, 2008)