Lot 128

[Egyptology] - The University of Pennsylvania Museum Egypt expeditions

A small archive

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs

Auction: 21 June 2023 at 11:00 BST

£1,008

Description

Comprising documents dating from c.1919-c.1930 relating to The University of Pennsylvania expeditions to Egypt, particularly to Meidum, including:

A letter to the Director General of the Department of Antiquities, Cairo Museum from the Museum of the University of Pennsylvania for permission to undertake an excavation at Medun [Meidum], April 11th 1929; Goods receipts and export declaration "2 boxes of antiquities, no commercial value"; Letters relating to antiquities purchased for the museum and their shipping, many signed by Clarence Stanley Fisher; A letter dated 20th March 1922 signed Clarence S. Fisher relating to the payment of excavation dues; A letter 6th March 1924, from Fisher: "Dear Quibell, I am enclosing checque [sic.] for the amount of Seventy-six piastres in payment of expenses in connection with our last shipment of antiquities. / We are all rather eagerly awaiting the outcome of the Tut fiasco, and my departure will be delayed some-what on that account. / Have had a fine time at home, and am in the best of health. Really getting fat, strange to relate. Our new building will be ready in a few weeks and I have also to make plans for the installation of our collections in it before I settle down to digging again..."; The University of Pennsylvania Museum - letters referring to excavations at Meidum, signed Alan Rowe, mainly relating to expedition licensing; An incomplete, corrected copy of an Egypt exhibition briefing; A document authorising excavations;

35 photographs of Egyptian artefacts

13 cards with transcriptions of text found on Ancient Egyptian artefacts, in hieroglyphics and hieratic scripts